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Jane Eyre – Knowledge Organiser – Good to Know Context The Plot ELECT The Brontës
Victorian attitudes to children
Cowan Bridge School
Treatment of women in the Victorian Era
The Gothic novel
‘The Other’ – Bertha Mason and mental illness
The Byronic Hero
Colonialism (Wide Sargasso Sea)
The Angel in The House<br>
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Jane Eyre – Knowledge Organiser - Quotes Themes Characters Jane Eyre – the protagonist
“I am no bird, and no net ensnares me”
Mr Rochester – owner of Thornfield Hall
“the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease”
Mrs Reed – Jane’s aunt.
“People think you a good woman; but you are bad—hard-hearted.”
John Reed – Jane’s cousin
“you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live with gentlemen’s children like us.”
Mr Brocklehurst – master of Lowood School
“Madam, allow me an instant. You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying”
Helen Burns – Jane’s friend at Lowood School
“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.”
Bertha Mason – Rochester’s secret wife
“What it was, whether beast or human being, one could not, at first sight tell: it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours; it snatched and growled like some strange wild animal”
St.John Rivers – a devout Christian who wants Jane to be his wife.
“Know me to be what I am- a cold, hard man”
Blance Ingram – A member of Rochester’s social group.
“Tall, fine bust, sloping shoulders; long, graceful neck: olive complexion, dark and clear; noble features; eyes rather like Mr. Rochester's: large and black, and as brilliant as her jewels.” Love
“Reader I married him”
Religion
“By dying young I shall escape great sufferings…I believe; I have faith; I am going to God”
Social Class
“They ought to have come a little sooner, to have heard his lecture on dress, for they were splendidly attired in velvet, silk, and furs.”
Gender
“He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man”
Home and Belonging
“From the day she left I was no longer the same; with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.”<br>
