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fire. Returning from his enquiries, he enters with his cloak “all white as a glacier”. The consistent use of this imagery suggests Jane’s emotional distance from St John, which removes any possible reason for marriage, Jane has come into money during her stay at Moor’s End. Jane can not accept the proposal of marriage, despite the temptations it offers. Rochester says that Jane will become “ice and rock” after hearing of his first marriage; St John presents the danger that she will actually give in to becoming this extreme and deny her true self. The ice imagery highlights the temptation of self-denial: “I was tempted to cease struggling with him, to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of his existence, and there lose my own”. But, as Jane says, “to have yielded now would have been an error of judgment”. Marriage would kill any expression of herself. Rochester’s call, like her mother’s call earlier, is a supernatural indication of the disturbance that her heart feels at the possibility of accepting such a destructive option.
 
The “ice” not only means cruelty, misery, and despair, but also the incarnation of inexorability, ruthlessness and makeup. The cousin of Jane Eyre, the pastor St. John, seems to be kind and great, enthusiastic to treat people, and piety to work, so can not be faulted at all. However, he could not enjoy the spiritual peacefulness and the satisfaction of his inner heart of a sincere Christian. For achieving his own goal, he requires Jane as the status of the missionary wife to go to India with him by taking advantage of God's name. When St. John refuses to answer Jane Eyre’s questions and insists on his leaving, he says, “I am apathy, and has no feeling towards any passion.” While Jane says: “while I am warm, and fire will melt the ice.” As a result, this thing ends in the concession of St. John, which fully embodies the independent and persistent humanity of Jane Eyre. His proposal to Jane Eyre is for his holy responsibility, for God’s glory, not for love. The pastor’s kiss for Jane is the thing like the marble’s kiss or the ice’s kiss. This ice kiss makes the readers to feel inexorability in the inner heart of the pastor. The pastor, who could fail to propose, is inexorable and ruthless as the icy mountain and the icy sea. As the feeling of Jane, “readers, whether you are like me, who knows the cruel people could add the horror in their icy dialogue. They are like the falling ice and snow when they are angry. They are like the smashing ice when they are unhappy.” The image of ice makes the pastor’s character of inexorability, ruthlessness and falseness vivid; meanwhile, this image makes the readers to see his apathy and great ambition as his natural essence. In the aspect of sensibility, he is the one made of ice. She could not imagine that one man and one woman establish the spouse relationship without the love exchanges and the family intimacy. Jane Eyre and St. John are not compatible, just like incompatibility of the fire and the ice. Through the image of “ice”, the author reveals the seamy side and the distortion of the human nature.
 
2.3 The Comparison between St.John Rive and Jane Eyre

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