My Deck

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• "Wicked and cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer—you are like a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!"

  Chapter 1·Jane Eyre

  Oppression and FreedomSearch for Identity

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• I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed…

  Chapter 2·Narrator

  Oppression and FreedomSocial Class and InequalitySearch for Identity

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• Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of…

  Chapter 4·Narrator

  Oppression and FreedomSearch for Identity

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• How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and…

  Chapter 4·Jane Eyre

  Oppression and FreedomLove and PassionSearch for Identity

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• Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be,…

  Chapter 6·Helen Burns

  Religion and MoralitySearch for Identity

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from…

  Chapter 8·Helen Burns

  Religion and MoralitySearch for Identity

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• I was asleep, and Helen was—dead.

  Chapter 9·Narrator

  Religion and Morality

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• I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.

  Chapter 9·Helen Burns

  Religion and Morality

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• I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then…

  Chapter 10·Narrator

  Oppression and FreedomSearch for Identity

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• Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their…

  Chapter 12·Narrator

  Gender and IndependenceOppression and FreedomSocial Class and Inequality

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• It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they…

  Chapter 12·Narrator

  Oppression and FreedomSearch for Identity

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• I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a…

  Chapter 14·Edward Rochester

  Gender and IndependenceOppression and Freedom

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• Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture,…

  Chapter 16·Jane Eyre

  Social Class and InequalitySearch for Identity

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• I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,—a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of…

  Chapter 17·Narrator

  Oppression and FreedomLove and Passion

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• I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to…

  Chapter 19·Edward Rochester

  Gender and IndependenceOppression and FreedomSearch for Identity

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• To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.

  Chapter 20·Edward Rochester

  Love and PassionSearch for Identity

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• "Sir," I answered, "a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature. Men and women die;…

  Chapter 20·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceReligion and Morality

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• "Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness:…

  Chapter 21·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceReligion and MoralityLove and Passion

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• Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever…

  Chapter 22·Jane Eyre

  Love and PassionSearch for Identity

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• Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without…

  Chapter 23·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceSocial Class and InequalityLove and Passion

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• My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven.…

  Chapter 24·Narrator

  Religion and MoralityLove and Passion

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• "I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."

  Chapter 24·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceSearch for Identity

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples,…

  Chapter 26·Narrator

  Love and PassionSearch for Identity

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• _I_ care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect…

  Chapter 27·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceReligion and MoralitySearch for Identity

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• "I scorn your idea of love," I could not help saying, as I rose up and stood before him, leaning…

  Chapter 34·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceLove and Passion

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• His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapour sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms…

  Chapter 34·Narrator

  Love and Passion

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• God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you:…

  Chapter 34·St John Rivers

  Gender and IndependenceReligion and Morality

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• "Jane! Jane! Jane!"—nothing more.

  Chapter 35·Edward Rochester

  Love and PassionSearch for Identity

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• I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard. And what right would that ruin have to…

  Chapter 37·Edward Rochester

  Love and Passion

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• I told you I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress.

  Chapter 37·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceSocial Class and Inequality

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• No, sir! I am an independent woman now.

  Chapter 37·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceSocial Class and Inequality

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• Reader, I married him.

  Chapter 38·Jane Eyre

  Gender and IndependenceLove and Passion

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