The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad -- as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation:" (such as, one might add, when the writer's sister is raped, as Dubus' Kathryn)
Rather, Jane continues, laws and faith "are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigor; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth -- so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane -- quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot.'"(http://www.literature.org/authors/bronte-charlotte/jane-eyre/chapter-26.html)
In "Giving Up the Gun," Dubus is thus given a traditional masculine ethos of being in the world, of militarism, that he must ultimately reject, less he kill his true self, or kill another. In Jane Eyre, Jane is given the traditional method of rendering the female self in the social world of Victorian England, that of marriage. However, Jane realizes as a penniless governess to a wealthy landowner, that to marry would be a rejection of her independence and true self.
This inner truth becomes even more manifest when the real Mrs. Rochester, Bertha Mason comes to the forefront of the tale, showing that had Jane entered into the marriage contract she would have rendered her supposedly respectable husband a bigamist in the eyes of the cold, cruel law, and made herself into a title less as well as penniless harlot.
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