Rochester In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Rochester, a troubled yet successful man who has clouded emotions and empty feelings. This man can be viewed through a Psychoanalytic lens because of his betrayal by his brother and father, his choices, his motifs, and his constant attempt to fill some kind of emptiness or void. Rochester is often depicted as confused, not easily fooled but easily manipulated. Rochester is a troubled man who doesn’t know what he wants until he meets Jane Eyre. Rochester has a history of what some might call child neglect. He was constantly ignored and not given the attention a child deserves, but his brother was not, as a matter of fact his brother was the opposite. Rochester’s brother had gotten all of the attention and was basically spoiled rotten. This …show more content…
He was now married to Bertha, who had a serious genetic disposition that was passed down from her mother to both her and her brother. Rochester is confused on what to do, he can’t kill his wife, he cannot just send her away to an asylum, so what is he to do? With his new fortune that he had obtained from marrying Bertha he hires Grace Poole to keep watch over Bertha while she is locked away in Thornfield, never to see the light of day, that is until Grace gets a drink in her hand. To Rochester this was his best solution, if it was out of sight it was out of mind but that isn’t completely true mostly because he still had his emotional problems and these would never be fixed until he had what he wanted and deemed it to be enough to keep him satisfied. Rochester did not want more and more things, he just wanted one thing that could bring him inner peace, help him live with himself and the decisions he had made. This doesn’t happen until he lays his eyes on an orphan girl who is a talented artist and teacher, that orphan girl’s name is Jane Eyre. Throughout this story Rochester comes to Jane when ever he needs something, is in great discomfort or stress, or even just wants to talk and have a heart to heart. Rochester falls in love with Jane and this time he has no empty feeling, he feels as though she can complete