As much as I like Jane Austen's hero's (though I find her writing a bit dry), Mr.Rochester seems much more real. Everything from him not being a stock hero of being handsome and dashing and having a fantastic personality, yes, he is rather not handsome though he has a way with his words and is quite often in a sour mood (when we first meet him in the book) and his mood changes often enough to give him a real personality.
The book actually evokes feeling; anger, helplessness, happiness, sadness, joy, anger within sorrow, contentment. It swells the heart and tugs the heartstrings.
This is pretty much how I thought Mr. Rochester would look, give or take, maybe slightly older. For the adaptations I have to say that the BBC 2006 Mr.Rochester is the closest and that the 1996 (?) Jane are the closest in terms of what the characters I thought should look like. Ellen Page was originally suppose to be in a movie version but she is no longer tied to it (Too bad because she is like the perfect Jane - short (like she's suppose to be) and plain yet pretty).
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