Jane Eyre is a novel which was wrote by Charlotte Bronte. The book was published in the year 1847 when women were not treated equally to men so Charlotte had to write under the name Currer Bell. This book was written by Charlotte probably because of her past experiences. The chapter which I am describing thoroughly is Chapter 26 when all the revelations about Bertha come out. Jane is an orphan who was brought up as a governess after her aunt disowned her.
She was taught that she was way down class wise and she was also brought up religiously.However she was a strong willed young woman and this would lead to her confidence in her later life when she worked for Mr Rochester. Jane would not be scared not to speak confidently. When she first started working for Mr Rochester he asked her if she found him attractive which she answered confidently no.
Even after Jane accepts Mr Rochester's hand in marriage she does not sleep with him linking to the main theme of this novel. Jane has a strong sense of right and wrong. This is proved when she is about to marry Mr Rochester in chapter 26 and the revelation about Rochester's wife Bertha come out.Jane loves Mr Rochester but she knows she cannot marry him because it is wrong and bigamy is wrong religiously wise. In the book Jane says 'I would not say he had betrayed me; but the attribute of stainless truth was gone from his idea' meaning that she still loves him and she does not feel betrayed, she understands why he did not tell her however it would not be morally correct to marry him.
All these revelations upset Jane and her strong willed centre crumbles and she is emotional but she still feels she has to leave Mr Rochester and Thronfield Hall.She mentions that 'My hopes were all dead' which is in contrast what she thought earlier on in the chapter. 'I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing'. All this means that she cannot stay after what has happened and must leave Thronfield Hall as she will never get over this while staying there. However Jane remains true to herself and gets stronger and after a man asks her for her hand in marriage she realizes she only loves Mr Rochester and looking after his stepdaughter Adele.
Mr Rochester is similar to Jane in some aspects. One of these is that he is a passionate man. He really loves Jane and this is probably doesn't tell her about Bertha so it does not hurt her feelings but when she finds out Mr Rochester gets angry. He takes Jane and the others to Bertha's room. He shouts 'That is my wife,' and again 'Such is the sole conjugal embrace I am ever to know--such are the endearments which are to solace my leisure hours! ' By all this he means that he wanted to marry her but he did not know about her condition mentally.Mr Rochester is a dark, mysterious, gothic hero who is handsome but not in a conventional way.
Also Mr Rochester could be impatient at times. This described as 'and to look at Mr. Rochester's face was to feel that not a second of delay would be tolerated for any purpose. ' This proves that he could be impatient.
Despite all this he is a good man as he has looked after Bertha even after being tricked into marriage and also looking after her daughter Adele. Mr Rochester enjoys the qualities that Jane has such as her quietness and calmness and he really loves her.At the end when she comes back he thinks that she only came back through pity but she really loves him and they marry and have children. The setting for this novel is a dark gothic style which is often mentioned throughtout the novel. 'The picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond. ' This is a dark image of the setting which also linked to the theme which is based on the dark and supernatural.
One of the themes is of a religious wise as Jane will not sleep with Mr Rochester before they are married.
