Chapter 13 Flashcards
Rochester and Jane meet inside
How does Jane perceive Rochester physically now?
“his broad and jetty eyebrows… his grim mouth, chin and jaw… broad-chested and thin-flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.”
How does Mr Rochester speak?
“there was something in the forced stiff bow, in the impatient yet formal tone”
How does Mr Rochester try to assert dominance and emabarass and belittle Jane?
When Adele asks if there was a present for Miss Eyre, he replies “Did you expect a present, Miss Eyre? Are you fond of presents?’” and he looked at her “with eyes that.. were dark, irate and piercing”
He calls her a “charitable concern”
What does Rochester assume the girls did at Lowood, in relation to Mr Brocklehurst?
“you girls probably worshipped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director”
How is Mr Rochester not polite and quite sardonic in relation to her sketches?
“Go into the library - I mean, if you please (excuse my tone of command, I am used to say “do this” and it is done: I cannot alter my customary habits for one new inmate)”
He says about her piano skills “I don’t know whether they were entirely of your doing: a master probably aided you”
What do Jane’s 3 paintings foreshadow?
The first is of a shipwreck with a “half-submerged mast” over a “swollen sea”. Foreshadows ill omens.
The third has imagery of “a sable veil”, “ a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge” - foreshadows marriage.
How does Mrs Fairfax allude to the secret marriage?
“soon after he was of age, some steps were taken that were not quite fair, and made a great deal of mischief”
What does Jane think about the responses Mrs Fairfax gives her about Mr Rochester’s origin?
“The answer was evasive… Mrs Fairfax either could not, or would not, give me more explicit information”
