love you…more than ever: but I must not show or indulge the feeling; and this is the last time I must express it.” Due to the fact that Jane has a strong moral background, she would rather abandon her love than become Rochester’s mistress.The Victorian concept of the woman as the angel of the house was a middle-class ideal. Jane presents a problem with this role because she is middle-class, but she does not have the monetary status to fully be of the class. It is not until she becomes educated in the virtues of patience, domesticity, rationale and becomes financially independent, thereby gaining her place in the middle-class that she assumes her role as the domestic angel. Through the models of Miss temple and the two Rivers sisters, she slowly emerges as the angel by the end of the novel. ...
