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rachaelina's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Side rant, it rather drives me crazy that people turn it into a she must marry Rochester OR St. John situation when she easily could have just...not married either. Given that her cousins both successfully met and married other men, I think it's safe to assume they probably had friends they could introduce her to? They weren't the only men in England?
Anyways, it is very well written and enjoyable, but I'd only recommend it if I knew the reader would read it thoughtfully.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Death, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse
realizedcreation's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Racism, Abandonment, Death of parent, Classism, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Incest, Fire/Fire injury, and Death
Minor: Antisemitism
verytwilly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, and Classism
lira_the_recluse's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, and Forced institutionalization
Moderate: Death and Abandonment
mistystar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
jessversteeg's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Classism, Confinement, and Mental illness
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and Suicide
Minor: Death and Death of parent
condor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Ableism
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death of parent, Classism, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment
brodi727's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, and Mental illness
Moderate: Bullying, Child death, and Death of parent
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
peytonktracy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Minor: Death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Colonisation, and Death of parent
erica_cronje's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Immediate Initial thoughts
I am absolutely in love with this novel. It is the perfect combination of character and plot and descriptive language. I adored annotating and as such, analyzing this novel and all it's characters. Everything was absolutely amazing, it was much better that Pride and Prejudice in my opinion, the entire character development, love story and progression of the love story, i just enjoyed it much more, it felt like there was more depth with the characters even though, there is arguably less information and character growth in Jane than in Pride. In simple terms, I enjoyed Jane more in every wat possible.
Day-after-thoughts
There were so many aspects of this novel that just, it was just perfect, in my opinion. The characters, the plot, everything, the progression in the characters and such.
Its almost like it is a long personal letter to a friend, almost like she wrote it for you.
Chapter 2, pg. 13, "The reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear, very painful and crushing, but only half-intelligible.
Chapter 9, pg. 75, "When mists as chill as death. . .for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeletons.
pg.76. " Disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and deaths its frequent visitor.
pg. 116, "a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud, the moon ascending it in her solemn march, her orb seeming to look up as she left the hilltops, from which she had come. . .
pg. 158, " Memory had giving given her evidence of the hopes, whishes and sentiments I had been cherishing since last night. . . Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way, a plain, unravished tale, showing how I had rejected the real and rapidly devoured the ideal.
In conclusion, there s nothing about this book that i do not love, it is is unbelievably perfect, from the plot, to the descriptions, to the commentary on society and all the themes prevalant in general.
Graphic: Classism and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Mental illness and Misogyny
Minor: Colonisation and Suicidal thoughts