At face value, It’s obvious that St. John Rivers and Mr. Rochester are wildly different individuals, but to Jane they are both deep individuals that have played a pivotal role in her life. So is it possible that Mr. Rivers will act as another Rochester in Jane’s life by showing her an important lesson? The way I see it, the characters are almost polar opposites so it’s possible that they have opposite lessons to teach Jane, whereas Rochester showed Jane an excess of passionate love with a wild life at Thornfield, St. John Rivers could show Jane the opposite of this, a lack of this passion, by having Jane live a quiet, but much more peaceful life, in the village.
No I don't think so. I feel like Jane is done with men because she's found out her own independence from them. Also the experience she had with Mr. Rochester would make someone like Jane afraid to trust another man.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so either, I think she is still very much in love with Rochester and wouldn't move on to anyone else anytime soon. And I agree with Raianna, I don't think Jane has the courage to trust another man.
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. My main basis for this is the absolute lack of chemistry between Jane and St. John Rivers. She was madly in love with Rochester her entire stay with him, and I'm just not sensing any of that attraction between her and John.
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