"I will hold to the principles recieved by me when I was sane, and not mad - as I am now."

... are fairly transparent foils for one another. Mr. Rochester at Ferndean, something completely different, is not supposed to be the ideal ... does marrying Mr. Rochester not nullify all of this? At Ferndean, he has accomplished what he always set out to do:... place of female communion and intellectual exploration, for damp, isolated, Ferndean? Does this mean that maimed masculinity is still a higher ...