Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"and was Mr. Rochester now ugly in my eyes? No, reader. Gratitude, and many associations, all pleasurable and genial, made his face the object I best liked to see; his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"I faced the wreck of the chestnut-tree; it stood up black and riven: the trunk, split down the centre, gaped ghastly … their great boughs on each side were dead, and next winter’s tempests would be sure to fell one or both to earth: as yet, however, they might be said to form one tree—a ruin, but an entire ruin."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

"He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

"So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"strange energy was in his voice, strange fire in his look"

Metaphor: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"had been struck by lighting... half of it split away”

Metaphor: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

"That night, on going to bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper, of hot roast potatoes, or white bread and new milk, with which I was wont to amuse my inward cravings. I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings, which I saw in the dark - all the work of my own hands."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 76

" I have a Master to serve whose lingdom is not of this world; my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts o f the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel: and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

"Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts- make his word your rule, and his conduct your example."

" Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you."

Symbolism and Religion: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Page 59

"Lowood Instituion- This portion was rebuild AD-, by Naomi Brocklehurst, of Brocklehurst Hall, in this county.' 'Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.'- St Mat. v. 16."

Religion and Metaphor: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 42

"That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must pray to God to change it; to give you a new and clean one; to take away your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 41

"' How can you keep in good health? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of five years old only a day or two since,- a good little child, whose soul is now in heaven. It is to be feared the same could not be said of you, were you to be called hence."

"' Do you say your prayers night and morning?' continued my interrogator 'Yes, sir'"

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Page 39

"... my vacant attention soon found livelier attraction in the spectacle of a little hungry robin, which came and chirruped on the twigs of the leafless cherry-tree nailed against the wall near the casement."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 34

"my father had been a poor clergyman."

Symbolism and Metaphors : Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

page 29

"My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary;

Long is the way, and the mountains are wild;

Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary

Over the path of the poor orphan child.

Why did they send me so far and so lonely,

Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled?

Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only

Watch o'er the steps of a poor orphan child."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 27

“Yes, Mrs Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Page3 24

"I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Page 21

"A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep-red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre, the two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn color, with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs were of darkly polished old mahogany. Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane. Scarcely less prominent was an ample, cushioned easy-char near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne."

"the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 20

"Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney, and fetch you away."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Page 15

"I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly risen crescent, attesting the hour of even-tide."

Symbolism: Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte

Page 14

"Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day."

"Afar, it offered a pale blank of mist and cloud; near, a scene of wet lawn and storm-beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long lamentable blast."

"Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls

Boils round the naked, melancholy isles

Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge

Pours in among the stormy Hebrides."

"Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive."

Religion: Jane Eyre - By Charlotte Bronte

Page 13

"'Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners: besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner."

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• Symbolism
• Metaphors
• Religion
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