I don't see Jane that way at all. I think she does take her life into her own hands and walks away from misery. She leaves Rochester when the thing with his wife comes out, even though she loves him. And she also refuses Whats-his-name who offers her a white marriage, because she knows she'd just be fleeing from herself. When she does go back to Rochester it's on a much more equal footing. (Note, also, that he has to be symbolically emasculinized in order for this to happen.)
I don't think Rochester is a sociopath. He's a bastard, but that's a different thing altogether. Heathcliff is, sure, but then everybody in that book is fucking mental.
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Date: 2009-09-27 07:58 pm (UTC)I don't think Rochester is a sociopath. He's a bastard, but that's a different thing altogether. Heathcliff is, sure, but then everybody in that book is fucking mental.