To say least Mr. Rochester, has turned out, ultimately, to be a weirdo . Initially he is introduced to Jane in a scene where he does not admit to his identity, and he follows up by dressing up like an old gypsy, again pretending to be someone he is not. To be honest, I don’t really have the background information of what people did for entertainment back in the 1800s, but I am guessing that a man dressing up as a woman and playing a practical joke, wasn’t really considered normal. Perhaps Mr. Rochester has developed an obsession of deceiving people to find out what they truly think, because of his past encounter with Adele’s mother. In any case, I think that this bantering or what he might consider “wooing” (flirting), is actually messing with Jane’s mind. However complicated love may be, Mr. Rochester seems to be going about everything in the strangest way. Like the fire that burns for Jane’s independency as a woman, there is a flame of passion igniting between Mr. Rochester and Ms. Eyre. This undeniable, for Mr. Rochester has to bite his lip to from addressing her as his “love” when bidding her good night in the hallway (210) and for Jane she knows the yearning she feels is not a simple crush, but the emotion that the heart pumps when the complexities of love of are near. The relationship between these two is emerging on the most bizarre set of terms. Why Mr. Rochester acts like an inconceivable creep and continues to omit his true identity to Jane, is past the point of what he might put fault on shyness. And why must this powerful, strong, thriving young woman we have seen Jane become in moments of fire, damper in the sight of love. To me, it is contradicting her entire image.
I hope that in the next chapters both Jane and Mr. Rochester pick it up and start taking action in this “little game of love.”
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The relationship between these two is, indeed, proceeding 'bizarrely' (as you astutely point out), and I think you're right to wonder not just at Rochester's 'creepiness', but at his overall pattern of deception (not just during the Gypsy scene but also, you'll remember, at their first encounter). Does this deception--this willingness to reject convention (by, among other things, dressing up as a woman) have its source in some secret Rochester is keeping. Has he become habituated to deceit by circumstance (more than by character). I wonder if future revelations will confirm the instinctive observations you make here!
And Also, he continues to decieve her to the very last moments until SHE first confesses her love to him! He lies about not being Rochester, Master of Thornfield Hall, dresses up as a woman in a weird (but pretty kick-butt) endeavor to pry the emotion out of Jane, and then says he is to marry Ingram and send Jane to Ireland. THEN, just when Jane breaks down and can't handle it anymore, does he come right out of his lying habits and say everything he has ever felt. Perhaps he was scared of another rejection? Perhaps he took on all of these strange means of finding her true affection before devouting himself to her because he could no handle another broke heart? Ah, men are strange.
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