Jane Eyre Research Paper

Love is a huge concept in Jane Eyre. Her entire life Jane looks for love whether it is the kind of love between family, friends, or a partner. Jane 's need for love is so great that, according to Charles Burkhart, "Love is a religion in Jane Eyre."(academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu) Many people judge Jane and don’t get along with her because they can’t see past her plain face or her unladylike mind and personality. Jane even points those things out in herself. Jane desires to find a life of independence in place of the love she can never seem to find. For Jane finding someone to love, in any type of way, and to love her back was hard to find. Jane tries to find her independence after all the love she has ever had is ripped away from her. “I desired
Rochester. The morning after his arrival, she asks Mrs. Fairfax for more information about him. She becomes even more interested in him, even though he is often mean and critical. Rochester 's attentions transform Jane, "So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred; my thin crescent-destiny seemed to enlarge; the blanks of existence were filled up; my bodily health improved; I gathered flesh and strength" (Jane Eyre). Rochester brings a sort of life and excitement that Jane was craving for, but couldn’t reach because of her class and gender. Rochester also begins to develop a keen interest in Jane. In Jane’s life she has always been in an inferior position. As a child she just took it, the bullying from her cousins and her aunt. Jane kept quiet until she was about to leave the household for Lowood school. Jane had an out burst at her aunt about how she was a cruel and horrible person and from that point she never just took something again. When she meets Rochester it is the same way. He is her superior in age, in social status and power, to Jane that doesn’t matter she isn’t going to just back down. “I don 't think, sir, you have a 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 use you have made of your time and experience.” (Jane Eyre) Rochester is always challenging
Rochester has a habit of lashing out on Jane when either she doesn’t agree with what he wants to do for her or when she talks about leaving. On one hand you have Jane who has learned to not show her emotions and stand up for herself. On the other hand you have Rochester who seems emotionless until that one person, Jane, shows up and he just can’t seem to keep them bottled up or under control. "He is not to them what he is to me," I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine; – I am sure he is, – I feel akin to him, – I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. […] I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: – and yet, while I breathe and think I must love him.” (Jane Eyre) When Rochester is among the other people in his class she realizes how alike they actually are. Jane feels as if they could never be together because of their social standings, but what she doesn’t realize is that Rochester is at the point where he would drop everything for her. “This relationship dominates the novel, as it becomes the most important thing in Jane 's life. At first Jane finds Rochester rather rude and insensitive, but it is her ability to stand up to him that earns his