Sunday, March 27, 2011

Jane Eyre new envelope quotations

Same as last week, but address your two new envelope numbers.

Due Thursday 3pm.

22 comments:

  1. #7) “Her face was like her mother’s; a youthful unfurrowed likeness: the same low brow, the same high features, the same pride…her laugh was satirical, and so was the habitual expression of her arched and haughty lip.” Pg. 216
    This quote reveals the arrogance and hubris of the upper class women. The talk of Miss Ingram’s “arched and haughty lip” illustrates her vainglorious and conceited nature, and the overall pomp with which these ladies hold themselves.

    #8) "'I have just one word to say of the whole tribe; they are a nuisance. Not that I ever suffered much from them; I took care to turn the tables. What tricks Theodore and I used to play on our Miss Wilsons...Miss Wilson was a poor, sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing...But poor Madame Joubert! I see her yet in her raging passions, when we had driven her to extremities...do you remember those merry days?'" Pg. 223
    This quote embodies how the upper class disrespects the lower class and considers them nothing more than a “nuisance”. In this quote, Blanche Ingram is speaking about how she and her siblings used to purposefully torture their governess for entertainment, and how incredibly “merry” those days were. The blatant cruelty of these actions and the casual, gratifying way in which she presents the memories express the disregard and discourtesy that the upper class places upon the lower class.


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  2. C5 “All their class held these principles; I supposed, then, they had their reasons for holding them such as I could not fathom.”

    This quote is very indicative of Jane being an outsider from not only the people she is surrounded with as Thornfield but Mr. Rochester himself. Jane is attempting to figure out why Mr. Rochester would enter into a marriage with a women who although on paper was his equal and quite a catch, does nothing for his him and is truly below him as an individual (unlike Jane.) What this shows is that marriage for status is something Jane does not quite get because she is an outsider of the higher class. The values that had been instilled on the latter since birth are foreign and contain ludicrous reasons as to why to do this in Jane’s eyes. She is an outsider when it comes to understanding their actions and choices. She is a misfit not in their class and a misfit in the lower class, putting her in a limbo of social isolation.

    C6 “I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. I like Thornfields, its antiquity; its retirement; its old crow-trees and thorn-trees; its gray façades, and lines of dark windows reflecting that metal welkin;”

    The setting here creates a window into the character of Mr. Rochester, the Byronic hero. It is very dark and mysterious, troubled and magnetic. The setting engulfs Jane in her walk with Rochester, much like the character will in coming chapters. Much like the setting, Rochester has a cold exterior that shields his stern and strong character. Its antiquity is indicative of his age and the metal sky one that contains a glimmer of goodness and light but is trapped by a troubled and black cloud. The setting itself creates a vessel in which to explore Rochester and set up the mood in which he reveals to Jane one of his biggest secrets, starting a more intimate relationship between the two.

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  3. 3.) "I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high." p. 174
    This quote helps to show the struggle Jane has with facing love and independence, to the point that even Mr. Rochester can pick up on the subtle nuances. As a metaphorical bird, Jane has the potentiality for freedom, but the walls she builds up keep her from both independence and an ability to love.

    4.) "This was a demoniac laugh- low, suppressed, and deep- uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door... Something gurgled and moaned. Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-story staircase." p. 185-186
    The gothic imagery of this excerpt from a very large purple patch of the mysterious laugh that entered into Mr. Rochester's room keeps Jane on her toes in the house and makes her want and curiosity for Mr Rochester to grow even more.

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  4. #5" I think you will be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you; and then your looks and movements will have m ore vivacity and variety than they dare offer now...."- Mr. Rochester recognizes Jane as a misfit, emphasizing her position in the home as the governess and further foreshadows the coming events between acquaintances of Mr. Rochester,


    #6 " I like this day; I like that sky of steel ; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost. I like Thornfield, its antiquity, its retirement, its old crow trees and thorn-trees, its gray facade, and lines of dark windows reflecting that metal 3welkin: and yet how long have i abhorred the very thought of it, shunned it like a great plague-house?"
    Adds to the gothic tones of the novel. Illustrates the home of MRs. Fairfax which also underlines Jane continuous presence in very gloomy surroundings.

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  5. 1. "...I rose, deeming it useless to continue a discourse which was all darkness to me; and, besides, sensible that the character of my interloctur was beyond my penetration, at least beyond its present reach; and feeling the uncertainty, the vague sense of insecutity, which accompanies a conviction of ignorance." (173)
    --In the previous chapter, Jane questions Mrs. Fairfax about the peculiarity of Mr. Rochester, but at this time Jane chooses to discontinue her conversation with him and instead put Adele to bed. Jane wishes to stay and discover why Mr. Rochester's brain and actions are so "dark" and odd (her passion), but instead she abides by her moral duty. Jane also does not want to continue conversing with Mr. Rochester because she has the idea that he is slightly intoxicated.

    2. "'If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense. Do you ever laugh, Miss Eyre? Don't trouble yourself to answer - I see you laugh rarely; but you can laugh very merrily; believe me, you are not naturally vicious. The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs... but in time, I think you will be natural with me... I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud high.'" (174)
    --This quote represents a binary between being restricted (trapation :D) and being free spirited. At this point in the book Jane is very conscious of her actions, attire, and answers to questions. However, Mr. Rochester believes he can see deeper than her plain Jane outside to a "vivid bird" trapped inside waiting to escape and be free.

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  6. #2 "I heard too, her eccentric murmurs; stranger than her laugh. There were days when she was quite silent; but there were others when I could not account for the sounds she made."

    This is a contrast of binaries, obviously, because the crazy lady is either quiet, indicating her theoretical peaceful state, or murmuring otherwise cackling to herself, indicating her probable insanity.

    #1 "Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit: thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm; which, had they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally."

    I like this quote for moral duty versus passion because it's Jane fighting to keep her composure over Mr. Rochester's time with Blanche Ingram; she works for Mr. Rochester, so it's her duty to teach Adele, but she has feelings developing for him which are not so easily controlled.

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  7. 8. “…Mr. Rochester’s project of marrying for interest and connexions. …I had though him a man unlikely to be influenced by motives so commonplace in his choice of a wife; but the longer I considered the position, education,… for acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them, doubtless, from their childhood. All their class held these principles:…” (235-36)
    Although slightly out of place, this quote shows the importance during this time of decisions we base on emotion today, often revolving on things entirely unrelated to desire. The mention of class and a principle of being raised with certain ideals is key in understanding certain character’s motivation.

    7. “…fortune has knocked me about since: she has even kneaded me with her knuckles, and now I flatter myself I am hard and tough as an indiarubber ball; pervious, though, through a chink or two still, and with one sentient point in the middle of the lump.” (165)
    Mr. Rochester’s apparent mental strength is backed up by the fact he can question how he works while still believing himself strong. Through this, his own personal pride is brought forward, although more so with alcohol.

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  8. 7. “If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveler set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved me to go, and announced-…“ pg. 142
    Jane's pride is apparent thorough her refusal to let Mr. Rochester leave without her help. Although it is clear that he doesn't want Jane's assistance, Jane's pride allows her to stay and demand that she help.

    8. ”Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any constitution! No wonder you have rather the look of another world. I marveled where you had got that sort of face. When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I thought unaccountable of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I am not sure yet.” Pg. 153
    As a member of the wealthy upper class, Mr. Rochester finds it absurd that someone would spend so much time at a school. He is accustomed to constantly travelling around the country, meeting different people. He believes that spending eight such years away from society would take away a person's humanity.

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  9. 5) "Tant pis!" said her ladyship. "I hope it may do her good!" Then, in a lower tone, but still loud enough for me to hear, "I noticed her; I am a judge of physiognomy, and in hers I see all the faults of her class."

    This stresses the social hierarchy that was quite prevalent in Victorian England. While Jane was asked by Mr. Rochester to come and sit with all the company, it is clear that she holds a position as an outsider. No one speaks or really notices Jane's presence, and when they finally do, they do nothing but undermine the positions of governesses. Jane finds it hard to understand the hifalutin values that people like the Ingrams possess. She is quite blatantly alienated from the group that Mr. Rochester is entertaining at Thornfield.


    6) "I sought a backstairs which conducted directly with the kitchen. All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion. In the servants' hall, two coachmen and three gentlemen's gentlemen stood or sat round the fire; the abigails, I suppose, were upstairs with their mistresses; the new servants, that had been hired from Millcote, were bustling about everywhere."

    This scene occurs when Jane is picking up dinner for herself and Adele after Mr. Rochester's company arrives. This setting of the kitchen and the rooms that hide behind closed doors highlight the chaos that is occurring at Thornfield to prepare for the guests. This not only shows the disarray that the servants are facing during preparation, but it also illuminates the social hierarchy. This setting presents a clear defined line between those serving, and those being served.

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  10. Number 3: "I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high." p. 163 This quotation demonstrates a Jane’s dilemma with independence and love. Mr. Rochester can see that Jane is suffering from self-destruction because she chooses to block out love and independence and suffers from her choices in the end. Jane can be an independent person and love, but her own beliefs and morals keep her from doing that.

    Number 4: "This was a demoniac laugh- low, suppressed, and deep- uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door... Something gurgled and moaned. Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-story staircase." p. 178 This quotation exemplifies the Gothic characteristics in Jane Eyre. A “demonic laugh,” a “chamber door,” and “something gurgled and moaned” all add to the eerie features associated with the Gothic era. The long hallways and staircases also contribute to the Gothic theme.

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  11. 5. "The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she instantly gave her companion a nudge."

    Everyone but Jane seems to know what the situation is with Mrs. Poole. Jane even feels as if she is the only one who notices the woman's strange behavior, but it is apparent everyone knows more than she does. 


    6."It had been a mild, serene spring day-- one of those days, which towards the end of March or the beginning of April, rise shining over the earth as heralds of summer."

    Bronte describes those days that are spring, yet have a summer feel to them. It's funny how on a calm spring day they're awaiting the arrival of Mr. Rochester and his party. It is the total opposite of the chaos taking place in the house with the preparations. 

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  12. 1. Jane says " I don't think, sir, you have the right to command me merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."

    Jane expresses a passion for being independent and not being oppress by men or societal norms. She understands what things should determine if an individual is superior to another, instead of adopting what society believes is acceptable.

    2. "... and in his great dark eyes; for he had great dark eyes, and very fine eyes, too- not without a certain change in their depths sometimes, which, if it was not softness, reminded you at least, of that feeling."

    Jane describes Mr. Rochester's eyes are being dark, yet soft. This implies the strength of his eyes and the sensitivity they have as well.

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  13. Category Five: Jane as an outsider-- alienation, misfits, exclusion.
    "My dear children... - this girl is- a liar!" (pg 66-67)
    Mr. Brocklehusrt places the biggest embarrassment to Jane when he calls her a liar and tells everyone to ignore her. This idea, that the other girls can not talk to her or invite her to play with them clearly reveals Jane's feeling of an outsider, being isolated from the rest.

    Category Six: Setting: "houses" season, weather, and time.
    "But the Privations... under the hedges," (pg 76)
    The setting is placed as very pleasant and nice. Snow is melting and flowers are beginning to bloom. Yet the setting contradicts the events that follow because the girls contract the flu and many die from it because of the terrible condition of the school.

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  14. 1) "I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known." (p. 128)

    I choose this quote to show Jane Eyre's moral duty v. passion, because her artwork is the first thing we really see Jane really passionate about. Prior to discovering art she is bullied in the Reed household, and then in the Lowood school she is suppressed by the master of the school, Mr. Brocklehurst. There, she is forced to conform with rest of the female students. Painting is where we first see that she is passionate about something.

    2) "Now I have performed the part of a good host' pursued Mr. Rochester,'put my guest into the way of amusing each other, I ought to be at liberty to attend to my own pleasure. Miss Eyre, draw your chair still a little further forward: you are yet to far back(...)" (p. 132)

    This quote shows Mr. Rochester's unconventional behavior, where one minute he is completely abrupt and ignoring Jane, and the next minute he wants to set aside all social class in order to interact with Jane. Proving his personality to be a binary.

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  15. 3. "you examine me, Miss Eyre...you think me handsome?" (Chp. 14)

    This exemplifies the need for love as Mr. Rochester dwells on Jane Eyre's opinion of him. When she replies that she thinks he has some flaws, he becomes defensive. He even later refers back to their conversation later when they are talking outdoors.

    4. "this was a demoniac laugh; low, suppressed, and deep, muttened, as it seemed, at the very key-hole of my chamber-door." (Chp 15)

    "something gurgled and moaned" (Chp. 15)

    This is clearly a Gothic element of the novel. This part was actually mildly scary as Mr. Rochester was found surrounded by flames.

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  16. 5. " There was I, then, mounted aloft: I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy." Chapter 7

    Jane had just been told by Mr. Brocklehurst to stand on the stool in the middle of the room for half an hour and for no one to speak to her for the rest of the day. This is a perfect example of howw Jane was the outsider and alienated from everyone that was around her. She had done nothing but be a good student at the school but now she was being punished for the untrue things that her "benefactress" said about her. Being punished for something that wasn't her fault is something that is reoccuring in her life because it was happening at the house that she lived in and now at school.

    6. "April advanced to May: a bright, serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up with duration. And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery...All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone; for this unwonted liberty and pleasure there was a cause, to which it now becomes my task to advert." Chapter 9

    This a good example of setting because Jane isi describing how beautiful it is outside, now that the season has finally changed from winter to spring. She is delited to see all of the greenery and flowers that pop up from the ground, but the gloom of the place still has not left. She ends the sentence saying that she has to avert because she goes on to talk about how the majority of the girls had become very ill from the untreated colds that they had throughout the winter progressing into a fatal sickness. This shows how there can be a setting within a setting because although it is beautiful and serene outside, it is dreadful and gloomy within the school.

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  17. 3. "I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high."

    Mr. Rochester realizes Jane is restrained and blames it on the solemnity of Lowood. He senses her inability to break free and genuinely love. Within Lowood she had to keep a certain mentality of independence which Mr. Rochester is trying to break her of the Lowood ways so she can “smile too gaily, speak too freely, or move too quickly”

    4. “I did,” said I, dropping my voice, so that Leah, who was still polishing the panes, could not hear me, “and at first I thought it was Pilot; but Pilot cannot laugh, and I am certain I heard a laugh, and a strange one.”
    She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady hand, and then observed, with perfect composure, “It is hardly likely master would laugh, I should think, Miss, when he was in such danger: you must have been dreaming.”
    “I was not dreaming,” I said, with some warmth, for her brazen coolness provoked me. Again she looked at me, and with the same scrutinizing and conscious eye.”

    This is representative of a Gothic trend throughout the novel. Jane does not believe that fire in Mr. Rochester’s room was an accident. The Gothic elements that are represented are secrets. Jane’s suspicion can be possible foreshadow to events to come.

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  18. #7 : "No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if others don't love me I would rather die than live..."
    - In this quote , Jane portrays the idea that she would rather be dead than to not be loved by others . This shows that she has a lot of pride no matter her situation .

    #8 : "My second daughter, Augusta, went with her mama to visit the school, and on her return she exclaimed: 'Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks--they are almost like poor people's children! and,' said she, 'they looked at my dress and mama's, as if they had never seen a silk gown before.'"
    - This is when Mr.Brocklehurst first comes to meet Aunt Reed , he's telling her about the Lowood and how things are run there . Here is proudly stating how the girls at the institution look like they belong to a lower class . He is basically stating that Jane will be put in her place , at the bottom .

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  19. “I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.”
    Though Helen seems like a very vulnerable character she has lots of pride which is what helps her brush off the offenses that others such as Mr. Brocklehurst might lay against.
    “…barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote. A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates. I was yet enjoying the calm prospect and pleasant fresh air, yet listening with delight to the cawing of the rooks, yet surveying the wide, hoary front of the hall, and thinking what a great place it was for one lonely little dame like Mrs. Fairfax to inhabit, when that lady appeared at the door…”
    Jane seems to be the only one who is not part of a social class because even in the new house she does not a part of a social class because even in the new house she does not belong with the other servants or the masters of the house. The fact that she wanders off alone around the house signifies her loneliness and the fact that now she doesn’t mind it.
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  20. 7) “ ‘You think too much of your “toilette” Adele: but you may have a flower.’…She sighed a sigh of ineffable satisfaction, as if her cup of happiness were now full…there was something ludicrous as well as painful in the little Parisienne’s earnest and innate devotion to matters of dress.”

    I think that this is Charlotte Bronte’s way of showing just how ridiculous pride can be. Adele’s prospects are not promising—she is the orphaned child of a less-than-respectable mother, and nonetheless she loves to prune and show herself off. I think the via Jane, Bronte is also making a salient insight about the nature of Victorian women and the things they pride themselves on.


    8) “You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfeild, further then to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protégée, and to be grateful fro such respectful and kind treatment as, if you do your duty, you have a right to expect at his hands…He is not of your order: keep to your caste, and be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart, soul and strength, where such a gift is not wanted and would be despised.”

    I love Jane. She’s so cool. I found this quote particularly sad, because it outlines how just how painfully aware Jane (and everyone else) is of the social structures that bind them despite all efforts on their part. Jane is undeniably in love with Mr. Rochester at this point, but she denies herself the opportunity to even consider this feeling, because the rigid and immobile class structure in Victorian England has taught her that such a union is not only uncommon, but also fundamentally incorrect. This also shows off Jane’s pride to some extent. She is determined to maintain her own sense of self in spite of depressingly irreversible circumstances.

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  21. 3. Need for love v. independence:
    "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."
    -This quote shows that although Rochester is very independent and has been all of his life, he still needs love and that is why he falls in love with Jane and asks to marry her.

    4. Supernatural/dreams/ghosts/Gothic:
    "I recognized his pale and seemingly lifeless face- the stranger, Mason: I saw, too, that his linen on one side, and one arm, was almost soaked in blood."
    - This quote is "Gothic" and gory because Jane woke up to someone screaming and crying and was later brought to Mason who had been stabbed in the middle of the night.

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  22. Questions 1 and 2

    He had been looking two minutes at the fire, and I had been looking
    the same length of time at him, when, turning suddenly, he caught
    my gaze fastened on his physiognomy.

    "You examine me, Miss Eyre," said he: "do you think me handsome?"

    I should, if I had deliberated, have replied to this question by
    something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow
    slipped from my tongue before I was aware -- "No, sir."

    I think the nervousness in which she responds to this question reveals that she does, in fact, find Mr. Rochester attractive. This crosses the line of passion and moral duty. The quote “Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit” also supports Jane’s desire. It also reveals the importance of keeping her moral duty as governess aside from her personal life and passions.

    “I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

    Jane’s defiance toward Mr. Rochester shows her struggle to find a balance between the two binaries - pride and humility. If Jane were to be more modest in this situation, she might have chosen against this act of defiance. Instead, she chooses to preserve her pride and make quite a strong accusation!

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