 Now let's discuss St. John Rivers' character. Now in many ways, St. John Rivers is a foil to Mr. Rochester. In other words, he reveals the deficiencies of Mr. Rochester's character, but conversely, Mr. Rochester's character reveals the deficiencies in his character. Now, whilst Mr. Rochester is very fiery, very hot-tempered, but also someone who follows his impulses and his feelings indeed, it's actually his impulses that lead him to do some immoral things that God ultimately punishes him for. St. John Rivers is the complete opposite. He's someone who's extremely austere with himself to the extent that even if he was in love with Miss Oliver, he wanted to marry Jane Eyre because on paper that's what a biblical missionary should do, meaning that they probably would have a very loveless marriage filled with just pure duty. And of course, he tries to get Jane to marry him. Also, they ultimately realise that they are cousins. He tries to get her to marry him, but she ultimately rejects it in terms of the fact that they would really be in a loveless marriage characterised only by duty, and also she was still in love with Mr. Rochester. Now, as you can see behind me, I've created the quotations that you need to bear in mind when revising for St. John Rivers' character. The first quotation to remember when you're revising for his character is how he's described. He's actually described as being far more handsome and more typically good looking than actually Mr. Rochester, who appears very rugged and not conventionally handsome. He is described as tall, fair with blue eyes and a Grecian profile and the adjective's tall, fair and of course even Grecian really characterises his appearance as actually very handsome in contrast to Mr. Rochester, who's very dark, very stern, even older in his appearance. The second quotation to remember with his character is how he's described. Even if he's very handsome, he has an austere and despotic nature. Despotic means like he's a very harsh person and almost someone who strives to control people, especially the women in his lives. He strives of course to control Jane and to tell her what to do, i.e. marry him. Now, the word level analysis you want to do here is the assonance of an an, austere and a nature, okay? And of course what this emphasises is how he follows just religious doctrine almost to a fault and he doesn't do it purely because it's the right thing to do. He does it because that's what he's expected by duty to follow. Now the third quotation to remember for St. John Rivers' character is when it states he's firm, faithful and devoted, full of energy and zeal and truth. Now here there's somewhat word level analysis to do so you've got the literation of firm and faithful showing that he's really focused on religion but also focused in an extent on ambition in terms of how he wants to stand out in religion. So part of his focus on religion isn't so much just because he wants to be really religious. His religious zeal might also be for him to gain some kind of power in that area. The other key word level analysis to do for this quotation is the listing so full of energy, comma and zeal and truth and this one actually is syndantic listing because there is the continuous conjunction and and and. Now the other key quotation to bear in mind for his character is the declarative sentence, God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. Now this is when he tells Jane that out of duty she should marry him. That's what is ordained for them in God's eyes and here you want to focus on the structural point that this is a declarative sentence and he's stating that she was intended to be his wife. Now the final quotation is when he tries to forcefully get Jane to marry him. He states you shall be mine I claim you and of course he takes a very typical Victorian male attitude towards women, towards seeing women as property. Jane doesn't get a say in whether she wants to marry him. He's the one that's pronounced that they are going to get married. Of course Jane rallies against this and ultimately rejects this. Now in this quotation the word level analysis you want to do is a repetition of you. So you shall be mine and I shall claim you and of course the declarative sentence mine. And here again this emphasizes just how he sees Jane in a very conventional way which is of course in contrast to Mr. Rochester who sees Jane as someone who is independent and also very much intellectual and of course Jane opts for Mr. Rochester who she genuinely loves more and whilst she does not love Mr. Rivers. So that's it when it comes to revising for the character of Mr. Rivers.