Ch.15

Cards (4)

  • What is quote 33?
    "never felt jealousy...never felt love" (Mr R)
  • What themes and ideas link to quote 33?
    Themes: Love/ Maturation
    Ideas: Suggests Jane's lack of maturation (bildungsroman) because she never felt these key emotions in relationships and human maturation. Suggests the inequality of maturation between them, especially sexually, suggests Rochesters sexual past.
  • What is quote 34?
    "baptise the couch"
  • What themes and ideas link to quote 34?
    Themes: Religious/ Love/ Gothic subversion
    Ideas: Rochester is saved by Jane yet again. Intimate setting connotes their physical connection. Suggests Jane as the religious saviour in his life and foreshadows her role of returning him to religion and acting as his reward. Jane saves him from Bertha- pure, saviour, opposites