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Guy 2022-03-29 09:01:09
Outside and Inside
Jane said to Rochester: Do you think that just because I am poor, ordinary, humble, and small, I have no heart, no soul? I have the same heart and the same soul as you. If God could give me a little beauty and wealth, I would use it to make it hard for you to leave me, just as it is hard for me to...
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Jedidiah 2022-03-25 08:01:01
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre's strong self-reliance makes her charming.
But what interests me the most is this: Why does Jane Eyre face him calmly after Rochester has lost all external auras (wealth gap, incomplete appearance - blindness)?
At the end, Jane Eyre is like a master, leading the blind Rochester. The...
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Jane Eyre: Hurry, Hannah. We must light the fires before they arrive.
Hannah: [to St.John] She wants fire in every room, in places where they never were.
Jane Eyre: What's the use of five thousands pounds if you can't light a few fires at Christmas?
St John Rivers: Twenty thousands.
Jane Eyre: St. John, I'll not hear another word. We've been over it again and again. Our uncle left a nephew and three nieces. We must all profit from his will equally.
St John Rivers: Jane, you've never had money. You do not know what use you may put it to.
Jane Eyre: And you've never been without family. I will have a brother and sisters, and a home.
St John Rivers: I'll be a brother to you, whether you share the money our uncle left you, you and only you, or not.
Jane Eyre: Leaving you with nothing, unable to realize your dreams and me with a fortune. I know enough about money to realize that will not make me happy
St John Rivers: What of the future? If you should marry?
Jane Eyre: I'll never marry.
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St John Rivers: We sail in six weeks. We must make marriage preparations.
Jane Eyre: Why can we not travel as brother and sister? As equals?
St John Rivers: That would be impossible.
Jane Eyre: St. John, you do not love me.
St John Rivers: Love is not an ingredient in this matter.
[Jane turns away from him, thinking]
St John Rivers: I fear you have not forgotten your old association despite the harm he tried to do you.
Jane Eyre: I'll never see any of them again. But I owe a debt to my friends at Thornfield Hall. In many ways, I started my life there. I became Jane Eyre.
St John Rivers: God made Jane Eyre! You surely don't give this man Rochester any credit for that!
Jane Eyre: Of course not. I've always known myself. But he was the first to recognize me. And to love what he saw.
[long pause]
Jane Eyre: I'll give you your answer St. John soon, don't worry. And if I go with you that will be my decision. You'll have him to thank for that.
[leaves the room]
