Reason VS. emotion quotes; AO5

How is Jane described in the early chapters

“A picture of passion!”

Quote about marrying sj` and her feelings

To keep the fire of my nature low… that would be unendurable

What does SJ say about jane’s words

your words… violent, unfemenine, untrue

What did rochester feel in europe

Fleeting passions (part of byronic hero)

How does Brandon act when helping Mariane in her illness

With all the collectedness of a firm mind

How does SJ describe himself

Know me to be what i am; a cold, hard man.

How does Jane feel when Helen is ill

I must see Helen Burns

Quote about reason from the courtroom scene

Brought reason to the bar

What does Jane’s internal monologue say about her feelings to Rochester

I know I must conceal my sentiments - I must smother hope

Quote about Jane’s restelessness

Restlessness was in my nature - it agitated me to painR

Rochester to Jane about her sassy responses

Not one in one thousand governesses would’ve answered me like that

Quote from jane about marrying sinjin

To marry you would kill me. You are killing me now

Janes impulsive words quote

It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will

Jane when obtaining money

One begins to consider responsibilites

Start of Vol.3 Jane struggling to make a descision

I wrestled with my own resolution

Gilbert and Gubar on Jane’s emotions

Jane’s way of confronting the world is still the promethean way of fiery rebellion

Eagleton on passion

Passion springs from the very core of teh self

Elaine Showalter on conflicring emotions

Jane Eyre formulates the combat between the angel in the house and the devil in the flesh

Elizabeth Rigby on JE

“a decidedly vulgar minded anti-christian novel”

AO3 on reason vs emotion

• The angel in the house

• Cult of sensibility

• age of romantacism

• Propriety

• Alternate title of sense

• Byronic hero…?

Gilbert and gubar on SS reason vs emotion

By the end of the novel, Elinor has a great deal of sensibility, Marianne has some sense

Aurebach on reason vs emotion

Austen joins Wollstonecraft in questioning the assumption that men have sense, and women have feeling

Aurebach on male emotional balance (CB)

During marriane’s illness, CB both thinks and feels, cares and acts

Aurebach cynical view on sense

Sense becomes little more than a calculated self interest to gain cents and percents for oneself

Tanner on Marianne

There is something punitive in the taming of marianne.
The structure of society is more powerful than the structure of feeling in the novel

marianne does, in effect die.

The young female of sensibility is also a prime target for seduction

Marianne to Elinor about her emotions toward Edward

Like him! esteem him! cold hearted elinorE

Elinor at the start

She had strong emotions, but knew how to govern them

Marianne’s mind

Mariannes mind could not be controlled

Marianne and her mother

They encouraged eachother in the violence of their afflictions

Marianne

Could not say what she did not feel

Marianne and propriety

Marianne had a tendency to set propriety at a nought

Moderation of emotions marriane

Her sorrows, joys had no moderation

Elinor suggesting to Marianne

Elinor only suggested the propriety of self command to marianne

Elinor when faced with Lucy Steele

With a composure of voice…she was mortified, shocked, confounded

After Edward proposes to her

She was everything but tranquil

Elinor helping others

She was to be the comforter of others amidst her own distress

mariannes illness…

my illness has made me think

Marriane over her past self

I cannot explain my own abhorrence to myself

Had marianne died…

It wouldve been self destruction

Marianne to elinor

how barbarous have I been to you!

Marianne on her emotions going forward

I will govern my emotions… with virtous self control