Another example where nature plays an important role is when the lightning strikes the chestnut tree. The lightning breaks the tree into two. This foreshadows the separation that will happen between Jane and Mr. Rochester
"Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?-a machine without feelings?... Do you think, because I am poor,
obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!..We stood at God's feet, equal,-as we are!" (Pg 258)
"There is no one to meddle, sir. I have no kindred to interfere" (Pg 260)
The Proposal
Summary
Class Difference
In this chapter, Jane and Mr.Rochester have finally admit their love for each other. It all starts when Jane walks alone in the garden while Mr. Rochester calls to ask her approval of marrying Blanche. He also tells Jane that there is a governess job in Ireland. Mr. Rochester couldn't hold his feelings anymore and tells Jane that he loves her and that he never intended on marring Blanche. She tells him she loves him back. He proposes to Jane and she agrees. It starts to rain so they both go inside, and the chestnut tree, where they were seated, get split in half due to lightning.
Mr. Rochester and Jane are of different classes. Mr. Rochester is a wealthy established man while Jane is a poor orphaned girl. Although at first, Jane thought that Mr. Rochester was just playing with her feelings, she later discovered that he can see her as his equal.
Irony
In this quote Jane says that there is nobody in her life that would interfere with this marriage. Ironically though, someone does interfere with the marriage on Mr. Rochester's side, his crazy wife Bertha.
Irony
Pathetic Fallacy
"Where the sun had gone down in simple state-pure of the
pomp of clouds-spread a solemn purple, burning with the light of
red jewel and furnace flame at one point..." (Pg 252)
This is an example of Pathetic Fallacy because the burning sun represents their passionate love.
Chapter 23 is filled with irony:
In the beginning of the chapter Mr. Rochester tells Jane to move away and take a job as a governess in Ireland. That is ironic because after she accepted his proposal she ended up moving away from being a poor governess to the wife of a rich man. She moved away from her low status.
Jane Eyre: Chapter 23
By: Shoshana Katayev