Mr Rochester

Mr Rochester

1. LOVE

   • The character of Rochester is the character of a mechanical monster. mechanical automaton, whose ever motion reveals that he moves not by vital powers but by springs and machinery,-- Rev. of Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. Graham's Magazine - 1848 the year after it was written
   • c36. The servants say they never saw anybody so much in love as he was: he was after her continually.

2. EQUALITY

   • "because my equal is here, and my likeness."

3. Byronic Hero

   • "My master’s colourless, olive face, "
   • c36."It was all his own courage, and a body may say, his kindness, in a way, ma'am: he wouldn't leave the house till every one else was out before him.
   • "Square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features,"
   • " were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me"

4. SELFISH

   • C36"Some say it was a just judgment on him for keeping his first marriage secret, and wanting to take another wife while he had one living: but I pity him, for my part."
   • CRUEL

5. IMMORAL

   • "Since happiness is irrevocably denied me, I have a right to get pleasure out of life: and I will get it, cost what it may."

6. BEATEN DOWN

   • "some wronged and fettered wild beast or bird, dangerous to approach in his sullen woe"

7. REPENTED

   • "I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower "
   • "Divine justice pursued its course... I was forced to pass through the valley of the shadow of death.
     • His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever."

8. RELIGION

   • "I began to see and acknowledge the hand of God in my doom."
   • "I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker. "
   • "I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere."