emotions -- both joyful and sad. By creating an emotional see-saw from the encounters between Jane and Rochester, the novelist indicates that these intense emotions define true love. Brontë's emphasis on the importance of passion in a good relationship adheres to some of the doctrines of the Evangelical religion, which dominated the Victorian age. This branch of Protestantism stressed imagination, intensity and emotion prompted by the "necessity of emotional comprehension of one's own innate …showed first 75 words of 492 total…

…showed last 75 words of 492 total…by hope, bore my spirit triumphantly towards the bourne; but I could not reach it, even in fancy, a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back. Sense would resist delirium, judgment would warn passion" ( 133). The intensity of this passage makes clear not only Jane's love for Rochester, but that the match would be a good one (according to Brontë) since neither party feels compelled to hide or restrain the passion within them.