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Troubled Past

Baggage...

Bipolar or Moody

“He is not very forgiving: he broke with his family, and now for many years has led an unsettled kind of life. I don’t think he has ever been resident at Thornfield for a fortnight together, since the death of his brother” (144).

Mr. Rochester: Byronic Hero

I love you, I love you not

“He is very changeful and abrupt” (143). - Jane

“For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now-a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you” (299).

Dominant

Grace Liang & Amanda Leong

Mine, mine, mine!

“Mason will not defy me” (248).

“I mean shortly to claim you- your thoughts, conversation, and company- for life” (306).

“It is your time now little tyrant, but it will be mine presently; and when once I have fairly seized you, to have and to hold, I’ll just-figuratively speaking-attach you to a chain” (311).

Seductive and Sexually Attractive

Ladies man!

“I believe he is a general favorite: the ladies are very fond of him” (179).

“One of the ladies ran to him directly; she seized his arm: It was Miss Ingram” (236).

“The Misses Eshton were clinging about him now: and the two dowagers...were bearing down on him” (236).

“Ladies, keep off” (236).

dark attributes

Come to the dark side...

“He had a dark face, with stern features, and a heavy brow” (127).

“His dark eyes darted sparks” (236).

“He searched my face with eyes that I saw were dark, irate, and piercing” (136).

My name... is Mr. Rochester.

The events in Jane Eyre reveal Charlotte Bronte's entertaining purpose to highlight the characteristics of a Byronic hero in Mr. Rochester through his personality, physical appearance, and history.

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