Dreams and Visions

Question 1

‘presentiments are strange things!…

Answer 1

one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key’

Question 2

apparition of her mother’s spirit occurs urging her to leave Rochester:

Answer 2

“My daughter, flee temptation!” “Mother, I will”.

Question 3

“Jane! Jane! Jane!’…

Answer 3

wildly eerily, urgently where or whence for ever impossible to know’

Question 4

telepathic summons recall Jane telling R

Answer 4

‘I beheld you in imagination so near me, I scarcely missed your actual presence’

Question 5

“Down superstition!” she commands her own skepticism.

Answer 5

“This is not thy deception, nor thy witchcraft: it is the work of nature. She was roused and did - no miracle - but her best”.

Question 6

What does Robert B. Heilman say about the visions occurring in moonlight?

Answer 6

‘an aesthetic staple [which] reveals an author groping for… a reality beyond the confines of everyday reality, toward an interplay of private consciousness and mysterious forces at work in the universe’

Question 7

infant dream -

Answer 7

‘baby-phantom’ nightmare directly before Jane is physically summoned to her past to see dying Aunt Reed

Question 8

infant reappears in two dreams on the evening of her wedding

Answer 8

1. Jane ‘following the windings of an unknown road’ ‘burdened’ with the child, watching Rochester ahead
2. Jane finds Thornfield ‘a dreary ruin’ and hears R riding away, loses balance as she climbs over a wall and the child rolls away

Question 9

Gilbert and Gubar on the infant child

Answer 9

the child represents the burden of Jane’s past, just as Bertha stands for Rochester’s.