Sunday, October 15, 2017
Why does Jane try to force her feelings to go away that she has for Mr. Rochester?
Jane becomes upset when she learns that Mr. Rochester left to go to a party and that a beautiful woman, Miss Blanche Ingram, will be there at the party too. Later, when Jane is alone, she goes over the information she had gained and started to realize that she was falling in love with Mr. Rochester. "'You,' I said, 'a favourite with Mr. Rochester? You of importance to him in any way? Go! Your folly sickens me'" (Bronte 163). She talks aloud and scolds herself for liking Mr. Rochester and thinking that he might like her back. She makes herself draw two pictures, one of herself and one of Blanche, to use to compare to whenever her feelings for Mr. Rochester become too much so that she can compare her plainness to Blanche's beauty. Jane knows that there is too much of an age difference between her and Mr. Rochester. Also, he is superior and has more authority than her since she is just a teacher.
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I think Jane does this because she knows it isn't right. She is a worker for him and his family. I also believe that her lack of experience with men is a part in this as well. The only men she really had any lose interaction with were all negative, so she could possibly see men as a negative.
ReplyDeleteI agree with most of what you said. I think that it has more to do with class differences. Class differences, in those days, were almost the defining point of someone. Jane knows that she is a lower class than Mr Rochester, but she still likes him. She knows this isn't right, and she tries to throw out her love for him.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's because she feels he would never feel the same about her. She's his servant and that wasn't right in the time, era. I agree when it comes to class differences as well. So she hides these feelings in an effort to stop feeling them.
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