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until the end, where it is

Sir, Edward

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oxymoron - the slave does not own anything that the master has given because the slave belongs to the master

bestow on a slave his gold and gems had enriched

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talking about the necklace Rochester gave her

I left that; it was not mine

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the way Jane feels about these gifts that she knows she feels no ownership to.

with a sense of annoyance and degradation

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connotations of slavery, she is in a bejewelled cage, fairy-tale connotations

I will myself put the diamond chain round your neck . . . nature, at least, has stamped her patent of nobility on this brow, Jane; and I will clasp the bracelets on these fine wrists, and load these fairy-like fingers with rings

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more emphasis of Rochester’s ownership over Jane. he lies - he is not conquered, she is. deceptive.

Jane, you please me, and you master me . . . while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger... I am influenced – conquered

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adam and eve links - also emphasises how small and physically weak Jane is

It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame

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st john and rosamund my lovess, st john’s reminiscing and feminine imagery

rested my temples on the breast of temptation, and put my neck voluntarily under her yoke of flowers

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jane and her search for affection

I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple… I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken

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  • idolatry

  • ECLIPSE METAPHORR

He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

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jane and st john, fire and ice.

I am cold: no fervour infects me, Whereas I am hot, and fire dissolves ice

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jane and helen, what helen is to Jane

It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strength

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rochester’s classist cynicism

Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary

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helen on revenge and justice

Revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low

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why jane cannot marry St John

He is a good and a great man, but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views

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jane on why he mistreats her and why she cannot bear it - Bronte’s views on what should actually be valued shine though.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!