Chapters 15 pt2

Question 1

Voice narrative/ perspective:

Answer 1

• Internal monologue:
• Description/use of senses to describe what she can hear, see and feel.
  “demonic laugh”
  “my heart beat anxiously”
• Lots of dialogue, Jane calls out to the person asking
  “Who is there?”
  and if it was grace pool.
• Aswell as lots of dialogue between Jane and Mr Rochester.
  Jane saves him from the fire.
  “you have saved my life”
• Suppressed, romantic, expressive.

Question 2

Character:

Answer 2

• Jane’s character continues to show bravery and heroism as she saves Mr Rochester from the fire.
  -Subversion of gender roles, heroism, strength,bravery.
• Additionally, when she hears the demonic laughing she chooses to call out to whoever is there, rather than ignoring it and staying in bed.
• This shows she is brave, courageous and fearless.
• She isn’t the damsel in distress, she has a lot more power and bravery.
• Bronte goes against the stereotypes.
  -Jane still experiences feelings of anxiety and fear, but does not allow these feelings to overpower her decisions of saving Mr Rochester:
  “my heart beat anxiously”
  “I thought no more of Grace Poole…”
• Jane is quite emotionally detached/numb/avoi-ding her feelings, after she saves Mr Rochester from his death she is prepared to just leave and continue life as normal.
• Trauma response to her childhood?
• Victorian society wouldn’t accept their relationship, she is a moral character (tries to do the right/appropriate thing)
• Different to the other women.
• ”I was tossed on a buoyant but unquiet sea, where billows of trouble rolled under surges of joy”.

Question 3

Structure:

Answer 3

• Fire and Ice motif.
  “Tongues of flame”
  “Baptised the couch afresh”
• Fire associated with hell/pain.
• Ice associated with pureness/god/saviour.
  -”Witch”.

Question 4

Genre:

Answer 4

• Gothic genre:
  “demonic laugh”
  “low, suppressed, and deep”
  “possessed with a devil”
• There are clear signs of a demonic/madwomen character.
• A sinister undertone is continuous throughout this passage with themes of death, pain and gothic.
  -Romance.
• Supressed sexual and romantic desire.
  “What you will go?”

Question 5

Context:

Answer 5

• Jane acting ‘morally’ in the face of Rochester’s lust - Victorian readership kept onside as Jane behaves appropriately rather than becoming an immoral ‘whore’ like Celine and Bertha.
• Ironically this heightens the sexual tension as feelings have to be suppressed and lie smouldering beneath the surface.