Description of Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre:
Although he is Jane’s employer, Edward Rochester wins her heart, because she feels they are kindred spirits, and because he is the first person in the novel to offer Jane lasting love and a real home. Although Rochester is Jane’s social and economic superior, and although men were widely considered to be naturally superior to women in the Victorian period, Jane is Rochester’s intellectual equal. Moreover, after their marriage is interrupted by the disclosure that Rochester is already married to the insane Bertha Mason, Jane is proven to be Rochester’s moral superior.