УЧЕБНОЕ ПОСОБИЕ ПО
РАБОТЕ С КНИГОЙ
Ш. БРОНТЕ «ДЖЕЙН ЭЙР»
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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к. пед. н., доцент кафедры теории и методики обучения иностранным языкам ОмГУ им.
Ф.М. Достоевского С.А. Рассада, к.ф.н., доцент кафедры иностранных языков ФГБОУ ВО
Омский ГАУ Есмурзаева Ж.Б.
….: учебное пособие по работе с книгой Ш. Бронте «Джейн Эйр»/ Н.Ф. Ехлакова, Т.А.
Здриковская, Е.В. Кадола, Н.Н. Петрова. – Омск: Изд-во Ом. гос. ун-та, 2020. –
ISBN
Цель пособия – стимулирование интереса к чтению оригинальной художественной
литературы, развитие иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции на основе работы с
оригинальным текстом.
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анализ художественного текста», «Введение в английскую литературу», «Аналитическое
чтение», со студентами 1-4 курсов факультета иностранных языков, «Иностранный язык»
(английский язык, модуль «Домашнее чтение») со студентами 1-2 курсов исторического
факультета (специальность «Международные отношения»), а также со студентами других
гуманитарных специальностей.
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Part one. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Part two. READING JANE EYRE
Lesson 1 chapters 1-4
Lesson 2 chapters 5-8
Lesson 3 chapters 9-11
Lesson 4 chapters 12-15
Lesson 5 chapters 16-18
Lesson 6 chapters 19-21
Lesson 7 chapters 22-24
Lesson 8 chapters 25-27
Lesson 9 chapters 28-30
Lesson 10 chapters 31-33
Lesson 11 chapters 34-36
Lesson 12 chapters 37-38
Part three. FINAL DISCUSSION
Part four. TEST YOURSELF
Part five. ESSAY QUESTIONS
Introduction
This study guide has been designed to develop students’ reading, speaking, writing,
thinking and language skills through exercises and activities related to Jane Eyre by Charlotte
Bronte. It includes 5 parts supported by extra resource materials.
Performing the tasks from Part One ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE BOOK students
are given the idea of the author’s biography and work and the book they are about to read.
Part Two – READING JANE EYRE consists of the reading assignments for 12 lessons,
covering 38 chapters of the book.
Every lesson has been created due to the specific template which includes the following
sections: VOCABULARY PRACTICE, COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION, ANALYSIS,
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, VIDEO ACTIVITIES.
VOCABULARY PRACTICE section is intended to enrich students’ vocabularies as well as
to aid in the students’ understanding of the book. This section involves doing some vocabulary
work for 15 to 20 words and phrases students will encounter in their reading. First, it introduces
students to the pronunciation of the basic vocabulary units, and then the new vocabulary units
are exposed to students in the matching and translating activities.
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION section contains fact-based questions: students
can find the answers to these questions right in the text. This section is closely connected with
the following ANALYSIS section where the tasks serve as a review of the most important events
and ideas presented in the definite chapter as well as focuses on interpretation, critical analysis
and personal response, employing a variety of thinking skills and adding to the students’
understanding of the novel.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE section deals with the linguistic and cultural phenomena
which are necessary to be properly interpreted to avoid intercultural misunderstanding.
VIDEO ACTIVITIES section aims at revising the vocabulary and introducing the students
to the film based on the book. In the beginning the section contains the revising vocabulary
exercises such as filling in the gaps, reordering and crossword puzzle.Then comes a written
assignment with the purpose of having students express their personal opinions about the films in
free discussions / debates. Students may use scripts if necessary.
Part Three – FINAL DISCUSSION. In this section students revise the main problems,
questions and quotes discussed in the novel.
Part Four -TEST YOURSELF comes in 2 formats: multiple choice questions and a
crossword puzzle.
Part Five -ESSAY QUESTIONS. In this section students will choose an essay topic and
write an essay regarding facts, interpretation, criticism and personal opinions.
PART ONE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charlotte Brontë's biography (1816-1855)
Charlotte’s father was Patrick Brontë (1777–1861), an Anglican clergyman. Irish-born, he
had changed his name from the more commonplace Brunty. After serving in several parishes, he
moved with his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë, and their six small children to Haworth amid the
Yorkshire moors in 1820, having been awarded a rectorship there. Soon after, Mrs. Brontë and
the two eldest children (Maria and Elizabeth) died, leaving the father to care for the remaining
three girls—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—and a boy, Branwell. Their upbringing was aided by
an aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, who left her native Cornwall and took up residence with the family
at Haworth.
In 1824 Charlotte and Emily, together with their elder sisters before their deaths, attended
Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire. The fees were
low, the food unattractive, and the discipline harsh. Charlotte condemned the school (perhaps
exaggeratedly) long years afterward in Jane Eyre, under the thin disguise of Lowood Institution,
and its principal, the Reverend William Carus Wilson, has been accepted as the counterpart of
Mister Brocklehurst in the novel.
Charlotte and Emily returned home in June 1825, and for more than five years the Brontë
children learned and played there, writing and telling romantic tales for one another and
inventing imaginative games played out at home or on the desolate moors.
In 1831 Charlotte was sent to Miss Wooler’s school at Roe Head, near Huddersfield, where
she stayed a year and made some lasting friendships; her correspondence with one of her friends,
Ellen Nussey, continued until her death and has provided much of the current knowledge of her
life. In 1832 she went home to teach her sisters but in 1835 returned to Roe Head as a teacher.
She wished to improve her family’s position, and that was the only outlet that was offered to her
unsatisfied energies. Branwell, moreover, was to start on his career as an artist, and it became
necessary to supplement the family resources. The work, with its inevitable restrictions, was
uncongenial to Charlotte. She fell into ill health and melancholia and in the summer of 1838
terminated her engagement.
In 1839 Charlotte declined a proposal from the Reverend Henry Nussey, her friend’s
brother, and some months later one from another young clergyman. At the same time Charlotte’s
ambition to make the practical best of her talents and the need to pay Branwell’s debts urged her
to spend some months as governess with the Whites at Upperwood House, Rawdon. Branwell’s
talents for writing and painting, his good classical scholarship, and his social charm had
engendered high hopes for him, but he was fundamentally unstable, weak-willed, and
intemperate. He went from job to job and took refuge in alcohol and opium.
Meanwhile, his sisters had planned to open a school together, which their aunt agreed to
finance, and in February 1842 Charlotte and Emily went to Brussels as pupils to improve their
qualifications in French and acquire some German. The talent displayed by both brought them to
the notice of Constantin Héger, a fine teacher and a man of unusual perception. After a brief trip
home upon the death of her aunt, Charlotte returned to Brussels as a pupil-teacher. She stayed
there during 1843 but was lonely and depressed. Her friends had left Brussels, and Madame
Héger appears to have become jealous of her. The nature of Charlotte’s attachment to Héger and
the degree to which she understood herself have been much discussed. His was the mostinteresting mind she had yet met, and he had perceived and evoked her latent talents. His strong
and eccentric personality appealed both to her sense of humour and to her affections. She offered
him an innocent but ardent devotion, but he tried to repress her emotions. The letters she wrote to
him after her return may well be called love letters. When, however, he suggested that they were
open to misapprehension, she stopped writing and applied herself, in silence, to disciplining her
feelings. However Charlotte’s experiences in Brussels are interpreted, they were crucial for her
development. She received a strict literary training, became aware of the resources of her own
nature, and gathered material that served her, in various shapes, for all her novels.
In 1844 Charlotte attempted to start a school that she had long envisaged in the parsonage
itself, as her father’s failing sight precluded his being left alone. Prospectuses were issued, but no
pupils were attracted to distant Haworth.
In the autumn of 1845 Charlotte came across some poems by Emily, and that discovery led
to the publication of a joint volume of Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846), or
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne; the pseudonyms were assumed to preserve secrecy and avoid the
special treatment that they believed reviewers accorded to women. The book was issued at their
own expense. It received few reviews and only two copies were sold. Nevertheless, a way had
opened to them, and they were already trying to place the three novels they had written.
Charlotte failed to place The Professor: A Tale but had, however, nearly finished Jane Eyre: An
Autobiography, begun in August 1846 in Manchester, where she was staying with her father,
who had gone there for an eye operation. When Smith, Elder and Company, declining The
Professor, declared themselves willing to consider a three-volume novel with more action and
excitement in it, she completed and submitted it at once. Jane Eyre was accepted, published less
than eight weeks later (on October 16, 1847), and had an immediate success, far greater than that
of the books that her sisters published the same year.
The months that followed were tragic ones. Branwell died in September 1848, Emily in
December, and Anne in May 1849. Charlotte completed Shirley: A Tale in the empty parsonage,
and it appeared in October. In the following years Charlotte went three times to London as the
guest of her publisher; there she met the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray and sat for her
portrait by George Richmond. She stayed in 1851 with the writer Harriet Martineau and also
visited her future biographer, Elizabeth Gaskell, in Manchester and entertained her at Haworth.
Villette was published in January 1853. Meanwhile, in 1851, she had declined a third offer of
marriage, that time from James Taylor, a member of Smith, Elder and Company.
Her father’s curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls (1817–1906), an Irishman, was her fourth suitor.
It took some months to win her father’s consent, but they were married on June 29, 1854, in
Haworth church. They spent their honeymoon in Ireland and then returned to Haworth, where
her husband had pledged himself to continue as curate to her father. He did not share his wife’s
intellectual life, but she was happy to be loved for herself and to take up her duties as his wife.
She began another book, Emma, of which some pages remain. Her pregnancy, however, was
accompanied by exhausting sickness, and she died in 1855.
A three-volume edition of her letters, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, edited by Margaret
Smith, was published in 1995–2004.
Read Charlotte Bronte’s biography and tell what happened at those times:
1824 –
1831 1835 –
1842 1844 1846 –
1847 –
1848 –
1849 –
1853 1854 –
1855 –
Match the person and the relation:
Patrick Brontë
Maria Branwell Brontë
Elizabeth Branwell
Branwell
Anne
Ellen Nussey
Arthur Bell Nicholls
aunt
a friend from school
mother
sister
father
husband
brother
Answer the questions:
1.
What were the conditions at Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge? How do we
know about this school?
2.
Why did Charlotte start working at school? Why did she terminate her engagement there?
3.
Why couldn’t Branwell realize his talents?
4.
What was the result of Charlotte’s stay in Brussels?
5.
Why did her attempt to start a school fail?
6.
Why did the three sisters use pseudonyms for their first book?
7.
Was she happy in her family life?
Watch the video and write down the information which was not mentioned in the text.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZB5--HwdI8
PART TWO
READING JANE EYRE
Lesson 1
Chapters 1-4
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.
Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words:
Rigor, to rummage, incredulous, to peruse, voluntary, repulsive, suffice, associate, to
suffocate, deceitful, triumph, fault, to scold, to dread, to be burdened, benefactress, psalms,
consent, humble, to mortify, torment, to abhor, gingerbread, piety, attire, humility.
2.
Find the words in the text and translate them into Russian:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
blast p. 10
rigor p. 10
to rummage p. 12
incredulous p. 14
a discord p. 17
to peruse p. 23
to dote on p. 28
voluntary p. 30
3.
Match pairs of synonyms and translate them into Russian:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
4.
repulsive p. 19
to suffice p. 29
to associate p. 29
to suffocate p. 38
deceitful p. 39
triumph p. 39
fault p. 39
a dear p. 39
to expand p. 39
to scold p. 41
remorse p. 39
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
be adequate, enough
beloved, favourite
to choke
extreme happiness
sin, mistake
to connect in the mind
to extend
to find fault with
disgusting
guilty or bad conscience
dishonest, insincere
Translate the passage into Russian p. 15 “The red room…… like a pale throne”.
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
5.
Answer the following questions:
1)
Why wasn't Jane allowed to spend the evening with the family?
2)
How old was Jane? What was her status in the family?
3)
How did the Reeds treat Jane? Why?
4)
Where was she sitting one day? What happened between Jane and John Reed?
5)
What was the punishment?
6)
What did Jane think about her life?
7)
How did Jane feel when she was sitting in the red room? What happened to her
when she was in the red room?
8)
What did she tell the apothecary? What did he say to Jane?
ANALYSIS
Look at the picture: Young Jane argues with her guardian Mrs. Reed of Gateshead,
illustration by F. H. Townsend.
Analyze the extract “My soul began to expand”. Find the scene in the book and reread it
p. 38 “Go out of the room …p.39 I will indeed send her to school soon, ” murmured Mrs. Reed,
sotto voce; and gathering up her work, she abruptly quitted the apartment.
6.
Answer the following questions:
1)
What has Mrs. Reed said that provokes such a passionate reaction from Jane?
2)
Who, according to Jane, should be given “The book about a liar” and why?
3)
In the scene Jane states her intension for the future “I'm glad you are not relation
of mine …..with miserable cruelty”. How does she plan to punish Mrs. Reed for her cruelty?
4)
What example does Jane give of Mrs. Reed’s heartlessness?
5)
How does Mrs. Reed react to what Jane says?
6)
Jane's enraged outburst (взрыв, вспышка) at Mrs. Reed's accusation offers the
reader considerable insight into her character. Find evidence in the text which shows that she:
- cannot tolerate injustice and hypocrisy;
- understands that importance of social appearances to Mrs. Reed and threatens to expose
her;
- shows vulnerability and a need for love;
- is exalted by the freedom she experiences through speaking her mind.
7) Focus on Mrs. Reed's reactions. Which image contrasts Mrs. Reed’s restraint
|rɪˈstreɪnt| (сдержанность, самообладание) with Jane’s heated anger? What effect does Jane’s
outburst have on Mrs. Reed? In answering refer to the text.
8) Jane is unconventionally passionate. She expresses her thoughts and feelings in bold,
direct statements: e.g. I am not deceitful. I am glad you are no relation of mine. Find other
examples in the text.
9) In describing the episode of the red room Jane uses particularly emotional language.
Underline words and expressions which convey how psychologically damaging this incident was
to the young child.
10) Mrs. Reed, who represents the hypocrisy and repression of the middle class society to
which she belongs, does not know how to deal with Jane’s unrestrained, passionate outburst.
Which lines in the text suggest that she interprets Jane’s passion as a form of illness?
11) What type of narrator is used in the text? In your opinion, is the passage told from a
child`s point of view or from the point of view of an adult reliving a childhood experience?
12) Jane is furious because she has been wrongly accused of lying by her aunt. Adults
sometimes accuse young people of doing things they have not done and this injustice hurts
doubly when the victim is powerless to react. Have you or anyone you know ever been in such a
situation? Tell the class. For example: The teacher accused me of copying during the tests and
what made it worse, my parents backed him up.
7.
Summarize the events of the chapters and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
8.
Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it
was spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):

Chapter 1 p. 12 “You have no business to take our books; you are a dependant,
mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here
with gentlemen's children like us”.

Chapter 2 p. 16 “Alas, yes! No jail was ever more secure. Returning, I had to
cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed.
All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: … the strange little figure
there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear
moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny
phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny
dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers”.

Chapter 4 p. 39 “Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult,
with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had
burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty”.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
9.
Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names
mentioned in the chapter:



Pamela, Henry, Earl of Moreland
Master (form of address)
Gateshead Hall
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
10.
Translate the words: a pit full of fire, deceitful, to repent, to dread, to be
burdened, benefactress, psalms, to intimate, consent, fault, to impose, akin, brimstone, falsehood,
humble, inflicted, to mortify, torments, to abhor, a gingerbread, piety, attire, miserable, a fall,
fair, humility
11.
Do the crossword, using the words from exercise 10
1
7
4
1
8
5
9
2
6
1
3
Down:
2. Movement downwards
4. Clothes
7. Having a low social class position
8. Respect for God and religion
9. Reasonable and acceptable
10. A sweet cake or biscuit
Across:
1.
To hate a kind of behavior
3.
Bad or weak part of somebody`s character
5.
Behavior that is intended to make someone believe something is true
6.
Extremely unhappy
12.
Watch the scene “Jane meets Mr. Brocklhurst” and fill in gaps.
-This is the little girl respecting whom I applied to you.
-Her size is small. What is her age?
-10 years.
-So much? Your name, little girl?
-Jane Eyre, sir.
-Well, Jane Eyre, and are you a good child?
-Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr. Brocklehurst.
-I am sorry indeed to hear it. No sight so sad as that of a 1)…………. child, especially a
naughty girl. Do you know where the 2)……………….. go after death?
-They go to hell.
-And what is hell? Can you tell me that?
-A pit full of fire.
-And should you like to fall into that pit and be burning there forever?
-No, sir!
-What must you do to avoid it?
-I must keep in good health and not die.
-How can you keep in good health? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little
child of 5 years old only a day or two since. A good little child whose soul is now in heaven.
-It is to be feared that the same could not be said of you, were you called hence. I hope
that sigh is from the heart and that you 3) ……….. of having been the occasion of discomfort
to your excellent benefactress. Do you say your prayers, night and morning?
-Yes, sir.
-Do you read your Bible?
-Sometimes
-With pleasure? Are you fond of it?
- Bits of it…
-Bits of it! Shocking! I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows 6 psalms by heart
and much else and when you ask him whether he would rather have a gingerbread nut or learn a
Psalm, he says, "Oh, a psalm to learn! Angels sing psalms, and I wish to be a little angel here
below." He then gets 2 nuts as reward for his 4) ……………..
-But psalms are not interesting.
-That proves you have a wicked heart. And you must pray to God to change it.
-You may sit down, Jane. Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated to you in my letter that
this girl's disposition and character is not quite what I could wish, should you admit her into
Lowood school?
-School…
-Be silent, child!
-Should you consent to do so, Mr. Brocklehurst, I would be glad if the superintendent and
teachers were requested to keep a strict eye upon her, and above all to guard against her worst
fault, a tendency to 5)……………… I mention this in your hearing, Jane that you may not
attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst.
-Deceit is indeed a sad fault in a child. It is akin to falsehood, and all liars will have their
portion in the lake burning with fire and brimstone.
Amen.
-She shall, however, be watched, Mrs. Reed. I will speak to my headmistress, Miss
Temple, and to the teachers.
-I should wish her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects, to be made useful
and humble. With your permission, she will spend all her vacations at Lowood.
-You will not be burdened with her again, Mrs. Reed. As to your wishes – I assure you
that pupils at Lowood are taught 6)…………….humility as a Christian grace and that worldly
pride must be 7)……………………...
-That is a state of things I quite approve.
-Plain food, simple 8)…………………, hardy accommodation, and constant activity such
is the order of the day at Lowood.
-Quite right, sir! I may depend upon your receiving this child then, as a pupil? Madam,
you may, and I trust she will show herself grateful for the privilege.
-I will send her to you then, as soon as possible.
-Of course! I shall write to Miss Temple to expect a new girl. And I must bid you good
morning. May I? I shall return to Brocklehurst hall in a week or so. I am staying with my good
friend, the archdeacon, and he will not permit me to leave him sooner. Uh, see that my carriage
is ready. Good-bye, Mrs. Reed!
-Good-bye, Mr. Brocklehurst: remember me to Mrs. and Miss Brocklehurt and to
Augusta and Theodore and Master Brocklehurst.
-I will, indeed. Here is a book entitled the “Child's guide”. Read it with prayer, especially
the account of the 9)……………………. inflicted in hell on deceitful children. You may leave
her in our hands. There will be no softness.
13.
Answer the questions:
1)
Describe the meeting and the conversation with Mr. Brocklehurst. What do you
think of Mr. Brocklehurst and his school? What methods did he use to manipulate people?
2)
What did he promise Mrs. Reed?
Lesson 2 Chapters 5-8
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.
Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words: Foe,
apprehensive, hasty, slattern, tumult, vicious, tresses, pious, tranquility, wicked, pelisse,
plumage, luxury.
2.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
Find the words in the text and translate them into Russian:
a foe p. 43 – враг
apprehensive p. 44 опасаться
a countenance p. 45 лицо
tumult p. 47 буйство
shameful p. 48 стыдно
to be hasty p. 53 быть вспыльчивым
to be in disgrace p. 54 быть позорным
vicious p. 64 порочный
a slate p. 67 aспидная доска/грифельная
tranquility p. 71 спокойствие, покой
wicked p. 72 злой , подлый
slattern p. 75 неряха
3.
Translate the sentences into English using words from exercise 2:
1)
Приятели или враги теперь между ними не было различий.
2)
Председатель говорит, что ранее Комитет не использовал слово
«опасается».
3)
Пожалуйста, не думай, что я был слишком вспыльчив.
4)
Некоторые из самых бедных стран оказались втянутыми в порочный круг
бремени обслуживания задолженности.
4.
Translate the passage into Russian p. 68 “My dear children ….. a liar”, p. 69
“This I learnt from ….. round her”
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
5.
Answer the following questions:
1)
What was the name of the school? What was the first day at school like?
2)
What was the school process like?
3)
What were the teachers like?
4)
Explain Helen's punishments and Jane's thoughts about them. What would Jane
have done if she had been Helen?
5)
What was Helen Burn's doctrine of endurance?
6)
What did Mr. Broklehurst criticize Ms. Temple of?
7)
Describe Mr. Brockhurst's reaction to the girls' curls? What did he order to do?
8)
Describe Mrs. and Misses Brocklhurst (their appearance and clothes) p.67. Did
Mr. Brocklhurst mind light tresses elaborately curled that his daughters had?
9)
Look at pp. 67-68 “A careless girl…… this girl is a liar”. Trace Jane Eyre's
sequence of emotions from when she breaks the slate to when she is called a liar.

First she is……

But Jane…..

She cannot note the particulars because……

Then she steadies her nerves and……

Miss Temple tries to ……

Then she is……. with Brocklehurst &Co

Then she feels everybody`s eyes ……

And realizes that it is better to ……
10)
What insight does this give us into Jane`s character?
11)
What can we learn about Mr. Brocklehurst's character from his behavior?
12)
What do “silk pelisses and the silvery plumage” indicate about the class of people
visiting school?
13)
Do you think that Mr. Brocklehurst and his family have a real understanding of
what is good for these girls? Comment on Mr. Brocklehurst's idea of upbringing girls.
14)
How did Jane feel after the episode? How would a weaker little girl have reacted
in such a humiliating situation?
15)
Why did Ms. Temple invite the girls? Why did she decide to help Jane?
16)
How was Jane freed from all the alleged charges?
6.
Summarize the events of the chapter and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
7.
Translate and comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker;
b) to whom it was spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to
theme, tone, character and plot development):

Chapter 6 p.60 “What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have
made on your heart! No ill-usage so brands its record on my feelings. Would you not be happier
if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears
to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."

Chapter 7 p. 68 “A pause - in which I began to steady the palsy of my nerves and
to feel that the Rubicon was passed; and that the trial, no longer to be shirked, must be firmly
sustained.”

Chapter 8 p. 72 “ I resolved, in the depth of my heart, that I would be most
moderate … I told her all the story of my sad childhood. Exhausted by emotion, my language
was more subdued than it generally was when it developed that sad theme; and mindful of
Helen's warnings against the indulgence of resentment, I infused into the narrative far less of gall
and wormwood than ordinary. Thus restrained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as
I went on that Miss Temple fully believed me.”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
8.
Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names
mentioned in the chapter:

p. 74 Nectar and ambrosia

p. 76 Well had Solomon said, “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a
stalled ox and hatred therewith.” I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations
for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
9. Watch the scene “Wrongfully accused” and fill in gaps:
- It is the new pupil. I have a word to say respecting her. Fetch that stool, girl. Girl, stand
upon it. Face the classes. Miss Temple, teachers, girls, you all see this girl? Who would think
that the evil one had already found a servant in her? And yet such, I grieve to say, is the case.
You must be on your 1)…….. against her. You must shun her example, and exclude her from
your sports. Teachers, you must watch her. Punish her body to save her soul if indeed such
2)………………… be possible, for my tongue falters while I tell it this girl, this child of a
Christian land, this girl is a liar.
- How shocking!
- This I learned from her 3)………….. , the lady who adopted her in her orphan state,
reared her as her own daughter, and whose kindness this unhappy girl repaid with an
4)…………….. so bad, so dreadful, that at last her excellent patroness was obliged to separate
her from her own young ones, fearful lest her 5) ……………..example should contaminate their
purity. She has sent her here to be healed. Teachers, I beg of you not to spare her if she is to be
saved. If she is to be saved!
Lesson 3 Chapters 9-11
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words. Find the
words in the text and translate them into Russian:
Verdure, privations, pestilence, contagion, gratification, slumber, fortnight, kinsfolk,
ward, despicable, stingy, propitious
2. Translate the sentences into English:
1)
Вокруг дома было много зелени.
2)
Они пережили годы страданий и лишений.
3)
Чтобы избежать эпидемии, в город пригласили лучших специалистов по
вакцинации.
4)
Риск заражения отсутствует.
5)
Вы думаете, он заслуживает уважения?
6)
Она погрузилась в глубокий спокойный сон.
7)
У него было три аварии за последние две недели.
8)
Родственники приехали на свадьбу заранее.
9)
Ее подопечные не всегда были послушными.
10) Как можно доверять такому отвратительному человеку!
11) Он был слишком скуп, что отвести ее в хороший ресторан на свидание.
12) Для начала нового бизнеса время неподходящее.
3. Match the word combinations and translate them into Russian:
1. wretched
2. noble
3. turbid
4. ample
5. mutual
6. insignificant
7. continual
8. abundant
9. fastidious
10. unimpeachable
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
beck
intercourse
indulgence
existence
harvest
solace
summits
feet
character
man
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
4. Answer the following questions:
1) What happened at Lowood school at the beginning of spring? What were the
predispositions of this disaster?
2) How was the school trying to cope with the pestilence?
3) What mood was Lowood school filled with?
4) How did the healthy girls feel at this time? Why?
5) Who were Jane's friends at that time? How were they different?
6) Describe the situation when Jane learnt that Helen was dying. What did Jane feel?
7) What did Helen and Jane talk about at the last moment? How did Helen view her
impending death?
8) What did Helen's death teach Jane?
9) Why was attention drawn to Lowood school?
10) What changes did the school undergo?
11) How did Jane spend 8 Years after the school was improved?
12) Why did she decide to leave Lowood?
13) How did Jane apply for a new job?
14) How many replies did Jane get to her advert? Did she accept the offer? Why?
15) What did Jane feel when she was leaving Lowood? Who came at the moment she was
about to leave?
16) What news did she tell Jane about her cousins?
17) What was Jane thinking about on her way to Thornfield?
18) What impression did Thornfield produce on her?
19) How was Jane accepted in Thornfield?
20) What was the usual way of life in Thornfield?
21) What was Mrs. Fairfax responsible for in Thornfield? Who was Mr. Rochester?
22) Who was Jane’s pupil?
23) How did Adele happen to be with Mr. Rochester?
24) Why did Mrs. Fairfax look well after the house?
25) What was Mrs. Fairfax's opinion of her employer?
26) What did Jane think of Thornfield? Why?
27) Who was Grace Poole? How did she appear in the novel?
5. Choose five main events in this chapter to create a short summary.
6. Match the description with the characters, then translate the passages into Russian:
Mrs. Fairfax
Grace Poole
Adele
1) The door nearest me opened, and a servant came out, – a woman of between thirty
and forty; a set, square-made figure, red-haired, and with a hard, plain face: any
apparition less romantic or less ghostly could scarcely be conceived. …"She is a
person we have to sew and assist Leah in her housemaid's work," continued the
widow; "not altogether unobjectionable in some points, but she does well enough."
2) As I was meditating on this discovery, a little girl, followed by her attendant, came
running up the lawn. I looked at my pupil, who did not at first appear to notice me:
she was quite a child, perhaps seven or eight years old, slightly built, with a pale,
small-featured face, and a redundancy of hair falling in curls to her waist.
3) …sat the neatest imaginable little elderly lady, in widow's cap, black silk gown, and
snowy muslin apron; exactly like what I had fancied Mrs Fairfax, only less stately
and milder looking. She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet;
nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort. A more
reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived; there was
no grandeur to overwhelm, no stateliness to embarrass; and then, as I entered, the old
lady got up and promptly and kindly came forward to meet me.
7.
Read the statement below and express your opinion about them.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Jane is taking a risk - the job is with people she doesn’t know.
Working as a governess is a good job for Jane.
Jane’s uncle, John Eyre, will be important in the story.
Thornfield is an amazing house.
I think that Jane and Adele will get on very well.
6) I don’t trust Grace Poole.
7) I think that Thornfield hides a secret.
8) Even before she meets him, Jane seems very interested in Mr Rochester.
8.
A questionnaire about school
Do this activity after reading Chapter 9. Fill in all the information you can find from
Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. There may be sections that you cannot complete.
Name of School .............................................................................
Name of owner ................................................
Type of school ..................................................
Number of pupils .............................................
Academic subjects taught
................................
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
Other activities
.................................................
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
.............................................................................
Accommodation ...............................................
Bathroom facilities ...........................................
Sickroom facilities ............................................
Uniform ...........................................................
Diet ...................................................................
Parents’ access possible on which days .............................................................................
Cost per year .....................................................
9. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):
 Chapter 10 p. 87 “I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon. I desired liberty;
for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then
faintly blowing. I abandoned it and framed a humbler supplication; for change, stimulus:
that petition, too, seemed swept off into vague space: "Then," I cried, half desperate,
"grant me at least a new servitude!"
 Chapter 11 p.108 “While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a
region, a laugh, struck my ear. It was a curious laugh; distinct, formal, mirthless. I
stopped: the sound ceased, only for an instant; it began again, louder: for at first, though
distinct, it was very low. It passed off in a clamorous peal that seemed to wake an echo in
every lonely chamber; though it originated but in one, and I could have pointed out the
door whence the accents issued”.
ANALYSIS
1) In chapter 9 we have so far seen that if Jane is unhappy, the weather is cold or nasty. This
chapter is full of woe and sorrow, but the spring weather is warm and sunny. How can
you explain this discrepancy?
2) At the Lowood School, Jane’s most beloved friend is Helen Burns, who with great
dignity endures frequent punishment and humiliation by Miss Scatcherd. Jane admires
Helen, but realizes that she cannot emulate her (Chapters VII–IX). Why not? What aspect
of Jane’s character doesn’t allow her to be as saintly as Helen?
3) What is significant about Jane's time at Lowood? How does this shape her character?
4) Jane chose to be a governess; at that time she identified this job with freedom. Do you
believe that a governess can be really independent?
5) Compare Bronte's descriptions of Thornfield with the descriptions of Rochester's
appearance. What is she trying to convey?
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
The following are paraphrases of the lines from the dialogue between Mrs. Fairfax
and Jane Eyre. Reconstruct the original phrases from the scene “Solitary visit”
-
I guess you have had a tiresome and boring ride from Millcote.
John rides leisurely.
I was delighted to be able to come before twilights.
Leah, aren’t the supper ready?
Ignore the formalities.
You may eat and listen to me gabbing.
They are so spacious and desolate.
- How do you do my dear?
- How do you do, M’am? Mrs. Fairfax, I guess?
- You are right. I’m afraid you have had a tedious ride from Millcote. John drives slowly.
Were you long in the coach before that?
- The coach left at 4 o’clock this morning. I had to rise at 3 o’clock.
- Oh, you must be tired. Come and sit down!
- Is this not your chair?
- Oh, I will be comfortable enough here. But your hands look numb with cold. Leah, are
all the refreshments ready? And make some hot negus as well.
- The water’s boiling, Ma’m.
- I was glad to arrive before nightfall, hoping to see my pupil – Miss Fairfax.
- Miss Fairfax? Oh, you mean Miss Varence, Varence is the name of your future pupil!
- Varence…
- Yes. Oh, yes, thank you, Leah. Sip up Negus and warm yourself.
- Indeed, then. She’s not your daughter.
- No, I have no family. I’m so pleased you are come; it will be quite pleasant having
someone with whom to talk. Thornfield is a fine old hall, but in the quiet season, you
know, one feels dreary, quite alone. What I say, quite alone! Leah is my maidservant and
is a nice enough girl to be sure, and John and his wife are very decent people, but, you
see, they are only servants. Eat that food, Miss Eyre! Don’t stand on ceremony. You may
eat and listen to me prattling. I’ve had the room next to mine prepared for you: it is only a
small apartment, but I thought you would like it better than one of the large front
chambers; to be sure, the front chambers have finer furniture, but they are so large and
solitary, I never sleep in there myself. Here we are.
- Oh, it is beautiful! Thank you, Mrs. Fairfax, and thank you for your kindness.
- Kindness? Rubbish! Now I have someone with whom I can talk. But I won’t come in
and keep you from your bed with my chatter. Good-bye, my dear!
- Good-bye, Mrs. Fairfax!
Lesson 4 Chapters 12-15
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.
Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words:
Restlessness, tenacious, bias, evasive, dumb, insolence, brusque, repentance, remorse,
austere, Gytrash, philanthropist.
2.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
15)
16)
3.
their sex.”
Find the words in the text and translate them into Russian:
to flatter p.110
the restlessness p. 111
a sprain p. 115
to beat about the bush p. 123
tenacious p. 123
to bewitch p. 123
to bias p. 124
evasive p. 129
a brusque rejoinder p.132
a blunder p.133
dumb p. 134
a rusty nail p. 134
insolence p. 135
repentance p. 137
remorse p. 137
austere p. 139
Translate the passage into Russian p. 111 “It is in vain to say human beings …..
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
4.
Answer the following questions:
1)
Is Jane happy in her new position?
2)
What strange sounds does Jane hear on her tour of Thornfield hall? Does Jane
hear the strange laugh again?
3)
At Thornfield who is Jane`s new pupil? Describe the pupil.
4)
What happened to the man on the horse? How do the main characters meet?
5)
Why do you think the author makes the main characters meet in such unusual
circumstances? Explain the approach in literature «explained supernatural», «Gothic style in
literature».
6)
The description of Mr. Rochester (physical appearance, manners, mood, past
life).
7)
Do you find Mr. Rochester to be a believable character? Why/why not?
8)
How do Jane and Rochester behave toward each other when they talk? What
is his reaction to Jane`s pictures?
9)
Describing himself, Mr. Rochester claims to be a man of experience and
unfortunate circumstances, hardened from flesh into "Indian-rubber». He makes obscure
references to his past and his plans for reforming himself. Mr. Rochester says that “remorse is
the poison of life”. What does Jane advise him to do? Why?
10)
What do we get to know about Mr. Rochester`s family troubles?
11)
How did Mr. Rochester explain Adele`s presence in Thornfield?
12)
What horrifying incident happed at house one night? What sort of suspicion is
aroused by the event that threatens Mr. Rochester’s life? How does Jane find herself in the
position of saving Mr. Rochester’s life?
5.
Summarize the events of the chapter and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
6.
Translate and comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker;
b) to whom it was spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to
theme, tone, character and plot development):

Chapter 12 p.111 “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with
tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are
condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody
knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which
people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel;
they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do …
It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than
custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”

Chapter 14 p. 131 “Blood is thicker than water.”

Chapter 14 p. 135 “I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely
because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim
to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

Chapter 14 p. 137 “Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre:
remorse is the poison of life.”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
7.
Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names
mentioned in the chapter:

The road to hell is paved with good intentions

Gytrash p. 113

A philanthropist p.133(philanthropy)
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
8. Watch the scene «Under examination» and fill in gaps:
-Is that Miss Eyre?
-You wished to see me, sir?
-Come forward, Miss Eyre. Be seated. Don't draw the chair further off, Miss Eyre. Sit
down exactly where I placed it. If you please, that is. Confound these civilities. I'm always
forgetting them.
-Oh, ciel! Que c'est beau!
-Come, child. The master wishes to speak to Miss Eyre.
-You examine me, Miss Eyre. Do you find me 1)………………?
-No, sir.
-By my word, there is something singular about you. You have the air of a little nun
quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, with your arms before you and your eyes generally bent on the
carpet. Except, by the by, when they are directed piercingly to my face, as just now. And when
one asks you a 2)……………, you rap out a brusque rejoinder. What do you mean by it?
-Sir, I beg your pardon. I was too plain.
-You were no such thing. Go on! What faults do you find with me, pray? I suppose I have
all my limbs and all my features like any other man?
-Mr. Rochester, I intended no repartee. It was a blunder.
-Just so. And you shall be 3)………….. Now, Ma'm, am I a fool?
-Far from it, sir. You might perhaps think me rude if I enquired in return whether you are
a philanthropist.
-No, young lady, I am not in general a philanthropist. But I bear a 4)…………….. When
I was as old as you I was a feeling fellow enough, partial to the unfledged, unfostered, and
unlucky, but fortune has knocked me about since, and now I 5)...………. myself that I am as
hard and tough as an Indian-rubber ball, pervious, though through a chink or two still. Does that
leave hope for me?
-Hope for what, sir?
-Oh, you look very much puzzled, Miss Eyre, and you are no prettier than I am
handsome, yet a puzzled air becomes you. Besides it's very convenient. It keeps those searching
eyes off my physiognomy. So, puzzle on. Young lady, I am disposed to be 6)………………. and
communicative tonight. That’s why I sent for you. The fire and the chandelier were not sufficient
company for me. Can't talk to an old lady or young child nor Pilot but you…. You puzzled me
the first evening I invited you down here. It would please me now to draw you out, to learn more
of you. Therefore speak!
-About what, sir?
-Well, whatever you like.
-You're dumb, Miss Eyre? Stubborn? And 7)………………? Ah, I put my request in an
absurd, almost insolent form. Miss Eyre, I beg your pardon. The fact is, once and for all, I do not
wish to treat you like an inferior. I speak merely with 20 years more of age and a century more of
experience. Now, have the goodness to talk to me a little. Divert my thoughts which are which
are galled with dwelling on one point.
-I am willing to amuse you if I can, sir, but how do I know what will interest you? Ask
me questions and I will do my best to answer them.
-Firstly, then, do you agree that I have the right to be a little masterful, abrupt, exacting at
times, on the grounds that I am old enough to be your father and roamed over half the globe,
whilst you have lived quietly with one set of people in one house.
-Do as you please, sir.
-Oh, that's no answer. It's irritating and evasive. Reply clearly.
-I do not think, sir, you have the right to command me because you are older than I, or
because you have seen more of the world than I have. Your claim to superiority depends upon
the use you have made of your time and experience.
-Hmm. Promptly spoken. But I won't allow that. It would never suit my case. I have made
a very bad use of both advantages. Well, leaving 8)………………. out of the question, then, you
must still agree to receive my orders now and then without being piqued by the tone of
command. Why do you smile?
-I was thinking, sir, that very few masters would trouble themselves to enquire so of their
paid subordinates.
-Paid subordinate? Oh, yes, I'd forgotten the salary. Well, then, on that mercenary
ground, will you agree to let me hector you a little?
-No, sir. Not on that ground. But on the grounds that you did forget it and that you care
whether or not a dependent is comfortable in his dependency.
-And will you agree to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases
without thinking me 9)…………………?
-I hope, sir, I know the difference between informality and insolence. The one I rather
like, the other nothing free-born would submit to even for a salary.
-Humbug! Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary. However, I
mentally shake hands with you for that answer, despite its inaccuracy. Not one in 3,000 raw
schoolgirl governesses would have answered me as you have just done. However, I don't mean to
flatter you. For all I know, you may have intolerable faults to counterbalance your few good
points. Oh, yes, yes, you're right. I've plenty of faults of my own. I was thrust onto a wrong tack
at the age of 21 and have never recovered the right course since. I might have been
10)………….. I might have been as good as you, wiser, almost as stainless. I envy you your
peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory.
-How was your memory when you were 18, sir?
-Oh, I was your equal, Miss Eyre. Quite your equal. Nature meant me to be, on the whole,
a good man, Miss Eyre, but, you see, I am not. I am a trite, commonplace 11) ……….,
hackneyed in all the petty dissipations of the rich and worthless. I wish I'd stood firm. God
knows, I do! Dread 12)……………. when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre. 13)………………..
is the poison of life.
-Repentance is said to be its cure, sir.
-It is not its cure. 14)…………………, maybe. I could reform, but what's the use?
Hampered, burdened, and cursed as I am? Besides, I have a right to get pleasure out of life and I
will get it, cost what it may.
-Then you will 15)…………………… still further, sir.
-Why should I? If I can get sweet fresh pleasure? And I may get it. As sweet and fresh as
the wild honey the bee gathers on the moor. You are like a little bird trapped in a cage: vivid,
resolute, restless, but a captive. Were it but free it would soar cloud-high.
-To speak truth, sir, I do not understand you.
-At this moment, Miss Eyre, I am paving hell with energy.
-Sir?
-I am laying down good intentions, which I believe as durable as flint. Are you afraid of
me because I talk like a 16)………………..?
-Your language is enigmatical, sir. Though I am bewildered, I'm certainly not afraid.
9. Dramatize any part of the dialogue.
Lesson 5 Chapters 16-18
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words. Find the words in
the text and translate them into Russian:
Confabulation, impenetrability, bachelor, harangue, hypocrisy, conjecture, dupe, equestrian,
dowager, martyrdom, musing, gentry.
2.
Match the word combinations and translate them into Russian:
1. assumed
2. scrutinizing
3. malignant
4. miraculous
5. inscrutable
6. indigent
7. temporary
8. barren
9. contumelious
10. supercilious
11. ample
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
blunder
epithet
pranks
hypocrisy
heart
indifference
self-possession
plebeian
garments
taciturnity
eye
3. Match the synonyms and translate them into Russian:
1. supposition
2. apparel
3. petition
4. asylum
5. glee
6. widow
7. sever
8. confabulate
9. blunder
10. hearth
11. incubi
12. bridewell
13. sagacity
14. supercilious
15. adage
16. sorceress
4.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
L.
M.
N.
O.
P.
joy
fireplace
nightmare
shrewdness
sanctum
proverb
attire
separate
fault
witch
prison
haughty
conjecture
converse
dowager
request
Translate the sentences into Russian:
1) Had Grace been young and handsome, I should have been tempted to think that tenderer
feelings than prudence or fear influenced Mr. Rochester in her behalf; but, hard-favoured
and matronly as she was, the idea could not be admitted.
2) Thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm, which, had
they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even
externally.
3) No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without
being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their
lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.
5.
Translate the passage into Russian:
Pp.160-161 “Afterwards, take a piece of smooth ivory—you have one prepared in your drawingbox: take your palette, mix your freshest, finest, clearest tints; choose your most delicate camelhair pencils; delineate carefully the loveliest face you can imagine; paint it in your softest shades
and sweetest lines, according to the description given by Mrs. Fairfax of Blanche Ingram;
remember the raven ringlets, the oriental eye;—What! you revert to Mr. Rochester as a model!
Order! No snivel!—no sentiment!—no regret! I will endure only sense and resolution. Recall the
august yet harmonious lineaments, the Grecian neck and bust; let the round and dazzling arm be
visible, and the delicate hand; omit neither diamond ring nor gold bracelet; portray faithfully the
attire, aërial lace and glistening satin, graceful scarf and golden rose; call it ‘Blanche, an
accomplished lady of rank.’
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
6. Answer the following questions:
1) What happened in Thornfield in the morning?
2) Why was Jane confounded by Grace Poole’s appearance?
3) Did Jane believe Grace and her tone? How did she react to Grace’s advice to be on her
guard?
4) What was Lane’s version of the night’s accident?
5) What did Jane suspect Grace of?
6) What was Jane going to ask Mr. Rochester about?
7) Where did Mr. Rochester go and for how long?
8) What society was usual in the Leas?
9) Why was Jane so interested in Mr. Rochester and Blanche Ingram’s relationship?
10) What did Jane think of herself and Mr. Rochester?
11) Why did she decide to paint two portraits? Whose portraits were they?
12) What did Jane feel when she learnt that Mr. Rochester wouldn’t return to Thornfield for a
long time?
13) Why was the whole house cleaned? Did Grace poole take part in cleaning?
14) How did Jane understand that Thornfield had a mystery?
15) Who were the guests in Thornfield? What impression did they produce on Jane?
16) How did the women meet Adèle?
17) What did Jane feel towards Mr. Rochester when she was looking at him?
18) What was Blanche Ingram’s opinion of governesses as a class?
19) What did Jane and Mr. Rochester talk about when Jane left the dining-room? What did he
ask Jane to do?
20) What was the company doing on the first day when the weather was bad?
21) Did Jane take part in the game? Why?
22) What did Jane feel when she saw Mr. Rochester and Miss Ingram? Why?
23) Who arrived at Thornfield when Mr. Rochester was absent? What kind of person was the
guest, in Jane’s point of view?
24) Who was waiting for young and single women in the library? What for?
7. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was spoken
c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone, character and
plot development):
 Chapter 17 p.174: “He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their
kind. I believe he is of mine;—I am sure he is—I feel akin to him—I understand the
language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us
widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that
assimilates me mentally to him … I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever
sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.”
 Chapter 18 p.185: “I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political
reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his
love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure. This
was the point—this was where the nerve was touched and teased—this was where the
fever was sustained and fed: she could not charm him.”
ANALYSIS
Analyze Grace Poole’s speech: pay attention to the grammar, vocabulary, tonality, etc.
What impression does it produce?
p. 154 “Only master had been reading in his bed last night; he fell asleep with his candle
lit, and the curtains got on fire; but, fortunately, he awoke before the bedclothes or the woodwork caught, and contrived to quench the flames with the water in the ewer.”
“A strange affair!” I said, in a low voice: then, looking at her fixedly—“Did Mr.
Rochester wake nobody? Did no one hear him move?”
She again raised her eyes to me, and this time there was something of consciousness in
their expression. She seemed to examine me warily; then she answered—
“The servants sleep so far off, you know, Miss, they would not be likely to hear.
Mrs. Fairfax’s room and yours are the nearest to master’s; but Mrs. Fairfax said she heard
nothing: when people get elderly, they often sleep heavy.”
She paused, and then added, with a sort of assumed indifference, but still in a marked and
significant tone—“But you are young, Miss; and I should say a light sleeper: perhaps you may
have heard a noise?”
“I did,” said I, dropping my voice, so that Leah, who was still polishing the panes, could
not hear me, “and at first I thought it was Pilot: but Pilot cannot laugh; and I am certain I heard a
laugh, and a strange one.”
She took a new needleful of thread, waxed it carefully, threaded her needle with a steady
hand, and then observed, with perfect composure—
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
Find the responses to the following phrases in the video fragment:
- It’s not one of your witcheries, you, sorceress?
- You say you saw something in the corridor?
- But you heard an odd laugh? You have heard that laugh before, I should think, or
something like it?
- What? Are you quitting me already, and in what way?
- You cannot sit here…
- Well, sir…
Lesson 6 chapters 19-21
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words. Find the words
in the text and translate them into Russian:
Impudence, buoy up , matrimony, lassitude, behest, in succession, inextricable , by dint of smth,
in a trice, errand, endeavor, presentiments, recurrence, extravagance, rascal, vengeance.
2. Translate the sentences using the new vocabulary.
1) Брак – очень важная часть жизни человека.
2) Мэри выполняла поручения хозяйки три дня подряд.
3) У меня есть предчувствие, что его расточительность его погубит.
4) Он многого добился в жизни при помощи своей наглости.
5) Я была слишком уставшей, чтобы выполнять ее просьбу.
6) Джек прилагал усилия, чтобы поддерживать надежду у своей больной матери.
7) Повторение ночных кошмаров сводило меня с ума.
8) Запутанные отношения между супругами вызывали у них усталость от семейной жизни.
9) Он мгновенно бросился ей на помощь.
10) Нужно как можно скорее отомстить этому негодяю.
11) Расточительность привела его семью к банкротству.
3. Match the phrasal verbs with their synonyms:
buoy up
blot out of
give oneself up to
cast smb off
fall to
allow oneself to be taken over by
give hope
get rid of smth
start
hide
4. Translate this passage into Russian.
pp. 199-200 "The flame flickers in the eye; the eye shines like dew; it looks soft and full of
feeling; it smiles at my jargon: it is susceptible; impression follows impression through its clear
sphere; where it ceases to smile, it is sad; an unconscious lassitude weighs on the lid: that
signifies melancholy resulting from loneliness. It turns from me; it will not suffer further
scrutiny; it seems to deny, by a mocking glance, the truth of the discoveries I have already
made,--to disown the charge both of sensibility and chagrin: its pride and reserve only confirm
me in my opinion. The eye is favourable.
"As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain
conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and
flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth
which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. That
feature
too
is
propitious.
"I see no enemy to a fortunate issue but in the brow; and that brow professes to say,--'I can
live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy
bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep mealive if all extraneous delights
should
be
withheld,
or
offered
only
at a price I cannot afford to give.' The forehead declares, 'Reason sits firm and holds the reins,
and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage
furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain
things: but
judgment
shall
still
have
the
last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquakeshock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which
interprets the dictates of conscience.'
"Well said, forehead; your declaration shall be respected. I have formed my plans--right
plans I deem them--and in them I have attended to the claims of conscience, the counsels of
reason. I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but
one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow,
dissolution--such
is
not my taste. I wish to foster, not to blight--to earn gratitude, not to wring tears of blood--no, nor
of brine: my harvest must be in smiles, in endearments, in sweet-- That will do. I think I rave in
a kind of exquisite delirium. I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare
not. So
far
I
have
governed
myself
thoroughly. I have acted as I inwardly swore I would act; but further might try me beyond my
strength. Rise, Miss Eyre: leave me; the play is played out'."
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
5. Answer the following questions:
1) What did the gypsy woman tell Jane about her and her future?
2) How did Jane behave with the Gypsy woman?
3) Did she believe what the old woman told about Mr. Rochester’s attitude to her?
4) What did the old woman predict about Mr. Rochester’s future?
5) Who was disguised as the old woman?
6) How did Mr. Rochester react when he learnt that Mr. Mason had arrived to see him?
7) What happened at night?
8) What was Mr. Rochester’s version of the cause of the shriek?
9) Did Jane believe Mr. Rochester?
10) Where did Mr. Rochester take Jane? What did he ask her to do?
11) Who did Jane blame for what happened to Mr. Mason?
12) What was Jane thinking about when she was taking care of Mr. Mason?
13) What was Mr. Mason going to do after leaving the Thornfield?
14) What did Mr. Rochester say about Thornfield?
15) What was he afraid of?
16) What did Jane and Mr. Rochester talk about in the garden that morning?
17) Who arrived at Thornfield one day?
18) What news did he bring?
19) Why did Jane have to go with Robert Leaven?
20) How did Mr. Rochester react when he knew that Jane was leaving for Gateshead?
21) What did he promise?
22) How did Bessy welcome Jane in Gateshead? What did Jane feel?
23) How did Eliza and Georgiana meet Jane?
24) How did Mrs. Reed welcome Jane? What did Jane feel?
25) Why didn’t Mrs. Reed like Jane?
26) What was Jane doing while she was staying at Gateshead?
27) What did Jane’s cousins think of her sketches?
28) How did Georgiana and Eliza communicate with Jane?
29) How did Georgiana and Eliza get on with each other?
30) What did Mrs. Reed tell Jane before she died?
6. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):
 Chapter 20 p.209 “What crime was this that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion,
and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner?—what mystery, that broke out
now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night? What creature was it, that,
masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking
demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Find information about old British money: what was penny, shilling, pence, etc.
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
Watch the scene “Not one word” and fill in the gaps:
- Who is it?
- Open the door. Do you have _____________________?
- Yes, sir.
- Bring them. You ________ ________ __________ at the sight of blood?
- I think I shall not: I have never been tried yet.
- Wait here.
- I will do as you say, sir!
- That is Grace Poole!
- Here, Jane!
- Mr. Mason!
- The salts!
- Is there any danger?
- No – a mere ________________ Don’t be so overcome: bear up! I’ll fetch a surgeon for you
now, myself: you’ll be able to be removed by morning, I hope. Jane!
- Sir?
- I must leave you in this room with this gentleman, for an hour or perhaps two hours: take
__________ . Wipe away the blood whenever it begins to flow. If he feels faintm take the glass
of water on this stand, ___________ ______________ ___________ and use your salts.
- Very well.
- You will not speak to him on any _____________ .
- Hurry, Rochester!
- And, Richard, it will be at the peril of your life if you speak to her: open your lips – agitate
yourself – and I’ll ______________ . Remember – not one word must be spoken – not one
word!
Lesson 7 Chapters 22-24
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words. Find the words
in the text and translate them into Russian:
Dejection, mournful, unmolested, entreat, cynosure, acumen, impetuous, delude, kindle.
2. Translate the sentences into Russian:
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
There was a slight air of dejection about her.
This wood is too wet to kindle.
Like many fugitives, he lived in Argentina unmolested for many years...
His sharp business acumen meant he quickly rose to the top.
Miss Dickerman was tall and somewhat mournful-looking.
The Queen was the cynosure of all eyes.
He tended to react in a heated and impetuous way.
The new government tried to delude public opinion.
I earnestly entreat that we don't get caught out again.
3. Match pairs of synonyms and translate them into Russian:
1. surmise
2. shortly
3. incredulous
4. traverse
5. cognizant
6. vicinage
7. indefatigable
8. commence
9. consent
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.
H.
I.
cross
skeptical
surroundings
agree
suggest
begin
aware
tireless
soon
4. Translate the passage into Russian:
p. 246 “I walked a while on the pavement; but a subtle, well-known scent—that of a
cigar—stole from some window; I saw the library casement open a handbreadth; I knew I might
be watched thence; so I went apart into the orchard. No nook in the grounds more sheltered and
more Eden-like; it was full of trees, it bloomed with flowers: a very high wall shut it out from the
court, on one side; on the other, a beech avenue screened it from the lawn. At the bottom was a
sunk fence; its sole separation from lonely fields: a winding walk, bordered with laurels and
terminating in a giant horse-chestnut, circled at the base by a seat, led down to the fence. Here
one could wander unseen. While such honey-dew fell, such silence reigned, such gloaming
gathered, I felt as if I could haunt such shade for ever; but in threading the flower and fruit
parterres at the upper part of the enclosure, enticed there by the light the now rising moon cast on
this more open quarter, my step is stayed—not by sound, not by sight, but once more by a
warning fragrance.”
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
5. Answer the following questions:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
How long did Jane spend in Gateshead? What was she doing? What did she feel about it?
What happened to Georgiana and Eliza?
What was Jane thinking about on her way back to Thornfield?
Why was she so happy returning to Thornfield?
What did Jane feel when she saw Mr. Rochester sitting on the steps?
What were they talking about?
6) How did the people in Thornfield meet Jane?
7) What thing surprised Jane about Mr. Rochester’s behavior?
8) What did Mr. Rochester talk to Jane about? How did she feel about it?
9) Why did Jane have to leave Thornfield?
10) Why didn’t Jane want to leave Thornfield?
11) How did their conversation finish?
12) What did Jane feel next morning?
13) What was Mr. Rochester busy with?
14) What was he planning to do after the wedding?
15) What did Jane want instead of all the treasures Mr. Rochester offered her?
16) What was Mr. Rochester’s answer?
17) Why was Jane so worried about Mrs. Fairfax’s opinion of her marriage?
18) How did Mrs. Fairfax react to the news? How did Jane react to Mrs. Fairfax’s words?
How did Mr. Rochester treat Adele?
19) Did Jane like the shopping in Millcote?
20) What was the main cause of argument between Jane and Mr. Rochester?
21) How did Jane treat Mr. Rochester the month before the wedding? Why?
22) Did she behave like this because she didn’t love him?
6. Summarize the events of the chapter and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
7. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was spoken
c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone, character and
plot development):
 Chapter 22 p.244“I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is
my home—my only home”.
 Chapter 23 p.250 “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially
when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs,
tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter
of your little frame.”
 Chapter 24 p.272 “He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse
intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His
creature: of whom I had made an idol.”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
8. Answer the following questions and prove your point of view using the text.
- Read the piece beginning with the words “It was not a bright or splendid summer evening..." It
is a description of the weather at the time when Jane is nearing Thornfield Hall. How does the
weather reflect Jane’s feelings at the moment?
- Mr. Rochester suggests that Jane go to Ireland to a certain Mrs. Dionysius O’Gall, who resides
in Bitternutt Lodge. Look at the words “gall” and “bittemut”. Do they tell you anything? What is
the connection between Dionysius and Bacchus?
- There are several words that mean almost the same thing: smell, scent, aroma, fragrance, odor,
stink, reek and stench. Explain the difference in their meaning. Which of these words would you
use with: flowers, cigarettes, fish, spices, rubbish dump, perfume, fresh bread, stale bread, soap,
rotten meat, cheese, face cream,
unwashed body and mint?
- There are many customs and traditions that have come down to us from the ancient times.
“Suttee” or “death on the pyre” is one of them. In what country did it exist? Does it still exist?
What is the idea behind this custom?
- “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw perfume on the violet” - is a quotation from
“King John” by W. Shakespeare. Explain the meaning of this quotation.
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
Reread the section in the novel where Mr. Rochester proposes to Jane in the garden. (‘It’s a
long way off, Sir...‘ ‘He kissed me repeatedly.’ pages 249-254) and then watch the part of
episode 7 (scenes “Pleasant place”, “Independent will”, “Mrs. Rochester” 7:20 – 15:00) which
relates to this.
Underline the phrases in the novel which appear directly in the film. Why do you think the
director saw it as important to include these?
Much of this text has been omitted from the screenplay. What is Mr. Rochester’s manner at
these points? In the screenplay, does he appear a more or less sympathetic character to you
without this detail?
Lesson 8
Chapters 25-27
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1.
Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following
words:
Visage, delirious, impediment, allegation, bigamy, desolate, ominous, indomitable,
Bertha.
2.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
3.
from Ex.2 :
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
8)
Find the words in the text and translate them into Russian:
visage p. 281
delirious p. 283
impediment p. 287
allegation p. 287
to be at a loss p. 287
bigamy p. 289
cunning p. 291
desolate p. 293
ominous fear p. 313
to comply p. 314
indomitable p.314
to give in
Translate the phrases and sentences into English using the words
Он не уступит, даже если он неправ.
Я сдаюсь!
Неукротимая смелость
Препятствие на пути прогресса
Необоснованное, ничем не подкреплённое /голословное заявление
Пустынный остров;
Зловещая тишина
Быть вне себя от отчаяния.
4.
plant my foot.”
Translate the passage into Russian p. 314 “This was true …… there I
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
5.
Answer the following questions:
1)
What happened at Jane
's room?
2)
What was the impediment to the marriage?
3)
Where did Mr. Rochester invite them to go?
4)
What happened at Bertha`s room?
5)
Tell Mr. Rochester’s story. How did he marry Bertha Mason? Do you feel sorry
for him and for Jane?
6)
How did Mr. Rochester explain the fact that he had tried to trick Jane into
marrying him?
7)
Analyze the dialogue “I will not be yours” p. 312. “Jane, you understand what I
want from you…. P. 316 farewell forever! What does Mr. Rochester want Jane to do?
8)
What is Jane’s reaction when Mr. Rochester speaks with gentleness? What does
Jane advise Mr. Rochester to do?
9)
What is “mere human law” that Mr. Rochester wishes Jane to transgress?
What arguments does he put forward to justify the breaking of this “law”?
10)
Which of Jane’s faculties turn against her?
11)
When are laws least and most necessary, according to Jane?
12)
How does Mr. Rochester respond to Jane's rejection?
13)
What does Jane do before she leaves him?
14)
In the first part of the text Jane's replies to Mr. Rochester's appeals are extremely
terse (краткий, сжатый, немногословный). Find them in the text. What does Jane's economy
of language suggest?
15)
Which expressions convey the idea that below the sophisticated exterior Mr.
Rochester has a primitive, almost animal-like nature? Find evidence in the text to suggest that
Jane fears that Mr. Rochester, in his anger, may become physically abusive?
16)
Jane draws strength from two sources: her strong religious beliefs and her ability
to endure suffering and hardship. Find examples in the text of how Jane proposes religion and
the acceptance of suffering as source of consolation for Mr. Rochester, for example, “”Do as I
do: trust in God and yourself”.
17)
P. 314 “This was true….. or who will be injured by what you do?” This passage
builds to a climax (the point in the text when the conflict and the resulting tension reach the
highest point of interest or suspense) in which Jane's determination seems to give away. Jane
says that conscience and reason have become “traitors”. In what way have they been allies up to
this point? Which of her faculties has told her all along to comply with Mr. Rochester's requests?
18)
p. 314 “This was true….. there I plant my foot”. Find evidence in the text to
support these two statements about Jane's determination to do what she has decided:
Jane's resolve weakens when she looks outside herself at Mr. Rochester's suffering
and at her isolation in the world.
Jane's resolve strengthens when she looks inside herself at her personal moral
code.
19)
Explain the choice of the adjective “indomitable”. What has convinced Jane that
her decision to leave Mr. Rochester is right?
20)
How do you interpret Mr. Rochester's last words to Jane in the scene?
21)
What information does the dialogue provide about Jane's:
- moral values and religious beliefs?
- feelings for Mr. Rochester?
- self-image?
- family background?
23) How would you describe Jane’s personality as it emerges from this dialogue?
24) Jane's refusal to submit to Mr. Rochester's wishes suggests that she is a strong,
independent-minded and self-respecting woman. Imagine the author had wished to portray Jane
as more submissive. At what point in the dialogue do you think a weaker character may have
given in to Mr. Rochester? Rewrite the section of the dialogue portraying Jane as less
determined.
25) Do you admire Jane for standing by her principles and refusing to stay with Mr.
Rochester even though she really does love him? In this case, the principle she stands by is
monogamy because she knows that he is already married. Can you think of any other situation
where people do or do not do things on principle? (E.g. do not buy a product because it was
tested on animals)
26) What would you do if you were Jane?
6.
Summarize the events of the chapter and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
7.
Translate and comment on the following quotations (mention a) the
speaker; b) to whom it was spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in
relationship to theme, tone, character and plot development):

Chapter 25 p. 279 “On sleeping, I continued in dreams the idea of a dark and
gusty night. I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful
consciousness of some barrier dividing us. During all my first sleep, I was following the
windings of an unknown road; total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; I was burdened with
the charge of a little child: a very small creature, too young and feeble to walk, and which
shivered in my cold arms, and wailed piteously in my ear.”

Chapter 25 p.280 “I dreamt another dream, sir: that Thornfield Hall was a dreary
ruin, the retreat of bats and owls. I thought that of all the stately front nothing remained but a
shell-like wall, very high and very fragile-looking. I wandered, on a moonlight night, through the
grass-grown enclosure within: here I stumbled over a marble hearth, and there over a fallen
fragment of cornice. Wrapped up in a shawl, I still carried the unknown little child: I might not
lay it down anywhere, however tired were my arms—however much its weight impeded my
progress, I must retain it. I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was
you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country. I climbed the thin wall
with frantic perilous haste, eager to catch one glimpse of you from the top: the stones rolled from
under my feet, the ivy branches I grasped gave way, the child clung round my neck in terror, and
almost strangled me: at last I gained the summit. I saw you like a speck on a white track,
lessening every moment. The blast blew so strong I could not stand. I sat down on the narrow
ledge; I hushed the scared infant in my lap: you turned an angle of the road: I bent forward to
take a last look; the wall crumbled; I was shaken; the child rolled from my knee, I lost my
balance, fell, and woke.”

Chapter 27 p. 295 “No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you
shall yourself pluck out your right eye; yourself cut off your right hand: your heart shall be the
victim, and you the priest to transfix it.”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE



8. Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and
names mentioned in the chapter:
p.288 A Creole
p.288 Spanish Town
p.288 Jamaica
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
9. Watch the scene “Reality in Dreams” and fill in gaps:
-This much I can tell you, it was not Grace Poole!
-It was nothing but a creature of your 1)…………..
nerves, my treasure.
! Oh, I must be careful of your
-Sir, the thing was real.
-And your dreams beforehand, were they real? Now, is the hall a ruin? You had another
dream, Jane.
-And this? This veil, your special 2)………….
to me! Well, thank God, anything
malignant did come near you last night; it was only the veil that was harmed. Oh, to think what
might have happened.
-But tell me who or what that woman was.
-Now, Jane, I'll tell you. It was half-dream, half-reality. Now, clearly a woman entered
your room last night. That woman was Grace Poole. You said yourself she's a strange
3)……………. . Now, what did she do to me? To Mason? You were between sleeping and
waking. You were feverish, almost 4)………..
after that dream, and you saw her in a goblin
shape, and you saw her quite different to her own. I assure you had a nightmare, Jane, but the
spiteful tearing of the veil is real, and it is like her.
-Then why do you keep?
- I see you would ask me yet again why I keep such a woman in my house! When we are
married a year and a day, I will tell you. Not before. Are you satisfied?
-I'll go and finish my packing.
-Oh, wait. Doesn't Sophie sleep with Adel in the nursery?
-Yes.
-You'd better share it with them tonight, Jane.
-I will do so gladly.
-And lock the door on the inside. Sleep well. No nightmares tonight, dearest! Dream of
happiness!
10. Dramatize the scene.
Lesson 9 Chapters 28-30
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words:
Fain, to distinguish, serenity, parcel, destitute, apprehension, remnants, to regain, frequent,
aversion, emaciated, superior, comprehension, mutually, assiduous, solemn, zealous, dilation,
hoary, reprobation, impulse, yearning, to yield, aspiration.
2. Find the words in the text, give their synonyms and translate them into Russian:
1) lea p 322
2) sable p 327
3) haggard p 335
4) to eradicate p 337
5) plain p 339
6) culpability p 344
8) congeniality p 346
9) turbid p 348
10) to gauge p 348
11) accomplishment p 349
3. Translate the following sentences into English.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
У меня есть право не разглашать этот секрет.
О гневе не могло быть и речи.
Об этом больше не говорили.
Они так похожи.
Я внимательно наблюдала за ними.
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
4. Answer the following questions.
1)
2)
3)
4)
How do the weather changes correspond to Jane`s mood?
What were the habits of the Moorhouse inhabitants?
How did these habits reflect the characters of these people?
When Jane looks into the window of the Rivers` house, she sees a dog and a cat. Why are
these animals here? What additional feelings are they supposed to arouse in the reader?
5) What do we learn of Jane`s attitude to begging?
6) Give a description of St. John the way Jane sees him.
7) What does St. John say about Jane`s looks?
8) What kind of a position did St. John offer Jane?
9) Why did St. John doubt Jane to accept his offer?
10) What were the prospects for St. John and Jane?
11) What are the contents of the letter from Mr. Briggs?
ANALYSIS
12) Observe the weather changes in accordance with Jane`s mood and fate. Prove that the
tension keeps growing and reaches its peak in the end of Chapter 28.
13) Comment on Jane`s case from the medical point of view. Diagnose and describe the
symptoms.
14) Restore the letter from Mr. Brigs (Chapter 30).
5.
Summarize the events of the chapters and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
6. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):
 Chapter 28 p 331 “This was the climax. A pang of exquisite suffering—a throe of true
despair—rent and heaved my heart. Worn out, indeed, I was; not another step could I stir.
I sank on the wet doorstep: I groaned—I wrung my hands—I wept in utter anguish. Oh,
this spectre of death! Oh, this last hour, approaching in such horror! Alas, this isolation—
this banishment from my kind!”
 Chapter 28 p 320 "Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me,
outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult,
clung to her with filial fondness. To-night, at least, I would be her guest, as I was her
child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price".
 Chapter 30 p 346 “There was a reviving pleasure in this intercourse, of a kind now
tasted by me for the first time—the pleasure arising from perfect congeniality of tastes,
sentiments, and principles”.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
7. Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names mentioned
in the chapters:
 Marsh End or Moor House
How does the picture relate to your findings?
 Gospel
Give examples of canonical and non-canonical ones?
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
8. Translate the words: fain, be uneasy about somebody, excluding, to dismiss, parlour, to fetch
something.
9. Watch the scene “Coming in from the cold” and paraphrase the underlined
expressions.
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Hannah, open quickly!
Oh, Mr. St John, come in- your sisters are quite uneasy about you.
That beggar woman tried to force her way in. Be off with you for
shame!
Hannah! I have a word to say to the woman. You have done your
duty in excluding, now let me do mine. This is a strange case – the
one I must look into.
Please, sit down.
Hannah, perhaps some water. No, some milk and bread, fetch them.
But she is worn to nothing
Not too much at first – she is too unwell. What is your name?
My name is Jane... Jane Elliott.
Where do you live? Where are your friends? Can we send for anyone
you know? What account can you give of yourself?
Sir, I can tell you nothing....tonight...
What do you wish me to do for you?
Nothing...
Do you mean you want nothing more of us? And that we may dismiss
you to the moor and the rainy night?
I trust you. You would not let out a stray dog tonight. Do with me as
you wish, but please excuse me from talking. My breath is short - I
feel a spasm when I speak.
Do try to eat!
Let’s try!
Mary, Diana, let us go into the parlour. Hannah, attend to her! Come!
10. Answer the questions:
1) What does the episode reveal?
2) What are the relationships between the characters?
3) Describe their feelings and emotions.
11. Dramatize the dialogue.
Lesson 10 Chapters 31-33
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words:
2.
Dew, balm, consequences, docile, delirious, delusive, suffocating, to adhere to, despondent,
sufficient, ultimate, tranquility, desirous, emulous, scrupulous, inanition, sequel.
3. Find the words in the text, give their synonyms and translate them into Russian:
1) Scion p 355
2) adhesion p 356
3) inclination p 357
4) partial p 359
5) rustics p 362
6) scrupulous p 362
7) torpid p 362
8) to procrastinate p 370
9) solicitude p 374
10) hackneyed p 375
11) bequest p 382
4. Translate the sentences into English.
1) Они получали удовольствие от того, что хорошо выполняли свою работу.
2) Он наклонился, чтобы внимательно рассмотреть мой рисунок.
3) Вряд ли ее отец будет против этого брака.
4) Это как раз то, что я намереваюсь сделать.
5) Уже поздно, чтобы быть вне дома одной.
5. Translate the following passage into Russian. p. 334 "He sat down...I was moved to say".
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
6. Answer the following questions.
1) Where does Jane live now?
2) What role do the crushed snowy heads of the daisies play?
3)What makes Jane a favorite in the neighborhood?
4) What opinion does Mr. Oliver form of Jane?
5) What are the reasons that St. John gives for wanting to be a missionary?
6) What would Jane`s prospects have been if she had taken all the money bequeathed?
7) Why was St. John so vacillating that evening?
8) What did he think of Jane`s story and its main characters?
9) What is the main idea of the quotation "God has given us, in a measure, the power to make
our own fate”?
10) Which of Jane`s words and actions made St. John think that she lost her sanity?
11) Would you share Jane`s feelings concerning her lucky "family reunion" or would you prefer
wealth and solitude?
12) Does Jane get any information about Mr. Rochester?
ANALYSIS
13) Give the character sketch of Miss Oliver and St. John. Do they have anything in common?
Would you like to develop their character traits? If Yes, which ones?
7. Summarize the events of the chapters and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Chapter 31
Key Events
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
8. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):
 Chapter 32 p 362 “To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of
working people, is like ‘sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet’, serene inward feelings
bud and bloom under the ray…”
 Chapter 33 p 381 “I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending
stars,—every one lit me to a purpose or delight. Those who had saved my life, whom,
till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I could now benefit. They were under a yoke,—I
could free them: they were scattered,—I could reunite them: the independence, the
affluence which was mine, might be theirs too”.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
9. Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names mentioned in the
chapters:
 Stoicism
Why do we have it mentioned in "Jane Eyre"?
Who were the Stoics? How can you be a Stoic?
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
9. Watch the scene “Spiritual guidance" and fill in gaps. Translate the underlined
sentences into Russian.
St. John. - Jane. I must speak with you. Jane. Come and seat by me. You may remember the
letter I had recently 1) ........
Jane. - Yes.
St. John. - It was from his London 2) ......., Mr. Briggs.
Jane. - I know Mr. Briggs. And you know my name.
St. John. - I 3) ....... Forgive me. Briggs wrote again later. Your name was mentioned.
Jane. - Why?
St. John. - I`ll tell you in a moment. But 4) .............. what befell you from the day you went as a
governess of a ward of a certain Mr. Rochester. I can guess your feelings but restrain them for a
while. I know he offered you a bigamous marriage that you fled, and that you are absolutely
innocent 5) .......
Jane. - How and where is he? What is he doing? Is he well?
St. John. I am ignorant of all the concerning Mr. Rochester. He caused the country 6) ..............
for you and when all searches and inquiries proved fruitless he disappeared. It is generally
believed that he is 7) ..............
Jane. Oh, to be calm again!
St. John. - Surely, you are to be the last to care. Briggs wrote to Thornfieldhall. He was paid and
said nothing since except from Mrs. Fairfax giving new information of Mr. Rochester 8) .......
Jane. - You don`t know him, don`t 9) ..............
St. John. - Very well. Your uncle having died, Mr. Briggs could not trace 10) ..............
Jane. - Where is Mr. Briggs now? He may perhaps know more of Mr. Rochester than you.
St. John. - Briggs is in London, I should doubt he knows anything at all about Mr. Rochester. It
is not in Mr. Rochester that he is interested. You forget 11) .............. point in pursuing trifles!
You do not inquire why Briggs has sought after you - what his interest is in you.
Jane. - What did he want?
St. John. - Merely to inform you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, has died and he 12)
.............. and that you are rich - an heiress.
Jane. - I - heiress?
St. John. - Your uncle left you 20 thousand pounds. I shall leave you for a while.
Jane. - Wait... Mr. Rivers, I trust Mr. Briggs wrote to you, you are disinherited in favor of
another relative.
St. John. - You shall have to know it sometime. You may as well know now as later. Your name
is Jane Eyre. You may well not know that I 13) .............. St. John Eyre Rivers. My mother`s
name was Eyre. One brother was Uncle John, who died at Madeira and left this money, the other
brother was a poor clergyman who died as his wife did many years ago. I know your whole
story.
Jane. Then your mother is my father`s sister?
St. John. - Undeniably.
Jane. - We are cousins?
St. John. - Yes, we are cousins.
Jane. - Oh, I`m glad! I`m glad!
St. John. - You are an odd girl! You remained quite serious when I told you,
14) .............. and now, for a matter of no moment, you are excited!
Jane. - It may be of no moment to you; you have sisters and I had nobody and now I have 3
relatives! Oh, I am glad! Will you give me a moment to take in? I must be alone... Thank you...
Excuse me, I must go to my room... Oh, I have so much to talk about!
10. Answer the questions:
1) What does the episode reveal?
2) Do the characters change somehow?
3) Is there any hidden sense in the episode?
4) Analyze the emotions of the characters.
Lesson 11 Chapters 34-36
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following words:
Currant, coarse, gratification, ebullition, barren, vengeance, eagerness, amidst, anxiety, to
alleviate, conveyance, chaise, calamity, exertion, missionary, plough, Hindostanee.
2. Find the words in the text, give their definitions and translate them into Russian:
1) besotted p 385
2) exertion p 385
3) faculties p 385
4) to abstain from something p 406
5) thereof p 412
6) veneration p 413
7) whence p 415
8) diffidence p 419
9) disclosure p 421
10) to ascertain p 419
11) desolate p 424
3. Translate the following passage into Russian. Chapter 34 p 386 “My first aim … when
they come”.
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
4. Answer the following questions.
1) Why wasn`t St. John quite satisfied with Jane`s long term objectives?
2) What her personal quality did St. John appreciate?
3) Did he neglect any of her personal qualities?
4) What was the pretext to teach her Hindustani?
5) Has Jane forgotten Mr. Rochester?
6) What does Jane decide to do the very moment she learns of his fate?
7) What arguments did St. John render to make her marry him?
8) What did Mary and Diana feel about it?
9) What did Mary and Diana hope for?
10) Does St. John forgive Jane her refusal?
11) What feelings does Jane experience after her refusal to accept St. John`s proposal?
12) Why does the author “give” the same vehicle to transport her back to Thornfield?
ANALYSIS
5. St. John is a clergyman, almost a holy man. Is he capable of strong feelings? Give examples
to prove your ideas.
6. Summarize the key events of the chapters using symbols and fill the table below:
Chapter
Key Events
Symbols (1-3)
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
7. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in relationship to theme, tone,
character and plot development):
 Chapter 34 p. 393 “I found him a very patient, very forbearing, and yet an exacting
master … By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty
of mind … But I did not love my servitude: I wished, many a time, he had continued to
neglect me”.
 Chapter 35 p. 415 “I broke from St. John, who had followed, and would have detained
me. It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in play and in force … I
mounted to my chamber; locked myself in; fell on my knees; and prayed in my way—a
different way to St. John's, but effective in its own fashion”
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
8. Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and names mentioned in
the chapters:
 Carte Blanche
Who gave Jane any carte blanche? Did she use it?
 Christian virtues
How many of them are them? Did Jane have any?
 A conqueror whose triumph had cost him too dear.
How does this quote relate to King Arthur and Pyrrhus?
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
9. Watch the scene "Answered prayers" and substitute the underlined words and phrases
with the ones you hear.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened.
And another book was opened which is the book of life. And the dead were judged of the worst
things, which were written in the Books according to what they had done. And the sea gave up
the dead which were in it. And Death and Hell delivered up the dead, which were in them, and
they were judged, every person according to their works. And Death and Hell were thrown into
the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away, and there were no longer sea.
And I, John, saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven,
prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
10. Answer the questions:
1) What is the message of the episode?
2) Are there any references? Comment on them.
3) How does the episode contribute to the plot development and the main idea?
Lesson 12 Chapters 37-38
VOCABULARY PRACTICE
1. Consult a dictionary to find out how to pronounce the following
words:
To rouse, to allude to, ejaculation, ere, remuneration, audible, vicinage, rapture, vigorous,
apostle, redeemed, to anticipate, incorruptible, warrior, undaunted, indulgent, pattering.
2. Find the words in the text, give their definitions and translate them
into Russian.
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
ferocity p 426
countenance p 430
to disdain p 440
sanctum p 444
wordy wonderment p 444
obliging p 445
7) supremely blest p 445
8) impracticable p 445
9) solitude p 446
10) to indulge p 446
11) void p 446
3. Translate the following expressions and sentences into Russian:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
The state of matters
to derive pleasure from
exalted deeds
to enter into particulars
Jealousy had got hold of him.
What he says is to the point.
COMPREHENSION AND DISCUSSION
4. Answer the following questions.
1) What does the manor house of Ferndean look like?
2) What did Mary and John tell Jane about Mr. Rochester`s present habits?
3) Jane sees Mr. Rochester. What does he look like after the accident?
4) How did Mr. Rochester meet her?
5) What did Mr. Rochester rebuke her for?
6) Do Jane and Rochester still feel the same way about each other?
7) In what way have the roles in Jane and Rochester`s relationship been reversed?
8) Why didn`t Jane keep her word given to her cousins to return in 4 days?
9) Does Mr. Rochester stay blind?
10) Did St. John marry anybody and what is his fate?
11) What is the fate of Mary and Diana?
12) What is Jane`s married life like?
13) What happens to Adele?
14) What do you think about the ending?
ANALYSIS
15) At the end of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Rochester says, “I am no better than the old
lightning-struck chestnut tree in Thornfield orchard.”
In what context did the chestnut tree appear earlier in the novel, and in what way does it serve as
a metaphor for the relationship between Jane and Rochester?
16) As you know, in Chapter 37, the plot brings Jane and Rochester back together. Try to
record Jane`s thoughts about herself and about Rochester (Chart 1). Record the most
important statements Rochester makes to her (Chart2)
Chart 1
Jane`s Thoughts
1. “I am an independent woman now”.
Chart 2
Rochester’s Statements to Jane
1.
5. Summarize the events of the chapters and fill the table below:
Number of the Chapter
Key Events
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
6. Comment on the following quotations (mention a) the speaker; b) to
whom it was spoken c) an explanation of the events d) significance in
relationship to theme, tone, character and plot development):
 Chapter 37 p. 430 “I will be your neighbor, your nurse, your housekeeper. I find you
lonely: I will be your companion—to read to you, to walk with you, to sit with you, to
wait on you, to be eyes and hands to you. Cease to look so melancholy, my dear master;
you shall not be left desolate, so long as I live”.
 Chapter 37 p. 443“Then he stretched his hand out to be led. I took that dear hand, held it
a moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder: being so much lower of stature
than he, I served both for his prop and guide”.
LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
7. Explore the Web to find out the information about the things and
names mentioned in the chapters:
 The Lamb
What does the Lamb mean and represent in the Bible? What is impled by the
Lamb in Jane Eyre?
 Nebuchadnezzar
What makes Nebuchadnezzar outstanding? What is the idea of the expression "a
faux air of Nebuchadnezzar" (p 431)?
VIDEO ACTIVITIES
8.
Watch the scene "Anxiety of mind", fill phrasal verbs in and give
synonyms for them.
Video section
Good day to you, m’am! I have seen you 1)__________ from the coach. Do
Host
you wish for a room?
Jane.
Yes. No... How far is Thornfieldhall from here?
H.
Just 2 miles across the fields yonder. I’m going there soon in a chaise if you
like me to take you there.
J.
Thank you. I must go immediately. Please, could you 2)________ my box
here?
H.
Yes, m’am.
J.
Thank you.... ...Is anybody there?
H.
Hah! Is that the lady from the coach?
J.
I’m here, what has happened? What are you doing here?
H.
You was in such a rare state, m’am. I was worried about you. I was coming
this way so that to take a look at that old hall. I thought you might like me
to 3)__________ to the inn. It is sad, m’am, isn’ it? I used to live here once
as a butler.
J.
Not in my time. You are a stranger to me.
H.
And you to me, Miss! No, it was in the late Mr. Rochester’s time.
J.
Late?! Is he dead?!
H.
I mean the present Mr. Rochester’s father. You 4)_________________
from this parts, m’am, or you would have heard what happened last autumn.
Oh, a dreadful calamity, m’am! Everything’s gone! Everything’s burnt!
‘For the engines could arrive from Millcote the whole building was one
mass of flames! I witnessed it myself!
J.
Is it known how it started?
H.
Oh, They guessed, m’am, they guessed! And the servants had a tale to tell.
You are not perhaps aware, m’am, that there was a lady, a lunatic, kept in
the house.
J.
I have heard something about it.
H.
Well, a very queer thing happened a year since – very queerly this lady,
m’am, 5)_______________ Mr. Rochester’s wife. And there was a young
lady, a governess, at the Hall, Mr. Rochester 6)_____________.
J.
Never mind it, please, 7)____________ the fire.
H.
Very well, m’am. Well, it seems, that upstairs, in the lunatic’s room, while
her keeper was asleep...
....And the next minute she lay smashed on the pavement as dead as the
stones on which her brains and blood lay... It was frightful!
J.
Good God! Were any other lives lost?
H.
No, m’am, but, perhaps, it would have been better if there had .
J.
What do you mean?
H.
Well, poor Mr. Edward! Some said it was a judgment for trying to marry
that poor girl.
J.
You said he was alive?
H.
Ah, if you can call it alive! He is stone-blind!
J.
Blind...
H.
J.
H.
J.
H.
J.
H.
Well, after Mrs. Rochester died he was coming down, but there was a crash
and when he was 8) _________ of the ruin, he was only just alive. Mr.
Carter had to amputate one hand, and one eye was lost, and the other so
badly inflamed that Mr. Rochester cannot see, he is a blind cripple.
Where is he now?
With old John and his wife of Ferndean – a house he has some 30 miles off.
He is very broke down, they say.
You come in your chaise?
Yes, m’am.
Please, take me to Ferndean! I will pay you well! Advance! Please,
advance!
Yes, m’am.
9. Answer the questions:
1) What does the episode reveal?
2) What do we know about the characters?
3) Is there anything symbolic?
PART THREE
FINAL DISCUSSION
ACTIVITY 1 “FOOD FOR THOUGHT”
1. People who are committed to improve the world around them must often make personal
sacrifices. What do you think can be some of the costs and benefits of making such a
commitment? Did Jane have more benefits or costs?
2. Do you find any events unrealistic or improbable to you? Explain your ideas.
3. Have you ever thought of life as a journey, which twists and turns as well as ups and
downs? Jane`s road of life was especially bumpy. Think about the life-as-journey
metaphor and its implementation in the book.
4. Do you think the book has a fairy-tale ending? Would you prefer another one? Why?
5. How would you describe Jane and Rochester`s love? Write a poem or compose a song
that would tell the story of their love.
6. “While a good novel may move us, only an excellent one can significantly alter our
ideas”. Did you find Jane Eyre moving? Did the book change your ideas about human
nature/relationships/values?
7. Find the key symbols, analyze them and fill in the table below:
Symbol
1. The Red-Room
2. Fire and Ice
3.Eyes
4.
5.
6
Significance
8. What is the central conflict of “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë?
9. Find out if you reflect the same character traits as your favorite Jane Eyre hero, or if the
darkness in their personality reflects that in your own.
10. Point out 7 major themes in the book and find appropriate quotations for them. What is
the main theme? Why?
11. How do the ideas or actions of the main characters reflect themes?
12. Ch. Bronte uses the words thee, thy, thou, thine. What do you know about these words
and what would you use today instead of them?
13. What role do education and religion play in Jane Eyre?
14. What are the Victorian elements in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë?
15. How is Charlotte Brontë's life reflected through Jane Eyre? How are they similar and
how are they different?
16. What is the message of the book? Try to interpret it a creative way.
17. How is Jane Eyre presented as a strong female character throughout the novel?
18. Analyze Jane`s personality in terms of hardships and changes she had.
19. Jane, an orphan, has several surrogate mother figures — some better than others.
Compare and contrast the characters of Mrs. Reed, Miss Maria Temple, Mrs. Fairfax and
Hannah.
20. Jane declares herself equal to Rochester, yet continues to call him “sir,” “Mr. Rochester”
and “my Master” after they are engaged. In what ways are Jane and Rochester equal? In
what ways is Rochester Jane’s superior? In what ways is Jane superior to Rochester?
21. The madwoman in the attic is a powerful symbol of female repression. Is Bertha
sympathetic? Why or why not? Taking into account the time period, do you think her
treatment is cruel, or reasonable?
22. Jane only returns to Rochester after she has secured financial independence and
Rochester has been blinded and crippled. So when they are finally married, it is on a
more equal footing. What do you think of this feminist conclusion? Do you think their
relationship was balanced and equal before, or not?
23. Compare and contrast Jane’s two love interests: Mr. Rochester and St. John. How do they
differ in physical appearance, morals, social standing and attitude towards Jane? How are
they similar? What is Jane’s attitude toward each of them?
24. What does “Jane Eyre” say about beauty? Is beauty necessary for love? Jane is plain and
Rochester ugly, but Jane says that she would have nothing in common with a handsome
man. This raises a troubling question: is Bronte saying that like should stick to like, and
beauty cannot have anything to do with ugliness (at least not romantically)?
25. Many characters allude to Jane’s plainness and mistreat her for it, and Jane herself has no
illusions about her looks. If Jane was a modern teenager, we might say she has low selfesteem. How does appearance contribute to how characters are perceived and treated in
“Jane Eyre”?
26. Romanticism is characterized by high emotion and characters that trust emotion over
reason. Is Jane guided by emotions or by reason? What about Rochester, or St. John?
Jane is a passionate character, but also very sensible. Are there situations in which Jane
uses reason over emotion, and vice versa?
27. The Gothic novel is an offshoot of the Romantic movement, involving darker elements of
Romanticism such as fascination with the supernatural, omens and talismans, women in
distress or imprisoned, threatening male power figures, gloomy castles and other Gothic
settings and virtuous heroines in danger from unscrupulous men. “Dracula” is another
good example of a Gothic novel. In what ways does “Jane Eyre” fit these Gothic
conventions? In what ways does it deviate from them?
28. Rochester’s wife, Bertha, is described as a “vampire” and a “demon” several times, with
a blackened and purple face. John Reed is also described after his suicide as having a
black and purple face. What is the effect of this demonizing description?
29. When Jane first hears Rochester approaching with his horse and dog, she thinks of a folk
legend about a demonic horse. When Rochester first sees Jane, he calls her an “elf,” a
“fairy” and a “witch” and accuses her of bewitching his horse to fall. What does this
supernatural impression on their first meeting foreshadow for their future relationship?
30. Brocklehurst is described as being like a huge black “pillar,” which parodies his role as a
pillar of the church/community by painting him as inflexible. How else does Bronte
satirize Brocklehurst’s religious hypocrisy? Contrast Brocklehurst and Miss Temple.
31. Consider the characters of Mr. Brocklehurst, Helen Burns and St. John, who subscribe to
three very different versions of Christianity. What do you think of their beliefs and
practices? What effect do these characters’ beliefs have on Jane’s formation of her own
beliefs?
32. What is the significance of ending “Jane Eyre” with the letter from St. John?
33. Is the title of the book Jane Eyre significant in any way?
34. How is tone used as a literary device in Jane Eyre?
35. What stylistic devices are used by Charlotte Brontë in Jane Eyre?
36. What did you feel while reading the book?
37. Would you like to reread the book?
38. What did you like more: the book or the film?
39. Which is your favorite part of the book and the episode?
ACTIVITY 2 “QUOTATION WIZARD”
Comment on the following quotations and mention a) the speaker; b) to whom it was
spoken c) an explanation of the events significance in relationship to themes:
Quote 1
“You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money;
your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like
us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mama’s expense…”
Quote 2
“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to learn to speak like
them; to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw
sometimes nursing their children or washing their clothes at the cottage doors of the village of
Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste…”
Quote 3
“I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars,—every one lit me to a
purpose or delight. Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I
could now benefit. They were under a yoke,—I could free them: they were scattered,—I could
reunite them: the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too…”
Quote 4
“Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life—if ever I thought a good thought—if ever I
prayed a sincere and blameless prayer—if ever I wished a righteous wish, I am rewarded now.
To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth…”
Quote 5
“Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you
CANNOT BEAR what it is your fate to be required to bear…”
Quote 6
“ ‘That I merited all I endured, I acknowledged -- that I could scarcely endure more, I pleaded;
and the alpha and omega of my heart's wishes broke involuntarily from my lips in the words –
‘Jane! Jane! Jane!’”
Quote 7
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my
morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do
you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think
wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with
some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for
me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities,
nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed
through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal — as we are!”
Quote 8
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul
to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous
delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give…”
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Your 5 Top Favorite Quotes
Choose 5 quotations you like, explain your choice and comment on the idea.
PART FOUR
TEST YOURSELF
1. Do the quiz
1)
What is the color of the room Jane is locked in at Gateshead?
a)
Fuchsia
b)
Blue
c)
Green
d)
Red
2)
Who is the servant at Gateshead?
a)
Georgiana
b)
Mrs. Fairfax
c)
Mrs. Reed
d)
Bessie
3)
How does John Reed die?
a)
Old age
b)
Murder
c)
Suicide
d)
Tuberculosis
4)
Who suggests that Jane attend school?
a)
Bessie
5)
6)
7)
8)
9)
10)
11)
12)
13)
14)
b)
Jane
c)
Mrs. Reed
d)
Mr. Lloyd
Whose ghost does Jane believe she sees while at Gateshead?
a)
Her sister's
b)
Her uncle's
c)
Her mother's
d)
Her father's
What religious movement is Mr. Brocklehurst a part of?
a)
Stoicism
b)
Evangelicalism
c)
Victorianism
d)
Buddhism
What teacher takes Jane under her wing at Lowood?
a)
Helen Burns
b)
Miss Temple
c)
Miss Scratcherd
d)
Mr. Brocklehurst
What student befriends Jane at Lowood?
a)
Mary Rivers
b)
Diana Rivers
c)
Miss Temple
d)
Helen Burns
An outbreak of what disease spreads throughout Lowood?
a)
Pneumonia
b)
Leprosy
c)
Typhus
d)
Chicken pox
What does Mr. Brocklehurst do with the money meant for Lowood school?
a)
Indulge his own family
b)
Fund his political causes
c)
Create a second school
d)
Publish books
Where does Jane go after she leaves Thornfield?
a)
Whitcross
b)
London
c)
Gateshead
d)
Lowood
How does Jane meet Mr. Rochester?
a)
He is reading to Adèle
b)
He is in the barn
c)
He is on horseback
d)
He is digging a ditch
Why does Jane feel comfortable speaking her mind to Mr. Rochester?
a)
Because he is short
b)
Because he is not handsome
c)
Because he is handsome
d)
Because he reminds her of her uncle
What are Jane's initial conclusions about Mr. Rochester?
a)
That he is very handsome and appealing
b)
That he is generous and self assured
c)
That he is very kind and encouraging
15)
16)
17)
18)
19)
20)
21)
22)
story?
23)
24)
d)
That he is very tortured and abrupt
Who is Adèle's mother?
a)
Bertha Mason
b)
Céline Varens
c)
Miss Ingram
d)
Mrs. Fairfax
Who is Jane's rival for Mr. Rochester's affections?
a)
Mrs. Fairfax
b)
Miss Ingram
c)
Bertha Mason
d)
Céline Varens
What is Jane's position at Thornfield?
a)
Governess
b)
Maid
c)
Cook
d)
Seamstress
What is Grace Poole's ostensible position at Thornfield?
a)
Maid
b)
Governess
c)
Seamstress
d)
Cook
What is the real reason for Grace Poole's employment?
a)
To brainwash Jane
b)
To act as Rochester's mistress
c)
To kill any intruders
d)
To guard Bertha Mason
What is Grace Pool's particular vice?
a)
Playing cards and gambling
b)
Drinking gin
c)
Eating sweets
d)
Allowing Bertha Mason to roam around the house
What disguise does Mr. Rochester put on at one point?
a)
Fortune-teller
b)
Magician
c)
Musician
d)
Solicitor
To whom does Mr. Rochester constantly attribute the demonic laughter from the third
a)
Adèle
b)
Bertha Mason
c)
Grace Poole
d)
Mrs. Fairfax
Why did Mr. Rochester marry Bertha Mason?
a)
For her wealth
b)
For her madness
c)
For her beauty
d)
As a favor to her brother
Whom does Mr. Rochester first tell Jane that he wants to marry?
a)
Mrs. Fairfax
b)
Bertha Mason
c)
Miss Ingram
d)
Jane
25)
26)
27)
28)
29)
30)
What did Mrs. Reed promise her dying husband?
a)
To give Jane an equal share of their fortune
b)
To put Jane in the care of suitable foster parents
c)
To love Jane as one of her own children
d)
To put Jane in a suitable orphanage
Where did Jane's uncle seek his fortune?
a)
Berlin
b)
Amsterdam
c)
Madeira
d)
Barcelona
What item of Jane's clothing does Bertha Mason rip one night?
a)
Her bonnet
b)
Her stockings
c)
Her corset
d)
Her wedding-veil
What is the name of the house St. John takes Jane to?
a)
Whit's End
b)
Marsh House
c)
Moore House
d)
Gateshall
What two natural elements are important symbols in the novel?
a)
Fire and ice
b)
Earth and water
c)
Fire and water
d)
Water and air
What might Bertha Mason's imprisonment symbolize in Victorian England?
a)
The treatment of beautiful women
b)
The status of wealthy women
c)
The treatment of the insane
d)
The status of women in marriage
2. Do the crossword
1.
The residence of Jane's aunt, and the home of the unhappy child, Jane Eyre, at the
opening of the story.
2.
Jane's aunt is a cold-hearted woman who favors her own children and treats Jane
harshly as a child. (Mrs. .....)
3.
Institution, a school for poor and orphaned girls
4.
Teacher for the youngest students at school who greets Jane on her first night at
the school. (Miss ….)
5.
Jane's spiritual and intellectual friend at school.
6.
Fictional location, home of the male romantic lead, where much of the action
takes place.
7.
The housekeeper at the ancestral manor. (Mrs. ……)
8.
Jane's lover. A dark, passionate, brooding man. (Edward Fairfax ……)
9.
Jane's pupil at Thornfield.
10.
telling.
A member of a travelling people traditionally living by itinerant trade and fortune
PART FIVE
ESSAY QUESTIONS
1. British class structure in “Jane Eyre”.
2. Discuss scenes that show the ambiguity of Jane's social class. What are Jane's opinions of
the upper classes and the lower classes? What does the novel say about the social class
system in England? Does Brontë critisize the system or support it?
3. The independent and successful woman of the 19th century.
4. A new type of a heroin in Victorian age: a forceful and independent woman.
5. Jane Eyre: an uncommon heroine.
6. Is Jane Eyre a likable protagonist? Why or why not?
7. St John Rivers: sense and sensibility?
8. How does Mr. Rochester compare to St. John Rivers?
9. Compare and contrast Rochester and St. John Rivers. What are their strengths and
weaknesses? Why does Jane choose Rochester over St. John?
10. Jane Eyre: a modern version. Would there be a story for ages?
11. Why did Ch. Bronte's character Jane Eyre shock contemporary Victorian reader?
12. Elements of a Gothic novel in “Jane Eyre”.
13. Romantic elements in the work of Ch. Bronte “Jane Eyre”
14. The theme of love in “Jane Eyre”.
15. Was Jane right to stifle her love for Rochester in order to uphold a principle? Is action on
principle always correct?
16. Situations where people do or do not do things on principle.
17. Acting on principle.
18. The theme of love denied in a Victorian novel
19. How does the novel comment on the position of women in Victorian society?
20. Discuss the representation of foreigners in the novel — Bertha and Richard Mason,
Céline and Adèle Varens. How are the colonies represented? What is the source of
Rochester's wealth? Of Jane's inheritance?
21. How does the novel relate to Charlotte Brontë's personal life?
22. What was your overall impression of “Jane Eyre”? Did you like it? Why or why not?