Only a Woman: Theres a Hero in the Heart of Every Woman

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When I was extremely young, about thirteen, and first read Jane Eyre , my ideas of love were most innocently and tenderly formed. Had I been older and more experienced, I would given him very short shrift while probably still going a bit weak at the knees. I would have been shocked by him and what I'd have seen as his appallingly high handed, even brutal, behaviour. He would certainly give a true blue feminist the vapours. But, desperate for love as I was, and so far from finding it for real, how could I not have tumbled helplessly into it with him, with all his brooding, difficult, almost savage complexity?

For this is what you want in the man you fall in love with Rhett Butler lacked such complexity. From that very first meeting, when Rochester's horse slipped on the ice, and he was unseated, and I was confronted by his dark, unsmiling presence, his "stern features, and heavy brow… his considerable breadth of chest", I was completely in his thrall. I was there, my heart beating wildly, desperate to help him, trying but failing to hold the horse, offering my shoulder rather sturdier than the frail one of the young governess, Jane Eyre for him to lean on, hastening to post his letter, hurrying home as he bade me.

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I forgave him everything as I read on, his imperious manner, his disdainful treatment of his daughter, the way he toyed with Jane's emotions, like some great dangerous beast, testing and teasing her, even the dangerously wicked and deceitful game he played in encouraging her belief that he was to marry the beautiful Blanche Ingram.

Rochester was horribly, almost fatally, flawed. He was difficult, and yes, cruel at times. But the thing is that he was so wounded and troubled, trapped in the wretched, life-wrecking mistake of his youth marrying the beautiful but insane Bertha Mason, the first Mrs Rochester, whom he keeps hidden in his attic. He was so desperately in need of care and tenderness and love himself, how could I — or indeed anyone — fail to respond to that?

The power and beauty of his of language was yet another reason for me to love him, and never more so than when, agonised, he lamented to Jane: But I am not at all sure I would have followed her virtuous example and fled across the icy moor; I might have been easily persuaded to be his comforter and rescuer instead.

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But then, had I stayed and not exiled myself as she did, I would never have heard his anguished cry across the moor, in that "known, loved, well remembered voice of Edward Fairfax Rochester" — one of literature's utterly orgasmic moments. Not that I would have known it as such then. And by the book's conclusion, he redeemed himself totally, of course, as I knew he would, in his struggle to save his mad, troublesome, attic-bound wife from the fire that burned his house to the ground.

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That was born of a great goodness, and of great courage. When all is done, and Jane goes to him at last, she finds him maimed, humbled, his eyesight lost, but his voice and his love unchanged: To order, call or visit books. Least likely to say: In the books scarred, with long dark hair; in popular imagination: Amoureuses likely to die in childbirth or with throats cut. Arrogant, aloof landowner, contemptuous of those around him, including initially, at least his intended and her skittish family.

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