ell me,
am I justified in overleaping
an
obstacle of custom to attain
her?
There is an obstacle?
A mere conventional
impediment.
Lowood School
J: How do you bear
being struck?
H: Miss Scatcherd hits me
to improve me.
She's tormented
by my faults.
J:If she hit me,
I'd get that birch
and break it
under her nose.
H: She'd find another
soon enough.
My father used to preach
that life's too short
to spend in nursing
animosity.
J:At my aunt's house, I
was solitary and despised.
She thought I could do
without
one bit of love or kindness.
H: You are loved.
There's an invisible world
all around you,
a kingdom of spirits
of solitude.
This is my first home
Mr. Rivers where I am neither
dependent
J: Mr. Rivers? I wondered if
nor subordinate to anyone.
you had
Thank you, Mr. St. John.
yet heard of any work I
R: It is small and plain,
could do.
as I told you.
R : I found you a situation
J:Then it'll suit me
some time ago,
very well.
but I've delayed telling you
because the Fairfaix talk
work is lowly and I fear
you'll scorn it. F: It's a quiet life,
J:I shan't mind what I do. isn't it?
R:When I took over the
parish This isolated house, a
two years ago, it had no still doom for a young
school. woman.
I opened one for boys. I J: I wish a woman could
now have
intend to open one for girls. action in her life, like a man.
The schoolmistress will It agitates me to pain that
have a the
cottage paid for by skyline over there is ever
benefactors our limit.
and she'll receive I long sometimes for a
15 a year. power of
You can see how humble, vision that would overpass it.
how ignoble it is. If I could behold
J: Mr. Rivers, all I imagine...
thank you. I've never seen a city,
I accept. I've never
With all my heart. spoken with men.
R: But you comprehend And I fear my
me? whole life will pass...
'Tis a village school, F: Now, exercise
cottagers' daughters. and fresh air,
What will you do with all great cures for
your fine accomplishments? anything, they say.
J: I will save them till they're
wanted. They will keep.
R:Jane.
You will be quite
alone here.
J: I'm not afraid
 as your husband. I see that now.
I must have you for my own. It was cowardly.
Rochester Discussion You wish me I should have appealed
to be your wife? to your spirit as I do now.
R: Come, speak to me.
I swear it. Bertha Antoinetta Mason.
Fact is, Miss Eyre,
You love me? She was wanted by
I'd like to draw you out.
I do. my father for her fortune.
You have rather the look
Then, sir, I hardly spoke with her
of another world about you.
I will marry you. before the wedding.
I don't wish to treat
I lived with her
you as inferior. After wedding for four years.
J: Yet you'd command
Her temper ripened,
me to speak? Forgive me. I'm worthless.
her vices sprang up,
R: Are you very hurt by How could I?
violent and unchaste.
my tone of command? Jane.
Only cruelty would check
J: There are few masters No tears.
her,
who'd trouble to enquire Why don't you cry?
and I'd not use cruelty.
whether their paid Why not scream at me?
I was chained to her
subordinates I deserve a hail of fire.
for life, Jane.
were hurt by their - I need some water.
Not even the law
commands. - Of course.
could free me.
R:Paid subordinate? Jane.
Have you ever set foot
I'd forgotten the salary. How are you now?
in a madhouse, Jane?
Well, on that I will be well again soon.
No, sir.
mercenary ground, I know you.
The inmates are caged
will you consent You're thinking.
and baited like beasts.
to speak as my equal Talking is of no use,
I spared her
without thinking that the you're thinking how to act.
that at least.
request arises from All is changed, sir.
Jane.
insolence? I must leave you.
I earnestly pity you, sir.
J: I'd never mistake No. No!
No.
informality Jane, do you love me?
Who would you offend
for insolence, sir. Then the essential things
by living with me?
One, I rather like. The other, are the same.
Who would care?
nothing freeborn should Be my wife.
I would.
ever submit to. You have a wife.
You'd rather drive
I pledge you my
Miss Ingram me to madness
honor, my fidelity...
than break some
You cannot.
Miss Ingram? mere human law?
...my love, until
She is the machine I must respect myself.
death do us part.
without feelings. Listen to me.
What of truth?
Listen.
It's you. You rare, I would have
I could bend you with
unearthly thing. told you the truth.
my finger and my thumb,
Poor and obscure You are deceitful, sir!
a mere reed you feel
as you are, I was wrong
in my hands.
please accept me to deceive you.
But whatever I do
with this cage,
I cannot get at you.
And it is your soul
that I want.
Why don't you come
of your own free will?
God help me!

MR. Rivers Talk

My dear brother, abandon

your scheme of marriage.
Why this refusal?
It makes no sense.
I earnestly wish
to be your friend.
You can't give
half a sacrifice.
You must give all.
To marry you
would kill me!
Kill you?
Kill you?
Those words are
unfeminine and untrue.
I know where your heart
turns
and to what it still clings.
Say his name.
Say it. Say it!
Jane.
Why have you not yet
crushed this lawless
passion?
Jane!
It offends me and
it offends God!