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20 Cards in this Set
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“I must resist those who punish me unjustly” |
Jane to Helen |
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“You think too much of the love of human beings;you are too impulsive; too vehement” |
Helen to Jane |
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“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I” |
Response to Rochester |
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“A vivid, restless, resolute captive” |
Rochester to Jane, imagining her as a metaphorical bird in a cage. |
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“Women are supposed to feel very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel” |
Jane |
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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free independent human being with an independent will” |
Jane to Rochester |
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“I tell you I must go!” “I am better than you- let me go!” |
Janes declaration of her feelings and of her equality with Rochester. Would have shocked Victorian readers on both gender and political/social grounds |
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“I longed to surmount: all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison ground” |
Jane |
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“I desired liberty” |
Jane |
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“I longed to be his” |
Jane |
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“It was a barbed arrow head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in” |
Jane, talking about Rochester’s self abandonment |
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Jane “walks backwards and forwards” outside berthas room |
Jane |
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A “bad animal” when imprisoned in the red room. “Wild sobs” “involuntary” cries |
Jane in red room |
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A “malicious elf” |
Jane (315pg) |
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“A wild, free thing” “a savage beautiful creature” |
Jane in the eyes of Mrs Reed |
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“Insignificant plebeian” |
Compared to Rochester |
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“No greater fool than Jane Eyre” |
Jane to herself |
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“Sentence” for her stupidity “How dared you?” Rhetorical question |
Jane to herself about Rochester |
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“Plain” demeanour |
Jane |
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A “dependent” in society |
Jane |
