Coming Of Age In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre is about an orphaned girl’s coming of age story. Part of Jane’s countless obstacles, she almost married a married man. The love between Rochester and Jane, has shown to be strong but it exposes misguided intentions. Rochester’s choice to marry Jane is amiss, but informing Jane about his wife in advance wouldn't revise my opinion. This marriage was established on playing with emotions, it isn’t socially approved, and it contains deception.

Rochester proposed to Jane by playing with her feelings to make her jealous. Rochester pretended to be engaged to Ingram and sending Jane away. He says “it was my intention to put my old bachelor’s neck into the sacred noose, to enter into the holy estate of matrimony—to take Miss Ingram to my bosom, in short (she’s an extensive armful: but that’s not to the point—one can’t have too much of such a very excellent thing as my beautiful Blanch)” (Bronte 235). At the foundation

When Mrs. Fairfax heard the news about Jane and Rochester marrying, she was in bewilderment. Mrs. Fairfax states “I could never have thought it. He is a proud man: all the Rochesters were proud: and his father, at least, liked money. He, too, has always been called careful. He means to marry you?” (Bronte 248). Mrs. Fairfax contrast in his decision with her respect for him, tells the readers that this is a marriages in disapproval. Jane is not of social standing to marry someone who is wealthy. Jane is a employee in Rochester’s house, thus giving him more power in the marriage. Clearly, Jane’s social standing is important to Rochester because after proposing he tries to shower her with gifts. Rochester wants to dress Jane up as other wealthy woman in London. He says “I will make the world acknowledge you a beauty, too” (Bronte 244). The obvious social disapproval gives the marriage an awry feeling, foreshadowing what is to come later in the