Chapter 23 Flashcards
Rochester confesses and asks to marry Jane
How does Bronte foreshadow the relationship between Rochester and Jane?
“I see trees laden with ripening fruit” - blooming and possibly over ripened. Things will begin to decay.
What is inappropriate about the scene here?
It is inappropriate as they are alone in a garden not chaperoned.
How is Mr Rochester ambiguous and plays with Jane’s feelings?
“you, Miss Eyre, must get a new situation”
“I sobbed convulsively”
How does Jane stand up to Rochester playing with her after she says “his noble and beautiful woman your bride (Blanche)” and him saying “What bride?”?
“Do you think I am an automaton? - a machine without feelings?… Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!”
How does Rochester belittle Jane and how does she respond?
“Jane, be still; don’t struggle so, like a wild frantic bird”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you”
How does Rochester ask Jane to marry him? What does she respond?
“Come to my side, Jane… I summon you as my wife”
“I thought he mocked me… “Your bride stands between us’”
“My bride is here… because my equal is here”
How does Rochester say he loves Jane?
“What love have I for Miss Ingram? None… I love you as my own flesh. You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are.”
What happens at the end of the chapter in the orchard that depicts the bad omens?
“the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed… the rain fell during a storm of two hours… Adele came running in to tell me that the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away.”
