Jane Eyre "AI" pages 429-443

Pg 430: Jane goes back to Rochester. All she stood for has demolished, everything she pronounced has turned against her. By giving in to her feelings that she earlier vehemently denied, she is turning all her efforts and her word into dirt. Similarly, everything she stood against she has now become. Jane is wealthy, judgemental, sinful and happy. Her dispair was tied to her purity and now that she is happy she is tainted. Like all the others she criticized, she now thinks herself better than others. Throughout the novel happines has been linked to sin or something forbidden. Jane has turned her back on what she coveted most and has compromised her soul in return for worldly joy.

Jane Eyre "AI" Pages 399-413

Pg 399: St. John is beginning to take interest in Jane, even though he has a higher purpose to fulfill he falls into temptation. Even the pious are subject to worldly desires. So if someone with strong desire and a stronger will than Jane can fall to temptation that doesn't show much hope for Jane. She doesn't have a higher calling like St. John yet feels for someone just as strongly as it appears St. John does. If he has no hope then Jane has no hope. She will fall into sin and be ignorant to it and be happy. She will marry Rochester and succumb to her weakness.

Jane Eyre "AI" pages 384-398

Pg 386: Jane is having a bout with St. John to see which one is the stronger, stronger willed. They both think themselves noble in thier cause and both refuse to sway. Both of them think themselves above the rest because they have a higher purpose and think that makes them inherently better and above earthly needs.
Pg 390: Jane comes into a substantial amount of money and one of the first things she does is quit work and refurnish the house. More hipocrisy on Jane's part, she always criticized the wealthy and all they do. Now that she has money, Jane is acting just like them. She will turn out ignorant and all that she considers wrong with the upper class

Jane Eyre "AI" pages 369-383

Pg 372: Jane keeps mentioning this little orphan girl that works for Jane for little gifts like an orange or a piece of currency. Showing what Jane would be if she had been an orphan? So despite all the suffering she went through it worked out for the better, she's above this girl and all this girl will ever be. Jane beginning to feel superior to all around her.
Pg 383: St. John discovered her name is Jane Eyre, her name is the tie to her past, to Rochester, to sin. By discovering her is to discover her dormant sin and release it. Jane is now destined to join Rochester because she can't escape her name, her past, Rochester.

Jane Eyre "AI" pages 354-368

Pg 354: St. John is always sorrowful and tired and not much for enjoying life. He takes his missionary position almost like a burden. This would show a lack of true faith in god because his work towards a higher power isn't granting him happiness. Maybe he's working for god for selfish gains, wants a higher place in heaven or a guaranteed acceptance into heaven.
Pg 363: Reference to Jane as Lot's wife from Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot's wife fell from god's grace by giving in to temptation. By Jane going with Rochester she would fall out of god's grace because he is so sinful like the cities. Lot's wife couldn't resist, foreshadowing for Jane's future?
Pg 365: St. John likes a beautiful girl who likes him back, similar position that Jane and Rochester were in. Jane advises him against the course of action she took with Rochester. Hypocricy, Self-gratification, puts Jane on a higher moral plane.

Jane Eyre "AI" pages 339-353

Note: misplaced a page of notes, why there's a gap in the blog
Pg 345: Jane has been taken in by St. John and his sisters. Their maid is very uneducated yet Jane still talks to her and helps her out around the house, other people wouldn't. Jane is seen as a caring individual who tries to connect with everyone despite their class.
Pg 351: Jane compares her care in the house to that of a bird. A bird is a creature free from traditional restraints, it can fly off at a moments notice to places far off. By this comparison Jane would be free spirited, not weighed down by life and the triviality of it all. Yet she is frail like a bird and needs to be looked after.

Jane Eyre "AI" pages 294-308

Page 294: Mr. Rochester declares himself "no better than the devil" for his deceit and attempted bigamy. It was not Grace who had done all the things but is was she who got the blame for Rochester's wife whom she was watching, Mrs. Rochester is crazy. It was Jane he sought for not as a foil to himself but as one of his wife. He will still desire Jane but certainly now nothing can happen of it.
Page 296: When Rochester's wife sees him she becomes incredibly aggressive but why him. Is it because he has her shut up or because of something else that now drives her rage. Perhaps it was all that Jane liked in Rochester that propels Mrs. Rochester into aggression. She attacks Rochester and there is a fierce struggle, he doesn't land a blow on her. It is still his duty to protect and take care of her.
Page 297: Jane doesn't feel as though she has taken the time to think but has only followed the current. Now she thinks and has concluded that nothing has changed, what she wanted most is now the thing she dreads most because she is back to being the lonely girl that is always surrounded by winter and desolate roads. Everything she held as beautiful, the roses, the trees, all of thornfield (Rochester exempted from the description) is now covered by cold. Jane's shell is back up round her and is extended to everything else. There is an allusion to the great flood that Jane feels surrounding her trying to kill off her sins. She will survive though because they are not her sins but others and she must again find her own happiness in the abbys that now surrounds her.