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Jane Eyre And Love Quest for Love If others don’t love me, I would rather die than live—I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest,—(Brontë,58-59) These powerful words come from the lips of ten year-old Jane Eyre. Throughout the novel Jane is searching for love: the need to be loved and love she can show to someone else, of the opposite sex, whom she truly loves. There is a problem lying in this simple plan though: Jane keeps running from her possible chances of marriage. This resistance that Jane displays towards marriage is foreshadowed about a third of the way through the novel by a simple game of charades. The answers to two charades in particular are of certain interest: bride and bridewell. These two unsuspecting answers give the reader a subtle warning of what is to come in the future and how Jane’s life jane, love, rochester, one, marriage, helen, marry, life, eventually, thornfield, st, mr, john, been, way, two, truly, true, though, school, rochester’s, relationship, rather, out, now, novel, little, jane’s, gateshead, first, each, during, bridewell, bride, after