i don't care what everyone else may say

Mr. Rochester's loss of his left hand is just SO NOT symbolic of castration. That is so... time-period MALE. So thanks for typing your post-WWII analysis as your wife brings you coffee in her pearls, Mr. Chase, but I'm afraid Charlotte Bronte might have actually written that to make things more about the female character, you know, the MAIN ONE, Jane? Yeah, her.