And the law of divorce, and the law of annulment.
You get the tragedy of Rochester and Jane Eyre.
And yet, how far would the conditions of her imprisonment have contributed to her madness?
Mrs. Rochester, of the West Indies, I mean.
But in the end it's really Jane's own fault.
"Mr. Rochester, I will not be yours," she says.
I think of The Mill on the Floss, and of George Eliot's heroine who rejected the rejection of convention Ms. Eliot did not reject.
Jane rejects Rochester and happiness because she is a Christian, advising prayer and hope for a good afterlife.
No kidding.
Reading Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece.
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