 Hello and welcome. Now in this video we'll be looking at the theme of love as it has demonstrated in Jane Eyre. Remember there are two types of love that are explored within this story. The first type of love is the friendship type of love that's explored within Jane and Helen Burns' relationship at Lowood School. So we can see that Jane, she lacked love when she was living in the Reed family household. However Helen showed her genuine, honest and open Christian love and this is of course a friendship type of love when she went to Lowood and Jane for the first time perhaps in her life experienced the real nature of what a true friendship looked like and of course Helen Burns was also really important in teaching her Christian values of forgiveness. Okay so love on the one hand is illustrated through the character of Helen Burns and how she shows genuine friendship and genuine kindness towards Jane as a friend. Okay so that's the first type of love however of course the second and the one that dominates the story is the romantic love that exists between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester. Now Jane is presented and depicted as genuinely feeling honest true romantic love for Mr. Rochester and this is contrasted to Blanche Ingram who feigns love so she pretends like she loves Mr. Rochester. However we realize it is because of his superior social status as a gentleman and because of his class and his inheritance. Okay so whilst on the one hand we find that Jane her love her genuine love is contrasted with Blanche Ingram because her love is independent of his status. In fact even by the end of the story when he loses everything and becomes blind she still loves him. In fact if anything his blindness and the fact that he has lost everything gives her even more reason to love him. Okay more reason to love him more reason to redeem Mr. Rochester. Okay and of course the same is also illustrated for Mr. Rochester. He suffered when he married somebody who did not genuinely love this was Bertha Mason. However when he did engage in a real loving relationship with Jane Eyre that is when he found his redemption. Okay so this is a very important theme and as you can see behind me I have selected the main quotations you can consider if you're writing about the theme of love when you're studying or writing an essay relating to Jane Eyre either for your coursework or exam. So let's explore these different quotations. The first quote is relating to of course the theme of love in terms of how love is shown through the friendship between Helen Burns and Jane Eyre. Now we find that Jane feels like she has genuinely found a good friend in Helen Burns. Helen Burns appears to really care for her and look after. This is illustrated in the following quotations. Resting my head on Helen's shoulder I put my arms round her waist. Okay so here we get this very you know hot warming image of how Helen Burns is a really good friend to Jane. Okay so she is really caring towards Jane. She shows her a friendly type of love and this is the first time perhaps in Jane Eyre as a young life so this is when she was at Lowood School that she experiences genuine friendship and genuine kindness. Okay and of course this contrast of how Mrs. Reed treated her which is quite cruelly and the Reed family is a whole treat today in a very cruel way. Now when you're analyzing this quotation the word love analysis you want to focus on is firstly the litteration of age and head and Helen and of course also the words shoulder arms and waist which belong to semantic field of body parts. What this is illustrating is how Helen kind of treats Jane like a human being. She treats her like somebody who is deserving of love kindness and care okay and this is illustrated through these semantic field of body parts. However as I mentioned the main element of love and the main kind of side of love that you will be illustrating especially if you're writing about this theme in Jane Eyre and as it's illustrated in Jane Eyre is romantic love and especially the romantic relationship that develops between Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre okay so you have to consider that element of love. Of course when we see Jane even from the start we get the sense that Jane genuinely loves Mr. Rochester. She genuinely cares for him and she genuinely really feels like she is meant to be with him in spite of their class differences and part of the social gap between them okay remember Jane Eyre is a governess Mr. Rochester is a gentleman therefore whilst she's working class he's upper class and Victorian society would have frowned upon this. However we learn that Jane is in love and of course when Mr. Rochester decides to cross the social boundaries and propose to Jane Eyre at first and this is before she finds out about Bertha Mason she is ecstatic she states I thought only of the bliss given to me to drink in so abundant a flow okay so here we can see that Jane Eyre she is so happy and so enamoured when Mr. Rochester decides to ignore social boundaries and what Victorians would have seen as appropriate he decides to propose to her instead of Blanche Ingram as Jane Eyre had anticipated. Now here love is illustrated in the following word-level analysis so first thing you want to focus on the hyperbole bliss which shows how much Jane felt in love with Mr. Rochester okay she felt incredibly blissful she was almost walking on air when she found out that he loved her and of course he proposed to her and also the words drink and flow which belongs to the semantic field of water this idea that her love for Mr. Rochester is genuine and abundant it keeps on flowing okay. Also the other quotation which illustrates Jane's love for Mr. Rochester is when she states in his presence I thoroughly lived and this is a declarative sentence remember a declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling or mood now in this case we can see that Jane Eyre felt that she really came alive when she was around Mr. Rochester and the word love analysis you want to mainly focus on is this idea that Mr. Rochester made her live he brought her to life okay. Now the next quotation I want to focus on when it comes to Jane Eyre and how the theme of love is illustrated is when Mr. Rochester so these are Mr. Rochester's words when he is basically proposing to Jane Eyre and of course also assuming that Jane Eyre will marry him okay so of course the Mr. Rochester before he becomes blind is a little bit arrogant of course he's also very deceitful because he's proposing to Jane Eyre without letting her know that actually he's already married however he proposes to her and he states I'll ask you to pass through life at my side to be my second self now here we can see love being illustrated of course Mr. Rochester overcomes the social barriers okay so he decides not to be tied down by the social boundary that exists between him and Jane Eyre he decides that that's not going to be a barrier to him to marrying her okay and he basically tells her you know be my second companion now here of course whilst we can see that Mr. Rochester does love Jane Eyre and he loves everything that she represents he loves the fact that she treats him almost as an equal because she is able to challenge him and he loves this independence that she represents on the other hand we can also see his love is a little bit tainted because he does not genuinely reveal the honest nature of his relationship with his wife who is currently hiding okay now the one love analysis you want to focus on is firstly you want to remember that this is an imperative sentence because he's kind of telling her yeah okay I'll marry you okay so he's and remember an imperative sentence that issues the commands is basically telling her okay you're gonna be my second self you're gonna be my wife of course also remember contextually men had lots of power during the Victorian era and it was always up to the women to kind of passively wait to be proposed to you and it was the men that had the power okay and of course especially if you're a rich Victorian gentleman like Mr. Rochester you had lots of power okay that's why you're speaking to an imperative sentence also you want to focus on the sibilance of s so side second self and again here what Mr. Rochester is basically saying is you know I want to make you my wife but also I feel like you are more morally superior to me so you almost will be my better self okay the next quotation relating to the theme of love is when Jane Eyre after she comes back from visiting Mrs. Reed when she's dying and she's gone for a while and Mr. Rochester you know states oh I was really worried you're not gonna come back but Jane Eyre shows that she genuinely loves him because she says no no of course I would come back wherever you are is my home my only home okay and here we can see the love that Jane Eyre feels for Mr. Rochester also stems from the fact that she feels really accepted by him okay so of course we can see this relationship is really really genuine and we can see that Mr. Rochester really makes Jane Eyre feel at home okay and she feels this sense of belonging and this is what even increases her sense of love for her okay now the word love analysis you want to focus on is firstly the repetition of my home okay so my home here and of course my and home is repeated again and this again illustrates how Mr. Rochester gives her a sense of belonging also the other word love analysis you want to focus on is the pronoun you where we can see that Jane Eyre is totally in love with Mr. Rochester she is completely fixated on him okay the next quotation related to the theme of love is now Mr. Rochester showing that he almost feels like he has this deep connection with Jane Eyre almost like he makes a biblical reference to the way Adam one of his ribs was taken out in order to make Eve and he states it's as if I had a string somewhere under my left rib ellipsis knotted to a similar string situated in ellipsis your little frame so as I mentioned here he's this reference to his rib is a reference to the biblical idea of Adam being created or rather Eve being created from Adam's rib and so Mr. Rochester almost feels that Jane Eyre is a part of him okay so he feels like he was it's written in the stars it's written by God that they should both be together okay they are destined to be together so of course here we can see that Mr. Rochester is really in love with Jane Eyre and he feels like it's almost written in their destiny to be together now the word love analysis you want to focus on is sibilance of string somewhere also I suppose the simile of as if I had a string somewhere okay and finally of course the word string is repeated and this illustrates this connection this genuine loving connection that exists between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester the next rotation which you can tie to the theme of love is towards the end of the story okay so Jane Eyre comes back finds out that Mr. Rochester has lost everything also he is blind however this only increases a sense of love and her longing for companionship with him she feels even additionally more drawn to him which illustrates the genuine nature of her love for Mr. Rochester this is and of course once she finds out that Bertha Mason has died she feels like now she can in God's eyes it would be okay for her to marry Mr. Rochester so she states blind as he was smiled played the smiles played over his face joy dawned on his forehead okay so he was really happy once he had Jane's voice he never forgot her and he was obviously devastated when she had left him okay and here we can see that there's this love between Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre which is finally required okay so they're able to you know engage in a genuine relationship that's not blocked by the existence of Bertha Mason now the word love analysis you want to focus on especially for this quotation which is you know illustrates how genuine the relationship is between Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre because of course if for instance Mr. Rochester married Blanche Ingram then he lost everything and then became disabled it would be very unlikely that Blanche would stick around however we can see here that Jane Eyre genuinely loves him and this is illustrated in the following word quit the word love analysis that you can do so firstly of course we can see that Mr. Rochester there's smiles that played over his face but sonification of smiles here illustrates that he is genuinely so happy he lost all hope however when Jane Eyre walked back into his life he was now happy again okay also the repetition of the pronoun his okay so in his face his forehead again this illustrates actually Jane looking at him looking at his reaction and she is so happy that he still misses her and he still feels the same for her and finally of course the idea that Joy dawned on his forehead and this is hyperbole okay and the hyperbole here illustrates just how much Mr. Rochester really really loved Jane okay now the final quotation and this is one of the more famous quotes from Jane Eyre is when we learn that in spite of his disability in spite of everything that happened between them Jane affirms that she married him she states reader I married him and this is a declarative sentence now here we can see especially through the assonance of I and I married and him that Jane Eyre is really happy that she was able to still have her love required for Mr. Rochester so in spite of him losing everything in spite of him not having you know the wealth that he used to have the status she still decided to marry him and what this illustrates is the genuine nature of her love towards Mr. Rochester okay so as I mentioned I would suggest bearing in mind all of these quotations if you're writing about the theme of love and thanks so much for listening