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Hello everyone.

Welcome to our next lesson of Jane Eyre.

Now in our last lesson, we added things rather happily.

Jane has agreed to marry the love of her life, Mr. Rochester.

Now in today's lesson Jane is very busy getting ready for her wedding when late one night she receives a terrifying visit.

So things in this lesson are going to get rather scary.

Make sure that your pillow is ready and let's begin.

For today's lesson you will need an exercise book or paper and a pen.

If you do not have this equipment press the pause button on your video now.

Go and get this equipment and then we will begin our lesson.

Let's kick things off with a recap from our last lesson who was the crazy woman who set Rochester's bed on fire and stabbed Mr. Mason? You have four options.

Option one, James saw this lady.

It was definitely grace Poole.

Option two Rochester claims it was Grace Poole, but we do not know for sure.

Option three Jane recognises lady's voice as Grace Poole's or option four Rochester provides lots of evidence to Jane that it was Grace Poole, press the pause button on your video now and tell the screen your answer off you go.

I will now tell you the right answer which is option two.

Rochester claims it was Grace Poole but we do not know for sure.

So Rochester says that grace pool set is bad on fire.

He also tells Jane that Grace Poole stopped Mr. Mason, but we actually don't know this for sure.

We've been provided with no evidence that Grace Poole is responsible for these crimes.

Well done if you got that right now some of you may have chosen one of the other options.

You may have chosen option one, Jane saw this lady, it was definitely grace pool that's not true.

Jane actually has never seen this lady at all she simply heard this lady laughing and screaming.

It's therefore not clear that this lady definitely was Grace Poole.

Some of you may have also chosen option three.

Jane recognised this lady's voice as Grace Poole's.

Once again, this isn't true.

Jane actually was very surprised that this lady's voice sounded very, very different to Grace Poole.

While Grace Poole comes across as being a rather a sensible and normal servant this lady who set Rochester's bed and fire and stubbed Mr. Mason actually has an insane and crazy laugh but doesn't sound anything like Grace Poole.

And some of you may have chosen option four, Rochester provides lots of evidence to Jane that it was Grace Poole.

Again, that's not true.

Rochester hasn't actually provided any evidence that this was Grace Poole.

He simply told Jane that it was Grace Poole.

Later on throughout this next series of lessons I will give you the answer about who is really responsible for these crimes.

I'll now tell you my plan for today's lesson.

First of all, we're going to learn about a literary technique called foreshadowing.

Then we're going to read our extract and after that we're going to think about this question.

How does Bronte create a tense atmosphere before Jane's wedding? Let's begin.

So first of all, I want to introduce you to this literary device foreshadowing.

Now foreshadowing is a hint about something that will happen later in a story.

The way I like to think about it is as a writer writes a story but I like to provide the reader with little clues about different things that will happen later on in the story.

Let me give you some examples of foreshadowing.

I want you to imagine that this is taken from a story about Spiderman before he becomes Spiderman.

This is from a very beginning, let's read.

When he was a child Peter Parker looked at a spider climbing up the wall.

I wish I could do that thought Peter.

Now you might be able to guess that the writer here is providing the reader with a little bit of a clue a hint about something that will happen later on.

It is of course, a clue that later on Peter Parker will indeed be able to climb up walls after he is become Spider-Man.

Now, this is an example of foreshadowing.

This moment for shadows, Peter Parker gaining the powers to climb up walls once he becomes Spiderman.

Let me give you another example.

This next example is from the Little Red Riding Hood from a beginning of this fairytale.

Little Red Riding Hood's mother had some advice before she left the house.

As you walked through the woods, be very careful watch out especially for the Big Bad Wolf.

What do you think the writer might be foreshadowing here? What clue might he be giving his readers about something that will happen later on in the story? The writer is of course, given his readers at clue that little red riding hood will indeed meet the Big, Bad Wolf in the woods.

The writer uses for shadowing to hint that Little Red Riding Hood will indeed see the Big, Bad Wolf during her journey into the forest.

Here's another example this is about Robin Hood.

As a child Robin Hood always liked watching archers shooting targets.

He watched them every afternoon.

Robin was also a kind hearted boy.

He hated the way that rich people mistreated the poor.

Now this example here foreshadows two different things.

What clues is the writer giving her reader about things which will happen later on in the story? Well I can spot two.

The first paragraph is a hint that later on, after he grows up Robin hood will become an Archer.

The second paragraph is a hint, that later on Robin Hood grew up and begin to help the poor.

The writer uses foreshadowing to suggest that Robin will one day grow up to become an Archer himself.

Foreshadowing is also used in the description of Robbin's care for the poor.

This moment is hint that he will one day grow up to defend the poor against the rich.

So foreshadowing is a hint about something that will happen later in the story.

Okay let's now test your understanding of these ideas.

True or false.

Number one foreshadowing is always a hint about something bad that will happen later in this story.

Two foreshadowing always makes it clear exactly what will happen later in the story.

Three, foreshadowing is a hint about something that will happen in the story.

Four, foreshadowing is a reminder about something that happened in a previous part of the story, press the pause button on your video now.

Go through each of these sentences telling the screen, whether it is true or false off you go.

I will now tell you the right answers.

Number one is false.

Foreshadowing is not always a hint about something bad that will happen later in the story sometimes foreshadowing is a hint about something bad that will happen later in the story but sometimes it's also a hint about something good that will happen later in a story.

Two is also false.

Foreshadowing does not make it clear exactly what will happen later in the story.

A better way of thinking about foreshadowing is it is actually a hint about something which will happen later in a story, the writer is providing a clue, but they do not make it really clear exactly what will happen later in a story.

Three is true.

Foreshadowing is a hint about something that will happen later in the story.

And four is false foreshadowing is not a reminder about something that happened in the previous part of the story foreshadowing is actually about something which will happen later in a story.

Well done if you got those right.

Let's now get ready to read our extract.

As you know, preparations are being made for the wedding between Mr. Rochester and Jane.

Well, the day before their wedding, Jane goes to see Mr. Rochester in the morning.

She tells him that she had a terrible night's sleep, which was full of strange events and nightmares.

Let's read.

First of all, Jane talks about having a nightmare in which she imagines that Thornfield Hall was a ruin.

Let's read Jane then described her dream.

I dreamed that Thornfield Hall was a dreary ruin the retreat of bats and owls.

I thought it has all of the stately of the fronts nothing remains, but a shell like wall very high, and very fragile looking.

Now Jane, that is all said Rochester.

All the preface so the tail is yet to come on.

On waking, a gleam dazzled my eyes.

I thought, oh, it's this daylight, but I was mistaken.

It was only candlelight.

Sophie your servant, I suppose had come in.

There was a light in the dressing table and the door of the closet where before going to bed I had hung my wedding dress and veil stood open I heard a rustling there.

I asked Sophie, what are you doing? No one answered, but a form of emerged from a closet.

It took for light held it aloft.

Sophie, Sophie, I again cried and still it was silent.

I had risen up in bed, I bent forward first surprise then bewilderment came over me and then my blood crept cold through my veins.

Mr. Rochester, that was not Sophie.

It was not Leah.

It was not Mrs. Fairfax.

It was not no, I was sure of it.

And I'm still it was not even that strange woman, Grace Poole.

It must've been one of them interrupted my master.

No sir I solemnly assure you to the contrary the shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before.

The height, the contour were new to me.

Describe a Jane.

It seemed sir a woman tall and large with thick and dark hair hanging down her back and you not what dress she had on it was white and straight.

But whether gown, sheet or shroud, I cannot tell.

Did you see her face? Not at first, but presently she took my wedding veil from its place.

She held it up gazed at it long, and then she threw it over her own head and turned to the mirror.

At that moment, I saw the reflection of the visage the face and features quite distinctly in the dark all oblong glass.

And how were they? Fearful ghastly to me.

Oh sir I never saw a face like it.

It was a discoloured face.

It was a salvage face.

I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation or the lineaments.

Ghosts are usually pale Jane.

This sir was purple.

The lips were swelled and dark the brow furrowed, the black eyebrows widely raised over the bloodshot eyes.

Shall I tell you of what it reminded me? You may have the foul German spectre, the vampyre ah what did it do? Sir it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it and tore it in two parts and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.

Afterwards it drew aside the curtain and looked out perhaps the saw dawn approaching for taking a candle it retreated to the door, just at my bedside.

The figure stopped the fiery eyes glared upon me.

She thrust up her candle, close to my face and extinguished it under my eyes.

I was aware her lurid visage and face flamed over mine and I lost consciousness.

For the second time in my life only the second time I became insensible from terror.

Who was with you when you revived? No one sir, but the broad day I rose bathed my head and face in water drank a long draught felt that they enfeebled I was not ill and determined that to none but you would I impart this vision.

Now sir tell me who and what that woman was.

A creature of a over-stimulated brain that is certain.

I must be careful of you, my treasure nerves like yours were not made for rough handling.

Sir depend on it my nerves were not in fault.

The thing was real.

And your previous dreams were they real too? Is Thornfield Hall a ruin.

I am I severed from you by inseparable obstacles.

I am leaving you without a tear, without a kiss, without a word, not yet I am about to do it? Why the day is already commenced, which is to bind us indissolubly and united and married there shall be no recurrence of these mental terrorists.

I guarantee that.

Mental terrorist I wish I could believe them to be only such.

I wish it more now than ever.

Since even you cannot explain to me the mystery of that awful visited.

And since I cannot do it Jane it must have been unreal.

But sir, when I said so to myself on rising.

And when I looked round the room to gather courage and comfort from a cheerful aspect of each familiar object in full daylight there on the carpet I saw what gave the distinct light my hypothesis the veil torn from top to bottom in two halves.

I felt Mr. Rochester start and shutter.

He hastily flung his arms round me.

Thank God he exclaimed.

That if anything malignant did come there your last night it was only the veil that was harmed.

Oh to think what might've happened.

He drew his breaths short and strained me so close to him.

I could scarcely pant.

After some minute silence he continued cheerly.

Now Janet I'll explain to you all about it.

It was half dream, half reality.

A women did I doubt not enter your room.

And that woman was, must have been Grace Poole.

You call her a strange being yourself from all you know you have reasons so to call her, what did she do to me? What to Mason? In a state between sleeping and walking, you noticed her entrance and her actions but feverish almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from your own the long dishevelled hair that's weld black face.

The exaggerated stature were figments of imagination.

Results of nightmare the spiteful tearing of the veil was real and is like her.

I see you would ask why I keep such a woman in my house.

When we have been married a year and the day I will tell you, but not now, are you satisfied, Jane? Do you accept my solution of a mystery? I reflected and in truth it appeared to me the only possible one.

Satisfied I was not but to please him I endeavoured to appear so.

Relieved I certainly did feel so I answered him with that contented smile.

And now, as it was long past one, I prepared to leave him.

Right so quite a lot happened in that extract there.

Let's summarise the main things that we've just read about.

The day before the wedding Jane tells Rochester about a terrible nightmare that she had.

In this nightmare Jane saw Thornfield as a crumbling ruin.

Jane then saw a terrifying woman in her room.

This woman tore Jane's wedding veil in two.

Jane fainted when she saw this woman's face.

Rochester insists that it must have been a dream.

Jane disagrees, she woke up the next morning and found that her wedding veil really was torn in two.

Jane insists that she's never seen this woman before.

It definitely wasn't Grace Poole.

Rochester says that it was Grace Poole.

He also says that he will explain everything about this woman to Jane a year and the day after their wedding read through the six point and press the pause button on your video now read through the six points trying to memorise the main ideas off you go.

Okay let's now test your memory.

Go through this six points reading out the full thing, including the words in blank press a pause button on your video now and complete this task off you go.

I will now give you the right answers.

Number one, the day before their wedding Jane tells Rochester about a terrible nightmare that she had.

In this nightmare Jane saw Thornfield as a crumbling ruin.

Jane then saw a terrifying woman in her room.

This woman tour Jane's wedding veil in two.

Jane fainted when she saw this woman's face.

Rochester insists that it must have been a dream.

Jane disagrees, she woke up the next morning and found that her wedding veil really was torn in two.

Jane insists that she's never seen this woman before.

It definitely wasn't Grace Pool.

Rochester says that it was Grace Poole.

He also says that he will explain everything about this woman to Jane a year and the day after their wedding.

Well done if you got those right it's now time to analyse or extract a bit more detail.

We're going to answer this question.

How does Bronte create a tense atmosphere before Jane's wedding? I think the first way that Bronte creates this tension is through her use of foreshadowing.

Bronte uses for shadowing to suggests that something terrible is about to happen.

She gives the readers lots of clues suggesting that some disaster is about to happen before Jane marries Rochester.

Now we saw the first example of this in our last lesson, you may remember but Jane and Rochester agreed to marry each other underneath a Chestnut tree.

In the last chapter Jane and Rochester talked underneath the Chestnut tree and agreed to marry.

Now this Chestnut tree is going to be very very important to Jane and Rochester.

It's wherever it had this really significant conversation and wherever they've made this really important commitment to each other for going to get married.

This tree could therefore be seen as a symbol of their future relationship.

Okay press the pause button on your video now and take some notes and these ideas off you go.

Now as you may remember, something really terrible happens this tree later on that night.

On the same night that Rochester and Jane agreed to marry this tree is struck by lightning.

This tree has been destroyed by a lightning strike it is literally torn in two.

Perhaps the destruction of his tree could foreshadow the end of Jane and Rochester's relationship.

Bronte uses his description to give the reader a clue that some terrible disasters going to occur which will end Jane's relationship with Rochester.

Press the pause button on your video now and take some notes on these ideas off you go.

Let's now take a look at another example foreshadowing.

This is a wedding veil.

This is what a bride tends to wear at a wedding.

Now Rochester has bought Jane a wedding veil in preparation for the wedding day.

Now veil could be a symbol of the wedding between these two characters, press the pause button on your video now and take some notes on these ideas.

Now the lady in Jane's room tears this wedding veil in two.

Now remember this wedding veil is perhaps a symbol of their planned wedding between Jane and Rochester.

What do you think this could foreshadow? Press the pause button on your video now and tell the screen your idea off you go.

I'll now tell you my thoughts.

The lady in Jane's room tears his wedding veil in two perhaps this foreshadows a cancellation of Jane and Rochester's wedding.

Some disaster might occur, which is going to stop Jane and Rochester from getting married.

Press the pause button on your video now and take some notes on these ideas, off you go.

Let's take a look at a third way in which Bronte uses foreshadowing.

Jane has a nightmare in which she sees Thornfield in ruins.

So she imagines Thornfield field Hall as if it's been destroyed.

So it's line it's desolate.

It's forgotten.

It's now become an empty shell of what it once was.

Now I think Bronte might be foreshadowing here, that later in the story some terrible disaster might take place which will destroy Thornfield Hall.

Press the pause button on your video now and take some notes on this idea off you go.

Great so we've now finished looking at the first way in which Bronte creates tension.

She creates tension through her use of foreshadowing.

Bronte uses for shadowing to suggest that something terrible is about to happen.

Let's take a look at the second way in which Bronte creates tension in this extract.

Bronte presents the lady who breaks into Jane's room as terrifying.

So her descriptions of this lady's appearance and behaviour further creates a sense of tension in this extract.

Now Bronte connects this lady with the supernatural.

Rochester describes how she has a goblin appearance.

Now on one level, this description of this lady's face suggests that she's very ugly.

She does not seem to have a normal human space, instead her face seems to come from a very hideous goblin.

This lady seems to be more of a monster than a human being now Bronte might also be suggesting that this lady she uses this sort of fantastical language to suggest that this lady is in some way, slightly other worldly.

She doesn't really belong to the normal day to day world.

Instead, this lady seems to come from some sort of terrifying fairytale or some really scary gothic novel.

And this is further reinforced when Jane describes her as a vampire.

Now that word vampire is usually spelled differently.

It's usually spelled with an i rather than that Y, But Jane is still describing her as a bumper nevertheless.

Now vampire is a terrifying monster.

They live forever and they sustain themselves by drinking people's blood and Bronte has probably been inspired by some of the Gothic novel she's read about vampires.

So once again Bronte is suggesting that this lady here is not a normal human being ever something and terrifying about her.

And this is an example of Gothic imagery used by Bronte to describe this lady's monstrous appearance.

Now the second way, that Bronte describes this lady is if she's really terrifying is by suggesting of this lady is rather wild and violent.

She has a very savage face and that word savage is associated with sort of wild and salvage animals, right? So just by looking at this lady's face, we can tell but she's got a violent character and she's got red eyes and that would read is associated with anger, right? So she looks angry and furious with Jane as she sort of looms over her when Jane is in bed and she also has a very dishevelled hair.

So she has that word dishevelled means very, very messy.

So her hair is everywhere.

It's hanging over her face.

It's clear that this lady does not look after herself properly.

She probably hasn't washed for a long time.

She hasn't made sure if her hair looks nice.

I think Bronte suggesting here that this lady doesn't belong in civilization.

She's a wild and savage character that doesn't really belong in society with other people.

Press the pause button on your video now and take some notes on these ideas off you go.

Great it's now time to do some writing.

In a minute you're going to answer this question.

How does Bronte foreshadow that some terrible disaster is about to occur? You're going to use this opening sentence here.

Bronte uses for shadowing to hint that some terrible disaster is about to occur as Jane prepares for her wedding.

You've got some key words and phrases that you can use in your answers here.

So press the pause button on your video now and answer this question in your book or on your page.

You're going to write a paragraph off you go.

Okay let's now get ready to write our next paragraph.

Number two, how does Bronte they present the lady who breaks into Jane's room? You're going to begin with a sentence here.

Bronte presents the lady who breaks into Jane's room as terrifying.

Here's some key words and quotations that you can use in your answer.

Press the pause button on your video now and complete this paragraph in your book or on your page, off you go Okay let's now take a look at some exemplar answers for these two paragraphs.

Here's our acceptable answer for the first question.

How does Bronte foreshadow that some terrible disaster is about to occur.

Bronte uses foreshadowing to hint that some terrible disaster is about to occur as Jane prepares for our wedding.

Jane and Rochester agreed to marry underneath a Chestnut tree.

It's as important that this tree is destroyed by a strike of lightning.

Bronte may be using foreshadowing here to suggest, that Jane and Rochester's relationship will also be destroyed.

Just like this tree later a terrifying woman breaks into Jane's room and tears her wedding veil in two.

This wedding veil could be a symbol of Jane and Rochester's upcoming wedding day.

Bronte could be hinting here that something is going to happen that will ruin their wedding day.

Jane also has a nightmare in which he imagines Thornfield Hall in ruins.

The writer may be using this scary dream to suggests that some terrible disaster is about to happen in this place.

If you would like to improve your answer based on that paragraph, press the pause button on your video now off you go.

Let's now take a look at our good answer.

Bronte uses for shadowing to hint that some parable disaster is about to occur as Jane prepares for her wedding.

Underneath a Chestnut tree, Jane and Rochester agreed to marry.

Later that night this very tree is torn apart by a strike of lightning.

Since it is a symbol of Jane and Rochester's relationship.

This tree's destruction represents an ill omen for the future of these lovers commitments.

From the very moment that these characters have agreed to marry Bronte foreshadows a terrible disaster that could destroy their union.

The writer further establishes an ominous atmosphere when the intruder breaks into Jane's room and tears her wedding veil in two.

The wedding veil is arguably a symbol of Jane and Rochester's wedding.

The fact that it is violently destroyed could foreshadow how this day of celebration could be ruined by some unforeseen catastrophe.

Most unsettling of all is Jane's haunting dream in which he sees Thornfield Hall in ruins.

It is evident that some disaster is about to destroy these characters dreams of marital bliss in this country residents.

If you would like to improve your answer based upon that paragraph, press the pause button on your video now off you go.

Let's now take a look at our two exemplar paragraphs for the second question.

Here's our acceptable answer for the second question.

How does Bronte present the lady who breaks into Jane's room? Bronte presents a lady who breaks into Jane's room as terrifying.

The writer describes this terrifying woman as if she's some sort of supernatural monster.

She is described as a goblin.

This language suggests that the intruder is both monstrous and evil.

Jane also compares the woman to a vampire which once again seems to suggest that she is a dangerous supernatural monster.

But this lady also seems to be like a wild animal.

She has the shovelled hair suggesting that she is uncivilised.

The lady also has a salvage face, which gives the impression that she is violent, like some sort of dangerous creature.

Most terrifying of all are this women's red eyes which make her seem angry.

If there's any ideas that you'd like to take from that paragraph there.

And you'd like to make improvements to your work based on this paragraph, press a pause button on your video now off you go.

Let's now take a look at our good for this question.

Bronte presents the lady breaks into Jane's room as terrifying.

Through our use of Gothic imagery the writer connects this horrible intruder with a supernatural.

This terrifying visitor is depicted not so much as a human being, but rather a monstrous goblin.

Such fantastical language suggests that this lady belongs to the province and more to the province of nightmares and chilling folktales than reality.

Indeed, she is like a mythical blood sucking vampire of Gothic novels.

The writer further emphasises for terror of this character through a use of imagery.

This maddened woman has wild the shovelled hair.

It seems that she does not belong to civilization but rather amongst the beasts of the wild.

Indeed she has a salvage face like a predator preparing to devour its prey.

Her red eyes meanwhile give the impression that she is filled with some sort of uncontrollable fiery anger.

It is little surprised that Jane faints as she looks on this horrifying figure of nightmares.

If you'd like to improve your work based upon this paragraph press the pause button on your video now.

Okay that brings us towards the end of our lesson.

Here's the credits for today's lesson.

Well that brings us to the end of today's lesson.

Well done once again for all of your hard work.

Well, as you can see, there's a real sense that something terrible is about to take place before Jane marries Rochester.

Join us next time when Bronte reveals Rochester's dark secret, it's going to blow your mind.

I'll see you next time.

And make sure you complete the end of lesson quiz before you go.

I'll see you next time.