finds falling in love with Mr. Rochester to be a difficult challenge. It can be seen that she has a unique way of showing her love to Rochester, in which she remains somewhat unemotional and detached. When she first arrives at Thornfield Hall, Jane tries to use her self-control to overcome her growing feelings of love for Rochester. Yet, she finds herself falling in love despite it all. Thus, she claims: "I had not intended to love him... He made me love him without looking at me" (Bronte 204). There are other parts of the novel which deal with Jane's struggle between her rational self-control and her need for an emotional expression of love. This can be seen, for example, in Jane's rational acceptance of Rochester's apparent love for Miss Ingrim, and his apparent intention of marrying her (216-217). This struggle can also be seen when Jane thinks that Rochester is going to send her away to a new position in Ireland. She wants to rationalize her feelings and deny the fact that she has any love for him. Yet, she notes that "the vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway, and asserting a right to predominate, to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last" (280-281). However, it seems that Jane's le
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