jane eyre - mr rochester

• 'bluebeard's castle'


  foreshadowing - in folklore, a man who locked and killed his wives in a secret room and his new wife discovered their body (bertha mason), also links to gothic tropes such as mystery and fairytale
• byronic hero


  rejects convention, dark secrets and past, moody & passionate, arrogant but sensitive, figure of repulsion and fascination (a character of contradictions)
• 'green snake of jealousy'


  association with religion (snake of eden), bitten by love and passion, rochester confesses and confides in jane; a relationship of mutual trust develops
• 'baptised'

  when jane douses him in water, it's biblical imagery - his confession to her is cleansing him of his sins, fires of hell
• 'very sheets were kindling'


  love, fire, passion, fires of hell, links to motif of fire - passion and heat
• 'my cherished preserver'


  growing tension! wow scandal, first signs of romance, scandalous for a victorian audience