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Themes
Marriage
Jane refuses to marry St John because they don't love each other - "such a martyrdom would be monstrous"
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"we stood at God's feet, equal - as we are!
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"I have for the first time found what I can truly love - I have found you. You are my sympathy - my better self - my good angel; I am bound to you with a strong attachment."
Secrecy and Deception
Jane overhears a servant asking "Doesn't she know?" - Jane knows there is a secret at Thornfield but doesn't ask questions about it - "there was a mystery at Thornfield" ~ Jane
Mr Rochester doesn't tell Jane who he is when they first meet. He asks her who he is, and says "Do you know Mr Rochester?"
JANE MIRRORS MR R'S DECEPTION BY HIDING HER IDENTITY AT FERNDEAN. THIS REVERSAL EMPHASIS GIVES POWER SHIFT TOWARDS JANE. ALSO HINTS JANE HAS TAKEN SOME MR R QUALITIES AND HE HAS TAKEN SOME OF HERS BY BECOMING MORE RELIGIOUS
Mrs Reed doesn't tell Jane she she had an uncle, and Mrs Reed tells Uncle Eyre that Jane is dead -"I took my revenge... Jane Eyre was dead
The biggest secret is that Mr Rochester is already married and Jane only finds out at the alter - "Mr Rochester has a wife now living"
CONTEXTUAL INFO: Jane Eyre was even surrounded by deception in real life - Bronte used a pseudonym when it was first published
The Supernatural
When Jane firsts meets Mr R, she is afraid that Pilot is actually a "gytrash" - a supernatural dog
Just after Jane's proposal to Mr R, lighting strikes and chestnut tree splits in half where they had been sitting - this is bad omen - the chestnut tree "writhered and groaned" and the "wind roared"
In the red room Jane believes it is haunted by her Uncle Reed's ghost - "Mr Reed ... it was in this chamber he breathed his last"
Mr Rochester suggests Jane "bewitched" his horse when they first met and he often calls her names like "elf" and "fairy" in an affectionate way. He also describes Jane's paintings as "elfish"
Religion
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Jane to Mrs Reed -"But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did"
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St John - "I claim you - not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign's sake"