Chapter 17 assignment Assignment 7

I like Mr. Rochester a lot. I’ve always loved stories with a misunderstood, tormented, man. Everything about men like this attracts me because I feel sorry for them and I feel like I can understand them. Mr. Rochester is an ideal, perfect, true love and husband. I only wish men like him really existed. Now days you can find misunderstood, tormented men, but not ones like Mr. Rochester. What makes him different is the way he reacts to his situation and the time period he is in. I think Jane adores and loves him, but believes he could never love her back because she sees herself as ugly, unworthy, and too in superior to him. She also thinks he is in love with Miss Ingram. I do not think it is strange that Rochester keeps Grace Poole around for a couple of reasons. First of all I do happen to know what happens in the book, but before I found out I did think about the whole situation with Grace Poole. I also, know what I would be thinking if I didn’t know what happens and I have come to some conclusions, so for this blog I am going to assume I know nothing more than what I’ve read and I’m going to write in a voice that says I know only this much. So, I guess in a way it is strange to keep Grace around, but I get this feeling there must be a reason even if it’s a bad one. I have considered that maybe he doesn’t want his reputation ruined if people found out he had a crazy servant in his house and I have considered that maybe there is someone else he keeps up there, like an insane mother or something. (Well that might just be because I recently saw Psycho) These ideas have all crossed my mind, but the idea I think will turn out to be the most accurate has to do with something Mr. Mason said. (By the way even though I know what happens I didn’t know about Mr. Mason before I read about him and I only know the very basics of what happens, so I have absolutely no idea if this suspicion is true at all, so if it’s correct I’m not trying to give anything away because I seriously would not have known that I was right.) I have a feeling that Grace Poole or whoever is the one who has caused all these strange things and stabbed Mr. Mason is in fact Mr. Mason’s sister. The reason why I think this is when Rochester first heard his name he got very scared and I think that Rochester is supposed to be in charge of Mason’s sister and was afraid Mason had finally decided that he no longer wanted his sister a secret or wanted to take her away. Another reason I think this is because Mr. Mason knew where to find Grace Poole on the third floor suggesting he may have been there before. He also wasn’t freaking out after he was stabbed as though he knew about the danger and knew not to blame Rochester or freak out. The only thing he did do was scream and I don’t think that was in fright or surprise, but only because he couldn’t help screaming from the pain at being stabbed. He also seemed surprised that she stabbed him, as if he didn’t expect her to stab him because he was her brother and wanted to help her. Finally the last reason is instead of fighting back or threatening Rochester that he would sue (or whatever the equivalent to suing was back then) or telling Rochester to put her in an asylum or that she didn’t deserve/ shouldn’t be aloud to live, Mr. Mason acted the exact opposite way. What he said instead in a very calm voice was “Let her be taken care of: let her be treated as tenderly as may be; let her—“, where he then started to cry because he cared so much about the woman who just stabbed him and he just couldn’t bare it if anything were to happen to her. I knew at once that there must be some strong connection between them or that Mr. Mason was a very, very holy man because only one of these two would not only be willing to forgive someone who just tried to kill them, but also want the very best for that person. (I say a very holy man not because I am Catholic and believe only holy people could be that nice (which I don’t believe), but because the only person I have ever herd of that could do that was Pope John-Paul II, so I guess what I mean is not someone very holy, but someone with a very pure and good heart and soul, and you don’t need to be holy to have that, so I am sorry if I offended anyone who read this.)