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bronte sisters were really remarkable

women for their time

they lived in a patriarchal society

sorry i'm late but i left late

okay

what is the book about i thought you

said you read it in high school well

yeah but then i remembered i started it

and then there was this pep rally

and i was i was on top of the pyramid

but anyway

um what's the book about okay

it's this tragic love story between

kathy and heathcliff

and um it takes place on these like

really creepy moors in

england which i think represent the

wildness of heathcliff's character

i totally get symbolism

how would you characterize the theme of

this book uh

let's see rachel green

oh um well i would have to say that it's

a

it's a tragic love story well that's

sort of a given but yes anyone else

oh oh oh symbolism

and uh the the uh wildness of the moors

which i think is is mirrored in the

wildness of uh heathcliff's character

excellent what rachel has shrewdly

observed here

you completely stole my answer what

honey that was pretty obvious

well how would you know you didn't even

read it

what do you think uh you and the blue

shirt

i think that um yours is a question with

many possible answers would you

care to venture one would you care to

venture one

are you just repeating what i'm saying

are you just repeating what i'm saying

all right let's move on okay then

why didn't you just say that you hadn't

read the book because i didn't want him

to think i was

stupid i mean that was really

embarrassing what happened to you

hi hi so um what's this book about

you didn't read this one either well i

was gonna but i

uh accidentally read something else what

vogue hey so tell me about this jane

eyre woman

no you should have read it yourself oh

come on phoebe don't be such a goody

goodie

fine okay all right

so jane eyre first of all you'd think

she's a woman

she's not she's a cyborg

a cyborg isn't that like a robot

yeah this book was light years ahead of

its time

sorry i'm late let's get started so

what did everybody think of jane eyre um

rachel and i were just discussing it and

she actually had some very interesting

insights

well go ahead rachel um thank you phoebe

um well i what struck me most when

reading jane eyre

was uh how the book was so uh ahead of

its time

if you're talking about feminism i think

you're right

yeah well feminism yes but also the

robots

it's just so embarrassing i can't

believe you just let me go on and on and

on like that

i'm sorry

it was just so funny when you started

comparing jane eyre to robocop

that was not funny i snapped

okay you weren't taking the class

seriously phoebe come on what is the big

deal i thought this was gonna be

something

we could do together you know i thought

it would be fun

well yeah fun is good but you know i

also wanted to learn

you know people are always talking about

what they learned in high school and i

never went to high school

oh oh so you really wanted to learn

yeah you know steve i just wanted to

have fun

you know who you should go with i know i

know i know

monica you asked the question

i really thought you were making a good

point i mean you know until you got cut

off

no what's up with that girl monica i

don't know i didn't come with her

hey everybody everybody guess what i

just convinced carl to give us a test

next week test

come on test make us all better learners

oh yeah we should have essay questions

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
remarkable /rɪˈmɑːrkəbl/ B2	adjective - worthy of attention; striking.
patriarchal /ˌpeɪtriˈɑːrkəl/ C1	adjective - relating to a system in which men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it.
tragic /ˈtrædʒɪk/ B1	adjective - causing or involving great suffering, distress, or misfortune.
characterize /ˈkærəktəraɪz/ B2	verb - describe the qualities or peculiarities of.
symbolism /ˈsɪmbəlɪzəm/ C1	noun - the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
shrewdly /ˈʃruːdli/ B2	adverb - in a clever and perceptive way.
venture /ˈventʃər/ B1	verb - to dare to do something or go somewhere that may be risky.
embarrassing /ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ/ B1	adjective - causing feelings of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
accidentally /ˌæksɪˈdentəli/ A2	adverb - by chance, unintentionally.
cyborg /ˈsaɪbɔːrɡ/ B2	noun - a fictional or hypothetical person or animal in which cybernetic components are integrated to enhance or replace natural body parts.
feminism /ˈfemɪnɪzəm/ C1	noun - the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
snapped /snæpt/ B1	verb - suddenly lost one's temper.
serious /ˈsɪəriəs/ A2	adjective - demanding or causing anxiety; grave.
learners /ˈlɜːnərz/ A2	noun - a person who is learning.

Key Grammar Structures

• they lived in a patriarchal society

  ➔ Past Simple Tense, Noun Phrase

  ➔ The verb "lived" is in the Past Simple to describe a state in the past. "patriarchal society" is a noun phrase functioning as the object of the verb.

• sorry i'm late but i left late

  ➔ Conjunction 'but', Past Simple Tense

  ➔ The conjunction "but" connects two contrasting ideas. Both "left" are in the Past Simple to indicate completed actions in the past.

• i think that it's a tragic love story well that's sort of a given

  ➔ Declarative sentence, Tag question

  ➔ The sentence expresses an opinion. "well that's sort of a given" functions as a tag question, seeking agreement.

• you didn't even read it

  ➔ Past Simple Tense, Negative Sentence, Emphasis with 'even'

  ➔ The Past Simple indicates a completed action. The word "even" emphasizes the lack of reading.