Helen Burns character

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    • Mr. Rochester
      The other protagonist that Jane Eyre ultimately falls in love with when she goes to work at Thornfield Hall
    • Mr. Rochester
      • Presented almost as a baronic figure, tormented by something innate within him, perhaps from his past which is his past marriage to Bertha
      • A really interesting and complex character
    • Narrator's description of Mr. Rochester's appearance: 'His figure was enveloped in a riding cloak, he had a dark face with stern features'
    • Enveloped
      Verb describing how his figure was cloaked
    • Dark and stern
      Adjectives describing his features
    • Description of Mr. Rochester's character: 'He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority'
    • Proud, sardonic, harsh
      Adjectives in a structural technique of asyndetic listing to show his sternness and harshness
    • Mr. Rochester's words: 'In agony of inward contempt masters me'
    • Masters me
      Alliteration emphasizing his inner torment
    • Mr. Rochester's marriage to Bertha
      He was unable to find a way to divorce her, she was characterized as a demon who caused his downfall
    • Mr. Rochester justifying his marriage to Jane: 'For the world's judgment I wash my hands thereof'
    • The world's judgment
      Hyperbole showing he doesn't care what society thinks of him marrying his social inferior
    • Mr. Rochester describing his wife Bertha: 'I had but a hideous demon'
    • Hideous demon

      Metaphor to describe his mad wife Bertha
    • Mr. Rochester on his disability: 'Divine justice pursued its course, disasters came thick upon me'
    • Divine justice, disasters
      Alliteration emphasizing how he sees his disability as God's punishment for his past sins
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