Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Rush of Feelings

In response to my own writing after I read past the previously stated quotations, the calm feelings Jane seemed to portray are gone. She will not let herself explode with anger or frustration or doubt or anything negative, but she questions all that has happened. You can feel the fury and the loss in her heart, but it is not broken. She still seems collected, just without anything. I feel as though she almost suspected something like this. Her lost love of Rochester is not what she is mourning or thinking about, its more the feelings that she was about to make something of herself and now she is not. Her life is “pale, her prospects were desolate” (341) and that thought seemed to bug her. She knows she must leave him but the feelings of loss are overwhelming. “There is no one to help” (342) she states. What will she proceed on to do with these “floods overflowing her” (342)?

1 comment:

David Lavender said...

I agree that Bronte's very controlled (and in places quite lovely) rendering of Jane's internal struggle as she realizes that she must leave this man she still loves (and has already forgiven) is flat-out terrific. What about Rochester? Does he have any case to make in excusing his bad behaviour?