Finally! We get to the conclusion of Jane’s progress. As much as I still dislike Rochester (I mean he’s a manipulative jerk), he does make Jane incredibly happy and brings her infinite joy, which she deserves after a life of awful suffering. It was also gave me some sense of justice that Rochester was blinded after the fire at Thornfield, since he decided to lock his first wife up.
Aside from the conclusion, the imagery in this section is so vivid, especially when Jane first arrived at the ruins of Thornfield. I could almost hear the ambience of the wind blowing through the grown over ruins and burnt down beams of the former hall. It also felt like some sort of justice whenever Bertha escaped from the attic and decided to burn down the hall. I can only imagine how cathartic it felt for her, to burn down the essential jail cell she spent a majority of her adult life locked inside.
Another justice I saw was watching St John get totally denied by Jane when he attempted to propose to her. It truly shows Jane’s hold on her life, as she sort of blindly accepted Rochester’s original marriage proposal earlier in the text. I think that first proposal definitely affected Jane’s reaction to St John later, especially when he was being so rude to her with the reasons on why he wanted to marry her.
I don’t know if the ending was satisfactory, but, it was a neat tight ending to the wildly erratic of Jane Eyre. I feel like, if this story took place in the reality of the time period, the ending would be more tragic or unrealized, with the real life Jane settling for a character like St John.
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