Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre's relationship with her employer, Fairfax Rochester, is characterized by the conflict between Jane's desire for autonomy and Rochester's conviction that she possesses some kind of mystical cure for his emotional woes. Jane is also constricted by the age and class difference between her and Rochester, and struggles to rid herself of any affection for him. Rochester, however, is sure of his love for Jane, but is held back from declaring his affection for her by his fear that those feelings will not be reciprocated and the knowledge that he is already married. Jane and Rochester's initial impressions of one another are distinctly different; Jane confides in Mrs. Fairfax that she finds him strikingly peculiar: "He is very changeful and abrupt," she states (Bronte 149). There are certain aspects of his personality which she greatly enjoys, but is still very much put off by his personality flaws: ...his presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire. Yet I had not forgotten his faults- indeed, I could not, for he brought them so frequently before me. He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every However, she does begin to notice improvement in his behavior, and
hearts...but to the clear eye and eloquent tongue, to the a long way before me; and I strained every nerve to overtake least, has stamped her patent of nobility on this brow, Jane..." that brow professes to say,- 'I can live alone, if self respect and in another strain. Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with arm of iron he Rochester's reverence for Jane as a "disguised deity" (Bronte 161) results in his dependence on her as the source of his happiness. Upon first meeting Rochester after he is thrown from his horse, Bronte describes Jane as being a support for her injured master. This scene is indicative of Rochester's later tendancy toward using Jane as a "crutch" to achieve his own sense of well being. Rochester repeatedly refers to Jane as an "elf" or "fairy," implying that her presence has had a magical healing effect on his previously melancholy nature. He vaguely describes his past hardships to Jane, and solely credits her with his recent improvement in mood. While Jane is in love with the aspects of Rochester which bring her compainionship and happiness, she feels incredibly burdened by his more demanding side, as shown in her dream: circlet on your forehead, - which it will become: for nature, at
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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