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Terry

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Jessica

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sublimosa this is in response to zodd's answer-sorry, can't get it to post as a comment to that particular answer...I think the ending contains a very Christian/moral ending, for the time. Rochester loses an arm and a great deal of his sight for his sin of trying to wed Jane while he still has a wife. I didn't get this the first or second reading, it took many readings and didn't hit me full, just sort of crept up on me.

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Panchalee It was definitely for the most part because she had fostered a profound love for the man. However I feel that in part it was also because conscientiously she felt that it was the right thing to do. She was a woman who gave a large part of her life to helping people and she was a strict believer in God's work of giving to humanity. Perhaps, since her life was for an important part, influenced and touched by Mr. Rochester and because he was a tangible presence that really meant something to her she felt it was her foremost duty to look to his safety and well being (Which made her abandon her journey to help the poor in India and arrive at Thornfield).

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Quinn Smells Books Jane Eyre is a Gothic novel. Whether or not Charlotte Bronte believed in this sort of thing in real life, in the book there is certainly some mystical sort of stuff going on. When Jane hears Mr R's voice, it is some sort of spiritual communication/connection; indeed, much of Jane and Mr R's relationship isspiritual/relating to the spirit, and transcends the physical; it is appropriate that their communication should do likewise. (It is also a sort of approval from God--remember the major tension between her morals and her love.)
As well, part of it was simply that St John's proposals made her realise how much she was pining for him (St John and Mr R are foils).

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Janneke

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Anisha Because she loved him like she loved no other and also mainly because she was worried as she didn't know anything about his whereabouts and well-being which kept her perturbed.

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Chris Vanjonack He was her everything. She thought about him and then heard him call her in the night and then she knew that she had to be with him.

Edit: He heard her, too. What up with all these ghosts, amirite?

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adsfdsf Jessica's and Panchalee's explainations make sense to me. From a Christian and/or moral point of view you probably wouldn't think of it as a perfect ending, I guess. Jane realizing she can't be as cold/philanthropic/moral as St. John and has to return to the passionate/selfish/immoral Mr. Rochester. But when she returns to Mr. Rochester her faith in the relationship is restored because she knows better of her own disabilities and is assured she is in the right place with Mr. Rochester which she couldn't do if she hadn't found out by experience from St. John and his marriage proposal. So it's good nonetheless, just not as good as Mrs. Temple, Emma Burns and St. John maybe might've hoped for Jane.

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Jasmin Mohd-zain Probably because throughout her life, Mr R was the FIRST male that showed her real respect and professed deep deep love to her....... ( aren't I a sentimental romantic ..)

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Missy She returned for sheer curiosity and heartfelt love. The letters were not returned so she feared he may have died. The heartstrings between them were never seared and her passion and ambition drove her to check on her master.

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Jen Jones She loved him and she had an almost supernatural pull to him. St. John showed her exactly what she didn't want. Cold, worthy, good...Jane is hot and passionate.
She also just had to go back to see Mr. R. She wasn't consciously aware what had happened to Bertha of course but she felt unfinished business. Something in her soul told her it was time to go back. If Bertha had still been alive, Jane would have said a goodbye to Mr. R and tried to move on.

Too many reasons really to enumerate here but I love JE passionately x

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