Jane Eyre - Thornfield Part 2
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- Thornfield - Part 2
- Upper class
- Rochester has guests over, Jane is feeling silly for thinking he could love her.
- Theme - social class
- Very showy, grand, dignified and haughty
- Ladies set on attracting and impressing gentlemen.
- Didn't like children
- False and double-sided characters - impressing gentlemen, mean to others.
- Governess
- Looked-down upon - similar to Bronte's observation that governesses were made to be 'seen and not heard'
- Viewed as nearly inhuman
- Meant to serve the wealth, depreived of human feelings/ emotions.
- Meant to submit to ill-treatment, yet remain devoted.
- Jane
- Alienation from high society/ true feminity.
- Battle over Rochester between ladies of v different character / status.
- Behaviour
- Acts very submissively, obedient to Rochester
- Keeps her feelings/ worries inside, doesn't show her fear (When Mason is injusred)
- Trusts Rochester fully, proves her devotion
- This is the only time she has willingly submitted to being obedient to someone
- Dream
- Dreams succesively of an infant
- Bessie - 'To dream of children was a sure sign of trouble'
- Immediately following dreams, trouble does come. John Reed is dead, Mrs Reed is very ill.
- Foreshadowing
- Bessie - 'To dream of children was a sure sign of trouble'
- Dreams succesively of an infant
- Alienation from high society/ true feminity.
- Mr Rochester
- Growing attachment to Jane
- Wants to say - 'Good-night my darling'.
- Teases her by fooling around with Blanche.
- Links to the house
- Rochester is harbouring a large/ cumbrous issue, mysterious and maybe terrible.
- The house is also hiding a big secret - related to the 'fateful third storey'
- Although some terrible event may have occurred, both have very uplifting/ resolute characters.
- Determined to carry on with life as normal - House is filled with guests.
- Rochester is harbouring a large/ cumbrous issue, mysterious and maybe terrible.
- Growing attachment to Jane
- Appearances/ disguises
- Charades
- Wedding - potential foreshadowing of what will happen in the future.
- Allows Jane to search her feelings for Rochester ,she becomes intensely pained/ depressed
- Rochester dresses as gypsy
- Allows him to bring forth confessions or revealing statements from his guests
- Gives him insight to their true characters i.e. Blanche
- Mirrors conversation with Brocklehurst
- Harsh, short, condemning questions
- Digs deep into Jane's soul
- Assessment of Jane
- Condemns her situation as being her own fault, whereas Jane is convinced her situation is defined by her circumstances, which she can't change
- Observations of Jane
- Observes she is sad.
- He sees she doesn't let her feelings overtake her common sense
- Passionate, 'judgement shall have the last word in every argument'
- Her strict following of her conscience may result in sacrifices and unhappiness.
- Jane is angry - she has unknowingly revealed her feelings in front of Rochester
- Thornfield - Part 2
- Upper class
- Rochester has guests over, Jane is feeling silly for thinking he could love her.
- Theme - social class
- Very showy, grand, dignified and haughty
- Ladies set on attracting and impressing gentlemen.
- Didn't like children
- False and double-sided characters - impressing gentlemen, mean to others.
- Governess
- Looked-down upon - similar to Bronte's observation that governesses were made to be 'seen and not heard'
- Viewed as nearly inhuman
- Meant to serve the wealth, depreived of human feelings/ emotions.
- Meant to submit to ill-treatment, yet remain devoted.
- Jane
- Alienation from high society/ true feminity.
- Battle over Rochester between ladies of v different character / status.
- Behaviour
- Acts very submissively, obedient to Rochester
- Keeps her feelings/ worries inside, doesn't show her fear (When Mason is injusred)
- Trusts Rochester fully, proves her devotion
- This is the only time she has willingly submitted to being obedient to someone
- Dream
- Dreams succesively of an infant
- Bessie - 'To dream of children was a sure sign of trouble'
- Immediately following dreams, trouble does come. John Reed is dead, Mrs Reed is very ill.
- Foreshadowing
- Bessie - 'To dream of children was a sure sign of trouble'
- Dreams succesively of an infant
- Alienation from high society/ true feminity.
- Mr Rochester
- Growing attachment to Jane
- Wants to say - 'Good-night my darling'.
- Teases her by fooling around with Blanche.
- Links to the house
- Rochester is harbouring a large/ cumbrous issue, mysterious and maybe terrible.
- The house is also hiding a big secret - related to the 'fateful third storey'
- Although some terrible event may have occurred, both have very uplifting/ resolute characters.
- Determined to carry on with life as normal - House is filled with guests.
- Rochester is harbouring a large/ cumbrous issue, mysterious and maybe terrible.
- Growing attachment to Jane
- Appearances/ disguises
- Charades
- Wedding - potential foreshadowing of what will happen in the future.
- Allows Jane to search her feelings for Rochester ,she becomes intensely pained/ depressed
- Rochester dresses as gypsy
- Allows him to bring forth confessions or revealing statements from his guests
- Gives him insight to their true characters i.e. Blanche
- Mirrors conversation with Brocklehurst
- Harsh, short, condemning questions
- Digs deep into Jane's soul
- Assessment of Jane
- Condemns her situation as being her own fault, whereas Jane is convinced her situation is defined by her circumstances, which she can't change
- Observations of Jane
- Observes she is sad.
- He sees she doesn't let her feelings overtake her common sense
- Passionate, 'judgement shall have the last word in every argument'
- Her strict following of her conscience may result in sacrifices and unhappiness.
- Jane is angry - she has unknowingly revealed her feelings in front of Rochester
- Allows him to bring forth confessions or revealing statements from his guests
- Charades
- Blanche Ingram
- Similar to Bertha Mason
- Both fail to impress Rochester/ Capture his heart
- If they don't get their own way, they get childishly angry.
- Similar to Bertha Mason
- Gothic
- Attic
- Rochester leads Jane to the 'fateful third storey' to help him
- Mr Mason is covered in blood
- Jane spends the time in suspense, fears what might be lying behind the connecting door.
- Shows her attachment to Rochester - she trusts him with her life.
- Shrouded in mystery - involves horror and blood
- Horros contrasted with the freshness/ beauty of the sunrise that Jane/ Rochester watch after this.
- Peace/ tranquility and beauty of the sunrise, contrast with darkness, horror, mystery of the attic.
- Rochester leads Jane to the 'fateful third storey' to help him
- 'Eerie cry in the night' - Jane is sure it must be something more than a 'servants bad dream'
- Attic
- Jane cares for Mrs Reed
- Structure of Beauty and the Beast
- Beauty goes to care for the Beast, Mrs Reed.
- Mrs Reed shows her horrible charcter, Jane continues to be kind, gentle.
- Mrs Reed confesses her wrongs against Jane, links to semi-transformation of Beast into Prince.
- We see Mrs Reed was always afraid of Jane, of her passion, and now feels tormented about her bad conduct towards her
- Still not fully apologetic - quite defensive
- Jane treats her aunt very graciously, forgiving, doesn't hold any grudges or resentment against her.
- Structure of Beauty and the Beast
- Jane's return to Thornfield
- Immediacy - she immediately encounters Rochester, not enough time to school her features, hide the emotions upon seeing the man she loved.
- Received with great happiness, welcome
- Description of Thornfiel in it's pleasantest terms
- Suggests Jane loves Thornfield as her home, very sad to leave it
- Suggests Jane is anticipating her departure from Thornfield (Impending marriage to Blanche),
- Taking note of the things she loves before she has to leave.
- Upper class
- Allows him to bring forth confessions or revealing statements from his guests
- Charades
- Blanche Ingram
- Similar to Bertha Mason
- Both fail to impress Rochester/ Capture his heart
- If they don't get their own way, they get childishly angry.
- Similar to Bertha Mason
- Gothic
- Attic
- Rochester leads Jane to the 'fateful third storey' to help him
- Mr Mason is covered in blood
- Jane spends the time in suspense, fears what might be lying behind the connecting door.
- Shows her attachment to Rochester - she trusts him with her life.
- Shrouded in mystery - involves horror and blood
- Horros contrasted with the freshness/ beauty of the sunrise that Jane/ Rochester watch after this.
- Peace/ tranquility and beauty of the sunrise, contrast with darkness, horror, mystery of the attic.
- Rochester leads Jane to the 'fateful third storey' to help him
- 'Eerie cry in the night' - Jane is sure it must be something more than a 'servants bad dream'
- Attic
- Jane cares for Mrs Reed
- Structure of Beauty and the Beast
- Beauty goes to care for the Beast, Mrs Reed.
- Mrs Reed shows her horrible charcter, Jane continues to be kind, gentle.
- Mrs Reed confesses her wrongs against Jane, links to semi-transformation of Beast into Prince.
- We see Mrs Reed was always afraid of Jane, of her passion, and now feels tormented about her bad conduct towards her
- Still not fully apologetic - quite defensive
- Jane treats her aunt very graciously, forgiving, doesn't hold any grudges or resentment against her.
- Structure of Beauty and the Beast
- Jane's return to Thornfield
- Immediacy - she immediately encounters Rochester, not enough time to school her features, hide the emotions upon seeing the man she loved.
- Received with great happiness, welcome
- Description of Thornfiel in it's pleasantest terms
- Suggests Jane loves Thornfield as her home, very sad to leave it
- Suggests Jane is anticipating her departure from Thornfield (Impending marriage to Blanche),
- Taking note of the things she loves before she has to leave.
- Upper class
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