What Are The Important Quotes From Jane Eyre Chapter 14
Charlotte Brontë-Jane Eyre (1847)-Chapter 14
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."
"Ah! By my word! there is something singular about you," said he: "you have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet (except, by-the-bye, when they are directed piercingly …show more content…
Nonnette: young nun.
Quaint: pleasantly strange.
By-the-bye: by the way; incidentally.
Impromptu: not prepared or planned in advance.
Placidity: calm in nature or appearance.
Disown: to refuse or no longer acknowledge a connection with somebody or something.
Repartee: skill in making witty remarks or conversation.
J'y tiens: I am fond of it, I care about it, I like it, I am attached to it (French).
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)-Married name Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls, pseudonym Currer Bell
She is said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the Brontës; the third of six children, she was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. Her mother, Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan
Bridge in Lancashire (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development …show more content…
Charlotte took revenge upon the school that treated her so poorly by using it as the basis for the fictional Lowood. Jane’s friend Helen Burns’s tragic death from tuberculosis recalls the deaths of two of Charlotte’s sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who succumbed to the same disease during their time at Cowan Bridge. Additionally, John Reed’s decline into alcoholism and dissolution is most likely modeled upon the life of Charlotte Brontë’s brother Branwell, who slid into opium and alcohol addictions in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Charlotte, Jane becomes a governess—a neutral vantage point from which to observe and describe the oppressive social ideas and practices of nineteenth-century Victorian society.
Summary
Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost, screams and faints. Later, Jane goes to the Lowood School. The headmaster is
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."
"Ah! By my word! there is something singular about you," said he: "you have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet (except, by-the-bye, when they are directed piercingly …show more content…
Nonnette: young nun.
Quaint: pleasantly strange.
By-the-bye: by the way; incidentally.
Impromptu: not prepared or planned in advance.
Placidity: calm in nature or appearance.
Disown: to refuse or no longer acknowledge a connection with somebody or something.
Repartee: skill in making witty remarks or conversation.
J'y tiens: I am fond of it, I care about it, I like it, I am attached to it (French).
Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)-Married name Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls, pseudonym Currer Bell
She is said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the Brontës; the third of six children, she was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. Her mother, Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth, to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan
Bridge in Lancashire (which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development …show more content…
Charlotte took revenge upon the school that treated her so poorly by using it as the basis for the fictional Lowood. Jane’s friend Helen Burns’s tragic death from tuberculosis recalls the deaths of two of Charlotte’s sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, who succumbed to the same disease during their time at Cowan Bridge. Additionally, John Reed’s decline into alcoholism and dissolution is most likely modeled upon the life of Charlotte Brontë’s brother Branwell, who slid into opium and alcohol addictions in the years preceding his death. Finally, like Charlotte, Jane becomes a governess—a neutral vantage point from which to observe and describe the oppressive social ideas and practices of nineteenth-century Victorian society.
Summary
Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost, screams and faints. Later, Jane goes to the Lowood School. The headmaster is