Key quotations — Jane Eyre — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from Jane Eyre, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'Unjust!—unjust!', 'like any other rebel slave', 'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?', 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me', 'my equal is here, and my likeness', 'I care for myself', 'Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation', 'I scorn your idea of love', 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' and 'Reader, I married him'.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
