“ ‘I wish to be a better man than I have been; than I am---as Job’s leviathan broke the spear, the dart and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.’” (Bronte 146)
The leviathan is a giant sea monster described in the Book of Job in the Old Testament. It was massive and strong. Mr. Rochester is here saying that after the ordeal with his French mistress, Celine Varens, he wished to be more hardened, and stronger, like the leviathan described by Job.http://www.atruechurch.info/leviathan.html (kind of a crazy website)
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what could Bronte be doing by connecting him to such a figure ..and you may want to find another source to cite
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