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Summary

Jane is called upon by Mr R to attend to Mr Mason, who has been hurt, Jane assumes by Grace Poole. Jane has a conversation with Mr R in the garden.

Character

Jane- Wonders why all of a sudden Mr Mason is submissive to Rochester, after all he was dismayed by Mr M’s appearance.

Mr R- He tells Jane that he is to marry Ingram. Why? He is insecure and silly? He is unsure what to do, whether to go with his head (Ingram) or his heart (Jane).

Interesting phrases/extracts

‘ “Unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet forever of happiness.” ’ Mr R has it all planned, he will marry Jane and he hopes that Mr M will not give away his secret.

‘ “Well you too power over me, and may injure me” ’ he is love with Jane but fears that she will break his heart.

19

Summary

Jane speaks to the gypsy, who asks her about love and men and in particular Mr R. The gypsy then reveals herself as Mr R. When Jane informs him that Mr Mason has come he is very alarmed.

Themes

Jane being suspicious of those she does not know, or new situations, she is pessimistic, she always expects bad things to happen to her.

Character

Mr R-He is very insecure, why would he have asked Jane about her feelings towards him in disguise otherwise?

Response

Reader’s suspicions are aroused by the fact that Mr R is alarmed by the coming of Mr Mason- why? Is there something in Mr Rochester’s past that he is afraid of /ashamed of?

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Mr Mason arrives, Jane is suspicious of him. The gypsy woman arrives. Ingram is disappointed by her visit to the gypsy. Jane is invited to see the gypsy, she goes.

Miss Ingram- Her charms aren’t working on Rochester, Jane thinks.

‘I was forgetting all his faults’ A sign of her love for Rochester, she hasn’t managed to control it yet, like she thinks she must, for her own sake.

Summary

Jane is an outsider, she doesn't join in their games yet she feels that she must be with them when Mr R summons her. She enjoys herself nevertheless. Mr Mason arrives, Jane is suspicious of him. The gypsy woman arrives. Ingram is disappointed by her visit to the gypsy. Jane is invited to see the gypsy, she goes.

Character

Lady Ingram makes snide comments and appears quite nasty.
Mr Rochester flirts with Miss Ingram when they play charades. Like mother like daughter.
Miss Ingram- Her charms aren’t working on Rochester, Jane thinks.

Interesting phrases/extracts

'She looks to stupid for any game of the sort.' Lady Ingram

'I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he ceased to notice me-' Readers feel very sorry for Jane, not only did he break her heart but he is now rubbing it in her face'

'Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite the feeling.' Jane has a complex about feeling inferior, she has been made to feel inferior throughout her life, as the reader has seen, she is now fighting back. I don't think it's very impressive, it's like a vicious circle, you feel/are amde to feel inferior and then when you finally don't have that problem anymore you decide to think of others as inferior? It doesn't make sense, it's idiotic.

‘I was forgetting all his faults’ A sign of her love for Rochester, she hasn’t managed to control it yet, like she thinks she must, for her own sake.

Chapter 17

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.

Chapter 16

Summary


Jane is suprised to see that Grace Poole is still employed and decides to investigate herself. She talks to Grace and asks her if she knows what happened, Grace says that Mr Rochester forgot to blow out his candles. She also finds out that Mr R has gone off to visit a certain Miss Ingram.

Character

Jane is obviously jealous, but doesn't want to admit it to herself. She berates herself for letting herself get too full of herself, in thinking that he could possibly care for her, she is quite harsh on herself. Perhaps she feels more hurt and angry at him than she wishes to let on? (to herself)

Interesting extracts

-talking to herself- ' " A favourite with Mr Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in any way? Go! You folly sickens me." '

Jane Eyre Reading journal chapter 15

Summary

Mr Rochester explain about Adele and Celine. The fire (in Mr Rochester's room) Jane suspects Grace Poole.
Interesting extracts

'I had a keen delight in recieveing the new ideas he offered.' Perhaps the first sign of Jane's friendship with Mr Rochester, he is less of her superior, although she still regards him as it.

'So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life that I ceased to pine after kindred.' Perhaps the fisrt sign of Jane's love forming for Mr R.

Jane Eyre Reading journal chapter 14

Summary

At first Mr Rochester is very busy, then he has another conversation with Jane.

Themes

Speaking one's mind, opinions about people, ways of speaking etc.

Character

Mr R. comment on Jane's bluntness, then when she corrects this and thinks more about her answers to his questions he tells her not to be evasive.


Jane is determined not to be scared of her superior, ' "your language is enigmatical, sir but though I am bewildered, I am certainly not afraid" '