Q: “To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.”
C: I chose this quote as Jane talks about her and Rochester and their love for eachother and it made me happy for her because I do believe that she deserves happiness but I fear for her as well. I know that she says that she loves him and she is pleased to take care of him after the fire but I can’t help but wonder why she would do this. In the beginning of the novel, we see Jane stick up to even her aunt and just be a very outspoken woman who, I thought at the beginning, wouldn’t put up with anything like this but she did. I just wish the book had a different ending where we got to see Jane continue that “I’m not gonna take anyone’s crap” type of personality. But if you truly think about when this story was written, this is how I believe women would have behaved. Which makes sense why Bronte would’ve written an ending like this, it was relatable. I know it is easy for me to sit here, not having been through anything that Jane has been through and saying what I would’ve done differently but the truth is I cannot be certain so I will try to judge more lightly. I just had thought, especially after Jane had left Thornfield, that we were going to get an “independent woman” type of ending, which I think would’ve been huge for that era and the women of the Victorian era. I just still am shocked about how Jane can just seemingly overlook the fact that Rochester had a whole woman locked in his attic, whom he was married to and then still chose to marry him in the end.
Q: I wonder what the response from people of that era would’ve been had Jane not married Rochester. Because it very well could’ve gone the opposite way of what I was expecting/hoping for it to go because back then some women actually believed that they were there to serve their husbands and it was their jobs.
