Ditto.

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“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”

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I find I appreciate of Bell’s St. John more than the others I’ve seen. Here he’s not so blatantly dismissed as the wrong choice to Rochester’s right just for being the rival to the first love.

circles90:

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Meaning my heart.

And you put so much happy into 45 seconds. OH. MY. GOD.

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thedrunkship:

What I ultimately find so compelling about Jane Eyre is that she quickly forgave Rochester for concealing Bertha; that was her way; she loved him and was upset at the deceit, but she left him for her own preservation of dignity and moral uprightness, not out of any spite or anger, and the struggle almost killed her. That’s what makes her leaving so powerful. If she had remained and lived as his mistress, Rochester would have lost respect for her eventually, and I think she knew this. He beheld her as something pure and steadfast, “without taint,” and this was proven by her strength of action and character. Endure with grace.

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unreconstructedfangirl:

divinethedivine:

elbrujo421:

Like srsly

And that’s why I have a problem with this story. His lies.

I love this story! Yes, he lies. Humans are complicated, and he is desperate. Love is not always reasonable, and can’t always be based on worthiness. The fact that he lies, and that his error is so great that forgiving him seems impossible, but that she loves him so much that she can’t not forgive him is what makes the story. He’s damaged goods, emotionally and physically when she takes him back, and he doesn’t deserve it, but he does love her, and she loves him. It’s a story about people who are broken by their circumstances. She’s the strong one, not him. I love her.

Let me be annoying and elaborate again because I wrote that with my eyes barely open I was so tired.

I very much admire Jane. When discussing this last semester for a lit class, I was the only one who would also have left after finding out about his wife and thought it to be brave and good of her to do so. She has had so much unhappiness in her life, and so many things to deal with, and she still has the strength to tear herself away from the one good thing she had.

My problem is with Rochester. No one can deny the fact that the only man she really spent any time with in her life is the one she marries. That she can’t help but fall in love with him. I can accept his mistake and how much his past and marriage have damaged him. It’s clear why he never told her and even directly lied about it. But his position as her employer and sole provider is a bad basis for a relationship. It makes them unequal from the beginning. Additionally, some of his machinations at the beginning really seem to have no romantic feelings behind them, even in an unhealthy or convoluted way. But the novel is written in the first person so perhaps that’s hard to determine.

Their ultimate marriage is solved by an array of convenient circumstances. I don’t just mean Bertha’s death either. He loses sight and a hand and she gets a surprise gift of a private fortune worth five thousand pounds and the power to be independent if she wants. That is what seals their status as equals. He has to be lowered and she raised for them to actually get married.

I like that Jane gets what she wants and gets to be happy. I just wish it would be with someone who deserved her in her own right.

I wrote a ten page paper for that class along these lines. So I’m sorry if I’m going off on a tangent of sorts.

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I guess his one eye really works well after all!

theotherausten:

modernausten:

awakingnightmare:

This is something I came across today in my local store.

Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice. They’re the genuine books, with the original story.

But the cover has been redesigned as to resemble the rest of the ‘teen/young adult’ reading section, which consists of poorly written vampire based novels hanging off the fame and money Twilight is bringing in.

I have never been more disgusted with the literary world.

It is so they can lure those Twilight fanatics into reading some real literature. The publisher may be doing the world a favor.

hey, why not! the more janeites the merrier! back in the day, they should’ve lured me by putting britney spears on the covers of classics

Cheers to that!

theotherausten:

From The Jane Austen Book Club. A classic Janeite line that might also be interpreted as, “Fuck off if you don’t read those books, too.”

Okay so people like Jane Austen and Jane Eyre but I get SO MAD when this happens:

JANE AUSTEN DID NOT WRITE JANE EYRE AND AUSTEN AND THE BRONTËS ARE NOTHING LIKE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park and Jane Eyre are arguably comprable except for the whole crazy wife in the attic thing and the windswept emoness of the moors. 

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theotherausten:

and-there-it-was:

This is beautiful.

DARCY VS. ROCHESTER

Memories..