English Literature Jane Eyre Quotes
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Jane throwing herself at John
Chapter 1: “You are like a murderer - You are like a slave driver - You are like the Roman Emperors!”
Jane seeing herself in Mirror in Red room
Chapter 2: “Strange Little Figure there gazing at me”
What Ms Abbot describes Jane as
Chapter 2: “Less than a servant”
Brocklehurst Description
Chapter 4: “Carved Mask” “Straight” “Narrow” “Black Pillar”
Helen Forgiveness 1
Chapter 6: “No ill-usage so brands its records on my feelings”
Helen forgiveness 2
Chapter 6: “Love your enemies; bless them that curse you”
Helen forgiveness 3
Chapter 6: “Revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low”
Helen 4
Chapter 8: “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, you would not be without friends”
Jane’s early uncertainty to religion
Chapter 9: “Where is God? What is God?”
Jane wanting to leave Lowood
Chapter 10: “I desired for liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer”
Bronte using Jane’s thoughts to voice her feminist opinions
Chapter 12: Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel”
Jane meeting Rochester for the first time"
Chapter 12: “Gytrash” “Haunted in Solitary ways”
Jane checking if Rochester is hurt
“You are not hurt sir? I hope not”
Jane talking about Rochester’s Eyes
Chapter 14: “In his great, dark eyes; for he had great dark eyes and very fine eyes,”
Rochester talking to Jane in Chapter 14
“I find it impossible to be conventional with you”
Rochester fire imagery
Chapter 15: “His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire”
Chapter 27: “He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance”
Jane saving Rochester from fire
Chapter 15: Jane “baptized the couch afresh” “By God’s aid”
Blanche Ingram Initial Descriptions
Chapter 17: “Veil streamed long on the breeze” “shone rich raven ringlets”
Blanche Ingram Bridal imagery
Chapter 18: “clad in white, a long veil on her head”
Jane staying with Mr Mason after Bertha attacks
Chapter 20: “I must keep my post”
Jane forgiving Mrs Reed 1
Chapter 21: “The flame of resentment extinguished”
Jane forgiving Mrs Reed 2 (Long)
Chapter 21: I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I cam back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and a strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries”
Jane forgiving Mrs Reed 3
Chapter 21: “You have my full and free forgiveness”
Eliza Description
“Straight Skirted, black” “colourless visage”
Jane talking to Rochester before he proposes 1
Chapter 23: “Do you think I am an automaton? - a machine without feelings?”
Jane talking to Rochester before he proposes 2
Chapter 23: “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?” “I have as much soul as you - and full as much heart”
Jane talking to Rochester before he proposes 3
Chapter 23: “At God’s feet, equal - as we are!”
Jane talking to Rochester before he proposes 4
Chapter 23: “I am no bird: and no net ensnares me: I am free human being with an independent will…”
Jane unsure about her “new name”
Chapter 24: “New name” “Jane Rochester”
Bertha description
Chapter 25: “Savage face” “Bloodshot” “Dark” “Black” ”it”
Bertha ripping veil in half
“Rent[s] [the veil] into two parts”
Jane unsure about her wedding
Chapter 26: “I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost an image of a stranger”
Bertha description during reveal
Chapter 26: “on all fours’ it snatched and growled like some sort of strange wild animal”
Jane rejecting Rochester
Chapter 27 “I will not be yours”
St John Description
Chapter 29: “Had he been a statue instead of a man” “straight, classic nose” “tall, slender” “Colourless as ivory”
Jane considering why she didn’t take Rochester’s proposal to be his mistress
Chapter 31: “Which is better? - To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort - no struggle”
St John repressing his feelings for Miss Oliver
Chapter 31: “I saw a glow rise to that master’s face. I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with restless emotion” “But he curbed it”
Rochester reuniting with Jane
Chapter 37: “All I said or did seemed either to console or revive him”
Jane does what?
Chapter 38: “Reader I married him” “A quiet wedding we had, he and I”
Jane describing her relationship with Rochester at the end
Chapter 38: “Because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh”
Jane belonging
Chapter 33: “It seemed I had found a brother; one I could be proud of - one I could love; and two sisters, whose qualities were such, that when I knew them but as mere strangers, they had inspired me with genuine affection and admiration… This was wealth indeed! - wealth to the heart!”
St John asking Jane to come with him to India
Chapter 34: “You are formed for labor, not love. A missionary’s wife you must - shall be. You shall be mine; I claim you”