Rochester

Because Rochester “continued to be blind the first two years of [their] union,” the two were “knit so very close” (Brontë 479). Jane is “his vision” (Brontë 479). In this synecdoche, Jane is, in essence, reduced to a part of Rochester. While it is almost universally believed that Jane and Rochester did in fact marry for love—a point that I have no reason nor proof to argue against—her marriage to Rochester does highlight a shift in her balance of reason and…

shown through light and dark. Jane follows Mr. Rochester to the third floor of Thornfield, after Mr. Rochester asks if she is still awake. Unaware of the situation into which she is walking, Jane sees Mr. Mason, a friend of Mr. Rochester, laying lifeless on the bed with one arm soaked in blood. Concluding that Grace Poole attacked Mr. Mason, she fears that Grace may burst into the room again. Leaving Jane locked in the room with Mr. Mason, Mr. Rochester sets out to retrieve a professional…

the inside and making him or her zombie-like. Wide Sargasso Sea, a novel by Jean Rhys inspired from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, demonstrates this idea of two deaths. Rhys uses the motif of zombies, demonstrated through her characters of Annette, Rochester, and Antoinette, to illustrate that the death of one's soul changes one to become seen…

fate of Rochester despite everything. She has waited until she has grown in strength due to the fact she now has family who love her and money that her decease uncle left her. This scene plays a strong part in the novel as the character of Jane for the first time feels a strong sense of freedom, equality and love something she always longed for. Jane is no longer afraid of being unloved or hurt by Rochester as she now knows she has a family who loves her. She feels more equal to Rochester…

example of what love should be, and Jane develops an extreme desire to love. When she goes to live with Rochester and falls in love with him, Jane looses all of her control over self-reliance. She gains this back after Rochester 's previous marriage is revealed and Jane goes to live with St. John. After finding her independence and recognizing that she still loves him, Jane returns to Rochester and is able to apply the newfound balance to her relationship. When in a relationship, there is often…

The engagement of Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre reflect the dangers of their over-passionate relationship. Jane takes a trip to Gateshead to make peace with the Reeds and settle their affairs when she returns to Thornfield Hall. Jane is finds herself enjoying the eden-like garden snf the sky “burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame aton point (125)” reflect the burning love for Rochester that has manifested itself. The warning smell of Rochester’s cigar stops her. He engages Jane in…

and again when Rochester notices that the white dress he ‘had admired […] had slipped untidily over one shoulder and seemed too large for her.’ (p. 80) The dresses represent the category she is attempting to mimic, but neither fits. She is too big to fit into the ‘white nigger’ category, and too small to fill the dress of a white woman. Julliet MacCannell believes that white woman already, ‘imply…

He has no intention of marrying Blanche and expresses no deep feeling for her at all. Blanche wants to marry Rochester for his money. Rochester leads Jane to believe that he is about to marry Blanche and that she must leave Thornfield soon and forever. This upsets Jane because it is the only “home” she has lived in where she wasn’t treated harshly and with cruelty. Her only…

finally break” (Mezei 197). Antoinette escapes Grace’s custody numerous times in an effort to gain her bearings; she knows nothing of her surroundings and does not believe she and Rochester mad it to England. Sadly, no one at Thornfield ever notices Antoinette and therefore, she is not released. After Jane and Rochester wedding is ruined and his secrets exposed, he shouts,…

on the men living in the house. But all of her descriptions are made by her dominating male counterparts: Rochester and Mason, not Bertha herself; setting a precedent for Bertha as an archetype, to be spoken about but not to. Mr. Rochester explains to Jane how he came to marry Bertha; in a business deal facilitated by his father. He…