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Rochester:
I know you; you're thinking. Talking is of no use, you're thinking how to act. Jane Eyre:
All has changed sir. I must leave you. Rochester:
No. No. Jane do you love me. [Jane nods] Rochester:
Then the essential things are the same. Be my wife. Jane Eyre:
You have a wife. Rochester:
I pledge you my honor, my fidelity... Jane Eyre:
You cannot. Rochester:
...my love until death do us part. Jane Eyre:
What of truth? Rochester:
I would have told you the truth. Jane Eyre:
You are deceitful sir. Rochester:
I was wrong to deceive you. I see that now, it was cowardly. I should have appealed to your spirit as I do now. Bertha Antoinette Mason, she was wanted by my father for her fortune. I hardly spoke with her before the wedding. I lived with her for 4 years. Her temper ripened, her vices sprang up, violent and unchaste. Only cruelty would check her and I'd not use cruelty. I was chained to her for life Jane. Not even the law could free me. Have you ever set foot in a mad house Jane? Jane Eyre:
No sir. Rochester:
The inmates are caged and baited like beasts. I spared her that at least. Jane? Jane Eyre:
Yes I pity you sir. Rochester:
Who would you offend by living with me? Who would care? Jane Eyre:
I would. Rochester:
You would rather drive me to madness than break some mere human law. Jane Eyre:
I must respect myself. Rochester:
Listen to me. Listen. I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want. Why can't you come of your own free will? Jane Eyre:
God help me
I know you; you're thinking. Talking is of no use, you're thinking how to act. Jane Eyre:
All has changed sir. I must leave you. Rochester:
No. No. Jane do you love me. [Jane nods] Rochester:
Then the essential things are the same. Be my wife. Jane Eyre:
You have a wife. Rochester:
I pledge you my honor, my fidelity... Jane Eyre:
You cannot. Rochester:
...my love until death do us part. Jane Eyre:
What of truth? Rochester:
I would have told you the truth. Jane Eyre:
You are deceitful sir. Rochester:
I was wrong to deceive you. I see that now, it was cowardly. I should have appealed to your spirit as I do now. Bertha Antoinette Mason, she was wanted by my father for her fortune. I hardly spoke with her before the wedding. I lived with her for 4 years. Her temper ripened, her vices sprang up, violent and unchaste. Only cruelty would check her and I'd not use cruelty. I was chained to her for life Jane. Not even the law could free me. Have you ever set foot in a mad house Jane? Jane Eyre:
No sir. Rochester:
The inmates are caged and baited like beasts. I spared her that at least. Jane? Jane Eyre:
Yes I pity you sir. Rochester:
Who would you offend by living with me? Who would care? Jane Eyre:
I would. Rochester:
You would rather drive me to madness than break some mere human law. Jane Eyre:
I must respect myself. Rochester:
Listen to me. Listen. I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want. Why can't you come of your own free will? Jane Eyre:
God help me
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I knew a Jane Elliott
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This paper resolved my suspicion into certainty
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And so I wrote to him
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He told the story of a young governess
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And her employer a Mr Fairfax Rochester
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Mr Rivers
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I can guess your feelings but please hear me
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Movie Summary
A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
Actors
Rochester
Jane Eyre
