Thornfield Quotes

Jane’s experience at Thornfield was also greatly improved by the relationships she made there. Jane describes Thornfield by saying, “It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman’s manor-house, not a nobleman’s seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look” (102). Thornfield is where Jane is hired to be the governess to a young French girl named Adele and employed by Mr. Rochester. Jane’s has two major problems while she is at Thornfield; Mr. Rochester most likely marrying a woman named Blanche Ingram, and who she believes to be Grace Poole causing chaos in the manor. Blanche is the daughter of one of Mr. Rochester’s neighbors. She is a woman in her early twenties who everyone agrees is absolutely stunning and gorgeous. That is her on the outside. How she is on the
Rochester, which only made her feel envious of Blanche because she thought that there was no way that Mr. Rochester would love her over Blanche. Jane was soon proven wrong when Mr. Rochester told her that he truly love her and he was just using Blanche to make her jealous; after that, they quickly decided to get married. That was the positive that came from her first problem that soon became part of the second. For the majority of the time, Jane assumed the person that did the mysterious acts of setting Mr. Rochester’s bed on fire and destroying her veil was Grace Poole because Jane didn’t know here and because of the insane sounding laughter the where Grace was. This was proven wrong when a man named Richard Mason interrupts Jane and Mr. Rochester’s wedding by saying that Mr. Rochester was already married. It turns out that Mr. Rochester was already married to Richard’s sister Bertha, who Mr. Rochester keeps locked in the because she has gone mad. The whole time, it was Bertha who was commenting the worrisome acts throughout the