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Overall Title: Sour Times Sweet People

Key Motifs:
Loving in the face of hate, pain causes metamorphosis, no good deed goes unpunished.

“During these eight years my life was uniform, but not unhappy, because it was not inactive…Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary; to her instruction I owed the best art of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and latterly, companion…From the day she left I was no longer the same; with her was gone every settled feeling, every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me.” (Bronte Chapter 7)

“It seemed I had found a brother; one I could be proud of—one I could love; and two sisters, whose qualities were such that when I knew them but as mere strangers, they had inspired me with genuine affection and admiration…This was wealth indeed!—wealth to the heart!—a mine of pure genial affections. This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating!—not like the ponderous gift of gold—rich and welcome enough in its way but sobering from its weight.” (Bronte Chapter 8)

“To this crib I always took my doll. Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scare-crow…I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it happy likewise.” (Bronte Chapter 6)

Tone Words:
Ardent
Callous
Contemptuous
Disheartening
Bitter

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Alysa, Zara, Micheal, Peyton

Overall Title—
Earthly bread or lofty suffering?

Motifs—
Christianity as a Marxist ideology, weather, authoritarianism, redemptive suffering, sickness, heaven on earth v.s heaven in spirit, acceptance v.s revolt, servitude

Quotes—
“‘Oh, madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may feed their vile bodies, but you little think you starve their immortal souls'” (pg. 75).

“‘How sad to be lying now on a sick bed, and how to be in danger of dying! This world is pleasant — it would be dreary to be called from it, and to have to go who knows where?” (pg. 94).

Tone/Attitude/Feeling—
Cold, somber, strident

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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).

Lonely, repetitive, serene, dreary, hungry, cold

Maeve, Matt, Gracie.

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Overall Title: Isolation, Damnation, and Self-Realization

Key Motifs: Isolation, Religion (+Biblical Intertextuality/Allusions), Uncertainty, Imprisonment, Maternity (Family, Gender Roles), Independence, Social Class, Conformity, Expectation

“While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls…” (Bronte 88)

“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 64)

“‘Oh, dear papa, how quiet and plain all the girls at Lowood look, with their hair combed behind their ears, and their long pinafores, and those little holland pockets outside their frocks—they are almost like poor people’s children! and,’ said she, ‘they looked at my dress and mama’s, as if they had never seen a silk gown before” (Bronte 37)

Tone Words:

Dissatisfaction

Defiance

Disillusioned

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Table 4: Jessenia S.H., Olivia L., Gus L., Stone N., Salem M.

Motifs & Thematic Subjects:
~Imprisonment: Jane Eyre faces a harsh environment confined to poor living and labor. Jane expresses oppression for being a small girl and an orphan. Also, Mr. Brocklehurst made an attempt to criminalize her.
~Motherly Figure: Maria Temple, a kind teacher at Lowood, shows the resemblance as a mother to Jane. This is a similar relationship found with Bessie as she cared for Jane. Both characters provide Jane with caring attention.
~Rain: When Jane arrives at Lowood, the rain disguises the school into a mist symbolizing mystery and dismay. Later when Hele is in the nursery, it is once again raining functioning as a symbol of upcoming death and sadness but more importantly the unawareness of how deadly Helen's sickness was.

Quote:
"Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid. From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their portion." (Bronte Chapter VII)

Tone:
~observant
~demoralizing
~indignant

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Title: Shall not be bad, only good

Motifs/Themes: God, Death, Good vs. Bad: reward, punishment, morality.... , Revenge, Golden Rule, Growth, Acceptance, Great Expectations (Charles Dickens), Naming: Social Cues, Sickness, Beginnings, Strength

Excerpts: “What my sensations were, no language can describe; but, just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. What a strange light inspired them! What an extraordinary sensation that ray sent through me! How the new feeling bore me up! It was as if a martyr, a hero, had passed a slave or victim, and imparted strenghth in the transit.” (Bronte 68).

Tone/Attitude: Controlled, Exploratory, Hopeful

Isa.w and Molly.C , Risa.DH

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Cold Desolation- Samantha, Royce, Elanor, Alba

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Cold Desolation- Samantha, Royce, Elanor, Alba

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Title: Cold Desolation

Motifs:
- Weather and nature
- Religion/Christianity: a Tool for Escapism
- Bells: Symbol of Oppression
- Treatment of Children
- The Senses
- Poverty/Class conflict (Marxist)
- Miss Temple: Saint/Mother Figure Archetype
- Helen: Angel/Martyr
- Communion
- Servitude/Gender roles on Jane

Excerpts:
1. "Well has 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" (Bronte 89).
2. "Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. I had meant to be so good, and to do so much at Lowood: to make so many friends, to earn respect and win affection" (Bronte 102).
3. "Helen Burns asked some slight question about her work of Miss Smith, was chidden for the triviality of the inquiry, returned to her place, and she smiled at me as she again went by. What a smile! I remember it now, and i know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; it lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken gray eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel" (Bronte 75-76).

Tone Words: Frigid, Melancholy, Existential

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Ava Carlson, Sydney Nabhan, Kennedy Weatherby, & Anna Schlett

Motifs:
- The Bible: Intertextual
- Cinderella: Intertextual & Archetype
- Prison Motif
- Weather
- The Sage Archetype (a wise person)
- Sublimity of Nature- Romanticism

“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.” (79)

“And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.” (90)

Tone Words:
1. Dreary
2. Reverent
3. Playful

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Stairway to Helen-Lucas Dulitzky, Rachel Hermes, Otto Sloan, Lissa Castro

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Stairway to Helen-Lucas Dulitzky, Rachel Hermes, Otto Sloan, Lissa Castro

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Overall Title: Stairway to Helen

Key Motifs:
Helen as an Angel- Archetype (constantly described as being shrouded in light..."Resurgram")

Poor Treatment of Children: Social Issues/Welfare

Weather: All Seasons (Spring: bringing both life, through nature, and death, through the typhus outbreak).

Contrast between the "evil" of Mr. Brocklehurst and "good" of Miss Temple as role model vs. authoritarian

Idea of Religion (Helen's "doctrine of endurance" versus Brocklehurst "fire and brimstone"): the paradox

Fate and Timing (Slate breaking...Helen's Death)

Communion (Frozen bread, seed cake, inedible porridge) bringing students (and faculty) together through eating.

Excerpts:
“Next day new steps were to be taken; my plans could no longer be confined to my own breast; I must impart them in order to achieve their success.” (Bronte, 135)

“Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts;...” (Bronte, 112)

“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.” (Bronte, 101)

Tone Words:
Submissive, Depressed, Restrained, Excluded, Pensive, Distant, Longing, Unfulfilled, Curious.

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