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Mr. St. John<br />
After studying Mr. Darcy, the ultimate INTJ romantic interest, it is interesting to study the portrayal<br />
of an INTJ romantic villain. Here Mr. St. John addresses Jane Eyre (INFJ), heroine of the book<br />
Jane Eyre (read here).<br />
“You have taken my confidence by storm,” he [Mr. St. John] continued, “and now it is much at your<br />
service. I am simply, in my original state—stripped of that blood-bleached robe with which Christianity<br />
covers human deformity—a cold, hard, ambitious man. Natural affection only, of all the sentiments, has<br />
permanent power over me. Reason, and not feeling, is my guide; my ambition is unlimited: my desire to<br />
rise higher, to do more than others, insatiable. I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because<br />
these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence. I watch your career<br />
with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I<br />
deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.”<br />
Mr. St. John wasn't actually evil, though he was trying to steal Jane's heart away from her true love,<br />
an ENTJ. His fault is that he wanted Jane to marry him, but not for love.<br />
Evidence for INTJ<br />
• Described as uncommunicative, reserved, distant, shy, mute (I)<br />
• Disliked noise and bustle (I)<br />
"Indeed, the bare idea of the commotion, at once sordid and trivial, going on within [the<br />
house's] walls sufficed to scare him to estrangement."<br />
• Made long pauses before speaking and responding (I)<br />
• Quiet and terse speech (I)<br />
"These opinions he delivered in a few words, in a quiet, low voice; and added, after a pause,<br />
in the tone of a man little accustomed to expansive comment..."<br />
• Did not readily open up or become intimate with others (I)<br />
"I was going to speak, though not very well knowing in what words to frame my inquiry—it<br />
is at all times difficult to break the ice of reserve glassing over such natures as his..."<br />
“With all his firmness and self-control,” thought I, “he tasks himself too far: locks every<br />
feeling and pang within—expresses, confesses, imparts nothing."<br />
• Had a habit of reading a book at the table during dinner (IN)
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