Key quotations — Jane Eyre — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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'.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
