#12

I absolutely can not believe that Mr. Rochester would still think that Jane had any interest of having a romantic relationship with him! After the horrible secret that he has been concealing from her all this time, he expects her to run away with him as his mistress. I think that Jane turned down his offer because she has some self respect, she knows that in the end, Mr. Rochester will never be fully hers and that deep down inside of his mind, she will always be the other woman. He then tells Jane the story of how he met his wife and how, in the beginning, everything was exactly how it was supposed to be. She was beautiful and he loved her, but then he met her crazed mother and Bertha started turning into her. This, I feel, was a desperate attempt to regain Jane’s affection, he wants her to pity him and give in to what he wants. Luckily, she is not that naive and knows that the only way to get rid of the feelings she has for Mr. Rochester, is to move out of his house and leave him forever. That night Jane dreams about her mother. This probably comes about because of the story Mr. Rochester tells her, about how Bertha Mason became like her mother, and Jane wonders how her mother was like, and if her character resembles hers. Later on in these chapters, Jane finds a new home which is in a stretch of field and seems warmer than Thornfield. A relative name for this place would probably have to be something like Greenwick, green for its setting, and wick for warmth, a wick is a part of a candle and hopefully, this place will be warmer, literally and figuratively speaking, than her last three residences.