What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean?
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What does the ending of Jane Eyre mean?
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What does the ending of
Jane Eyre mean?
For many readers, “the blackened ruin” which
Jane finds when she returns to Thornfield, and the
blinded, scorched and charred Rochester she
seeks out at Ferndean, represent the vanquishing
of the novel’s sexual energies. “Mr Rochester’s sex
passion is not ‘respectable’,” said D.H. Lawrence,
“till Mr Rochester is burned, blinded, disfigured
and reduced to helpless dependence.
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