Essay About Jane's Love For Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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Jane's Love For Rochester in Jane Eyre

You can't judge a book by it's cover. In Jane Eyre by Charlotte

Bronte, we meet Jane Eyre, who finds her true love to be someone she is not

attracted to. Jane is attracted to people who contain the same intellectual

capacity as her, and has no regard for those who have only beauty and money

to give. After attending an all girls seminary until she reached the age of

eighteen, Jane advertises for a job as a governess, and receives one at an

estate named Thornfield. This is where she meets, Rochester, the owner of

the mansion, and her true love. When she learns of a dark secret he has

been keeping, she flees to another part of England where she meets St. John,

a man who she does find good looking, but doesn't like his personality.

From here she returns to Thornfield where she marries Rochester. If Jane

had gone through her life looking for beauty instead of someone who shared

a mental similarity with her, she never would of found happiness.

Jane is attracted to Rochester, even though she does not find him

to be handsome. "...it was not easy to give an impromptu answer to a

question about appearances; that tastes mostly differ; and that beauty is

of little consequence..." After answering no to Rochester's question of

whether or not he was handsome, she goes on to tell him that appearances

mean little or nothing. Jane understands that to have a true and loving

relationship with someone, that both must have not looks, but a similarity

in thought, and a like for the other's personality. Relationship's such as

this are ones of quality that will last for a long time. Although Jane is

not a beautiful women, she is able to find happiness and that is what's

most important.

Jane has no regard for the beautiful Miss Ingram, for she has no

intellectual capacity. She is not jealous of her closeness to Rochester for

she has no qualities to be jealous of. "She was very showy, but she was not

genuine; she had a fine person, many brilliant attainments, but her mind

was poor, her heart barren by nature..." Jane knows it is far better to

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