Sunday, March 11, 2018
Why does Jane Eyre not want to admit that she has feelings for Mr. Rochester?
Jane makes it very obvious that she has some sort of feelings for Mr. Rochester and I don't understand why she is afraid of them. Mr. Rochester makes it obvious that he likes her company and was offended when Jane said she was leaving after she had saved his life. Jane has mixed feelings about Mr. Rochester but in the end, I think she is scared of her feelings because the last person that she had loved was Helen, and Helen died abruptly and left a decently sized hole in Jane's heart. She is scared of the moments after someone she loves has left, the parts where she is lonely and sad. In my opinion, this is why she does not want to let herself fall in love with Mr. Rochester.
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I agree with you that Jane is scared to lose another person that she loves, which is why she tries the deny her feelings for Mr. Rochester. In addition, Mr. Rochester is Jane's boss and she isn't comfortable to fully trust and be open to someone in authority over her. She sees herself as not worthy of his affection so why should she pine over something that can never be? If social status didn't matter, Mr. Rochester and Jane would already be together by this time in the book. Unfortunately, there is a bad light shone on governesses, Mr. Rochester is twice her age, and she doesn't have the status or money to benefit the master.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you 100%. Jane has abandonment issues from her torment at the Reeds and the passing of the only person she loved, Helen. She is very hesitant to love again because she associates it with those events. Also, the relationship is a little weird due to Mr. Rochester being her boss. I believe both are factors in this relationship.
ReplyDeleteI agree also. I think that Jane does not want to admit that she has feelings for Rochester because she knows it is ethically wrong to date her boss, who is much older than her. Jane is also scared of being hurt again by loving someone because last time that happened, she was abandoned, disappointed, and upset and she does not want to feel those feelings again, so she "puts up her walls" and tries to deny her feelings and convince herself that she doesn't love Rochester. I think Jane also does this because she is independent and does not rely on anybody else, and knowing that gives her a sense of pride. Therefore, she does not want to give up that feeling and part of herself by loving Rochester.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that Jane won't admit her feelings because Mr. Rochester is older than she is. Jane is only eighteen years old and Mr. Rochester is nearly forty. Jane also has never loved anyone since Helen. In their time, the woman was never the first to express their feelings. They always let the man speak first. Jane is an independent person. All of these factors play into the fact that Jane keeps her feelings to herself.
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