Mr. Rochester persists in making physical and emotional barbs at Jane while awakening all her hidden desires. This contradiction causes Jane great emotional turmoil. The culmination of this conflict is the wedding scene. Upon finding out her love's betrayal, Jane is left in emotional chaos. "After the tumult that follows the interrupted wedding, Jane is finally left alone to think and to receive in her consciousness the full impact of the blow" (Ewbank 182). She assesses her situation and comes to the conclusion that she must leave. Another characteristic presented by Jane is her moral conviction. This strength begins to come forth with her relationship with Mr. Rochester. Mr. Rochester awakens all of Jane's greatest desires. She sees her attraction to him as a dilemma that must be avoided. "Jane, who cares passionately for Mr. Rochester, preserves her detachment from him" (Craik 73). The emotions between Mr. Rochester and Jane become so intense that "by the time this marriage is reached it has come to represent the resolution of moral and emotional conflicts" (Craik 72). Those conflicts become even more profound with the wedding's interruption. At this point Jane realizes that her love has no hope. She said, "The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass" (p.301). She longs to stay but knows it cannot be. "Jane expresses the tension between her desire to be Rochester's and her moral knowledge that she must leave him" (Ewbank 183). The reader must begin to "perceive as one Jane's agony and its emotional and spiritual implications" (Ewbank 185). In the end Mr. Rochester pressures Jane to become his mistress. "The intensity of pressure which he puts on her is matched, not by fear or revulsion of the popular heroine, but by a responsiveness which she barely masters" (Heilman 35). But Mr. Rochester lets her go because he "too, recognizes that without her soul and spirit she is not worth having" (Ewbank194).
