I will admit that on first view I was not very fond of the new version of Jane Eyre.
Upon further review, and after reading the book yet again, I now like it very much.

 The one thing I love about Jane the most is her character.  In the scene where Rochester tries to persuade Jane that it would not be wrong to stay with him and live as his wife he says, "Is it better to drive a fellow creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law - no man being injured by the breach? For you have neither relatives nor  acquaintances whom you need fear to offend by living with me."

Jane replies, "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am,  the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad - as I am now. Laws and principles are not  for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise  in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have worth - so I have always believed;  and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am insane - quite insane: with my veins running fire,  and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions,  foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot."

We wrote Jane's response in our commonplace book this week
as a reminder for when we are faced with temptation.