My blog topic:How would you describe Rochester?

If I had to describe Rochester, I would say he was a witty man who had a tortured past and wanted to make things right. Throughout the story you learn more and more about Rochester and his sad past. Like Jane, Rochester shares the same disappointing past, though she doesn’t realize it till later. One thing I noticed about Rochester is that he is a responsible man and usually tries to do what is best for others rather than himself. He is proven to be responsible when he takes care of Adele, though it isn’t known if she is even his child or not. He also takes responsibility of his insane wife, taking care of her though she has repetitively tried to hurt him.
Rochester seems to know that he can never really marry again as long as Bertha Mason is alive. But he still falls for Jane despite this, and through this, you start to see his weakness. He wants to be loved, but knows he can not because he is bound to Bertha.
Rochester always seems to try and please others. Even from when he was a young man he did what his father and his brother wanted him to do. And even when Jane comes back, after finding that she has been proposed to by someone else, he tells her,” Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing?” (Bronte, 516) Rochester wants her to be happy because he loves her.


Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.