Jane Eyre Scenes

• Brontë's use of the window

  'I went to my window, opened it, and looked out'

  'Hilly horizon' 'Blue peaks'

  'Longed to surmount/follow'
• Mrs Scatcherd's treatment of Helen

  'Returned in half a minute'

  'Respectful courtesy'

  'Unavailing and impotent anger'

  'Burns obeyed'

  'Your fate to be required to bare'
• Opening scene pathetic fallacy

  'Leafless shrubbery'

  'Clouds so somber and rain so penetrating'

  'Cold winter'

  'Physical inferiority'

  'By the fireside'
• Jane meets Brocklehurst

  'The grim face at the top was like a

  carved mask'

  'Little girl'

  'What a great nose'

  'What large prominent teeth'

  'Ready and orthodox answer'

  'Wicked heart'
• Jane retaliates against John

  'Wicked and cruel boy'

  'Slave driver' 'Murderer'

  'Roman Emperors'

  'What a fury to fly at Master John'
• John's abuse of Jane

  'An antipathy to me'

  'Bullied and punished me'

  'Continually'

  'Habitually obedient to John'

  'Every nerve I had feared him'

  'Mrs Reed was blind and deaf on the subject'
• Helen Burn's death

  'White curtains'

  'My last home'

  'I am very happy'

  'I believe; I have faith'

  'I love him; I believe he loves me'
• Jane first meets Bertha

  'Whether beast or human'

  'It grovelled' 'On four legs'

  'Snatched and growled'

  'Dark, grizzled hair, wild as a mane'

  'Maniac' 'Lunatic'
• Beetha attacks Mr Mason

  'Mocking demon'

  'The Fury'

  'She sucked the blood; she said she'd drain my heart'

  'If I had left a lamb- my pet lamb- so near a wolf's den'
• Rochester's first proposal

  'I am sorry Janet, but I believe indeed you must'

  'Bachelors neck' 'Sacred noose'

  'I had a string knotted somewhere under my left ribs'

  'Tightly and inextricably'

  'No: You must stay! I swear it-'