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Themes, Ideas and Messages MatchUp
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'Try and keep Mr Rochester at a distance: distrust yourself as well as him. Gentlemen in his station are not accustomed to marry their governesses' (Ch. 24)
'"She is qualified to teach the usual branches of a good English education, together with French, Drawing and Music" (in those days, reader, this now narrow catalogue of accomplishments would have been held tolerably comprehensive)' (Ch. 10)
'He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady's maid. He seemed puzzled to decide what I was' (Ch. 12)
'I may then depend upon this child being received as a pupil at Lowood, and there being trained in conformity to her position and prospects?' (Ch. 4)
'You cannot form a notion of the importance twenty thousand pounds would give you; of the place it would enable you to take in society; of the prospects it would open to you' (Ch. 33)
'I never lived amongst fine people but once, and I was very miserable with them' (Ch. 11)
'Paid subordinates! What, you are my paid subordinate are you?' (Ch. 14)
'I am an independent woman now ... Quite rich' (Ch. 37)
'I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me a fairy tale' (Ch. 24)
The Victorian adherence to social expectations is clear. The idea that you should 'conform' to your social class is obviously limiting and Brontë emphasises the contrast with Jane's position at the end of the text.
The education of upper-class girls of the time was seen more as accumulating accomplishments rather than education. The fate of girls was to marry and, therefore, their education was designed to make them desirable to prospective husbands.
The emotion created by the punctuation hints at Mr Rochester's attitude to social class and how it differs from the expectations at the time, perhaps due to his treatment by his father because of their social class.
Here we see the link between destiny and expectations and social class, with the suggestion that social class is limiting and trapping.
Here we see a clear link between wealth and prospects: to have money raises your place in society and offers opportunities which cannot be achieved through hard work.
We see the link between wealth and independence; however, the Mr Rochester's first marriage shows that this is not the case when social class is a factor. For Jane, her social class is unimportant, she is just glad to be independent.
Here we see that Jane thinks that social class is not all-important; in fact, happiness is more important to Jane, which makes her unusual for the time she lived in.
Here we see how, at the time, social class was obvious just from the way you dressed and that your position was seen as your identity.
Here we see how Jane and Mr Rochester's love overcomes social class. Jane's strict moral code helps to ensure that she doesn't fall into the trap of becoming a mistress rather than a wife.