Chapter 36

Question 1

Voice / narrative perspective:

Answer 1

Internal thoughts - isolated.
Impact of ruins through all Jane’s internal description.

Question 2

Character:

Answer 2

Puts herself in the male position of the lover finding his lover dead - is she finally free of social restraints?

Question 3

Structure:

Answer 3

Thornfield as description of Rochester in ruins - empty and broken without Jane.

Question 4

Genre:

Answer 4

• Gothic: ‘void’ ‘grim blackness’ ‘fragile looking’ ‘hollow’ ‘conflagration’ ‘devastated interior’
• Redemption: ‘spring had cherished vegetation’ ‘grass and weed grew here’ - new life is Rochester’s future. - Sin and immorality has burnt away, leaving room for new and better things.

Question 5

Context:

Answer 5

• Religious- Victorian readership would enjoy the ‘ashes to ashes’ idea of the old being dead’ and Rochester ‘rising’ again as a better man.
  Death of Bertha = death of problem? Post colonial reading blaming it all on the female madwoman ‘other’.