Jane Eyre

Question 1

Atmosphere

Answer 1

Eyre’s tone is both Gothic and romantic, often conjuring an atmosphere of mystery, secrecy, or even horror. Through similes such as ‘like a corridor in some blue beards castle’

Question 2

Gateshead.

Answer 2

Red room and violent attack towards John reed : Picture of passion , I don’t know what I did with my hands , my heart thick my head grew hot
Chapter 6 ask Mrs reed “ what would uncle reed say to you if he were alive “ , “ my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance.

Question 3

Lowood

Answer 3

Jane is morales - “ natural instinct “ says “ it is natural as that I should love those who show me affection or submit punishment when I feel it deserved . After a year when Jane is falsely accused of being a liar “masters the rising hysteria.

Question 4

Thornfield

Answer 4

Immature - restless after few months ‘discontented ‘ ‘ restlessness was in my nature ‘ . Language parallels imprisonment - “Sky of steel “ air is “vault like” and gothic imagery - “doors all shut like a corridor in some Bluebeard castle”. Rochester arrives Jane feels less restlessness and is enchanted by him “rather peculiar “ , “can’t tell if he speaks in jest or earnest” Rochester says he has a “contaminated memory” and is “as hard as an Indian rubber ball “ - similie and imagery .

Question 5

The proposal

Answer 5

Shows Jane is still passionate , uses rhetorical questions “ do you think I am an automaton - a machine without feelings?” and exclamations and comparisons , “I am no bird and no net ensnares me’

Question 6

Encountering Bertha

Answer 6

Bronte uses symbolism - Bertha passion without reason what Jane could’ve become . ‘Stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell” “snatched and growled like some strange animal

Question 7

St. John’s proposal

Answer 7

Symbolism - St. John symbolises reason without passion . “Cold “ man. When Jane is about to marry him she hears Rochester and realises she cannot live a emotionless life

Question 8

Reunited with Rochester at the end

Answer 8

Jane has found the place where she belongs , and we hear in her conclusion she says ‘I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on eArth” and the books last word is “homeward”

Question 9

First person narrative voice

Answer 9

Passionate , spontaneous , intimate lets us really discover janes character know what she’s thinking ‘the answer my mind gave leave Thornfield at once”

Question 10

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 10

Sudden shift in season ‘white December storm over June” immediate change in janes life

Question 11

How was the supernatural shown in Jane Eyre

Answer 11

the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp - Jane sees herself as a ghost. The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur - Jane hears berthas demonic laugh