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‘silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear‘

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‘silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear‘

Helen telling Jane to take suffering, abuse, religion.

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‘I must resist those who punish me unjustly‘

Jane telling Helen how she responds to maltreatment, abuse, fire and ice.

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‘she dislikes your cast of character’

Helen justifying Mrs Reed’s abuse, abuse.

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‘Rain, wind and darkness filled the air‘

Description of weather upon entering Lowood, pathetic fallacy.

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‘burning glasses against my scorched skin'

Jane explaining her embarrasment, abuse, fire and ice.

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'left in my natural element'

Jane saying her natural element is fire, fire and ice.

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‘a kind fairy‘

Jane describing her thoughts as supernatural, supernatural.

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‘pronounced sentence‘

Brocklehurst is the judge of Lowood, religion, inferiority.

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‘seats of honour‘

Brocklehurst’s family given higher seats based on money/ relation, social class.

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‘almost worthy of such a wife

Jane saying Miss Temple is worthier than a man, gender roles.

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‘I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer’

Jane wanting freedom, bird.

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‘you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls‘

Brocklehurst explaining his treatment, abuse, religion.

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‘Where is God? What is God?‘

Jane questioning God, religion.

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‘do good to them that hate you‘

Helen’s version of Christianity, religion.

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‘the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.‘

Jane explaining Miss Temple’s role in her life, motherhood.

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‘God bless you, my children‘

Miss Temple viewing her students as family, motherhood.

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