A Couple of Lovers: The Dramatic Comparison.
Charlotte Bronte wrote a stunning book called Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is about a young governess, formerly an orphan, who finds love in two different places, and slowly discovers who she is, and what she wants to do with her life. She is sent out into the world on her own after being at a boarding school, and ends up a governess for a wealthy man, then escapes to take sanctuary with a missionary and his sisters. Jane's two lovers, Mr. Edward Rochester and St. John Rivers, are two very different people. Yet she falls in love with them anyway. Not only are they drastically different from one another, but they also share many similarities, and those characteristics are what Jane latches onto.
Jane connects with her two lovers in many ways, one of them being their temperaments and how they hold themselves. Both men are very committed and passionate about what they stand for, are intelligent, and are stubborn. Mr. Rochester can be described as passionate, fiery, and emotional, and this is shown when he says "'Gratitude!' Jane, accept me quickly. Say Edward-give me my name-Edward-I will marry you."" Mr. Rochester, if he doesn't get what he wants, is very stubborn, yet has a way as coming off as extremely strong and demanding, and usually will get things, even if it isn't completely moral. St. John is cold, reserved, hides in his shell and only comes out every so often to speak as shown when Jane says,.
"But this time his feelings were all pent in his heart: I was not worthy to hear them uttered. As I walked by his side homeward, I read well in his iron silence, all he felt towards me: the dissapointment of an austere and despotic nature, which has met resistance where it expected submission "the disapprobation of a cool, inflexible judgment, which has detected in another feelings and views in which it has no power to sympathise."".
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