Publisher : Chivers Audio Books
Publication Date : 1996 07
>> Not necessarily feminist
Even though feminist criticism is very important to this work I think it is really stupid that so many people stick it into that peg and never think about it again
Jane s journey is also highly spiritual and it makes me mad that people miss this This book shows a wide range of human experience I do not think that Jane has to prove anything simply because she is plain I also don t think that Charlotte Bronte had anything to prove She was a woman who earned her merit as a writer because she was good at it I wish that I could write like this
>> Jane Eyre
Got it to give as a valentines gift but ended up keeping it Very beautiful Classic
>> A treasure
I wanted to read Jane Eyre since a long time but couldn t make myself do it Firstly because I find classics really difficult to read Secondly it s too long The 490 pages copy I have has very small font and everything is kind of crowded with the next chapter starting on the same page the previous one ends
So when I picked up the book to read I was expecting a very difficult read But the first 100 pages were a breeze
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Jane Eyre is an orphan who is living with her aunt who is not a very compassionate woman nor are her cousins She suffers a lot in that house Jane is a spirited girl she believes she should be treated fairly and even knows there is injustice in the way her Aunt and her cousins treat her She also believes in speaking her mind
The Aunt gets tired of her and sends her to an orphanage school at the age of 10 where she spends the next 8 years of her life I loved the life she described in the school This section I found very similar to Anne of green gables Not that there was anything similar in their circumstances but I found their natures quite similar
A great deal you are good to those who are good to you It is all I ever desire to be If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust the wicked people would have it all their own way they would never feel afraid and so they would never alter but would grow worse and worse When we are struck at without a reason we should strike back again very hard I am sure we should so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again
Jane works for 2 years as a teacher in the same school before she gets bored with the monotony and decides to explore something else She applies for the post of a governess and gets a letter from Mrs Fairfax When Jane reaches there she finds out that Adele her pupil is Mr Rochester s ward and Mrs Fairfax is the housekeeper
Mr Rochester is the hero of course As romance builds up Rochester proposes to her and on the day of their marriage she finds out that he is already married albeit to a lunatic She leaves the house the same night without informing anyone and loses touch with him She builds a life for herself as a village school teacher and in the end returns to find Rochester blind and his wife dead
What I really liked about the book was that the author seemed to talk to the readers directly She addresses the readers pulling them into the story very quickly
I found the book a little too descriptive and the language although very beautiful very tedious a times
At the very end when Jane learns of Rochester s ill fate from the manager of the Inn she decides to go and meet him I was so excited at this point I could hardly stay still I wanted to find out what happened instantly But again there were so many descriptions of the path and of the house I was really irritated
I proceeded at last my way opened the trees thinned a little presently I beheld a railing then the house scarce by this dim light distinguishable from the trees so dank and green were its decaying walls Entering a portal fastened only by a latch I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground from which the wood swept away in a semicircle There were no flowers no garden beds only a broad gravel walk girdling a grass plat and this set in the heavy frame of the forest The house presented two pointed gables in its front the windows were latticed and narrow the front door was narrow too one step led up to it
I mean hello At this point I wasn t really interested in reading about whether there were flowers in the path or not I was way too impatient and I admit I skipped a lot from that chapter
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And Rochester I think he spoke too much At one point I wanted to say Oh stop talking already I thought he was selfish and manipulative I realized that I will love the book more when I read it for the second time As I already know the story I won t skip anything and I am sure I will appreciate the language even more
Although I loved the book and although it s supposed to be one of the greatest love stories Pride and Prejudice is still on top of my list And Darcy is still the yummiest of all the literary heroes
