JANE EYRE

1. JANE EYRE Lowood: Chapters 5-10 Page, Luna, Carly, Annie

2. V- Helen Burns: First Encounter • p48 • - "I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger. The step was contrary to my nature and habits" • - "her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere, for I, too, liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind. I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial." • -"I saw nothing about fairies, nothing about genii" • - "The only marked event of the afternoon was, that I saw the girl with whom I had conversed in the veranda, dismissed in disgrace, by Miss Scatcherd"

3. Helen and Jane Debate • "Probably you would do nothing of the sort: but if you did, Mr. • Brocklehurst would expel you from the school; that would be a great • grief to your relations. It is far better to endure patiently a • smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action • whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and • besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil." • Jane does not understand Helen's Christian reasoning • -Helen appreciates Miss Scatcherd and the education given • -Unconditional love from Helen for this "mother figure" stemming from her Christian values

4. Helen and Jane Debate • "Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: • it is weak and silly to say you CANNOT BEAR what it is your fate to • be required to bear." • Helen believes that you cannot change your fate just because you are afraid. • "Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how He • acts; make His word your rule, and His conduct your example." • "What does He say?" • "Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that • hate you and despitefully use you." • "Then I should love Mrs. Reed, which I cannot do; I should bless her • son John, which is impossible." • Helen is failing to influence Jane with her Christian ideas (at the time) Yet her goodness is influences Jane in the long run by taking a maternal role.

5. Helen and Jane Debate • Would you • not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with • the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to • be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. • Jane holds onto her anger while Helen encourages her to let it go. • I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last: • with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never • too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low: I live • in calm, looking to the end." • At this point Helen gives up for the day as Jane is still not fully grasping the importance of letting things go. Helen lives by a "love thy neighbor" standard

6. Before Helen assesses Jane • -Jane drops slate • -"...an impulse of fury against Reed, Brocklehurst, and Co. bounded in my pulses at the conviction. I was no Helen Burns..." • -Jane on stool, Brocklehurst: SHUN JANE, SHE LIES

7. Helen assesses Jane • -pg. 70 "...if others don't love me, I would rather die than live--I cannot bear solitary and hatred." ..ironic.. • -to gain affection, I'd let myself be beaten and kicked • -Helen cautions Jane about passions: "too impulsive, too vehement: why should we sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over?" jane, control yourself. • -it's important that Helen says this, considering her situation

8. looking back... • -looking back- Helen has a sort of taming quality, Jane on stool--feels that she can bear humiliation because of Helen's presence • -maternal influence • -Jane internalizes what she says

9. Jane Desires Liberty • -Ms. Temple leaves, marrying, and causing restlessness in Jane • -"My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience • had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real • world was wide"

10. Jane Desires Liberty My eye passed all other object to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks. It was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits. I traced the white road winding round the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two. How I longed to to follow it farther! I recalled the time when I had travelled that very road in a coach; I remembered descending that hill at twilight.

11. Jane Desires Liberty • I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication. For change, stimulus. That petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space. "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant me at least a new servitude!"

12. Jane Desires Liberty • "'A new servitude! There is something in that,' I soliloquised" • -Jane resolves that she should leave Lowood • -Jane no longer has any connection to Lowood now that Miss Temple

13. Influential Characters: • Helen Burns: • - Jane must make an effort to receive her attention. • - Admired by Jane (and pitied) • -motherly qualities • Miss Temple: • -Jane's Mentor

14. Themes & Motifs • -Autonomy • -Desire for Love • -Religion • -Social class (obstacle) • -Gender expectations & relations • -Fantasy vs. Reality • -Gothicism & Mystery • -Substitute Mothers

15. Symbols • -Food: • The change in Jane's self-worth