"Jane Eyre": quotes, catchphrases, aphorisms

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The modern world has a lot to offer in terms of leisure activities. Some go to clubs and discos, others are professionally engaged in dancing or vocals, some sit at the computer, playing with toys. Some love movies, others love books based on TV shows. Television and the Internet provide a lot of opportunities to get acquainted with the latest in the world of literature.

Without a doubt, almost every second person has seen the movie or read the book by Charlotte Brontë "Jane Eyre" - this is one of the most famous works. First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Carell Bell.

Many readers take the story to heart and involuntarily imagine themselves in the place of the heroine, because the work is written in the first person.

The most famous Jane Eyre quotes are:

When we are beaten for no reason, we must strike back - I am sure of this - and, moreover, with such force that we will forever wean people from hittingus.

Feeling without a mind is not a very nutritious meal; but the mind, not softened by feeling, is bitter and dry food and is not suitable for human consumption.

Biography Facts

Sh. Brontë used some facts of her biography when writing the novel:

• orphan Jane appears to readers as a ten-year-old girl who lives with her uncle's wife (Charlotte lost her mother when she was only five);
• the aunt sent the heroine to the Lowood School, where Jane's friend died of consumption (two older sisters of the writer died of tuberculosis and consumption, having contracted them in the Cowan Bridge boarding school);
• after graduating from the boarding school, and teaching in it, Miss Eyre leaves to work as a governess (Charlotte did the same).

Quotes from the book "Jane Eyre" trace the attitude towards the poor and views on the upbringing of children in the 19th century.

- You dare not take our books; mother says that you live with us out of mercy; you are a beggar, your father left you nothing; you should be begging instead of living with us gentleman's children, eating what we eat and wearing dresses our mother pays for. I'll show you how to dig through books. These are my books! I'm the boss here! Or I'll be the owner in a few years.

This demonstrates the position of the we althy towards the poor. Little has changed in today's world, right?

School education

Even in a boarding school run by donations for impoverished girls and orphans,Strict orders reign: deprivation of household goods and meager food are presented as true Christian humility. Although the director himself and his family live in a luxurious mansion.

The very name of the Lowood School (low from English - "low") speaks of the social status of the students, and the line between the we althy and the poor can be clearly seen in Charlotte Brontë's book "Jane Eyre" from quotes in English:

- 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.

Daddy, how simple and meek all the girls in Lowood are - hair combed behind their ears, long aprons; and these canvas bags over the dress … just like the children of the poor. They looked at my mother and me with wide eyes,” my daughter added, “as if they had never seen silk dresses.

And these are the words of the principal's daughter!

We alth and luxury for some, poor people's dresses for others.

The role of women in society

There were few ways for women of that time to socialize, especially for the daughters of impoverished clerics:

• get married and do housework;
• go as a hanger in the house of more affluent relatives;
• get an education in a boarding school for girls and work as a governess, companion or school teacher.

This is exactly what the heroine of the work does. After graduating and working as a teacher for two years, the girl finds a place as a teacher for a young Frenchwoman Adele Varens in Thornfield Hall.

Thornfield Hall

One evening a rider galloped past Jane, but the horse slipped on a crust of ice and threw the man off. Miss Eyre helped him into the saddle and walked on. This was the first meeting with Mr. Rochester.

Living in the house and raising Miss Varence, Jane Eyre began to notice mysterious things: strange laughter in the house, a mysterious fire in the room of the owner of the estate (from which Jane saves Edward by pouring water on him and fire) and an attack on a guest of the house Mr Mason. All these oddities are attributed to the maid Grace Pool.

Spending evenings with the owner, the girl falls in love with the owner, but forbids herself this feeling. Jane Eyre's quote clearly shows her attitude towards unrequited love:

Crazy are those women who allow a secret love to flare up in their hearts - a love that, if left unrequited and unknown, will inevitably burn the life that nursed it. And if it is open and finds the answer, it will lure, like a wandering light, into an insidious quagmire, from where there is no return.

Experiencing mutual sympathy, Mr. Rochester proposes to Miss Eyre.

Preparing for the wedding, Jane saw a strange woman sneaking into her room and tearing her wedding veil in two. As with previous mysterious events, Thornfield's owner attributes the incident to Grace Poole. DuringAt the wedding ceremony, Mr. Mason and the lawyer declare that Mr. Rochester cannot marry because he is already married to Mr. Mason's sister, Bertha. Mr. Edward admits that this is true and explains that his father deceived him into marrying him with her money. After the marriage, Bertha was found to be rapidly descending into insanity, and so he locked her up in Thornfield, hiring Grace Poole as a nurse. When Grace gets drunk, Rochester's wife runs away. It is she who is responsible for all the strange events in Thornfield.

Public opinion

This is a quote from Jane Eyre when describing her meeting with Bertha Mason.

- And what was her face like?

- Terrible and ominous it seemed to me, sir. I have never seen such a face. It was kind of scary, kind of wild. I would like to forget forever how she rolled her inflamed eyes, and how strangely puffy, blue-purple her cheeks were.

- Ghosts tend to be pale, Jen.

-That face, sir, was purple. The lips were swollen and blackened, the forehead was furrowed, the eyebrows raised high above the bloodshot eyes. Say what that face reminded me of?

- Say it.

- A vampire from German fairy tales.

She sees her as a monster, comparing her to a vampire. But Jane is not the only one who sees her like this.

Sh. Brontë's quote in Jane Eyre says that 19th century society demonized and discarded every member who was not suitable for them, and through this description the author wants to draw attention to a social problem.

After the ceremonymarriage was interrupted, Mr. Rochester asks the governess of his ward to go with him to the south of France and live with him as husband and wife, even if they cannot be married. Refusing to go against her principles, even though she loves him, the heroine leaves the house in the middle of the night without telling anyone.

Meeting of relatives

Jane drives as far away from Thornfield as possible. She accidentally leaves her bundle on the carriage and is forced to sleep in the swamps. The girl unsuccessfully tries to exchange her handkerchief and gloves for food. Exhausted and exhausted, the former governess makes her way to Diana and Mary Rivers' home. Jane collapses on her doorstep, and clergyman St. John Rivers, Diana and Mary's brother, rescues her. After she has recovered, St. John finds Miss Eyre a teaching position at a nearby rural school.

It turns out that her uncle John Eyre died and left his niece his entire fortune of 20,000 pounds, while depriving his other relatives of Diana, Mary and St. John. Finding that she has living and kind relatives, Jane offers to divide the inheritance equally among all.

Thinking that a godly girl would make a suitable wife for a missionary, St. John asks her to marry him and go to India with him, not out of love, but out of duty. She rejects the marriage proposal, suggesting that they travel like brother and sister. As Jane's resolve against marriage to St. John begins to wane, she mysteriously hears the voice of Mr. Rochester calling her name. Young womanreturns to Thornfield to find only blackened ruins. She learns that Mr. Rochester's wife set fire to the house and committed suicide by jumping from the roof, and the owner of the estate lost his hand and vision while trying to save her.

Since Mr. Rochester is now free from marital obligations, they marry. He soon recovers enough sight to see their firstborn.