Did Charlotte Bronte effectively address all the issues throughout the novel Jane Eyre in the resolution?

This is a seriously interesting question to consider, and
you will find that there are a whole range of responses to this question. My own
personal feeling is that there are some issues that are not so easily resolved as the
happy ending that is suggested in the novel would
indicate.

Let us remember that this is a novel that is
focused on the internal conflict within Jane Eyre herself and the way that she is shown
to battle between cold, intellectual reason and fiery passion. We see these two extremes
again and again through the novel, such as the incident in the red room when she is
dominated by passion, and then when she decides to leave Thornfield when she is
dominated by reason. In a sense the rest of the characters she meets are dominated by
one of these two extremes.

However, by the end of the
novel, with the events that have transpired, and in particular the maiming and blinding
of Rochester, himself a character who is shown to be dominated by passion, that somehow
Jane has reached a stage in her life where she is able to balance both of these extremes
and live a happy and conventional life as a result. In particular it is strongly
suggested that one of the reasons that their marriage is successful is the way that
Rochester has been "taken down a peg or two" and reduced to a position where he is
physically dependent upon Jane, making them equals. Note what the text tells
us:

Mr.
Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union: perhaps it was that
circumstance that drew us so very near--that knit us so very close! for I was then his
vision, as I am still his right
hand.

However, I personally
find myself doubting that the image of Victorian respectability that Jane manages to
exude is something that can be easily balanced with the extremes that Jane demonstrates
during the novel. I am not so sure that the powerful symbol of repressed female
sexuality suggested in the character of Bertha Rochester can be killed off so easily, or
hidden away metaphorically in the attic of Jane's mind. My complaint is that I find the
ending too neat.