Literature: High School: 9th and 10th Grade Quiz - Jane Eyre - Setting (Answers)
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This high school English Literature quiz will challenge you on setting in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. At its most basic level, “setting” in literature refers to the location and the time in which the events of a fictional text take place. Of course, many, if not most, texts have more than one setting: events are likely to occur in different places and times. Within the wider setting or settings, buildings and spaces provide individual settings which often contrast with one another.
[readmore]Besides time and place, events form a crucial element in a text’s setting, even when these only occur in the background of the main events. Political and social issues play a similar role. This wider fictional world can be glimpsed by the reader and is known as context (it is important not to confuse this fictional context, which is integral to the setting of a text, with the author’s real-life context).
Atmosphere, another key element of setting, will usually change multiple times over the course of a text.
In Jane Eyre geography plays a role almost as large as that of a key character. Jane’s internal states are often reflected in the wildness of the natural world outside. Many important scenes take place outside, often in a landscape seemingly drawn from the world of fairy tales. Jane, the orphan, moves about from place to place as she seeks to define herself and to become independent. At her lowest point she is homeless and entirely at the mercy of the unwilling charity of strangers and of nature at its most harsh.
Remember that a text’s setting includes geographical elements such as region, country, environment, landscapes and buildings. How much do you notice about the way in which different characters interact with their various environments? What effect do these interactions have on the text?
Answer the questions below on setting in Jane Eyre.
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More specifically, the novel is set in the north of England (Helen Burns, for example, comes from near the border with Scotland)
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The dates of the novel are left unspecified. For example, although the day and month are given for Rochester's marriage to Bertha, the year is left blank. Details suggest, however, that the novel is set in a time closely contemporaneous to when it was written (the novel was published in 1847)
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The novel opens on a "drear November day" when the rain prevents Jane from leaving the house for a walk
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The strict regime, which allowed near-starvation of the pupils, was not helped by the school's low position in the damp and the fog of a forest dell. The episode of typhus is blamed on these conditions (although it is actually spread by lice, not "bad" air)
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Besides the one hopeful sign of welcome represented by the candle, all about Thornfield is mysterious and Jane cannot yet imagine what life there will be like
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Mr Rochester is represented by the harsh, intruding sounds, while Jane is represented by the delicate watercolor imagery. Each character perceives the other as an otherworldly fairy tale creature
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Even Gateshead is a place where a walk outdoors would improve the day and Lowood is surprisingly beautiful for such an unpleasant institution. The settings of Jane Eyre are characterized by a certain isolation from civilization and a beautiful and wild natural setting in which Jane enjoys spending time
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Jane has just a little more than she needs: her cupboard is slightly too big, she has enough dishes to have guests and enough chairs to seat them. At the same time she has very little, since it is possible to list everything so quickly
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The imagery of emptiness includes language such as "void"
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Jane orders superstition away, but cannot make rational sense of having heard Rochester's voice
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