“I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time; – I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not – did not strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing. People talk of natural sympathies: I have heard of good genii: – there are grains of truth in the wildest fable. My cherished preserver, good-night!”
- Mr. Rochester, Chapter 16
“to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest”
- Jane Eyre, Chapter 8
“All men hate the wretched; how then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, if thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us”
- The Creature, Frankenstein
There is a theme of the “monsters” just wishing to be accepted and live a normal life. The monsters never are happy with being alone, but they have been forced there by a society that casts them aside. Mr. Rochester is one of the first people who has shown Jane kindness, albeit in a vulnerable moment. Frankenstein’s creature never had that person he was accepted by. Will this help Jane find a happier ending?
