Adversities are an inescapable phenomenon in life, however, true love has the ability to overcome these difficulties. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë insists that the bond between two lovers survives and strengthens during life’s hardships. The author argues this because she understands that overcoming adversities together results in becoming stronger people together. Brontë tells the story of Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester's hardships during their developing romance, such as Eyre and Rochester’s failed attempt at marriage, Eyre’s departure from Thornfield Hall, and Rochester’s crippling injuries. Brontë writes of Eyre and Rochester’s first attempt at marriage. On the day of the wedding, Eyre discovers Rochester is married, however, his wife is a “maniac” and Rochester feeling nothing but contempt towards her (Brontë 277). Eyre forgives Rochester “at the moment and on the spot” because “there was such deep remorse in …show more content…
Eyre, with little money and belongings, leaves Thornfield in an effort to escape her feelings for Rochester. However, after a year away from Thornfield and Rochester, Eyre believes she hears a voice calling her name, “’Jane! Jane! Jane!’—nothing more … And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently” (Brontë 377). Through this quote, the author demonstrates Eyre’s suppressed, subconscious yearning for Rochester by hearing his voice despite their year of separation. Eyre separates from Rochester in order to diminish her love for Rochester, however, Brontë writes of the opposite: Eyre and Rochester’s separation has only strengthened their love. Brontë’s description of Eyre’s strengthened love for Rochester despite their distance demonstrates that hardships reinforce the bond between