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reenareads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Child abuse and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Mental illness
Minor: Death
elena_hoang's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
The long chapters about Ms Burn - I thought she will be a impactful character but she wasn’t?
And the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester seem forced. Jane talks about her love with passion but all I was thinking was “girl you’re eighteen. And the way he talk trash about his former mistresses, are you really just gonna let it slide? 🤨”
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Child abuse
louisegraveyard's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Child death
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Racism, and Misogyny
Minor: Gore
demi_tang67's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Classism, Child abuse, and Abandonment
rory1387's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
I hated this book.
- the age gap.
- she doesn't really have any personality.
- his personality is "oops I locked my ex-wife in the attic haha"
- it was just really f*cking boring.
for me this was the epitome of "it is so bad, I want to give you a zero. but that's not possible, so I give you...a one."
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, and Mental illness
Minor: Death of parent
lal145'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Mental illness, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship
aprillikestoread's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
3.75
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Toxic relationship
Minor: Child death and Child abuse
rebeccaxpaige'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Sexism, Gaslighting, Bullying, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Racism, and Ableism
Moderate: Blood, Classism, Violence, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, and Toxic relationship
veganecurrywurst's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Jane Eyre truly revolutionized fiction and paved the way for modern day literature. Most books were not written in first person perspective, but Charlotte Brontë used it to create a sense of intemacy.
Jane Eyre tells the story of a female protagonist looking for agency and meaning.
“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!”
Jane Eyre is active and fights back and stands by her values.
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
And although I am not a big fan of Rochester (
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
It's just so beautifully written.
“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Infidelity
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Suicide
downsophialane's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
So, okay, it's complicated. There are reasons to avoid it. But there are also reasons that you may be interested, particularly if you're a romance reader. If Pride and Prejudice is the mother of modern romance, Jane Eyre is the cool younger auntie.
I would highly recommend podcasts Whoa!mance's Public Access Read-a-Long and Hot and Bothered "On Eyre" series for audio reading companions.
TO TEACH? 🍎
Jane Eyre is delicious for the Gothic, of course. I've been assigned Jane and R's first meeting for year 10. We'll see how that goes (honestly, that meeting is real sexy and I feel like my colleague who made this decision... maybe didn't register how sexy it is...
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Confinement, Death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, and Child abuse
Moderate: Classism, Racism, Colonisation, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Racial slurs