OTHS British Literature – Jane Eyre – Flashcards
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Character identification - "large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities" p.4
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John Reed
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Character identification - "his eyes were small and gray, not very bright...he had a hard-featured yet good-natured-looking face" p.18 apothecary who comes to Gateshead
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Mr. Lloyd
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Character identification - "a black pillar!...the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug" p.28
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Mr. Brocklehurst
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Character identification - "more ordinary; ruddy in complexion, though of a careworn countenance: hurried in gait and action" p.41
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Miss Miller
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Character identification - "refined features; a complexion, if pale, clear; and a stately air and carriage" p.46 superintendent at Lowood
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Miss Temple
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Character identification - "she was bent over a book" and "composed, though grave" p.48, p.50 Jane's best friend at Lowood
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Helen Burns
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Character identification - "the little one with black hair" p.49 teacher who torments Helen at Lowood
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Miss Scatcherd
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Character identification - "matronly yet still young; very good-looking, with black hair and eyes, and lively complexion" p.93 Jane's only friend at Gateshead
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Bessie
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Character identification - Bessie's husband
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Robert
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Character identification - "the neatest imaginable little elderly lady, in widow's cap, black silk gown, and snowy muslin apron" p.99 housekeeper at Thornfield
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Miss Fairfax
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Character identification - "slightly built, with a pale, small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist" p.105 Mr. Rochester's ward
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Adele Varens
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Character identification - "black and white colour made him a distinct object against the trees" p.117 Rochester's dog
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Pilot
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Character identification - "square, flat figure, and uncomely, dry, even coarse face" p.165 takes care of Bertha Mason
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Grace Poole
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Character identification - the assistant to Grace Poole
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Leah
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Character identification - "tall, fine bust, sloping shoulders; long, graceful neck, olive complexion, dark and clear; noble features" and "the august yet harmonious lineaments, the Grecian neck and bust; let the round and dazzling arm be visible, and the delicate hand" p.168, p.170
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Blanche Ingram
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Character identification - "colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth" p.185
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Mr. Rochester
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Character identification - "extreme plainness of a straight-skirted black stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix" p.244 joins a covenant after her mother's death
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Eliza Reed
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Character identification - "a full-blown, very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features, languishing blue eyes, and ringleted hair" p.244
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Georgiana Reed
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Character identification - "so little, so pale, and had features so irregular and so marked" p.102
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Jane Eyre
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Character identification - "the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed: the black eyebrows widely raised over bloodshot eyes" p.306
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Bertha Mason
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Character identification - "there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape; no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye" p.202
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Richard Mason
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Character identification - attorney who stops Rochester and Jane from marrying
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Mr. Briggs
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Character identification - "fair complexioned and slenderly made...full of distinction and intelligence...pale brown locks were parted and braided smooth" p.361
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Mary Rivers
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Character identification - "fair complexioned and slenderly made...full of distinction and intelligence...duskier tresses covered her neck with thick curls" p.361
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Diana Rivers
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Character identification - "a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin...his eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair" p.373
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St. John Rivers
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Character identification - "a youthful, graceful form: full, yet fine in contour...a face of perfect beauty...all advantages, in short, which combined, realized the ideal of beauty" p.393 benefactress to Morton school
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Rosamond Oliver
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Quote identification - "Lizzy! Georgy! Jane is not here: tell mamma she is run out into the rain - bad animal!"
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John Reed
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Quote identification - "you should try to be useful and pleasant, then, perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, missis will send you away, I am sure"
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Bessie
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Quote identification - "Are you not very thankful to have such a fine place to live at?"
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Mr. Lloyd
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Quote identification - "They are not fit to associate with me."
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Jane Eyre
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Quote identification - "You had this morning a breakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungry. I have ordered that a lunch of bread and cheese shall be served to all."
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Miss Temple
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Quote identification - "You dirty, disagreeable girl! you have never cleaned your nails this morning!"
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Miss Scatcherd
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Quote identification - "Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear."
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Helen Burns
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Quote identification - "You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying."
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Mr. Brocklehurst
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Quote identification - "If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
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Helen Burns
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Quote identification - "We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us."
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Miss Temple
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Quote identification - "If J.E. who advertised in the -shire Herald of last Thursday, possesses the acquirements mentioned; and if she is in position to give satisfactory references as to character and competency; a situation can be offered her where there is but one pupil, under ten years of age; and where the salary is thirty pounds per annum."
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Miss Fairfax
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Quote identification - "a Mr. Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you...He looked quite the gentleman, and I believe he was your father's brother."
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Bessie
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Quote identification - "Ah! you speak my language as well as Mr. Rochester does."
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Adele Varens
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Quote identification - "I lived long ago with mamma; but she is gone to the Holy Virgin."
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Adele Varens
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Quote identification - "Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any constitution! No wonder you have rather the look of another world."
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Mr. Rochester
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Quote identification - "I am willing to amuse you, if I can, sir - quite willing; but I cannot introduce a topic, because how do I know what will interest you?"
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Jane Eyre
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Quote identification - "I forgot whether you said you saw anything when you opened your chamber-door."
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Mr. Rochester
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Quote identification - "I wish I had as good; not that mine are to complain of - there's no stinginess at Thornfield; but they're not one-fifth of the sum Mrs. Poole receives."
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Leah
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Quote identification - "I happened to remark to Mr. Rochester how much Adele wished to be introduced to the ladies, and he said 'Oh! let her come into the drawing-room after dinner; and request Miss Eyre to accompany her.'"
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Miss Fairfax
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Quote identification - "Whenever I marry, I am resolved my husband shall not be a rival, but a foil to me."
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Blanche Ingram
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Quote identification - "You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You are sick, because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you. You are silly, because, suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits for you."
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Gypsy (Mr. Rochester)
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Quote identification - "Go back now into the room; step quietly up to Mason, and whisper in his ear that Mr. Rochester is come and wishes to see him: show him in here, and then leave me."
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Mr. Rochester
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Quote identification - "Oh, it was frightful! And I did not expect it: she looked so quiet at first."
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Richard Mason
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Quote identification - "I had a dislike to her mother always; for she was my husband's only sister, and a great favourite with him: he opposed the family disowning her when she made her low marriage; and when news came of her death, he wept like a simpleton."
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Mrs. Reed
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Quote identification - "Well, I have twice done you a wrong which I regret now."
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Mrs. Reed
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Quote identification - "Papa says you never come to see us now. You are quite a stranger at Vale Hall."
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Rosamond Oliver
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Quote identification - "Humility, Jane, is the groundwork of Christian virtues: you say right that you are not fit for the work. Who is fit for it?"
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St. John Rivers
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Quote identification - "If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now."
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Jane Eyre
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Quote identification - "It is time some one undertook to rehumanize you, for I see you are being metamorphosed into a lion, or something of that sort."
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Jane Eyre
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Quote identification - "Just one word, Jane: were there only ladies in the house where you have been?"
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Mr. Rochester
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When was the first novel published?
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1740
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What was the early English novel associated with?
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the middle class and their morality
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What was Charlotte Bronte's pen name?
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Currer Bell
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What occupation, other than writing, did Charlotte Bronte pursue?
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teacher and governess
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How many brothers and sisters did Charlotte Bronte have?
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one brother (Branwell) and four sisters (Maria, Elizabeth, Anne, and Emily)
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Which two sisters died of tuberculosis?
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Maria and Elizabeth
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True/False - Charlotte and her sisters attended a school much like Lowood
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true
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What was Anne Bronte's pen name? What did she write?
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Acton Bell, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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What was Emily Bronte's pen name? What did she write?
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Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights
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Name two of Charlotte Bronte's other novels.
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The Professor and Villette
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At what age did Charlotte Bronte write Jane Eyre?
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31
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When was Jane Eyre written?
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1847 after the Bronte sisters had an argument about the qualities of a female protagonist
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When was Jane Eyre told?
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10 years after the events occurred
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Describe the novel's setting.
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Northern England in the early 1800s
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What writers was Charlotte Bronte influenced by?
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Byron and Wordsworth
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What did governesses do after they "retired"?
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many lived in insane asylums due to poverty
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How is Jane Eyre a groundbreaking novel?
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the heroine is small, plain, and poor, first female character to claim the right to feel strongly about her emotions and act on her convictions
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Describe gothic literature.
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imprisoned women, heroine who faces danger, supernatural interventions at crucial moments in the plot, romantic reconciliation
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Describe romantic literature.
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championed for the rights of the individual over demands of society, believed humans were inherently good, valued imagination over reason, inspired by nature
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Describe a Byronic hero.
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male, proud, gloomy, mysterious, passionate
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What advice does Helen give Jane?
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endure punishment and criticism and forgive and love the enemy
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How is Jane's temperament different from Helen's?
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Jane is a fighter who cannot tolerate injustice
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How does Jane's visit with Miss Temper alter her thinking about Lowood?
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she begins to feel at home and with friends and feels good about her future
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What is the significance of "Resurgam"?
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It was the word that Jane had engraved on the stone marker she placed on Helen's grave. It symbolized Helen's faith in the afterlife.
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When Bessie visits Jane, what news does she bring from Gateshead?
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Miss Eliza has spoiled Georgiana's elopement attempt, John Reed spends too much money and leads a dissipated life, a Mr. Eyre from Madeira came to see her but could not make the journey to Lowood because his ship was about to sail
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How does Jane first meet Mr. Rochester?
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She meets him on the road from Hay while she is out walking. She helps him return to his saddle after his horse goes down on the ice.
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How does Jane react to her feelings of love for Mr. Rochester?
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she frankly evaluates her plainness and social position and decides she has overreacted to his kindness
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What does Jane perceive in the relationship between Blanche and Mr. Rochester?
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she sees that Blanche's flirtatious arrows miss their mark, and Mr. Rochester does not love her
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What does Mr. Rochester ask of Jane on the night before he is to be married?
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he asks her to sit up with him
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Why does Jane consent to return to Gateshead?
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she knows it is the moral thing to do
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When Jane and Mr. Rochester profess their love and agree to marry, a sudden storm breaks out. The resulting lightning splits a chestnut tree. What is this literary device called?
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foreshadowing
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What "vision" does Jane have the night before the wedding?
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a ghost dressed in white, with a disfigured face, came into her room and ripped her wedding veil in half
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Who is guilty of setting the fire, ripping Jane's veil, and attacking Mason?
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Bertha
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How does the author portray St. John's decision regarding Rosamond?
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he is correct in his rejection of her because their life dreams do not converge
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What is St. John's offer to Jane?
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he wants her to come with him as his wife and companion missionary
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Which character in the novel looked for a meaning in a life of duty and self-denial?
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St. John Rivers
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The novel's conclusion is typical of the period: characters who did wrong must pay, those who acted with goodness are rewarded. What is the name of this period or style of writing?
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Victorian style
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Where does John Eyre live?
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Madeira
