she was not profoundly interesting or thoroughly impressive.
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Her usual childlike activity and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness
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A very different sort of mind was hers from that, for instance, of the sisters of St John
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Rosamund is a social reformer however she is not viewed with the worthiness Jane believes she herself retains. Anne Crow
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"Softest shades and sweetest hues" "smooth ivory"
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"chalk your own picture" "Disconnected, poor and plain"
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"Do you think me handsome?" "No sir"
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Big, brown, and buxom"
Social marriage market
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I scarcely knew what school was; Bessie sometimes spoke of it as a place where young ladies sat in the stocks, wore backboards, and were expected to be exceedingly genteel and precise
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John Reed hated his school, and abused his master
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a long journey, an entire separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life
Bildungsroman
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here I lay again crushed and trodden
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School-rules. school-duties, school-habits and notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and preferences and antipathies
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tired of routine
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I had taken a step which sank instead of raising me in the scale of social existence
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"ignorant" "unmannered" "rough" "difficulty in understanding each other's language"
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Both possessed faces full of distinction and intelligence
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I fancy her physiognomy would be agreeable
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"Greek face, very pure in outline" "Athenian mouth and chin"
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"His high forehead, colourless as ivory"
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(St John is more dangerous than Rochester) Anne Crow
presents the victory of Romanticism over Calvinism
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"Wealth, Caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved"
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"Equal- as we are"
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I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him
Plato's Hermaphrodites
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Absolutely bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh
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You ought to beg
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You are a dependant
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Restlessness was in my nature
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Low, slow ha! ha! Which, when first heard, had thrilled me
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(Jane's deepest, darkest double) Gilbert and Gubar
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Women feel just as men feel
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they need exercise for their faculties...just as their brothers do
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Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot
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it is thoughtless to condemn them
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Blooming, and smiling and pretty
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"clasp the bracelets on these fine wrists" "put the diamond chain round your neck"
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"Sweet wind from Europe"
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Jane Eyre is representative of a whole system that portrayed people from other cultures as mad or monstrous to justify the exploitation of foreign lands in the name of civilisation- Charlotte Salmi
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savage
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(Despite Brontes strong affinity for Romanticism she remains the daughter of a parson) Anne Crow
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Her usual childlike activity and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness
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