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Jane Eyre6

ood the reader also starts to see one of Jane’s weaknesses - she desperately needs people to love her since she was without love for so long at Gateshead. She receives this love from Helen and the head of the school, Miss Temple. Unfortunately Helen dies after Jane being there only a short time. Jane finishes her schooling at Lowood and begins to teach there. Eventually Miss Temple gets married and leaves. Since Miss Temple moves on, Jane has nothing left there and takes a Governess job at Thornfield that she knows nothing about.At Thornfield, the head of the house is Mr. Rochester, a Bachelor who took in a child named Adele after her mother died. It is possible that Rochester is her father. Mr. Rochester is almost twice the Jane’s age, which is only eighteen at the time. When she first meets him, he comes off as rude and condescending. Jane exhibits, once again, her ability to stand up for herself in one of the very first conversations she has with him saying:I don’t think, sir, you have the right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the the use you have made of your time and experience (p. 137).This quotation shows that Jane does not let herself be intimidated by him even though he is male, he is much older than her, and he is her boss. Jane and Mr. Rochester, in time, come to enjoy each other’s company and end up falling in love. Rochester eventually proposes to Jane and she accepts. After she accepts, Mr. Rochester tries to buy her many expensive clothes and jewelry, which she is not used to. She has always been a simple girl, never very attractive, and she feels uncomfortable being spoiled and puts an end to it. Most women in this period married a man of Mr. Rochester’s stature expressly for reasons pf wealth and comfort, but Jane is marrying him purely for love and wants none of tha...

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