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“the role of women as ‘both the inheritors and makers of their own religious cultures’ (p. 2): as active in their reception and interpretation of religious discourses” (Twells)

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“I would always rather be happy than dignified” (Brontë, 870)

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” (Brontë, 537)

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“Jane’s suffering is not like Helen Burns’s passive endurance of persecution (a mode of suffering typically associated with the feminine), however, but rather an active (masculine, heroic) decision to renounce, however painful, the thing she most ardently desires— Rochester’s love which stands between Jane and her ‘hope of heaven’.” (Lamonaca, 249)

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“Discerning God’s will through seemingly direct contact with supernatural, Jane demonstrates that women— true to one facet of evangelical doctrine- must experience God directly, ‘through the heart,’ despite Evangelical models of femininity and gender which, paradoxically, denied women this very possibility.” (Lamonaca, 248

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Secondary Source #4– Women seem to understand who God is more than the men

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Secondary Source #4– Women seem to understand who God is more than the men

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“—is a belief in a more benign and loving Creator, a Creator closer to Helen Burns’s mercieful Father than to St. John’s vengeful deity. This notion of a gentle, loving Creator seems much more conducive to a ‘religion of the heart’ than masculine visions of an angry, unapproachable Lawgiver.” (Lamonaca, 247)

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Secondary Source #4– Wants equal rights within the Church

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Secondary Source #4– Wants equal rights within the Church

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“Certainly, Jane’s insistence upon her spiritual and moral integrity enables a stinging critique of society’s expectations for women. Jane’s religious convictions are presented as the primary force behind her resistance to conventional female subject-positions” (Lamonaca, 245)

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Secondary Source #4– Gender Roles doesn’t = same religious belief 

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Secondary Source #4– Gender Roles doesn’t = same religious belief 

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“Since St. John’s religious agenda serves only as a vehicle of masculine self-aggrandizement and domination, Jane ultimately rejects his  ‘patriarchal religious value-system’ for an earthly paradise of marital equality with the reformed and chastened Rochester.” (Lamonaca, 245)

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Secondary Source #3– Being a governess = to slavery

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Secondary Source #3– Being a governess = to slavery

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"As in her early African Tales, Bronte does not use slavery as an analogy for the lot of the working class but for that of the lower-middle class, for those who are forced into 'governessing slavery' as Rochester puts it" (Meyer, 251)

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Secondary Source #3– Comparison of Rochester

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Secondary Source #3– Comparison of Rochester

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"This part of the novel is rich in images of Turkish and Persian despots, sultans who reward thair favorite slaves with jewels, Indian wives forced to die in 'suttee', and women enslaved in Eastern harems." (Meyer, 253)

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Secondary Source #3– Christ like figure?

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Secondary Source #3– Christ like figure?

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"Instead of deciding that it is her vocation to enter this new environment of plague, 'dark races,' and hierarchical oppression, Jane feels 'called' to return to a house which, being larger and more stained by oppression, will be more difficult to 'clean down'-- Rochester's Thornfield." (Meyer, 254)

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Secondary Source #3– #10= completion of a cycle 

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Secondary Source #3– #10= completion of a cycle 

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"Jane brings herself to 'mutiny' and becomes a 'rebel slave' in her tenth year, like Bertha who after ten years in her third floor room 'breaks out, now in fire and now in blood'". (Meyer, 251)

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Secondary Source #3– You can’t get anywhere in life unless you’re a white male

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Secondary Source #3– You can’t get anywhere in life unless you’re a white male

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"In Jane Eyre, Brontre responds to the seemingly inevitable analogy in the nineteenth-century British texts that compares white women with blacks in order to degrade both groups and assert the need for white male control." (Meyer, 248)

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Secondary Source #2– caring for yourself= contentment 

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Secondary Source #2– caring for yourself= contentment 

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"The feminist cri de coeur (this means passionate appeal, complaint, or protest) is Jane's parting declaration: I care for myself... I will respect myself.'" (Waxman, 256)

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Secondary Source #2– Women wanting a bigger purpose in life

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Secondary Source #2– Women wanting a bigger purpose in life

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“She affirms the equal humanity of women and men, the similarities in their intense feelings, ambitions, and complex intellectual faculties: women yearn for a role and purpose beyond a kind of robotic, gender-role-performance .” (Waxman, 252)

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Secondary Source #2– see something wrong, than fix it

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Secondary Source #2– see something wrong, than fix it

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“‘If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way’(69). To resist injustice and tyranny is, in Jane’s view, a way to improve the world: a good feminist principle.” (Waxman, 249)

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Secondary Source #2– Gender and lower class= unfairness across the board

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Secondary Source #2– Gender and lower class= unfairness across the board

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“Now, I see the traditional gender roles at Gateshead and their unfairness to Jane. No wonder she rebels- against both sexism and classism.” (Waxman, 248)

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Secondary Source #2– Awareness= Knowledge= Power

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Secondary Source #2– Awareness= Knowledge= Power

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“her awareness of her own and other women’s oppression as well as her increasing strength to resist feminine submission.” (Waxman, 244)

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Secondary Source #1– Men in Religion= Demoralization of Wom

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Secondary Source #1– Men in Religion= Demoralization of Wom

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“The Bible is cited to threaten, justify corporal and psychological punishment, and extinguish any flicker of self-affirmation and independence.” (Dooley, 124)

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Secondary Source #1– Social Classes within Religion 

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Secondary Source #1– Social Classes within Religion 

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“...- all give Brontë an opportunity to explore the uses and abuses of religious belief and its pious applications in the everyday life of many classes of people” (Dooley, 124)

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Secondary Source #1– Reversal of gender roles

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Secondary Source #1– Reversal of gender roles

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“Her marriage to a largely blind and maimed reverses the typical dependencies of women upon men in marriage and in the larger society” (Dooley, 122)

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Secondary Source #1– Imagery of Jane and Rochester’s relationship  

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Secondary Source #1– Imagery of Jane and Rochester’s relationship  

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“Jane meets and begins her relationship with Rochester in the proverbial thorny field, and returns to him in a green-forested world...” (Dooley, 122

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Secondary Source #1– Women’s role in society 

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Secondary Source #1– Women’s role in society 

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“Women might never vote, but they might teach, bear, and raise a subset of the working class male voter; they needed to be kept in their places and to education the next generation of their peers to do the same.”(Dooley, 122)

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In Brontë’s novel, Jane Eyre, she uses religious doctrine to illustrate men’s dominance over women, which has been rightly justified due to the fact that people always look at others to blame for their own actions.

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“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; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.  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.” (Brontë, 233)

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“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?  Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without 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!” (Brontë, 536)