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Motifs: Order/Power, Religion, Solace

"There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy. What my sensations were no language can describe" (Bronte 153)

"Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence? Such was the characteristic of Helen's discourse on that, to me, memorable evening; her spirit seemed hastening to live within a very brief span as much as many live during a protracted existence" (Bronte 167)

Tone: Regimented, bland, quietly sad

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Motifs: religion, isolation, surrogate mothers (Bessie, Miss Temple), weather, illness
Themes: Feminism, social class, family, morals, fear/anxiety,
Excerpts:
"My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles." (Bronte 62)
"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." (Bronte 58)
"By dying young I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault." (Bronte 88)
Tone: Routine, Strict, Mannered, Respect, Understanding
-Chloe Gervais

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Motifs and Thematic Subjects: Punishment and Reward. Religion, Imprisonment, and the Weather. Food was a major symbol/Communion and was closely related to religion.

"The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her … [Helen] suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple's—a beauty neither of fine color nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance." (Bronte 75)

Tone and Sttitude: Hopeful but Restrained. Longing and Rewarded.

Liz C, Lily M, and Alex K

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Theo Roe, Jessie Lucas, Amethyst Mellberg-Smith, Augustin Ugarte

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1. Key Motifs: illness, the future, lies, authority, learning, liberty

Connections - Hogwarts, The Queen’s Gambit

2. Aspects of Theory: Feminism

The school in Lowood doubles as a girl’s orphanage, and as demonstrated by Mr. Brucklehurst, the girls at the school, especially Helen and Jane, are not treated as students but more as softly-held prisoners. The girls are reprimanded and punished for small things that, assumingly, boys would not be punished for in the same setting (speaking out, holding themselves confidently, etc).

3. Quintessential Excerpts:

“Rain, wind, and darkness filled the air.” (pg. 40)

“When full of flowers they would doubtless look pretty; but now, at the latter end of January, all was wintry blight and brown decay.” (pg. 47)

“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way” (pg. 57)

“Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.” (pg. 68)

“By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.” (pg. 83)

“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!’” (pg. 88)

“A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.” (pg. 93)

4. Tone words:  held, unfocused, worrisome, routine

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2. growth, maturing, freedom- repeats. more?
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“That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece.” It was a landscape in water colours, of which I had made a present to the superintendent, in acknowledgment of her obliging mediation with the committee on my behalf, and which she had framed and glazed.

“Well, that is beautiful, Miss Jane! It is as fine a picture as any Miss Reed’s drawing-master could paint, let alone the young ladies themselves, who could not come near it: and have you learnt French?”

“Yes, Bessie, I can both read it and speak it.”

(Bronte 95)

4. tone- growing, sisterhood (a theme?), modest

veronica, joe, chris, william

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Key Motifs/Themes:
-Jane learns to take punishment without complaint from the example set by Helen Burns.
-The Bible is routinely misrepresented by Mr. Brocklehurst.
-Jane begins to enjoy life despite the hardships that she still experiences.

“‘Naturally! Yes, but we are not to conform to nature. I wish these girls to be the children of Grace: and why that abundance?’”(Bronte, Chapter 7, Page 76)

Tone:
-conformity
-pastoral fearmongering
-comradery

Ella Glass

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Motifs/Themes- Lots of biblical allusions. Lots of punishment and what is "fair" or "morally right". The change from isolation to companionship, Jane has a figure to look up to. Miss Temple is also a mentor to her, parental figure.

Excerpt- "During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive. I had the means of an excellent education placed within my reach; a fondness for some of my studies, and a desire to excel in all, together with a great delight in pleasing my teachers, especially such as I loved, urged me on: I availed myself fully of the advantages offered me. In time I rose to be the first girl of the first class; then I was invested with the office of teacher; which I discharged with zeal for two years: but at the end of that time I altered." (Bronte 38)

Tone- Metamorphosis, Grief, Hopeful

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Key themes/motifs:
Religion and faith (Biblical intertextuality), weather, warmth versus the cold, sickness, punishment, life and death, adolescence, gender hierarchies

Excerpts:
“I would not have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.” (76)

“‘Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.” (58)

Tone/Attitude/Feeling:
Stern, somber, transformative

Madelynn N., Jewel N., Seth P., Katie P.

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Lonesomeness, Orphanage, silence, order, isolation, neglect, authority, change, growth, companionship, faith, home

”I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its provisions for Gateshead and its daily luxuries” (Brontë 43).

”Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger” (Brontë 34).

Maeve McGeady, Marley Angle, Gracie Minnix

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Motifs: Chores, Teachings and Life Lessons, Strict Schedules

Tone: Orderly, Domineering, Authoritarian

"‘Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties; and it has been observed in every arrangement connected with the establishment of Lowood: plain fare, simple attire, unsophisticated accommodations, hardy and active habits; such is the order of the day in the house and its inhabitants" (Mr. Lloyd- page 49)

I chose this image of St. Anne's because I think it resembles Lowood with its strict religious background, and an emphasis on obedience.

Addison Phillips

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Coming of Age by Anai Arteaga and Jimena Morones.

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Coming of Age by Anai Arteaga and Jimena Morones.

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Key Motif(s) and thematic subjects:
Feminism, Adulthood, and Freedom.

Excerpts:
“Well, that is beautiful, Miss Jane! It is as fine a picture as any Miss Reed’s drawing-master could paint, let alone the young ladies themselves, who could not come near it: and have you learnt French?”

“Yes, Bessie, I can both read it and speak it" (Bronte 95)

Tone: Righteous, Modest, and Ardent

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1. Overall Title- it should fit the tone, mood, theme...
2. Key Motif/s and Thematic Subjects for Lowood (Connections, Symbols, Patterns, Intertextuality, Aspects of Theory: Feminism, Economic/Marxist, Psychoanalytic...)
3. Quinessential Excerpt/s;  Include parenthetical citation
4. 3 Tone/Attitude/Feeling words or phrases that best capture Lowood
5. Artistic image online that best captures the tone/attitude/feeling and insert
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