WJEC advanced information

Overview

• The Jane Eyre extract can be taken from chapters 20-25.
• Potential extracts:

Chapter 20

• Mason’s attack:   * Gothic imagery.   * Acts of violence.
• Jane and Rochester talking in the orchard:   * God’s law.

Chapter 21

• Jane meeting Mrs Reed again:   * Abuse.   * Family.

Chapter 23

• Rochester proposes to Jane:   * Bird imagery.   * Religious/religious laws.

Chapter 24

• Fairfax warning Jane:   * Social class.   * Gender roles.
• Rochester’s fairy story to Adele:   * Supernatural.   * Fairy imagery.
• Rochester trying to buy Jane pretty things:   * Social class.   * Gender roles.

Chapter 25

• The spilt tree:   * Relationships.   * Nature.
• Jane’s dreams:   * Dreams.
• Jane seeing Bertha:   * Superstition.   * Animal imagery.   * Bertha is key point of novel.

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