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St John Rivers offers Jane another kind of freedom: the freedom to act unreservedly on her principles. He opens to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India. Jane eventually realizes that this freedom would also constitute a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings and her true passions always in check. Charlotte Bronte may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming to terms with elements of her own life. Much evidence suggests that Bronte, too, struggled to find a balance between love and freedom, and to find others who understood her. At many points in Jane Eyre, Jane voices the author’s radical opinion at that time.
3. The Characters of Jane Eyre
3.1 Jane Eyre’s attitude towards love
3.1.1 Jane’s pursuit of true love
Love is the most beautiful characteristic of human beings’ life and love can not be measured by one’s status, power or property. In most individuals’ life, people like to seek a meaningful, romantic relationship resulting in love, commitment, companionship and happiness. In my opinion, it is most important that a man and woman have heart and feelings that find a perfect response, and also have mutual affinity. Shakespeare said:“The course of true love never runs smooth.”Jane and Rochester get true love after a lot of sufferings. Jane loves Rochester deeply always-from the beginning to the end. There should be no distinction of property, rank or age in true love. Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester. He who has rich experience and wisdom, is softhearted, wealthy and in high rank as well as having pride and rudeness. Rochester is older than Jane by nearly 20years and could be her father. Jane loves him, but not for his wealth and high rank, because he treats her equally and in a friendly manner, although she is very poor and in low position. She is such an excellent girl, good, intelligent, considerate that Rochester is attracted by her. It is Jane but not someone else who Rochester loves.
Jane thinks that it is a glorious thing to have the hope of living with him and being his wife. Jane loves him with her whole heart. They have a meeting of the mind. But in that social background, people pay too much attention to property, rank and status. If the disparity is great, a pair of lovers will suffer disagreement from their families and their friends. Mrs. Fairfax, one of Rochester’s servants, is very surprised and feels puzzled that her master is madly clinging to Jane. But both of them do not care about the difference of status and property or others’ opinion. They pursue true love. They can smash the bonds of tradition and can surmount all obstacles. They are very happy and want to be married. But their marriage is stopped by the fault that Rochester is a married man; his wife is still alive. Rochester tells the fact to her, and he is full of regret about it. He tells Jane what he has done and confesses all his past history. Mr. Rochester had tried to conceal that he has a mad wife, because he loves Jane. He is worried that she could not endure the fact and would leave him if he tells her the truth. Now he exposes his secret to Jane, which also proves his sincere love for Jane. Jane forgives him, but in order not to impair her dignity, she thinks she must leave him. She wants to be his real wife, not his mistress. Although Jane can not get married to Rochester, she still loves him. It is impossible for her to hate him. On the day she runs away, passing the door of Rochester, she can not keep the tears from raining down her face.
When she is away from him, she still feels anxiety about Rochester. It’s too difficult for her not to miss Rochester. wherever she goes, she remembers him every moment, and she often dream of him:“she was embraced by him, hearing his voice, meeting his eyes, touching his hand and face. She loved him, and was loved by him, spent all her life with him.”That is Jane’s well-remembered love for Rochester! After leaving Rochester’s home, Thornfield Hall, Jane walks and travels without any aim. She lives in hunger and cold. As she roams about whitcross, she is nearly dead because she suffers terrible hardships. St. John helps her and saves her life. St John wants to marry Jane and takes her to India with him. Although he is a little merciful and handsome, he is also very harsh and arbitrary. He considers little of Jane’s benefit. He does not respect her or give her selfless love. Jane says if she joins St John, she will abandon half herself and if she goes to India, she will go to premature death. Jane insists that true love should be based on equality, mutual understanding and respect. She knows that to marry such a stonehearted person is to become a tool of him to serve God, so she refuses John’s proposal. She hears the voice of Rochester in her mind, then she comes back to look for Rochester. She learns that Thornfield hall has been burnt down, and that Rochester, attempting vainly to save his mad wife from the fire, loses one of his hands, is blind in both eyes, and becomes a crippled man. Now Mr. Rochester is not as rich as he used to, and he is disabled. But Jane loves him more
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