In many contemporary romance novels (one's you would find in the romance section today) it is easy for one to find a theme. Most of the romance novels written today follow a typical story line of boy meets girl who needs help or has problem. Boy fixes problem and girl falls in love and they get married and live happily ever after. The difference between Jane Eyre and "romance" is that Jane doesn't need Rochester to fix her life or save her. She is an independent woman that has the ability to live without him and function on her own. The story is not one of a young girl who plays the damsel in distress that needs a knight in shining armor to save her. Jane is a heroine who is in many ways is what Rochester needs to fix him.

Jane Eyre contradicts the common romance novel outline once again when Jane and Rochester are unable to get married in chapter twenty-six. In this chapter it is discovered that Rochester is married to the woman in the attic (Bertha). In most romance novels Rochester and Jane would get married and that would be the end of the story, however in Bronte's Jane Eyre the story does not take the traditional road. Jane decides that it would be in her best interests to leave Rochester and venture out on her own. Jane breaks free of the traditional romantic female role when she leaves to find her own way in the world. She leaves Rochester, finds a job, goes and visits with her former benefactress, discovers an inheritance, and when she is propositioned for marriage once again realizes that Rochester needs her and returns to him. In many ways this is the odd point of the novel where the reader is surprised and confused by the turn of events. When reading a novel of this type, one that seems to lead to the marriage and then suddenly breaks off and moves in an entirely different direction, it gives a sense of reality to a romance that many did not intend to find nor expect.

we are introduced to a young girl named Jane. This girl is from the very start different from your average female romance character. We begin to understand this when the text provides for us an example of Jane's independence and remarkable ability to stand up to those that wish to harm her. The first exa

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