Mr Rochester Key Quotes- Jane Eyre
- Created by: Ellie Griffiths
- Created on: 04-05-17 11:51
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- Mr Rochester
- "I summon you as my wife; it is only you I intend to marry"
- Quotes addressed to Jane/ about Jane
- "almost unearthly thing"
- "Poor and obscure and plain as you are"
- "Goodnight, my -" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me"
- "I envy you, your peace of mind,your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory"
- "I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time-- I saw it in your eyes when i first beheld you."
- "My bride is here, because my equal is here and my likeness.Jane, will you marry me?"
- "I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage..."
- (Quote continued) " a vivid restless, resolute captive is there: were it but free, it would soar cloud high"
- "I mentally shake hands with you for that answer"
- Quotes addressed to Jane/ about Jane
- Quotes about Rochester
- "His presence in the room was more cheering than the brightest fire"
- "Strong features, firm, grim mouth"
- "all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me”
- "Sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow"
- "dark eyes"
- "solid mass of intellectual organs"
- "Decisive nose"
- Critics Quotes/ Opinions
- "After he goes blind, Rochester becomes domesticated. The Gothic has been tamed ... by marital love"
- "symbolic castration" Richard Chase
- A punishment for his earlier promiscuity
- Acknowledging the mad woman in the physiologically frees his mind allowing Rochester to discover true fulfilment.
- (quote continued) Rochester thus turned the destructive fire into a purifying one.
- Rochester is most likely a remnant of the children's sensational world,the poetic antithesis of all that was dull, dreary, routine, and circumscribed in the worlds of Haworth Parsonage.
- Rochester: Imagery
- Fire Imagery
- "on fire with impatience"
- (describing how Rochester feels on his wedding day)
- " a lamp quenched waiting to be re lit "
- This is how Jane describes Rochester when she sees him for the first time after the fire.
- "on fire with impatience"
- Bird Imagery
- "a royal eagle,chained to a perch"
- Jane describes his as this as she now feels that he is dependent on her after he obtained his injuries from the fire.
- " I heard one of your kinds an hour ago, singing high over in the wood."
- "but its song had no music for "
- Rochester refers to Jane as a song bird, however the birds voice does not make Rochester as happy as Jane does.
- "a royal eagle,chained to a perch"
- Fire Imagery
- "I know my maker sanctions what i do"
- Rochester trying to justify his bigamy
- Rochester on Bertha
- "That is MY WIFE"
- "this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell,looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon"
- "Compare these clear eyes with the red balls yonder-- this face with that mask"
- Comparing Jane to purity,
- "That is MY WIFE"
- Rochester showing features of a Byronic hero
- Psychological and emotional intensity
- "I have plenty of faults of my own, I know it"
- Arrogance
- "do you think of me handsome?"
- "now demanded the master"
- Alienation
- "not fond of children or simple minder old ladies
- Sexual/ attractive
- "unconscious pride in his part"
- "unusual breadth in his chest"
- Psychological and emotional intensity
- "I summon you as my wife; it is only you I intend to marry"
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