Rochester

The marriage of Bertha and Mr. Rochester reflects the Victorian Era when there was superiorty of men and women didn’t have the right to comment on something. It is clearly seen Bertha’s imprisonment at home. With respect to Jane Eyre, although Mr Rochester claims that they are equal by saying “Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without…

education, she finds work as a governess with the Byronic hero Mr. Rochester. As they get acquainted Jane and Mr. Rochester fall in love which leads the pair to get engaged. In the church, their marriage ceremony is interrupted and it is revealed to Jane that Mr. Rochester is currently married to Bertha who has with mental issues. Rather than stay to marry the love of her life, Jane chooses to run away from…

find love and true happiness, is faced with this conflict of balancing both her good sense of morality and her strong willed, passionate heart. Along her journey she meets Edward Rochester, a wealthy, middle-aged, passionate man, and St. John, an ambitious, stolid, religious fanatic. Through her relationships with Rochester…

fulfillment by distorting the personhood of those they claim to love. This is learned from two highly regarded works of literature: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In both Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby, Mr. Rochester and Gatsby distort the personhood of the women they love, by wanting the women to change themselves for them. The way the women react to the distortion is different depending…

Rochester was the first man to really give Jane what she needed physically and emotionally. He provided a job and a place to live and he was someone who could talk on her level and provide the companionship that Jane craved. However, I think that this led to an unhealthy relationship between the two. As open as Rochester was with Jane he still felt he needed to manipulate her and the people around them to show his feelings. For instance, Rochester wanted to know which of the…

split between the immoral but good-hearted Rochester and the rule-bound pair Mr. Brocklehurst and Saint John Rivers. [Saint John] presents himself to Jane's sense of duty, and she is seriously inclined to marry him, until an incorporeal voice [of Rochester]...recalls her to her deeper emotional commitment.” (Chitham). When Jane returns to Mr. Rochester, she faces the challenge of his various infirmities and decides to stay with him. When Mr. Rochester questions Jane’s return and wanting to…

prepares the reader for the climactic scene in chapter 26, in which Jane finds out Rochester's secret. The secret reveals how Grace Poole is actually Rochester deranged wife and mother of Adele. In the previous chapter, nature and setting reflects the coming tragedy. The chestnut tree which was split in half symbolically foreshadows Jane's future with Rochester-their looming separation. Jane begins to have dreams of babies that can be seen as a representation of Jane's fear of Having kids or…

some of hardest decisions she has ever encountered. Although Jane is deeply in love with Rochester, she still denies his proposal and her reason is, "If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress" (306). Because Rochester 's wife is still alive, Jane believes it is disgraceful and wrong to marry him, including the fact that this is already illegal. As much as she wants to be with Rochester, she sets aside her emotions and makes the decision with her morals as guidance. Jane…

which is Mr. Rochester. She deserts him with the comment, “Mr. Rochester, I will not be yours” (Brontë 367). Furthermore, Jane begins her expedition of sacrifice once she abandons her position of being the governess of Mr. Rochester, she then explores, and discovers her cousins tardily, concerning this ends within a tough predicament of accomplishing the acceptance of a family member or following her heart. On the other hand, both of these situations are the determining…

patriarchy. There is one particular scene that has been added to the movie that best portrays the weakening of Jane Eyre. In both the book and the movie, Jane Eyre spends the beginning of her stay at Thornfield Hall without meeting the Master Mr. Rochester. There is a scene added to the movie in which Jane is standing alone staring out of a window, at first it fits in with…