Explore the relationship between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester; including the obstacles they have overcome to achieve happiness.

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Katie Woodward 10J

Explore the relationship between Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester; including the obstacles they have overcome to achieve happiness.

In this essay I how Jane and Mr Rochester have achieved happiness in various different ways. I will explore the obstacles they have overcome and how they have overcome them. Also, I will explore their relationship progressing and how as the months have gone on, they have become closer.

        Mr Rochester and Jane have never simply been employer and employee. There relationship has never been strictly professional and from the moment the met, Mr Rochester was always kind and caring towards Jane. This is shown by the way he talks to her and how he acts around her.

                ‘Mr Rochester, as sat in his damask-covered chair, looked different to what I had seen him before’

She notices this change around him when they are alone, as Mrs Fairfax and Adele had left the room. She is very descriptive of him saying that ‘his eyes sparkled’ and that he was ‘much less gloomy.’ She describes him as a totally differen

t person than his usual ‘frigid and rigid temper of a becomes very morning.’ I think she has seen a different light of Mr Rochester, and she likes it. In this paragraph there is a connection between the two and Jane describes herself as in a ‘gaze. Fastened by his physiognomy.’

        He catches her glare and asks in a very engaging tone

                        ‘ Do you think me handsome?’

 He acts very flirtatious and by the way he speaks to her it seems as if he is very comfortable around her. By this paragraph it seems almost certain that he is fond of her already.

As the weeks progressed, the pair became closer and they really enjoyed each other’s company. This is shown when Jane shows Mr Rochester her paintings. Jane and Mr Rochester and became as close as you could be when someone set fire to Mr Rochester’s room at Thornfield.  Jane realises that Mr Rochester room is alight when she hears noises while she is lying in bed.

        ‘There was a demoniac laugh-low, suppressed, and deep’

This must have meant that someone was intending to set the room alight and kill Mr Rochester. Jane thought that Grace Pool might be behind the laugh. As Jane went to report it to Mrs Fairfax Jane realised that Mr Rochester’s room was filled with smoke.

        ‘Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire’

Jane is very descriptive about the fire, and this means that she wants the reader to know how frightening and how powerful the fire was. She wants the reader to know how powerful and frightening the fire was because she knew that it could not have been an accident. She knew that it was intentionally set on fire by Bertha and to know that someone would want to kill a friend of yours, must have made Jane want to somehow protect him.

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   The fire brought them closer because Jane wished to see Mr Rochester after the fire and make sure he okay. She takes him much more as a close friend now because she realises what could have happened if she had not gone in there and saved him.

        ‘I both wished and feared to see Mr Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night’

I think Jane feared to see him because she sees him in different light now. She saw him as a friend and employer before but now she sees him as something more. She seems ...

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