Bronte & Austen Contrast & Term Paper

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Rochester was burned and maimed in a fire set by his first wife who had all this time lived in the attic of the house guarded by a nurse. The man who once had the confident gait is seen standing blindly in the rain as Jane approaches the house after her decision is made to return to Rochester. The scene is reversed as Jane stands talking to Rochester who is now groping through air with a stump for an arm and with blinded eyes straining to see and it is now her turn to assure him of her devotion because she is already fulfilled in the knowing that she is just what he wants:

On this arm, I have neither hand nor nails," he said, drawing the mutilated limb from his breast, and showing it to me. "It is a mere stump -- a ghastly sight! Don't you think so, Jane?"

It is a pity to see it; and a pity to see your eyes -- and the scar of fire on your forehead: and the worst of it is, one is in danger of loving you too well for all this; and making too much of you." thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrised visage.
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Conclusion:

Although the style and tactics in courtship were wielded differently by Rochester and Mr. Darcy in their pursuit of the women that they loved, patience did play a large part in both men's character as well as the ability of Mr. Darcy in allowing Elizabeth time to come to her own conclusion he learned to put aside the pride that bound him. Rochester, fortunate in the honesty of his protestations of love being also of a lasting and convincing quality was the tie that bound Jane to him even after he was reduced to a much less capable man in view of marriage. Both of these men had fortitude and were focused toward that one woman which they felt suited them and in the end the one to whom they were married......

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