only makes her more turbulent qualities surface, “Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, thereby reexciting every turbulent impulse of my nature” (Bronte 37-38). It is because of these turbulent qualities that Jane does survive to find love and meaning because she is able to withstand the onslaught of those like Mrs. Reed.
Yet, Jane is not the only one whose gender formation is affected by her education and class status. The suffering Rochester is also. He is perhaps too noble for his own good, a symptom of his high-born class, in refusing to reveal himself to Jane and t
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