words/phrases that stood out :
rain penetrating. raw twilight. inferiority. ceaseless rain. forlorn. undeveloped. imperfect. eager attention. bad animal ? akward diffidence. bleared eye. sallowness. antipathy. mused. murderer. slave driver. vague sing-song. tabernacle. dreary subdued. broken reflections.
infer :
there is a sense of happiness. she is isolated in a house full of people. she is not an equal, let alone human to them, as she is referred to as a "bad animal." she sort of accepts the harsh criticism that she recieves from everyone around her. maybe its because it is all she knows. if so, it is particulary sad that a young girl must endure so much torture.
PAGES : 38
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morbid. suffering. pettishness. mortified pride. not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste. tiresome, ill-conditioned child. little toad ? . seperation from her [mrs. reed] and the children. not worthy of notice. tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance. red as if you had been about some mischief. agitated hesitation.
infer :
jane's differences and unsual peculiarities make her the object of emotional and physical abuse. she is constantly labeled as a misbehaved, torublesome child only because she is misunderstood. the family doesn't take time to get to know her. they dont care. and her presence is an annoyace and great distraction from their everyday activity. she is constantly referred to as animals ( ugly animals at that ) which i find quite strange. it seems like they continuously look for things to fault her for.
PAGES : 53
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suffocating with distress. un-hoped for liberty ? . conqueror's solitude.
infer :
the pains of the family's actions are getting to her . but she finds peace within her isolation. which is weird, yet understandable since she spends most of her time alone anyway.
PAGES : 68
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high degree ignominious ?? great distress and shame. object of constant notice. careless. wretchedly defective nature. love your enemies.
*make his word your rule and his conduct your example* [reference to christ] .
bitter and trucelent. irksome struggle.
infer :
although she is confined to solitude, she is no longer a victim to the chastising. however, even the nurse finds a way to make her feel like she is nothing but problems. when in a sense it should not be like that because a nurse's duties are not much higher then a servants, they are a servant too with different tasks assigned to them. good words are spoken to jane however, when the reference to god is made. in a sense the nurse is trying to help jane find peace within her misery. telling her to disregard the negativity that the reed family bestow upon her, and rely on the words of christ. this may give jane a hidden strength, who knows. wise words nonetheless.
PAGES : 83
words/phrases that stood out :
punish her body to save her soul.
an unhappy girl repaid by an ingratitude so bad[ words by teacher at lowood].
ardently i wished to die[ due to embarrassment by mr.brocklehurst, and dislike by fellow classmates].
silent as an indian.
if all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscious absolved you from guilt you woud not be without friends.
if others dont love me i would rather die then live. you are too impulsive-too vehement.
god wants only the seperation of spirit flesh to crown us with a full reward.
in the tranquiltity she imparted their was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.
infer :
the many years of non-affection and missing love witnessed throughout her childhood makes her strive for acceptance. she wants to be liked by everyone, but the ill words her aunt gave to the teacher when he visited her house forces is her to live according to a false impression of who she really is. she is once again chastised by a stranger who knows nothing of her character besides what he is told. which is misleading. yet she is befriended by a girl who sees the pureness in her and wants her to experience self-love and christ-love above all.
PAGES : 98
words/phrases that stood out :
be sure not to grieve.
by dying young i shall escape great sufferings.
insignificant existence. i desired for liberty. you were no beauty as a child.
infer :
after losing the only person who ever showed compassion and love for her it seems as if jane is heading down a path of misery, but helen's words soothe her even from another place. in seek of a new scenery she comes across an old acquaintance that brightens her mood and her life. it is somewhat of a starting point for a new beginning.
PAGES : 113
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anticipated only coldness and stiffness.
no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity.
after a life's fitful fever they sleep well.
infer :
she is recieving a great deal of kindness that she is not used to. she is almost shying away from it. she feels as if she is inferior. nothing she does is good enough. so she doesnt accept the generosity very well. its as if she is ashamed and frightened by good-manner.
PAGES : 128
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neccesity compels me to make you useful.
new picture introduced to the gallery of memory.
a present has many faces. charitable concern.
infer :
she has a sense of need, and for once it is not her longing. the compassion of strangers is new to her. she doesnt know how to accept it. yet, she likes the feeling. or so it seems. she cant quite express her emotions.
PAGES : 143
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not fond of prattle children. . . nor do i particularly affect simple-minded old ladies.
final re-transformation from india-rubber back to flesh.
*remorse is the poison of life.* conviction of ignorance.
infer :
a talk with the owner of the house gives her a new insight. she sees his line of thinking and gets a new revelation on life. almost everyone she is coming into contact with is teaching her something either about herself, or her life. in a way she is slowly becoming an entirely different person with each new encounter. change for the better ?
PAGES : 158
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shunned it like a plague-house. i grieved for his grief.
there is no debt, benefit, burden, obligation in this case. cherished preserver.
her brazen coldness provoked me.
infer :
she finds someone with sorrow just as deep as hers. yet only mr. rotchester's grief comes from a different source. she begins to see she is not the only person in the world with problems. again its a new realization. she starts to change roles, and she is the provider. helping someone deal with their issues and not sulking in her owns.
PAGES : 173
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her wickedness is a secret. are there any ladies at the leas ? [possible jealousy]. " i reviewed the information i had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings and endeavored to bring back with a strict hand such as had been straying through imaginations bondless and trackless waste into the safe fold of common sense. portrait of a governess disconnected, poor, and plain.
infer :
her attachment to her employer grows stronger and her feelings intimidate her. she begins to see that her life is changing, and its for the better. she tries to hide and throw away her feelings but understands there is no true escape. so what is she to do ?
PAGES : 188
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insupportable haughtiness. furrowed with pride. her face lacked expression.
a pleasure like that the thirst perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned,yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
i have wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected.
he made me love him without even looking at me.
infer :
the insights she makes about ms. ingram define her character. it is a way for jane to justify the issue she has with her marrying mr. rochester. in this depiction she is describing mr.rochester as a person who is going against his best interest for the purpose of connections and power. in jane's eyes it is nonsense. she finally openly admits her love for mr. rochester although she tries to cover it. love is not welcome in her life. yet, she cannot deny how she feels. and quite possibly she may see this finally as an outlet for her to get what she wants.
PAGES : 203
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the sarcasm that repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish.
tiresome monkey [ blanche to adele]
vacant life [mr.mason]
unsettled and inanimate
ugly old creature. . . almost as black as a crock
vulgar herd. blockhead. *never turned a page*
"why dont you tremble ?" i'm not cold. "why dont you turn pale ?" i am not sick. "why dont you consult my art ? " i'm not silly [between jane and gypsy]
you are cold because you are alone; no contact strikes your fire from you that is in you. you are sick: because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man keeps far away from you. you are silly, because suffer as you may, you will not beckon it to approach, nor will you stir one step to meet it where it waits you.
when i examine your face one trait contradicted another.
infer :
ms. ingrams character is finally called into light and jane is not frightened. she is intimidated by the gypsy beyond measure. however, the reveiling of the gypsy and the message she gives to jane allows an inward perception of herself. upon her is sadness and unhappiness because she fears anything else.
PAGES : 218
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you have been talking nonsense to make me talk nonsense. the gay tones set my heart at ease. stillness returned. open your lips-agitate yourself. control like a child.
the glamour of inexperience is over your eyes.
her adamant personality won't let anyone inside her head. she feels that if she is strong-willed she will keep her sanity
PAGES : 233
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he gave himself up to strange ways. burdensome[eyre]. little niggard. you cannot be trusted.
time wells the longing of vengeance, and vanishes the promptings of rage and aversion. indissoluble tears.
infer :
through the time apart from mrs. reed she is able to forgive and love her like she was never banished or betrayed. she consults to being the bigger person. that in a sense she has always been.
PAGES : 248
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keep the creature. sunk and degraded [john]. you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. everybody knows you are the most selfish heartless creture in existence. equality of disembodied souls [helen to jane] . the feeble fingers shrank from my touch-the glazing eyes shunned my gaze. quiet and unmolested.
infer :
time does not always change everyone. through negativity jane still finds time to try and bring peace between her and her dying aunt. all ill feelings aside.
PAGES : 263
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i began to cherish hopes i had no right to conceive. never had i loved him so well. his mind was unconscious and quiet. sobbed convulsingly.curiosity is a dangerous petition.
infer :
her love for mr. rochester grows deeper and she is accepting the love. hoping that the love is returned in the end. her heart feels a love never felt before. she experiences a new passion.
PAGES : 278
words/phrases that stood out :
when i mean shortly to claim you-your thoughts,conversation, and company-for life.
motives of expediency. full falcon-eye flashing. i could not in those days, see god for his creature of whom i had made an idol.
infer :
she has made a human her main priority. putting aside all faith. dangerous in itself. the bible states that no one should put false idols before him.
PAGES : 293
words/phrases that stood out :
my prize is not certain. impetuous republican answers. savage face. i seemed the emblem of my past life. her life was pale, her prospects were desolate.
infer :
she feels that maybe her life is a repeating cycle she cannot escape.
PAGES : 308
words/phrases that stood out :
"bigamy is a ugly word." i meant to be a bigamist[rochester]
feigned union.defrauded wretch.
"take care then sir ! or god's sake take care! "
" a smile both acrid and desolate."
faith was blighted-confidence destroyed[jane]
fitful passion. i wrestled with my own resolution.
conscience turned tyrant, held passion by the throat being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, i thought i loved her"(307) [rochester about naivety about bertha]
infer :
jane finally islet in on mr. rochester's secret. he is already ,arried and his wife is the one that has been causing all the misfortunes in the household. She begins to question herself out of the despair and betrayal she feels. She second-guesses her feelings and mr. rochester's feelings, and feel as if she can no longer go on living with a man who decieved her.
PAGES : 323
words/phrases that stood up :
"his anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion"
childish and slender creature ? [ another reference to animals/creatures]
" i think those days visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occassionall, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth, when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of hope, up and to an ideal heaven"
"i was for awhile troubled with a haunting fear that if i handled the flower freely, its bloom would fade"
infer:
she sees the sincerity in rochester's apologies, but cannot bring herself to accept it and continue living with him. she's in pain. this is basically rochester's attempt to gain jane's love back and make her believe in him once again. He understands her pain, and knows that there is nothing he can do to fix it so instead he chooses to console her.
PAGES : 338
words/phrases that stood out :
"possessed eyes whose gaze i was delighted to encounter"
equally intelligent; equally pretty
"my nature to feel pleasure and yielding to authority"
infer:
although jane has always viewed herself as inferior to her peers, this is the first time that she feels equality; maybe even superiority. she begins to understand her value and what she could possibly bring to society as a woman.
Pages : 353
words/phrases that stood out:
disgust,suffocating, poverty
"i was weakly dismayed at the ignorance, the poverty, the coarseness of all I heard and saw round me"
"at this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection"
infer:
Jane begins to contradict the entire image she portrayed throughout the novel. no longer is she this innocent isolated child who everyone picks on. Instead, she has switched the roles, and considers herself better then those around her. Forgetting the fact that at one point in time, she was at the level also, if not farther below. She shames people for their lifesytle which overall, they have no control over it. I believe it is here, that she temporarily turns into the antagonist.
Pages : 368
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frozen hurricane;howling darkness
"the importance of twenty thousand pounds would give you; of the place it would enable you to take in society; of the prospects it would open to you"[contradiction on her view of people with wealth]
"human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation"
infer:
Jane shows that wealth is now an important assett to her. She understands the delight of those that she has been around all her life. She sees her life in a new light, and views herself entirely different. The wealth she possesses has a dire effect on her.
Pages : 383
words/phrases that stood out :
"his praise and notice were more restraining than his indifference"
"The thing was as impossible as to mould my irregular features to his correct and classic pattern, to give to my changeable green eyes the sea-blue tint and solemn lustre of his own"
infer:
Jane is involved with a man named St. John. However, all she seems to do is find faults within him. WHen the tables are turned, she is put in the same situation that mr. rochester was in when he started courting her. Yet, she cannot seem to deal with it and accomodate for what he lacks.
Pages : 398
words/phrases that stood out :
"Jane, you are docile, diligent, disinterested, faithful, constant, and courageous; very gentle, and very heroic;
"do not forget that if you reject it, it is not me you deny, but God...Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity" cease to mistrust yourself"[evidence of manipulation by st.john]
infer :
Jane finally understands that she cannot bring herself to love St. John. He asks her to marry him but she refuses. Her outlook on life and herself has completely changed. She also cant ignore the fact that her heart is with mr. rochester. But St. John cant let go, and although she rejects him, he uses any methods possible to get her to stay ( i.e the quote demonstrating manipulation).
