Jane Eyre In accordance to Jean Rhys, “The Creole in Charlotte Bronte’s novel is actually a lay figure—repulsive which is not important, and not once alive, which in turn does” (Kimmey 113). In Bronte’s book, Jane Eyre, the Creole character and Rochester’s deranged wife, Bertha Mason, is described as “purple face[d]” (Bronte 342), a “demon” […]