Thre next location is where Jane has a big change in her life. Thornfield is where she gets a job, falls in love, and is then heartbroken. A cloud of misery seems to follow her to each location and this pattern continues here. This is very relevant as it is a Gothic novel. As she leaves Thornfield after finding out the man she fell in love with, Mr. Rochester, is already married. She says the following:
“I grieve to leave Thornfield: I love Thornfield - I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life, -momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic, and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in, -with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you, Mr. Rochester; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.” (Bronte)
She wanders to Moor for awhile, but she returns here by the end of the novel and reunites with Mr. Rochester. Her return brings no misery and she lives happily with her husband and has a son. It is ironic and relevant to note that the place where she was most heartbroken is where she ends up the most happy in her life.
Thornfield is thought to be based on North Lees Hall in Derbyshire