Jayne Eyre Ending

-       Why is Jane dissatisfied with her work as a teacher?

-       What does Jane’s newly inherited fortune change?

-       Describe St. John and Jane’s relationship. How does it compare to that of Jane and Rochester’s?

o   “I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under a rather stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. I should still have my unblighted self to turn to: my natural unenslaved feelings with which to communicate in moments of loneliness.” 507

-       Explore the religious aspects of the different characters. How does Jane’s faith compare to St. Johns?Rochester’s? Helens?

-       How do the two proposals and Jane’s reaction to them contrast?

o   “but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable.” 507

o   “I felt how—if I were his wife—this good man, pure as the deep sunless source, could soon kill me” 510

-       Why does Jane return to Thornfield?

o   “I recalled the voice I had heard; again I questioned whence it came, as vainly as before: it seemed in me – not in the eternal world.” 521

-       Why can Jane be satisfied in a marriage to Rochester with his second proposal?

o   How does feminism play a role in it?

-       Is Adele a symbol for whom Jane is? What is her role in the novel?

-       Does Jane have a happy ending? Could she have been happy if she did not marry?