"'Sir,' I answered, a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow creature...let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal'" (252).
Charlotte Bronte speaks throughout her entire novel of God and working to become sinless. This quote emphasizes her message even more by telling the reader that one should not look to other people for guidance, but to their maker for the answers on how to mend their ways. Jane has learned all of these lessons from her experiences. From another angle, Bronte may be including embedding this theme in her book to tell the reader that humans cannot be trusted, and to rely on one is a great mistake. The only one Bronte can fully trust is her Creator. He has not put her down or hurt her in any way. St. John later tries to make Jane his wife in this book, and following along this same theme, he was let down by humans. Instead, he turned to his creator. He learned, or started to understand, that one cannot fully rely on fellow mankind after he was turned down by Jane.
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Interesting..what does this suggest about characters like St. John and his role as a practitioner and missionary of God's work?
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