Jane Eyre Critical Quotes – Flashcards
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Gilbert and Gubar, the Madwoman in the attic
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Bertha breaks all the conventions women were supposed to conform to
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Elaine Shawalter
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two fold projection of Jane Eyre onto Helen and Bertha formulates the deadly combat between 'The angel in the house and the devil in the flesh' (conventional expectations of women v their sexual desires)
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Elizabeth Rigby
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"un-christian composition"
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Terry Eagleton
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highlights the tension between "passionate rebellion and cautious conformity"
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Terry Eagleton
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inheritance allows Jane independence and power over Rochester: "comes to him on her own terms"
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Gilbert and Gubar
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"truest and darkest double"
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Diane Roberts
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secret self
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Bertha is a political symbol of female rage against patriarchy
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Anne Crowe
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To Jane the moon is a mother-figure
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Marxist reading
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Rosamond Oliver is the only character in the book who is a social reformer
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Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory
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Jacques Lacan's "mirror stage" - the point when the child begins to identify with their reflection
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Gilbert and Gubar
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rebellious feminism
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Byronic heroine
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Every woman in a patriarchal society must overcome: "oppression (at Gateshead), starvation (at Lowood), madness (at Thornfield) and coldness (at Marsh End)
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Bertha appears whenever Jane allows herself a forbidden thought eg appears the night she admits she loves Rochester
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Thornfield's attic is where Jane's own rationality and irrationality intersect
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Gilbert and Gubar
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many of Jane's problems can be traced back to her ambiguous status as a governess at Thornfield
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M Jeanne Peterson
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she was and wasn't a member of the family, was and wasn't a servant
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Adele, Blanche and Celine = Vanity fair
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Gilbert and Gubar
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in one sense Jane and Rochester begin their relationship as master and servant,...in another they begin as spiritual equals
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Gilbert and Gubar
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child in dream is her "orphaned alter-ego"
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Gilbert and Gubar
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Jane escapes from his (St John's) fetters more easily than had escaped from either Brocklehurst or Rochester....a measure of how far she has traveled in her pilgrimage toward maturity
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Gilbert and Gubar
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(at Ferndean) prince and cinderella are democratically equal
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Lisa Arseniva, Romance or Realism?
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Gothic literature is characterised by helpless heriones, dark castles, madness, supernatural
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Lisa Arseniva, Romance or Realism?
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compares Thornfield with its "chill and vault-like air" to the Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole) - reguarded as first Gothic novel
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Lisa Arsenieva, Romance or Realism?
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'Gothic serving inner realism' eg moon
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Lisa Arsenieva, Romance or Realism?
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'Gothic undercut by realism' eg "chill and vault-like air" v Fairfax's cheerful fire; light seen by Jane in red room dismissed as a "gleam from a lantern"
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Rob Worrall
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Jane "refused to subscribe to the Victorian mantra"
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Elaine Shawalter
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Red Room conveys Jane's transition from childhood to adulthood
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Elaine Shawalter
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Jane's attack on John Reed = rebellion and autonomy
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Elaine Shawlater
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sisterhood and kindness between the women...and Jane finds it at Marsh End with Diana and Mary Rivers
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Elaine Shawalter
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Lowood attempts to destroy their individuality; represents sexual repression
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G. H. Lewes
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"Reality stamped on every part" of the novel
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G. H. Lewes
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Helen Burns is "lovely and lovable"
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Christian Rememberance
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Helen is "too conscious of her own perfection"
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The Critic
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Adele is the "perfect picture of a little girl"
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The Critic
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Brocklehurst "so good a Christian precept, so bad a one in practice"
