Jane Eyre. 32/33/34/35

Jane Eyre. 32/33/34/35

Jane is happy as a teacher, but there is one thing that keeps her from being completely happy. What is it?

Happy!

As the days pass, Jane starts to enjoy her teaching,

makes progress with her students, and becomes a

respected favorite in the community. 

She enjoys her new life, but is unsettled by persistent 

and stirring dreams of Rochester.

Why does Jane want St. John and Rosamond to marry?

1. To fulfill her own desires
2. To substitute for the marriage that Jane cannot have.
3. To prevent them from being happy
4. To cause trouble in their lives

How does Jane surprise St. John in speaking to him?

1. By avoiding eye contact
2. More boldly and directly than women typically do.
3. By speaking softly and shyly
4. By speaking in a foreign language

Women's Lib!!

Jane surprises St. John in speaking to him more boldly and

directly than women typically do. Jane wants St. John and

Rosamond to marry in part because their happiness would

substitute for the marriage that Jane cannot have.

What does the portrait of Rosamund Jane draws represent?

1. Passion and imagination
2. Sadness and despair
3. Love and joy
4. Anger and frustration

What does St. John's rejection of the picture reveal about the main difference between him and Jane?

1. St. John is more emotional
2. St. John is more artistic
3. Jane won't completely reject her feelings
4. Jane is more religious

What does not immediately become clear from the description of Jane's drawing of Rosamund?

1. The colors used
2. What St. John sees
3. The size of the portrait
4. The time it took to draw

Give me 15 minutes...

The portrait Jane draws represents her passion and imagination, combined with the love she sees between St. John and Rosamund. The way in which St. John’s struggles to reject his feelings reveals the main difference between St. John and Jane—Jane won’t completely reject her feelings, St. John will! What St. John sees on Jane’s drawing paper is not immediately clear, but apparently it is something important. 

What is the metaphorical significance of St. John making his way through a snowstorm to tell Jane about their uncle?

Why did Rochester end up married to Bertha?

1. Bertha's persuasion
2. Gratitude to the Rivers
3. True love
4. Social convention and inheritance laws

What motivates Jane to break the social rules regarding the money she inherits from uncle John?

1. Desire for wealth
2. Pressure from Rochester
3. Revenge on her uncle
4. Love and gratitude to the Rivers

What is it that Jane's generosity rewards in the Rivers Family?

1. Greed for wealth
2. Selfish actions
3. Deception
4. True Christian charity without expectation of compensation

Money!

Rochester ended up married to Bertha because social convention is that people do not share inheritances, and so his father needed to find him a rich wife. Out of love and gratitude to the Rivers, Jane breaks that social rule. As for the Rivers, Jane’s generosity rewards their true Christian charity, which was given without any expectation of compensation. In sharing her inheritance, Jane also atones for the injustices  of her uncle, who was responsible for the Rivers’ loss of wealth.