Answers
questions 1 & 2 below in your [yourname] googledoc file. If you have time,
also answer
question 3. (8 minutes or so)
- Is Jane prompted to leave Rochester more
because of her principles or more because of the epiphany she has in
chapter 27, on p. 350-351 (“I felt the truth of these words; and I drew
from them the certain inference…that it might remain there to serve me as aid
in the time of trial”)? Look at all of chapter 27 in considering this.
- Consider the following passage. What do
you notice about it? Try to consider all the angles from which it might be
important or interesting, from the obvious to the submerged. What would
your response be to this speech if you were Jane?
“Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was
anything at once so
frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she
feels in my hand!” (And he
shook me with the force of his hold.) “I could
bend her with my finger
and thumb: and what good would it do if I bent, if I
uptore, if I crushed
her? Consider that eye: consider the resolute,
wild, free thing looking
out of it, defying me, with more than courage—with a
stern triumph.
Whatever I do with its cage, I cannot get at it—the
savage, beautiful
creature! If I tear, if I rend the slight
prison, my outrage will only let
the captive loose. Conqueror I might be of the
house; but the inmate
would escape to heaven before I could call myself
possessor of its clay
dwelling-place” (Chapter 27, page 357).
- Are you currently on Team Rochester or
Team Run-Jane-Run? (In other words, do you hope that Jane will decide some
day to return to Rochester, or do you think it would be best for her to
leave him behind entirely?) Give as many clear reasons as you can, and
refer to specific moments in the Thornfield Hall chapters, and especially
chapters 25-29, to support your answer.
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