Why is Jane feeling "the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction" on page 39-40?

[arnab]

Hi
I am doing my GCSE Literacy essay on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I finished my essay and my teacher marked it and gave it a B grade. She said she will improve it to a A Grade if i explain Why was Jane feeling "the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction" on page 39-40?

I have been trying figure them out for the last 3hours or so but i still haven't manage to write 2/3 proper paragraph yet.

So If any one can tell me why Jane was feeling "the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction" on page 39-40, please tell me.

thanks in advance to whoever that can help me.

[kiki1982]

Remorse is clear, I suppose? What she feels after speaking to her aunt like that... Altough she said she hates her, she feels a little remorse because 'it ought not to be like that'.

Chill of reaction:
I think the chill lies in the fact that fire=passion. In her speech to Mrs Reed, she showed a lot of passion=fire. The 'reaction' she feels after (when 'the throb accelerated throb of [her] pulses' goes down) is a chill as opposed to the fire of passion.
'reaction' is not to be taken literally, but rather like a chemical reaction: 'what happens after we do this or that'.

Does this make sense and can you get anywhere? I am sure you could write a nice paragraph with it...

Please remember next time not to state the page but the chapter. We all have different editions of the same novel and pages are different...

[arnab]

yes it does help e a lot. i think i can write about 1page of it with what you said. thanks again.

PS : don't really get about what you said on my other post.