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.