Chapter 25

Question 1

Voice narrative / perspective:

Answer 1

• Telling him of her dreams - deep, intimate, trusting relationship where she can share her anxieties and troubles.
• Long pages of just Jane speaking - Rochester allows her to have a voice.
• She is empowered, if worried, by their union.
• Tells a story of Gothic horror and suspense - frame narrative of story in a story to enhance tension and create a “legend’” reveal at the end “veil was torn” as climax to horror as it’s true!
• Notice Rochester’s lies- when he speaks, he lies. - Telling his own story/spinning his own narrative/controlling Jane’s reality.

Question 2

Character:

Answer 2

• Intuitive - knows something is wrong which is why her subconscious mind is troubled and trying to bring issues to Jane’s attention.
• Jane’s soul knows?
• God/spririt knows and she feels it but can’t understand what it is.
  ‘’I became insensible from terror” - damsel moment in the face of the worst monster yet: another mad woman.

Question 3

Structure:

Answer 3

• VERY IMPORTANT to note this chapter comes after Rochester is trying to ‘imprison’ Jane in jewels and silks of the conventional bride- he is the ‘sultan’ and she is the ‘slave’ in the harem? - Is being a wife like being a prisoner in a patriarchal society?
• Pathetic fallacy of gale/storm like when he proposed - god through nature is against this union because it is sinful as he’s married already.
• Fire/ice motif -
  “fiery eyes” “candle”
  for the second time in my life’ strong links between Bertha and the red room: imprisoned by social conventions/not conforming to expectations.

Question 4

Genre:

Answer 4

• Prophetic dreams -Gothic mystery,
  “I dreamed Thronfield was a ruin”
  foreshadows end.
  “the foul german spectre - the vampire”.

Question 5

Context:

Answer 5

• Societal prejudiced against unmarried mothers and babies outside of wedlock shown through dream of walking alone down an endless road with a baby - foreshadowing what would happen if she marries him unlawfully and becomes an outcast,
  “no one where to put it down however tired my arms were”
• they would not be accepted or belong anywhere.
• She and the infant “fall”.
• Eve’s ‘fall - expectations of women to be pure and perfect.
  If she has sex and a baby with Rochechester but their marriage isn’t valid then she ‘falls from grace’ - into sin, shame. Social outcast = poverty= death.
• Post - colonial theory - Bertha as “fearful and ghastly” as “discoloured and savage” “purple” ‘lips swelled and dark’ ‘Ghosts are usually pale, Jane.’