I've always been a cynic about love. For awhile I just completely refused to admit it even really existed. I'm not quite as blunt about the topic now, but I am still hesitant to accept people's emotions as truth when they say they're "in love". So, when we were reading Jane Eyre, I think what surprised me most about the story was that I believed it. I genuinely felt that Jane and Mr. Rochester were in love and I rooted for them to end up together. But even more surprising than me believe in their romance, was other people not believing it. When I would talk to my classmates, they would comment on their disdain for Mr. Rochester and how they didn't think that he really loved Jane and was just lustful instead. I was shocked, and it made me start to question my faith in their relationship. I didn't understand how a sceptic like me could believe something that other people doubted.
When I started my mashup, I settled on the love prompt because I thought it was the one that I most easily connected to. As I gathered quotes and outside sources, I was still weary of Jane and Rochester's relationship, rocked by the opinions of my peers, but as the project progressed my stance changed. With each passage that I found, I felt like it was just further proving my original claim about their love. I became more and more confident it my belief that they really did love each other and by the end of my project I was positive that their's was a true and good marriage.
I guess it makes me a little sad that I was so easily swayed by the opinions of others, but in the end I was able to hold to my original convictions and that's really the most important part. Usually I have very strong opinions that I stick to like glue, but this time was different and I'm not really sure why that is. I understand that it is important to see other people's points of view, that's what I wrote my last blog on, but I just hope I'm not going soft and am starting to doubt myself or my beliefs. I'm glad that this projected allowed to me reaffirm my stance on the relationship and reassure my faith in my conclusions.
