St John Key Quotes- Jane Eyre

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Created by: Ellie Griffiths
Created on: 05-05-17 11:32

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St John
- "No longer flesh but marble, his eye was cold"
  - Metaphor
- "iron shroud"
- calls Jane "docile and diligent"
  - "very gentle"
  - "we must be married"- John to Jane
    - "refuse to be my wife and you limit yourself forever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity"
  - "'"Oh! I will give my heart to God," I said. "You do not want it."'
  - ""God did not give me my life to throw away" - Jane
- Ice Imagery/St John as cold
  - "I am cold; no fever infects me"
  - "His reserve was again frozen over"
  - "He continually made little chilling differences"
  - "iron shroud"
  - "could hardly comprehend his present frigidity"
  - "his eyes a cold bright blue gem"
- Religion
  - "forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people in pursuing his own large views."
  - ""Humility Jane," he said "is the ground work of Christian virtues""
  - ""it will bear the weight of your human weakness"
  - Religious Context
    - Evangelical Christians believed we are all born sinners
      - They believe that the only way to seek heaven was salvation
      - Had to work hard to be true Chrisians
      - Strict religion
  - "recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice"
  - "discriminate the Christian from the man"
  - "he laid his hands on my head"
  - " a guardian angel watching the soul for which it is responsible"
  - "religion called- angels beckoned- God commanded"
  - "recalling his wondering sheep"
    - link to the religious Christian parable/ allusion to
- "i scorn your idea of love"- Jane