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| Question | Answer |
| Richard Moore calls Jane Eyre a 'love story' (Jane Eyre: Love and the Symbolism of Art) | Yes, but not just romantic love: also familial love. *Also a story of self-hood and pursuit of identity. |
| Jean Wyatt suggests that the ending of Jane Eyre is unsatisfactory: rather than equality between Jane and Rochester developing through her entry into the world of work, it comes through Rochester's loss of mobility and ambition. | So the ending of Jane Eyre is ultimately conservative - Rochester reduced to the 'weakness' of a woman. |
| Jean Wyatt: Bronte shows Jane as having a 'passionate assertion of autonomy and at the same a passionate commitment to romantic love' (Jane Eyre and Romantic Love) | Jane's conflict over being Rochester's wife - she will be his property - conflict and angst over idolizing him - she cannot marry St. John for both these reasons. |
| Robyn Warhol: Jane voices the 'importance of self-articulation and self-determination' (Feminisms: An Antthology of Literary Theory and Criticism) | This self-determination is nearly overpowered by Jane's love for Rochester, but she manages to overcome this. |
| Robyn Warhol: 'The story Jane tells is not simply the story of her movement from victim [...] to familied heiress [...] it is also the story of her own [...] desire for discursive intimacy' (Feminisms...) | Link this to DRA. |
| Stevie Davies labels 'Jane Eyre' a 'parable of self-help' (Preface to Jane Eyre in Penguin edition.) | Link this to her ambiguous social standing: 'you are worse than a servant' 'a dependent' 'a castaway' 'you shouldn't eat food with gentleman's children like us' |
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