Jane+Eyre

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Here's those notes I promised a million years ago!

- www.sparknotes.com, (search Jane Eyre) has been really good :) - www.novelguide.com. Seriously handy.

eNotes and BookRags are also good sites. Unfortunately the whole study guide costs money. Oh and try pink monkey. Often these sites have really good plot summaries.

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/pdf/jane_eyre.pdf

This is a link to an electronic version of the novel - could be used for extracting direct quotations from the novel when writing practice essays, etc.

Jane Eyre theme quotations:

**__[|ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL]__:** A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. [//New York Journal-American, April 5, 1963//]

**__[|ALBERT EINSTEIN]__:** All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

**__[|ALDOUS HUXLEY]__:** At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.

**__[|H. L. MENCKEN]__:** Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

__** Charlotte Bronte: **__
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

__AUTHOR UNKNOWN:__
We are each burdened with prejudice; against the poor or the rich, the smart or the slow, the gaunt or the obese. It is natural to develop prejudices. It is noble to rise above them.

** __MOTHER THERESA:__ **
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

__**DON HIRSCHBE ****R **__ [|**g**] **:** **Calling Atheism a religion is calling bald hair a color. **

__ELIZABETH CADY STANTON__
====It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex... ====

__ALICE WALKER:__
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
 * __ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:__ **

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
 * __HELEN KELLER:__ **

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