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Question (15 marks): Explore Brontë's use of fire and ice imagery across the novel.
Mark scheme (Band 5, 13–15):
- Tracks Rochester as fire (literal bed-burning in Ch. 15) versus St John as ice ("a cold cumbrous column", Ch. 34).
- Reads the lightning-split chestnut tree (Ch. 23) as fractured union foreshadowed.
- Connects Bertha's arson to repressed female passion (Gilbert and Gubar).
- Considers Jane's own thermal mediation — neither extreme — as moral resolution.
- Confident terminology: motif, leitmotif, pathetic fallacy.
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