Benjamin Franklin stated, “If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.” Reins are used to direct horses. If the reins are tied up, the horse is restrained from moving. Similarly, if reason takes over too much, progression will stop. To be able to move forward where one wants to go, the horse has to move, but the reins are necessary to manage the horse from running off. To progress, it is essential to have enough power from the horse, or passion, and to have enough control from the reins, or reason. The novel Jane Eyre displays how harmony among passion and reason can bring a fulfillment of both pleasure and self respect, which is a true happiness.
The novel commences with Jane Eyre living with her aunt and cousins at Gateshead Hall in…show more content… Rochester, harder it was to not fall in love. This shielded longing is described: “Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion.” (Bronte 184). Yet along with Rochester heightening his relationship with Jane, he also continues to devote most of his time to Blanche. There was talk of marriage between Mr. Rochester and Miss Ingram; arrangements for both Jane and her pupil Adèle have been made. Jane could not hold it back, “‘I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield:—I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life . . .I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I must be torn from you forever” (Bronte 303). Rochester then reveals of his true love for Jane, and asks for her hand in…show more content… The voice of Rochester sounded over the mores. Yearning overtook Jane, and she took it as a sign from God. Jane fell on her knees and prayed in gratitude. Jane “took a resolve” (Bronte 501); it was welcomed by nature, by God. Jane could give into the pleasure of love in a way that still satisfied reason. She returns to discover a destroyed Thornfield, and a Mr. Rochester without a wife. Nature presented the possibility, and God sent the sign. Jane and Rochester married; Jane concludes, “I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blessed—blessed beyond what language can express” (Bronte
