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“Jane Eyre”
“Jane Eyre” is the most remarkable novel of Charlotte Brontë not just in the Nineteenth Century but also becoming a treasury novel that contributed in women literature at this century. ... This great change of image in the traditional woman is well described through the character of Jane Eyre. ...
In “Jane Eyre”, Charlotte Bronte creates an image of the man through a very complex character of Mr. ... He may seem to have all the things that a woman desires in a man, but as reading further in the novel, readers will feel this emptiness and agony that had scared him due to the unloved childhood and the framed marriage until meeting Jane Eyre. ... This is seen through the way he talks and orders to Jane Eyre at the beginning conversation in Thornfield when he asked her to play piano and to view her portfolio of painting: “Enough! ... His over-the-line joke and game are well supported in the way that he impersonates as the gipsy to detect Jane Eyre feeling towards him (605-610). He also tries to test Jane Eyre’s love for him by making her believed that he is marrying to Miss Ingram. Despite someone’s feelings, he prolongs Jane Eyre’s agony with his “game” instead of approach her with his honest feeling in respectful way. ... He deceived Jane by asking her to marry him while he cannot eligibly. With a virtual person like Jane Eyre, he knows that she will not accept to be his mistress while he is having a pitiful, ill wife. He was coward to face the truth, and selfishly hide the fact that he is married, and when he intends to tell Jane about this? “When we have been married a year and a day, I will tell you; but not now” (668), this is what he told Jane the day before their “wedding”. ...
Before asking Jane to be his mistress, of course, Rochester had used other woman to fill up the emptiness of his life, as he confessed to Jane: “Yet I could not live alone, so I tried the companionship of mistresses. ... Even Jane found it very disturbing in his wrong-doing and mistreat to women: “Did it not seem to you in the least wrong to live in that way: first with one mistress and then another?
Approximate Word count = 1854
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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