A man’s love for a woman can go a long way. If he really loves her with all his heart he would not do anything to hurt her. He would cherish her and treat her like the queen that she is. If a man does not treat a woman like he should, then I believe that the man should not be with that woman. In the novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, a young woman’s passionate search for a better life did not come easy. Growing up in a Victorian society, the young woman, Jane Eyre, had to overcome terrible cruelty though her own willpower. Jane never had a father figure in her life. Besides Mr. Lloyd, the family’s kind apothecary, every other man in the first half of her life did not treat Jane well at all (Berg 28). One of the most cruel and uncaring male characters in the novel, is the hypocritical master of the Lowood School, Mr. Brocklehurst. In one instance, after being called a lair in front of the whole school, Jane was forced to stand on a stool while Mr. Brocklehurt ridiculed and yelled at her.

Although Jane did not have much luck with the men who entered her life, she found one who somewhat “fell in”

“Ah! By my word! There is something singular about you. You have the air of a little nonnette; quaint, quiet, grave, and simple, as you sit with your hands before you, and your eyes generally bent on the carpet; and when one asks you a question, or makes a remark to which you are obliged to reply, you rap out a round rejoinder, which, if not blunt, is at least brusque. What do mean by it?” (150).

“Come—we’ll talk over the voyage and the parting quietly, half an hour or so, while the stars enter into their shining life up in heaven yonder: here is the chestnut tree; here is the bench at its old roots. Come there in peace to-night, though we should never more be destined to sit there together” (Bronte 282-283).

However, after Rochester asked Jane to be his wife, she did not answer with the correct word. After listening to what he did not want to hear, Rochester turned angry and almost violent, criticizing and verbally abusing Jane: “You – you strange – you almost unearthly thing! – I love as my own flesh. You – poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are – I entreat to accept me as a husband” (286).

Jane would eventually ever get to marry Rochester, due to his past history and still current wife, Bertha Mason. She would then realize that she had to leave Rochester and take the first crucial step towards independence (Moglen 130). In doing so, she finds a new man in her life, who would promise to be more than Rochester’s ever was.

think me handsome?” (Bronte 149). After Jane replied “No, Sir” to his awkward question, the nervous and self-conscious Rochester replied (149):

Jane (Moglen 140). St. John is the “antithesis” of Rochester: physically he “embodies”, in contrast to Rochester’s “gracelessness”, classical beauty ( Berg 95). According to

Rochester and St. John were two separate people that did not resemble one another to Jane at all. St John’s “repressive sexuality” is very impressive to the humble

Jane had realized that unlike Rochester, St. John was holding back his true feelings. As Jane would explain: “His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty” (407). The only reason for his actions is because he must be in a control behavior for his Missionary Journey to Heaven. Jane concludes that beneath his masculine face, St. John is indeed “inexorable as death” (455).

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