what are your opinions on jane eyre? most of the people in my class love this book and think its wonderful...i read it and i didn't really enjoy it...i found charlotte bronte's use of words to be very hard and complicated....the story had a good plot and everything, but i think that jane eyre is unrealistic in a way....i don't think a girl who comes from such a sad background (no one who loves her except the maid betsy....when she went to the school, her best friend dies and the only teacher who is nice is that one teacher....) could leave mr. rochester....psychologically, it just doesn't sound right.....what are your thoughts on jane eyre? please feel free to comment....
2006-07-16 19:28:09 · 9 answers · asked by blue_bee 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i haven't read it yet... sadly enough, since i'm an english major (*blushes), but i'm planning to read it this summer. i want to get it for my 12-yr old daughter. she really enjoyed webster's 'daddy long legs', and i'd been told 'jane eyre' was comparable.
i think a lot of the classics are up to personal opinion. some of them i really didn't/don't care for at all - and i've tried re-reading them as i've gotten older. ('the great gatsby' comes to mind...) use of archaic language can make a novel harder to read, but if you keep in mind that the plotline is just fantasy, like 'peter rabbit' and things like that, it might make it easier to 'choke down' as needed. (or you can just compare it to the exaggeration in today's world, like what you see on reality tv, or jerry springer... =) ... )
i'm impressed that you actually admit to not being so fond of some of the 'great classics' -- for years i thought i was the only one out there!!! (*winks)
2006-07-17 06:09:40 · answer #1 · answered by frzzld_1 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre was up against a moral dillemma. Stay and live in sin as Mr. Rochester's mistress, or leave. I'm glad she stood up for what was right. If she had stayed, my respect for Jane would have diminished, and Charlotte Bronte did a wonderful job of getting her readers to respect Jane all throughout the book.
Similarly, Jane marrying the missionary didn't feel quite right either. She would have been giving into something that wasn't love. My hopes would have been dashed had Jane married the missionary.
As in all great fiction, the way that it did happen seems like it was the only thing that could have happened to achieve the same satisfactory ending. Miss Bronte could have written the story countless different ways, but the one way she chose to write it seems like exactly the right way.
2006-07-17 06:27:12 · answer #2 · answered by AJK 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Jane Eyre was semi autobiographical.
IT is also a classic rags to riches to rags to riches story.
There is a book called Madwomen in the Attic that may help you or the Sargossa Sea, which tells the story from the viewpoint of the first wife.
The incident in school is actually very accurate. You are comparing it to the world today and I bet with American schools. Remember, back then, no such thing as antibiotics. Social structures in that period in England were horrifyingly rigid. Women were unable to own property and their ability to be educated or to choose a profession were both severely limited.
Jane was also deeply, deeply religious, she comes from an era where divorce was nearly unheard of. She didn't live in Pine Valley or another soap opera town as much as her story sounds like it.
Take a look at the period, there is a helpful book called "Everyday life..." and it will walk you through the beliefs, the clothing and so on.
If you found the author's word choices difficult, did you keep a handy dictionary nearby?
You may also enjoy a modern rewrite with a sci-fi twist call Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn, to get a better grip on the story.
2006-07-16 19:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by Diana D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I read JANE EYRE in English (and this is not my language). I read it easily and I believe the use of words is OK for a book written at that time. I think it is a good book - we speak about it now, don't we? and its value is still present.Why she lives Mr. Rochester? Maybe, because she learned from everything she lived till then that you don't have to be humiliated all your life;and we know that Jane is a proud woman so to share her man with another woman (although insane) made her love the impossible dream.But she comes back and that may say LOVE is never an impossible dream
2006-07-17 00:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's acutally Bessie (not Besty), from Gateshead who cared about Jane. And the reason Jane left Mr. Rochester is because she has high moral beliefs. He was already married and she couldn't bare to be his mistress, although she loved him dearly. I thought this was a beautiful story and found Jane's character to be very realistic for that era.
2006-07-21 19:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by misswoodstocker 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the two are super, yet WH is thru a techniques my renowned. Jane Eyre is somewhat romantic, yet I form of felt like that alter into it. Wuthering Heights has plenty extra pastime and drama. It has love in it yet isn't very almost love. I form of enjoyed the actuality that not one of the characters are likeable, it made the e book extra exciting. did no longer charlotte bronte publically say that she did no longer like wuthering heights because of the fact it replace into so dark? i think of she pronounced that she did no longer think of that characters as evil as Heathcliff could desire to be written. The credit for the e book could desire to be attributed to the author, Emily, who's maximum proficient for my section. edit: I consider you approximately charlotte merchandising the e book, I only locate her perspectives on it exciting. i assume I felt that throughout JE all the characters have been just about too "sturdy" and ethical to the component the place it replace into just about boring. somebody stated as quickly as that they enjoyed JE because of the fact they have been an optimist, and sturdy could be seen in all the characters. i'm going to admit that im a pessimist, and doubtless i like WH because of the fact it demonstrates exhibits a international the place all the characters are "undesirable". Its additionally exciting to think of that possibly charlotte and emily had distinctive perspectives on existence, useful or unfavourable, and hence that they had such distinctive works. purely a concept...
2016-11-02 04:56:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel she must hv left Mr. Rochester,
1) coz she was devastated.
2) she felt that her life was never meant to be happy,
and took the interruption to her marriage as a sign
frm fate telling her to leave.
3) Jane was a very moral woman, maybe to the extreme(
she forgives her step-mother). Probably her sense of
morality doesnt let her marry another woman's husband.
Its a good book to read. If nothing else, it makes you realize how much blessed we are, to have wat we have.
2006-07-17 03:02:38 · answer #7 · answered by Ladylove 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you are trashing it for language? my god thats the way they talked back then, and the reason for the plot was to give hope to the poor and working classes. hope that they could rise above, these days there arent many messages of hope, just violence and trash
2006-07-16 19:32:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i've watched the movie and i thought it was alright. but i suppose, the movie version is never like the original, the novel...
2006-07-21 16:19:58 · answer #9 · answered by anak sendu 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋