 Throughout Jane Eyre, we find that the characters of Jane herself, but also other characters like Mr. Rochester, really struggle with the earthly urges and following the moral duties, okay? So we find that Jane primarily has a lot of an internal struggle between her earthly duties, as well as her moral duties, okay? But we also see this struggle played out also in Mr. Rochester's choices. And by extension, we could also say this is the case for St. John Rivers. The only person who seems to have somewhat reconciled this struggle, but they never live long enough, is Helen Burns. And this is the person that really frames Jane's moral framework and her moral compass, Ailean, in the story, okay? But even if she meets Helen Burns really early on at Lowood School and she learns lots of moral lessons and also how to be forgiving as a person later on, we'll still find that, especially when she meets Mr. Rochester and Jane falls in love with him, she really, really struggles between her earthly desires and her moral duties, okay? So there are lots of notions related to religion shown throughout the story and especially through the character of Jane Eyre. But of course, we also see notions of religion explored in St. John Rivers' character, okay? So we can see that John Rivers, his religion actually is shown as somewhat hypocritical, okay? So his religion is really powered by what appears gradually to seem like his own personal ambition. He's not necessarily doing his religious duty out of caring for the morality of his actions and caring for how this impacts other people. It's more driven by ambition, okay? Which Jane Eyre also ultimately rejects. And this is obviously in contrast to Jane Eyre, who follows her religious duty, however she is portrayed as somebody that does so because of the greater good and also because of following God's principles, okay? So as you can see behind me, I've prepared the most relevant quotations that I would suggest considering if you're writing about the theme of religion in Jane Eyre because this is a really important theme within their story. So let's go over these quotes as well as the word love analysis you can do. Now the first quotation which illustrates how Jane Eyre really found this struggle between her earthly desires, especially her earthly desires for Mr. Rochester on the one hand versus her moral duty towards God on the other. This is illustrated when you find that she really falls in love with Mr. Rochester and she feels like she has made him an idol, something that she worships as opposed to God, which is a sin in religion. She states, he stood between me and every thought of religion as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun, okay? So she's basically saying that Mr. Rochester and her love for Mr. Rochester, kind of she felt like it stood between her and God, her and her focus on God, okay? Now here again, what we can see is there's a clear struggle between Jane's internal urges and her desires, okay? Her earthly desires for Mr. Rochester versus her loyalty to God and her loyalty to religion. And this is illustrated in terms of word love analysis in the hyperbole every thought, okay? This shows that she's like super obsessed with Mr. Rochester when really she feels that she should be more obsessed with God and following God's commandments. And also of course, there's similarly how Mr. Rochester is described as an eclipse, okay? So here of course, there's similarly illustrates how Mr. Rochester has come in and really kind of overshadowed everything that she kind of focused on beforehand, which was her religion and living out Christian values, okay? So here we can see a real struggle within Jane Eyre and within her own internal persona between following her earthly desires. This is her love for Mr. Rochester versus following her moral duty. This is following God and of course, we find that she does decide to follow her moral duty, especially when she finds out that Mr. Rochester is already married to Bertha Mason and she's still alive. This is when Jane Eyre makes the very difficult decision to follow what she sees as more godly, which is to leave her relationship with Mr. Rochester so that they don't commit sin. The second quotation which is tied into the theme of religion is when Jane Eyre, so she feels like Mr. Rochester is almost worshiping her, he sees her almost as redemptive and of course, this is before she finds out that he sees her in this way because he's hiding this terrible secret. He's already married, he's married to a woman who's, you know, she's gone mad and he feels almost, he looks to Jane as this symbol of really good morals and good standing and good principles. However, Jane Eyre feels like he should not worship her. He's looking too much to her rather than actually looking inwards and trying to go on his own moral journey with God. Okay. So she states, I am not an angel ellipsis. I will not be one till I die. Okay. So here she's basically saying, no, no, no, no, don't worship me, Mr. Rochester. Don't think I'm like this first fit specimen. You shouldn't worship me. You should try to get closer to God independently of me. Okay. Now the word I'm nice to want to focus on is the assonance of A and M and an angel as well as a repetition of I. Okay. So here Jane Eyre is basically saying, no, no, no, no, don't be obsessed with me. You need to follow your moral duties to God, not to me. Okay. So the third quotation, now this is tied into St. John Rivers. Okay. So Jane Eyre at one stage finds herself in the very difficult position. This is after she's left Mr. Rochester and she's run away and she meets St. John Rivers and his family and he basically proposes to her. He basically makes it clear to her that it's almost her moral duty to be a missionary's wife because she's supposed to be very chaste and so on. However, she feels like this is going against her nature. Okay. She feels like whilst she wants to serve God, being married to Mr. Rochester isn't part of that service and she states, marrying St. John ellipsis angels beckoned God commanded. So here she's basically thinking about how St. John Rivers, his whole life is focused on working in the church and of course also becoming a missionary and traveling to India. However, she feels like even if on the surface is ticking all the boxes is doing everything that God expects him to do, she still feels as if this is not the right choice for her. And of course it's also because she feels like his religion isn't necessarily genuine. It's still powered by this selfish ambition that he has to somehow distinguish himself as a religious man. Okay. Hence she ultimately decides not to marry him. Now the word no one else is you want to focus on is firstly the verb marrying. Okay. Of course here what Jane Eyre is thinking about is, you know, as a woman, it's her duty to marry according to Victorian principles, however she goes against this and she's able to think independently for herself. Okay. Also the semantic, the words angels and God belong to the semantic field of religion. Again here what she's showing is that even if Mr. St. John Rivers is a man of God, she is not obliged to marry him. Okay. And actually if she married him just because he was a man of God, she wouldn't necessarily be doing her moral duty of being honest to her feelings. Okay. Because she doesn't love St. John Rivers. Now the next quotation, which ties into the theme of religion is the description of St. John Rivers's type of religion. Okay. This is something that Jane Eyre in some ways disparages. She looks down on because she realizes that his religion isn't necessarily one that's focused on serving others is still focused on serving his own ambitious aims. And we learned this in the following quote, zealous in his ministerial labors, blameless in his life and habits. He yet did not appear to enjoy that mental serenity. So she's basically saying, okay, I looked at St. John Rivers. I've seen that he's, you know, he works really hard for the church. He's overzealous. He is super energetic. Yet there's still an element within him that doesn't exude this peacefulness that religion is supposed to give you. Okay. This because she realizes that it's not genuine. His feeling of religion is powered by his own personal ambition. He's being religious for his own personal aims. And this, of course, isn't being authentically close to God. This is not an honest representation of what religion should be. Okay. So the word of analysis here, and of course, this is illustrating the kind of religious faith and religious principles that Jane Eyre rejects. Okay. One which is still very much based on how people see you rather than actually genuinely do you care about serving God and do you care about serving others? Right. So because St. John Rivers cares more about his reputation and his ambition. Okay. And this is illustrated through firstly, the adjectives zealous as well as blameless. Okay. So on the surface, Mr St John Rivers looks perfect. He ticks all of these boxes. Right. And this is in contrast to Mr Rochester, who doesn't, you know, look obviously religious. Okay. Also, you want to focus on the alliteration of L in labors and life. Okay. So he works really hard. He tries to use his life as an example of being very religious. However, Jane isn't very convinced how genuine this is. Okay. And finally, the other word of analysis you want to focus on is the assonance of E in he yet appear and joy, mental and serenity. Okay. So here again, what this is illustrating is there are some people who say that they're religious, but it's very performative. It's about how other people see them. It's about filling their own personal ambitions rather than actually them doing the religious deed and following the moral duty because of how good they're treating other people or because of internally they're doing this genuinely out of the goodness of the heart. Okay. So here we can see that St John Rivers, basically his religion is powered by personal ambition. Okay. Still coming from a selfish place. And Jane isn't entirely convinced about his actions. The next quotation tying into the theme of religion. This is when St John Rivers tries to force in many ways, Jane to marry him because he states, God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. Okay. So he's basically telling her, you have to marry me. And this is what we call an imperative sentence. In other words, an imperative sentence is a sentence that issues the command. He's basically saying, it's your duty as a woman to marry me. Okay. And again, here he's forcing Jane air to follow a certain idea of religion, which is based on ticking boxes and having and assuming a certain appearance to the outside world when actually within yourself, you're not necessarily genuinely following God's principles. Okay. And this is hypocrisy from Jane's perspective. Now, the one level answers you want to do for this imperative sentence is the hyperbole God and nature. Okay. So St John Rivers is trying to justify her marrying him. Or in other words, he's trying to justify Jane and marrying him by saying, Oh, this is written in the rules of nature. Okay. And Jane refuses still. Also another quote which ties into the theme of religion. And this is now tying into Mr. Rochester and his struggles with honesty, his struggles with being pure. And he chooses initially earthly pleasures and then God punishes him for it. Okay. He punishes them by losing everything at Thornfield Hall and getting blind. However, this is early on when Mr. Rochester basically sees marrying Jane, who he sees as very pure, almost has his way to be saved in God's eyes because he states that once she agrees to marry him, he states it will atone it will atone. Okay. And this is repetition. Okay. So it will atone is repeated. Now here, the notion of atonement is this idea that God forgives you. Okay. You commit a sin and then God forgives and forgets that sin that you have committed. Now here it's interesting that Mr. Rochester says this he's unclear at first, but of course later on we learned that he is foreshadowing the fact that he's hiding this terrible secret. Basically he's married to this other woman who doesn't love Bertha Mason. However, he sees somehow him marrying Jane and being with Jane because she's very pure. This is almost going to bring forgiveness on him in God's eyes. Of course we learned that that's not the case. Okay. Now the other quotation which you want to focus on and this is still tied to Mr. Rochester. So this is now how religion is used to illustrate how God basically seeks justice and punishes him for his wrongdoing for following earthly pleasures rather than his moral duty is once he becomes blind, he's lost his sight and then he realizes if Mr. Rochester becomes very sad about all the bad things that he did and also how he misled Jane Eyre. So Jane Eyre comes finds him and then he admits, I did you wrong, ellipsis. Divine justice pursued its course. Disasters came think upon me. Okay. So here what he's basically saying is basically, you know, I lied to you. I lived a double life. I followed my earthly pleasures. I followed all of my desires and basically God has punished me and I deserve this punishment. Okay. So again, here religion is shown as basically being very powerful in, you know, restoring a certain order in God's eyes. And of course, if you don't follow what God wants for your life, according to Christians, you are going to have to experience some kind of pain and punishment. And here we can see that Mr. Rochester is experiencing pain and punishment as a result of following his earthly desires and following earthly pleasures rather than following his moral duty to first make sure he's honest about his marriage to Beth Amason, not getting involved in different affairs and so on. Okay. And now here we can see that Mr. Rochester, he's brought back to religion through accepting God's will upon his life and God's punishment on him by, you know, making him lose his money, his house, as well as losing his sight. Now, the word that one has this you want to fix on is a letter of D in divine and disasters. And of course, the hyperbole disasters, which is showing how God's wrath and God's anger rained upon him once, you know, he did too much with pursuing his earthly pleasures. Finally, the final quotation, this is now tying into the ideal of religion, which is shown through Helen Burns. So this is early on in the story when a young Jane is at Lowood and Helen Burns is showing her how to live good Christian principles. She tells her to be forgiving and to be a good person and not to follow always her own earthly impulses. She needs to follow her moral duty and she states, you're too impulsive to vehement the sovereign hand that created your frame ellipsis has provided you with other resources. In other words, what she's telling Jane air here, because Jane is like very angry. She can't forgive how Mrs. Reed treated her. She's, you know, she believes in an eye for an eye tooth for a tooth revenge and so on. However, Helen Burns says, no, no, no, no, you're being too harsh, you're being too severe in how you see the world and you need to change that. Okay. Now the one level that is you want to focus on here is the repetition of the intensifier to so too impulsive to vehement. So here, Helen Burns is teaching her the religious way of living. Okay. Also, the other one level answers you want to focus on is this idea that God has taught her better. Okay. God has created her to do more than just be someone that's really angry. Now the sovereign hand, this is cynic. Okay. Because remember, cynic is just a word that's used to represent, which is a representative of one part representing the whole. Okay. So the sovereign hand here represents God himself. And what Helen Burns is basically saying is that God has, has made you to be a better person than just someone who's really vengeful, really negative and so on. Okay. And so Helen Burns really sets the framework for Jane air in terms of a Christian values and her Christian beliefs of forgiveness and so on. Okay. Because that's really it. When it comes to the main quotations, you should consider if you're writing about the theme of religion in Jane air. Thank you so much for listening.