Thornfield Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre makes the tough decision to leave the only man that has ever loved her in Emily Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Her lover, as well as master, Edward Rochester has embarked on a journey of love with Jane, but as the truth rolls out, she makes the severe decision to leave him at Thornfield. Their wedding day ends in Rochester’s beastly wife, whom Jane knew nothing of, with her hands around Rochester’s throat. This alone is enough to drive Jane out of the relationship, but it’s his explanation is what really makes her go running.
Jane’s desire to leave Rochester as well as Thornfield is sparked when she learns of his dark past with Bertha Rochester, his wife that she had no knowledge of. Prior to learning the truth behind the throne of lies Rochester

After denying a proposal to live with Rochester in France, he decides to tell Jane the stories of his past with Bertha. He explains he thought he had found a lovely woman, but after marrying, he soon learned that she was mad. He explains her “violent and unreasonable temper” and the affairs she had, though he himself admits to have had mistresses, though they were merely in search of someone to love (353). He tells her that lockering her away in the attic was the only way to keep himself and everyone else safe. Jane believes she will always be nothing more than a mistress to Rochester as long as Bertha is alive, and feels inadequate to her. The fact that Rochester lied to Jane for such a long time also influences her decision to leave, for she lost trust and faith in him. Jane is not entirely wrong in comparing herself to Bertha, as she too has felt the isolation of being confined in a small room. While Jane was living with the Reeds at Gateshead, she was punished by being locked in the Red Room, similar to Bertha being locked in the attic at Thornfield. In these small jails, both women are referred to as animals in the way they behave. Jane is called a rat, as well as a “mad cat”, implying she is a wild, irrational girl with the characteristics of a wild animal (15). Bertha is often mistaken for an animal, seen when Jane observes “whether beast or human being, one could not, at