If Rochester does truly love Jane during the first phase of the relationship, then he would not command her and objectify her, nor desire and act in favor of bigamy. Instead, he would fully treat her as an equal. The next phase of the relationship between Rochester and Jane occurs a year later at the after Jane has a relationship with St. John Rivers, her clergyman cousin (Brontë 443-444, 505). At this new stage in their relationship, Rochester is blind and mutilated in his left arm after trying to save Bertha and his servants (Brontë 494-495, 499-500), and is overjoyed to have Jane charitably offer her aid as his “neighbor…nurse[, and]…housekeeper” (Brontë 502). Rochester’s love for Jane has changed into affectionate love, as he asks her whether or not he should “entertain none but fatherly feelings for [her],”
If Rochester does truly love Jane during the first phase of the relationship, then he would not command her and objectify her, nor desire and act in favor of bigamy. Instead, he would fully treat her as an equal. The next phase of the relationship between Rochester and Jane occurs a year later at the after Jane has a relationship with St. John Rivers, her clergyman cousin (Brontë 443-444, 505). At this new stage in their relationship, Rochester is blind and mutilated in his left arm after trying to save Bertha and his servants (Brontë 494-495, 499-500), and is overjoyed to have Jane charitably offer her aid as his “neighbor…nurse[, and]…housekeeper” (Brontë 502). Rochester’s love for Jane has changed into affectionate love, as he asks her whether or not he should “entertain none but fatherly feelings for [her],”