Jane Eyre

Question 1

Jane Eyre

What book does Jane read at the beginning?

Answer 1

Bewick’s History of British Birds

Question 2

Jane Eyre

What’s the beginning of Chapter 11?

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A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

Question 3

JE

A new chapter in a novel…

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is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

Question 4

JE

What genre is Jane Eyre?

Answer 4

Front page calls it an autobiography.
Bildungsroman
Fiction novel
Gothic mode

Question 5

JE

What quote shows Jane openly declaring the book as a fiction, whilst burying it in realist detail?

Answer 5

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

Question 6

JE

What’s the purpose of Jane Eyre drawing attention to itself as a fiction?

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw the curtain this time, reader – you must see…

Answer 6

Calling the reader to look for literary devices such as symbolism, mirroring, figures.

A challenge for the reader not to get wholly absorbed into the story.

Question 7

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In what way does Marx’ Communist Manifesto clash with the bildungsroman genre?

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Bildungsroman is about someone learning to succeed in society, rather than breaking the rules.

Jane Eyre rises in class through proper means. Not by marrying Rochester while he was married to Bertha.

Question 8

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What quote shows Jane as an animal?

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‘She is like a mad cat’

Question 9

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Jane ‘is like a mad…’

Answer 9

cat

Question 10

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What quote is used to describe the bed in the red-room?

Answer 10

‘the vacant majesty of the bed and room’

Question 11

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What quote is used to describe the bed in Bertha’s attic?

Answer 11

‘great bed and pictorial chamber’

Question 12

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Jane and Bertha mirroring.
What quote pairs with the ‘great bed and pictorial chamber’ of Bertha’s room?

Answer 12

‘the vacant majesty of the bed and room’

Question 13

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What quote pairs with the red-room’s ‘vacant majesty of the bed and room’?

Answer 13

‘great bed and pictorial chamber’

Question 14

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What quote pairs with ‘She is like a mad cat … you must be tied down.’

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‘he bound her to a chair’

Question 15

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What quote pairs with ‘he bound her to a chair’? (About Bertha)

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‘She is like a mad cat … you must be tied down.’

Question 16

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Quote that shows Bertha mirroring Jane as a bride?

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‘It removed my veil from its gaunt head’

Question 17

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What quote shows Bertha’s furthest stage of objectification by Jane?

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‘It removed my veil from its gaunt head’

Question 18

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What quote shows Bertha as an animal?

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‘What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell’

Question 19

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About Bertha

What it was, whether beast…

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or human being, one could not, at first tell.

Question 20

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Quote about Bertha’s humanness.

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What it was, whether beast of human being, one could not, at first tell

Question 21

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Gothic

I dreamt…

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that Thornfield was a dreary ruin.

Question 22

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In his allegory for his romance with Jane, what does Rochester call her?

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‘It was a fairy’

Question 23

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Quote about the hall as a ruin

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‘I dreamt … that Thornfield was a dreary ruin’

Question 24

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What four names does Jane say Rochester called her?

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“provoking puppet,” “malicious elf,” “sprite,” “changeling”

Question 25

JE "Provoking puppet," ______, "sprite," ________.

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malicious elf | changeling

Question 26

JE _______, "malicious elf," ________, "changeling".

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Provoking puppet | sprite

Question 27

JE Quote from Sandra Gilbert about the mirroring between Bertha and Jane.

Answer 27

Bertha not only acts for Jane, she also acts like Jane.

Question 28

JE Which critic said, 'Bertha not only acts for Jane, she also acts like Jane'?

Answer 28

Sandra Gilbert

Question 29

JE What are three key features of the Female Gothic (Ellen Moers)?

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Incarceration Orphans Critiquing the patriarch

Question 30

JE "Am I a servant?"...

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"No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep."

Question 31

JE What is the significance of the quote: '"Am I a servant?" / "No; you are less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep."

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Not only Jane's struggle for identity which lasts throughout the book. Also her struggle between servant and non-servant which is later present in her role as governess.

Question 32

JE A quote about Jane as Mrs Rochester?

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"Mrs Rochester! She did not exist: she would not be born till to-morrow

Question 33

JE Rochester ownership of Jane?

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And *this* is what I wished to have ... this young girl who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell

Question 34

JE How does Jane describe herself when she's looking in the mirror as a child?

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I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp

Question 35

JE Quote about Jane at the mouth of hell

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"And this is what I wished to have ... this young girl who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell"

Question 36

JE What is it that spectralizes (James Kincaid) Jane, more than all the times she's called 'fairy', 'elf' or 'sprite'?

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The act of writing. Where her retrospective voice haunts the narrative and the reader.

Question 37

JE Three part quote about Jane as a thing

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A 'heterogenous thing ... a useless thing ... a noxious thing'.

Question 38

JE What does Jane thing about her environment when she looks in the red-room's mirror?

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality

Question 39

JE Quote where Jane calls the mirror a visionary hollow.

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality.

Question 40

JE Quote that shows the mirror provides a material gas between reality and the mind. Themes of perception.

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All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality.

Question 41

JE A _______ thing, ... a _______ thing, ... a noxious thing.

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A heterogenous thing, ... a useless thing,

Question 42

JE (In the mirror) I thought it like...

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one of those tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp.

Question 43

JE What's the significance of Jane as a ghostly, fairy-tale figure?

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Search for identity. Looking to materialise herself in reality. Position as a governess.

Question 44

JE What are Jane's cousins called?

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The Rivers.

Question 45

JE Name the main four places (in order) where Jane lives.

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Gateshead hall, Lowood, Thornfield, Moor house

Question 46

JE What is the name of the Reed's house?

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Gateshead hall

Question 47

JE What is the name of the Rivers' house?

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Moor house

Question 48

JE What is the name of the school where Jane went?

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Lowood

Question 49

JE Maria Edgeworth (1798) quote.

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It is the worst thing in the world to leave children with servants.

Question 50

JE What image did Maria Edgeworth (1798) create about governesses?

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She showed them as dangerous figures that could teach children manners, language and habits of the lower classes.

Question 51

JE What year did Anna Jameson write?

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1846

Question 52

JE Which critic wrote in 1846?

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Anna Jameson

Question 53

JE What year did Maria Edgeworth write that 'it is the most dangerous thing in the world to leave children with servants'?

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1798

Question 54

JE Who (and in what year) wrote 'one of the most artificial ... is the existence of a class of women whom we style as governesses'.

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Anna Jameson, 1846

Question 55

JE What year was Jane Eyre published?

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1847

Question 56

JE Anna Jameson, 1846: 'one of the most artificial ...

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is the existence of a class of women whom we style as governesses.'

Question 57

JE Maria Edgeworth (1798), 'it is one of the...

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most dangerous things in the world to leave children with servants.

Question 58

JE What did Westcott say about ghosts and in what year?

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1851 | due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind

Question 59

JE Who said that ghosts are 'due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind'?

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Westcott in 1851

Question 60

JE Westcott said ghosts are 'due to either purely natural causes or delusions of the mind', but what is the other opinion, who said it and when.

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all the experts ... know that they do exist. | Stead, 1897

Question 61

JE Stead quote about ghosts. (And year)

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All the experts ... know that they do exist. | 1897

Question 62

JE What is the relevance of ghosts to Jane Eyre? (Especially in relation to her as a governess.)

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Jane combines Edgeworth's dangerous governess idea and the gothic idea of the supernatural (sprite, elf, changeling) to illuminate the position of the governess and how it impacts her identity. She is the figure that haunts the house, not wholly belonging in any plane of society.

Question 63

Who said that 'all the experts ... know that they [ghosts] exist'?

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Stead, 1897

Question 64

Who said that feminist critics question even the possibility of a 'representative bildungsroman in the 19th century novel'?

Answer 64

Sarah Maier

Question 65

Critic material Sally Shuttleworth: '____________ writings on childhood were ____________ in tandem with the ______________________.'

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'Psychiatric writings on childhood were emerging in tandem with the great Victorian novels on childhood.'

Question 66

Jane Eyre What did Elizabeth Rigby say about Jane Eyre?

Answer 66

It 'violated every code, human or divine'