Themes of Jane Eyre

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Society and Class

  • "You ought not to think you are on equality with the Master Reed and Misses Reed's"
  • "You ought to be aware Miss that you are under obligations to Mrs Reed"
  • "You are less than a servant"
  • "I should not like to belong to poor people"
  • "Blanche", "Eliza", "Georgiana" in comparison to "Jane"
  • "Women feel just as men feel"
  • "I'm ready to go to India if I may go free"
  • "If we are struck at without reason, we must strike back hard"
  • "I have a master to serve", using God as an excuse for his own hypocrisy
  • "We must not conform to nature... it must be cut off entirely"
  • "Velvet, silks and furs, with ostrich plumes"
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Love

  • "Human beings must love something"
  • "If others don't love me then I would rather die than live"
  • "God is my friend; I love him and I believe he loves me"
  • "He made me love him without looking at me"
    "I could not unlove him"
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Setting: Gateshead

  • "Pillars of mahogany"
  • "Footstool... like a pale throne"
  • "Deeo red damask curtains
  • "Clear panes of glass protecting me"
  • "Beautiful house"
  • Gateshead is the "gate" that Jane must pass through to start her journey into adulthood.
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Setting: Lowood

  • Lowood is the place where Jane learnt discipline
  • "Stony street"
  • "The garden was a wide enclosure"
  • "Drizzling yellow fog
  • "Rain, wind and darkness filled the air"
  • "Low" time for Jane
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Setting: Thornfield

  • A "field" full of "thorns"
  • "Wide and heavy bed"
  • "Darksome staircase"
  • "Rather neglected"
  • "I came to love Thornfield"
  • "Silent hall"
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Setting: Moor house

  • "Whitewashed walls and sanded floor"
  • "I felt the consecration of loneliness"
  • "Gray, small, antique structure"
  • "Dry and yet warm with the summer day"
  • "Its garden dark with dew and holly - where no flowers but the hardest species would bloom.
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Great set of cards thank you so much!!!

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