Summary
Mr R is away and Jane is heartbroken, though she doesn't admit this to tryand save face. Then the guests arrive, Miss Ingram in tow. Jane fantasises that Miss Ingram and Mr Rochester will marry.
Themes
Poverty/wealth Jane's childhood in comparison to Adeles, the little Parisian princess.
Character
Jane takes a very keen interest in the guests, she is in lovewith Mr Rochester and the reader finds it amusing because she is trying to fight back those feelings but they come out in the way she acts, and the guests might therefore find her behaviour quite unusual.
Motifs
Definition by contrast- Miss Ingram/Jane, Mr Rochester/The other men, Adele/Jane, Jane is portrayed as a moral highground, I think Jane is quite a snob. -'he is not of their kind'
Interesting phrases/extracts
'be too self-respecting to lavish the love of the whole heart' she has a guard up against letting her emotions be shown to Rochester, she thinks this makes her weak. I think that the fact that she's to scared to let her emotions show makes her weak, although the readers know, because they have in a way experienced what she has experienced, the reasons for this, past hurt and outbreaks of emotions etc.
'I compared him (Mr R) with his guests' defintion by cont.
'Good night my-' He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.' Cllue that Mr R too is literally biting back his feelings.
2 comments:
It's interesting how you see Jane as wek and also a snob.
I think that snobbery is weak. If Jane were stronger she'd be more understanding, more willing to understand other's and their suituations. As it is she just stands and judges, she makes no attempt to see the other side of the people she is observing, she is weak.
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