"Little Jane's love would have been my best reward," he answered:"without it, my heart is broken. But Jane will give me her love: yes--nobly, generously."
Up the blood rushed to his face; forth flashed the fire from his eyes; erect he sprang; he held his arms out; but I evaded the embrace, and at once quitted the room.
"Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added,"Farewell, for ever!"(324)
Jane is in love with Mr.Rochester, as he is with her. However, she can't be with him for this treacherous deceit. Deceit as defined by Dictionary.com is "the act or practice of deceiving; concealment or distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading; duplicity; fraud; cheating". This is exactly what Mr.Rochester did. He lied to Jane, but is he justified for his actions?
Most people think that Jane shouldn't forgive Mr.Rochester. Though his cause was okay the truth shall set us free. His legal wife is not fit to be married. She has a disease. However, he is such a good person that he didn't want to put her in an insane asylum. In this time period people in insane asylums were tortured. Though his wife should be in some mental hospital:she didn't deserve to be tortured. So if that isn't justified enough he was also freeing Jane from the burden of knowledge.
Mr.Rochester's actions were selfish, but wouldn't Jane be happy with him? He knew if she knew the truth she wouldn't marry him. He was being deceitful; he purposely tricked Jane. However, had he not, Jane wouldn't even come close to feeling the love she felt for him. Though she was tricked and lied to, she was also given true happiness.
In the end it seems that even though Mr.Rochester's actions are justified:love wasn't enough. Jane loves him: Jane can forgive him, but she will not stay with him. Love can cure many things but honesty unfortunately comes first. Like in the web link below and Sophocles agree. Honesty is number one.
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Well I do think that honesty has to comes first, but I don't think that Mr. Rochester's actions were justified. He did her wrong. He's married; he shouldn't be looking for love anywhere else. He needs to try to make things work with his wife, the one he loved before she became insane. When someone gets married they make a promise before God to be with each other in sickness and in health, till death do you apart. So he needs to keep his promise. I think that Mr. Rochester has something to do with Bertha becoming insane. He locked her up! How wouldn't that make a person go crazy? And yes I understand that she was like that before he locked her up, but still he could have a least make a bigger effort to make things work. Jane did a right thing in leaving that liar. And I'm so grateful she has an uncle that cares about her that much to stop her from marrying him.
ReplyDeleteHow are they not justified? We don't know that he didn't try to be with Bertha. He's said that he locked her up because you couldn't keep a conversation with her. How can you keep that sacred promise after so much? We are human and we can only take so much. Besides who's to say that he didn't try really hard to make it work. He loved her and if he's able to lie to the one he love's: I'm positive he is able to try and make things work to the last moment. He deserves to be HAPPY!
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