Jane Eyre Chpt 14
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- Jane Eyre chpt 14
- “He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen” pg 154
- Rochester is not forgiving or fair
- Reflects the bionic/villainous hero
- “I am not a general philanthropist;but I bear a conscience"
- Foreshadows Rochester trying to save Bertha
- Shows he has a conscience
- Foreshadows Rochester trying to save Bertha
- “I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory
- Definition of a gothic heroine
- “I am not a villain” pg 159
- Hints of his villainous ways
- Hints of his past
- “‘Possibly: yet why should I, if I can get sweet, fresh pleasure? And I may get it as sweet and fresh as the wild honey the bee gathers at the moor’” pg 160
- Rochester won’t do the right thing
- Symbolises what he did to Bertha
- “‘I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage’” pg 162
- Rochester’s description of Jane sums her up because she’s trapped
- Conversations between Jane and Rochester have the conventions of ‘Beauty and the Beast'
- “He lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow, and showed a solid enough mass of intellectual organs, but an abrupt deficiency where the suave sign of benevolence should have risen” pg 154
- Hints of his villainous ways
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