I continue to read Jane Eyre. As an old bird now , I am struck by Mr Rochester's temper that teeters on the verge of actual violence towards women when he doesn't get his own way. He drags Jane up to view his wife , then when she tries to leave him she has to use eye contact to stop him either raping or beating her. CB tries to palliate his violence by presenting it as passion and a result of his past but it doesn't wash in the 21st century.
I found the scene where JE is destitute and reduced to begging one of the riveting episodes in the novel which is something I would have over looked as a teenager. So much so that the phone went and I was really disorientated for the moment.
I'm really seeing the 'Romantics' influence on CB particularly in the actions of Rochester who is given to flinging himself on sofas and crying.' Blimey' I thought' he's behaving like Frankenstein'.
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