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.