Table of Contents
- 1 What does Jane find when she returns to Thornfield?
- 2 How does Jane Eyre feel about returning to Thornfield?
- 3 Why is Jane not offended my Mr Rochester’s moodiness?
- 4 Is Grace Poole Mr Rochester’s wife?
- 5 When Jane Eyre returns to Thornfield she finds that Rochester has lost?
- 6 What eventually happens to Bertha?
- 7 What was the function of Thornfield in Jane Eyre?
- 8 What happens in Chapter 36 of Jane Eyre?
What does Jane find when she returns to Thornfield?
Once hopeless, alone, and impoverished, Jane now has friends, family, and a fortune. She hurries to the house after her coach arrives and is shocked to find Thornfield a charred ruin. Here, she learns that Bertha Mason set the house ablaze several months earlier.
What happened in chapter 12 of Jane Eyre?
A man rides into view, and breaking Jane’s spell. His horse slips on a patch of ice, and the man falls. Jane tells the man, who is in his late-thirties and not handsome, that she is the governess at Thornfield and helps him hobble to his horse. Then horse, man, and dog all vanish.
How does Jane Eyre feel about returning to Thornfield?
Returning to Thornfield feels odd to Jane. She wonders where she’ll go after Rochester marries and is impatient to see him again. Never has she seen Rochester so happy; never has Jane loved him so well.
Why does Bertha burn down the house?
In the collapsing building, Rochester was badly injured: he lost a hand and lost his sight. He lives nearby in a modest house called Ferndean. Bertha uses fire to destroy the room where Jane, who stole Bertha’s husband’s love, lived. Fire symbolizes Bertha’s unrestrained passions and madness.
Why is Jane not offended my Mr Rochester’s moodiness?
What are some of Rochester’s Byronic traits? Moodiness. Rochester treats Jane with mood swings, sometimes friendly, sometimes not, but she is not offended because she realizes “that I had nothing to do with their alternation” (p. 131).
How did Jane save Mr Rochester’s life?
A while later, Rochester fulfills his promise to Jane to tell her about his and Adèle’s pasts. She hears a door opening and hurries out of her room to see smoke coming from Rochester’s door. Jane dashes into his room and finds his bed curtains ablaze. She douses the bed with water, saving Rochester’s life.
Is Grace Poole Mr Rochester’s wife?
Rochester’s clandestine wife, Bertha Mason is a formerly beautiful and wealthy Creole woman who has become insane, violent, and bestial. She lives locked in a secret room on the third story of Thornfield and is guarded by Grace Poole, whose occasional bouts of inebriation sometimes enable Bertha to escape.
How does Mr Rochester get Jane to admit her true feelings for him?
Smelling Rochester’s cigar from a window, Jane moves into the more secluded space of the orchard. Now Rochester admits his strong feelings for Jane, and she reveals her love for him. He proposes marriage. At first Jane doesn’t believe he’s serious, but she reads the truth in his face and accepts his proposal.
When Jane Eyre returns to Thornfield she finds that Rochester has lost?
When the fire broke out, Rochester saved the servants, then tried to save Bertha, but she jumped from Thornfield’s roof. Rochester has lost his sight and one of his hands in the fire. He now lives in Ferndean with two old servants, John and Mary.
Why did Bertha Mason go mad?
The sexual repression, social isolation and emotional trauma that Bertha undergoes after being betrayed and cheated on by Rochester are shown by Jean Rhys in Wide Sargasso Sea as reasons responsible for Bertha’s (supposed) madness. She wasn’t always mad; (if at all) her containment had made it so.
What eventually happens to Bertha?
Rochester’s marriage to Bertha eventually stands in the way of his marrying Jane Eyre, who is unaware of Bertha’s existence and whom he truly loves. (He later admits to Jane that he once thought he loved Bertha). Bertha dies after throwing herself off the roof, leaving her husband free to marry Jane.
Why does Mr Rochester love Jane?
Despite his stern manner and not particularly handsome appearance, Edward Rochester wins Jane’s heart, because she feels they are kindred spirits, and because he is the first person in the novel to offer Jane lasting love and a real home.
What was the function of Thornfield in Jane Eyre?
However, while a much more comfortable setting than Lowood, Thornfield, ironically, represents stagnation and isolation: I did not like re-entering Thornfield.
What happens to Jane Foster in Thor movie?
Jane finally saw what he really was for the first time, but with the return of Thor’s power came the return of his responsibility to his realm and his people. She was forced to say goodbye as Thor returned to his home. Jane continued with her research to find a way to bring Thor back to Earth.
What happens in Chapter 36 of Jane Eyre?
Driven by a renewed sense of purpose, Jane prepares to return to Thornfield to find out once and for all what has happened to Rochester. She takes another journey in the same coach which carried her to Marsh End a year before. After making some enquiries, she walks to Thornfield and is shocked to find it a ‘blackened ruin’ (p. 489).
What happens to Rochester after Jane goes to Ferndean?
Rochester, who had become distraught after Jane’s disappearance, saved the servants and tried to help his wife, but lost his sight and one of his hands in the process – he is ‘now helpless, indeed – blind, and a cripple’ (p. 494). The innkeeper tells Jane that Rochester now lives alone at Ferndean Manor, and she prepares to go there immediately.