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4.11 AVERAGE
4.11 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Perfection
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
how is this centuries old romance hitting so hard????? characterisation of characters excellent, description of the landscape, insecurities, etc. loved it
“i care for myself. the more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained i am, the more i will respect myself.”
this book does have the religious energy, which went against my atheist soul. and while i particularly wasn’t a fan of the romance, mr. rochester, and other side characters, i didn’t have the heart to give it less than five stars. i LOVE jane and i’ll protect her with all i have. i felt her loneliness, her yearning, her pain, her inner strength. i felt her emotions all the way through. i was in awe with charlotte brontë’s immense talent and how she beautifully crafted the language.
on the surface, jane eyre seems to be an age-gap romance between two ugly people. but it is actually more than that. brontë wrote a feminist work that’s ahead of its time without preaching about feminism, because jane’s badassness is all about internal. she’s small, poor, obscure, and unattractive, yet she knows her independence and follows her own intuition. jane sees religion in modernist view, not as something stone-cold - differently from those around her. coming across into one rebel heroine in a victorian novel is a rare case, after all, and i love it when i do.
despite the bad representation of mental illness and a few implausible plot points, jane eyre strikes me as a classic “she did that” masterpiece. (i wouldn’t call it a standard gothic romance, though; it wasn’t gothic enough for me).
this book does have the religious energy, which went against my atheist soul. and while i particularly wasn’t a fan of the romance, mr. rochester, and other side characters, i didn’t have the heart to give it less than five stars. i LOVE jane and i’ll protect her with all i have. i felt her loneliness, her yearning, her pain, her inner strength. i felt her emotions all the way through. i was in awe with charlotte brontë’s immense talent and how she beautifully crafted the language.
on the surface, jane eyre seems to be an age-gap romance between two ugly people. but it is actually more than that. brontë wrote a feminist work that’s ahead of its time without preaching about feminism, because jane’s badassness is all about internal. she’s small, poor, obscure, and unattractive, yet she knows her independence and follows her own intuition. jane sees religion in modernist view, not as something stone-cold - differently from those around her. coming across into one rebel heroine in a victorian novel is a rare case, after all, and i love it when i do.
despite the bad representation of mental illness and a few implausible plot points, jane eyre strikes me as a classic “she did that” masterpiece. (i wouldn’t call it a standard gothic romance, though; it wasn’t gothic enough for me).
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Read it years ago and loved the start that's covering Jane's childhood, especially the misdemeanor bits and the one friend she had. The OG female POV romance. Would have liked to read more about her life post-"getting with the guy".
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you, — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh:— it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, — as we are!”
“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.”
“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me.”
!!!!!!! i will never forget this book !!!!!!!
“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.”
“I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me.”
!!!!!!! i will never forget this book !!!!!!!