Rochester's Character Changes Throughout The Novel

Jane’s situation changes dramatically over the course of the book, from a servant at the Rochester household to an engaged women to Rochester to a women who ran away from Rochester and who lastly came back to him to be his wife. Do the actual characters of Jane and Rochester significantly change, or are the changes merely circumstantial?
The changes are merely circumstantial and this can be shown by going through some of the dramatic changes and examining the characters personalities and what was happening.
Jane was an intelligent and honest girl. Although she meets with a series of individuals who threaten her autonomy, Jane repeatedly succeeds at asserting herself and maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, and morality. She
She loved Rochester While Rochester initially offers Jane a chance to liberate her passions, Jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean enslavement by living as Rochester’s mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feelings. As Jane decides to not risk her integrity she runs away. Later on the River family took Jane into their household and this is where she met her cousin St. John River. St. John Rivers offers Jane another kind of freedom: the freedom to act on her principles. He opens to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India as his wife. Jane eventually realizes, though, that this freedom would also have a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings and her true passions always in check. Jane’s character did not change but her situation merely changed. Rochester’s proposal made her realize a certain imprisonment and St. John Rivers proposal made her realize a different imprisonment. The dramatic changes in the book are simply because Jane’s circumstances changed. Some different circumstances are her being a servant, an engaged women to Rochester, finding out about Rochester’s wife, living on the streets, meeting family, to Rochester’s wife dying and Rochester going
Ultimately, she would become dependent upon Rochester for love, while unprotected by any true marriage bond. Jane will only enter into marriage with Rochester after she has gained a fortune and a family, and after she has been on the verge of abandoning passion altogether. She waits until she is not influenced by her own poverty, loneliness, psychological vulnerability, or passion. Because Rochester has been blinded by the fire and has lost his manor house at the end of the novel, he has become weaker while Jane has grown in strength. Jane claims that they are equals, but the marriage dynamic has actually tipped in her favor. Rochester did not completely change book either. It was mostly circumstantial being that when Jane came into his life, left, came back again, and he was blind. Some might say that by Rochester going blind it changed his character. However, that is not true because Rochester loved Jane before he was blind and loved her after he became blinded. The circumstance of his wife dying led to the significant change of Jane marrying