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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
4.5 stars
Men don’t come off too well in Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall. But this book is actually a very interesting, good read. It does not inspire the same excitement in me as Jane Eyre (by her sister Charlotte) nor the same disgust as Wuthering Heights (by her sister Emily), but it has a wonderful feminist stance that I really appreciated. Helen, who did not listen to the wisdom of her aunt, married a horrible excuse for a man. He is controlling, selfish, demanding, unfaithful, a drunkard, an opium addict, and a manipulative piece of crap who tries to turn his son against his own mother. But what was a woman of that time to do? Helen was a little too pious for me, but she was strong and resilient- and I like that.
I looked forward to reading this everyday. I am glad I finally read the third Brontë!
Men don’t come off too well in Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall. But this book is actually a very interesting, good read. It does not inspire the same excitement in me as Jane Eyre (by her sister Charlotte) nor the same disgust as Wuthering Heights (by her sister Emily), but it has a wonderful feminist stance that I really appreciated. Helen, who did not listen to the wisdom of her aunt, married a horrible excuse for a man. He is controlling, selfish, demanding, unfaithful, a drunkard, an opium addict, and a manipulative piece of crap who tries to turn his son against his own mother. But what was a woman of that time to do? Helen was a little too pious for me, but she was strong and resilient- and I like that.
I looked forward to reading this everyday. I am glad I finally read the third Brontë!
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If "he is covered in red flags but I can fix him" was a book.
This absolutely slapped HARD. The feminist narrative is surprising for its age and I'm absolutely here for it.
This absolutely slapped HARD. The feminist narrative is surprising for its age and I'm absolutely here for it.
slow-paced
This book took me forever to read. Thankfully I listened to an audiobook, which was a great help.
This is strange because I actually enjoyed this a lot, but for some reason I felt as though it was never going to end and I would be trapped with Helen Huntington suffering at the hands of her abusive, cheating and not caring husband for ever.
I think what I enjoyed the most was the atmosphere and the writing, but otherwise it was very monotone.
This is strange because I actually enjoyed this a lot, but for some reason I felt as though it was never going to end and I would be trapped with Helen Huntington suffering at the hands of her abusive, cheating and not caring husband for ever.
I think what I enjoyed the most was the atmosphere and the writing, but otherwise it was very monotone.
Spoiler
People consider this feminist because Helen left her husband, but in the end she went back to nurse him as he was dying because it was her "duty" even though he had treated her like shit for years. I can see though how her leaving her husband was very shocking and progressive, but in the end she went with Gilbert, who is honestly a bit of a creep, so I don't know how I feel about that.
dark
reflective
slow-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
challenging
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
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
I would give this 3.5 stars if that were an option, but since it's not, I decided it's worth a bump up rather than a bump down. The novel is very much in the tenor of the kind of romantic age literature that always seems a little hysterical to me, at least in parts, but I liked this better than either Jane Eyre (which I have never liked) or Wuthering Heights. The central woman character is quite interesting through most of the book, though rather ridiculously gullible early on--suffering from a widespread disease of believing that a man can be changed by the love of a good woman. Still, given the era in which it was written, she does come of as rather stronger than most women of the age. The narrator is quite interesting through most of the novel, though he is the one who gets to the hysteria-level romanticism later in the story. Made me want to scream at times.