Chapter 27
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." Jane's articulation of self-preservation and moral law against passionate love.
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From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Jane's decision to leave Rochester rather than become his mistress is the moral climax of the novel.
Chapter 28
Jane wanders the moors near Whitcross, starving and homeless--her lowest point, presented as a kind of spiritual wilderness.
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