Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

92 reviews

c_lizziebeth's review against another edition

funny mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This book is wild. It’s an earlier Twilight. It tries to be feminist, but it’s. It’s something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Infidelity

bookish_readings's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Mental illness, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

jessthanthree's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement and Mental illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

annapox's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Ableism, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, and Medical content

edesia_guest's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I studied this for Uni and it is brilliant, the plot is heavy but amazing to analyse. But Bertha, or Antoinette, is ignored. To take Spivak’s criticism this book is an allegory of colonisation and it is sad that her story is ignored and erased under Jane and Rochester’s love. While we need to understand the time the author wrote in, this criticism still remains when modern readers view this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Racism, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Classism, Confinement, and Misogyny

Minor: Bullying, Body shaming, and Death of parent

uchuflowerzone's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Ableism, Confinement, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, and Suicide

Moderate: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Classism, Death, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, and Xenophobia

sir_ren's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Now this book is the embodiment of "there's a lot to unpack here, but we don't have time for all that". That's not to say it wasn't enjoyable. It definitely was. There's a lot of the old, Christian, English people morality and vibes going on, plus their limited and bigoted outlook (of the time). It is quite fantastical at times, provoking some incredulity and or cringe, but despite all its shortcomings, I did find the book worth the read. The romance has a not-insignificant age and power gap and the dude was straight up a creep at some points (like a manipulative, scheming, little shit). There are some supernatural elements and some bits of folklore/myth. The dialogue between Jane and Rochester might be my favourite part of the book. I don't vibe with the relationship, or a lot of the character's decisions and plot elements, but I can recognize that they tell a very particular story and fits their roles. The parts where the book dwells on setting and description are dull compared to the rest of the book and the thrilling parts are the compelling highlights. Overall it is a fun read and a great book to discuss with a friend or a book club. Maybe reading the book Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys would round out this reading experience. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, and Domestic abuse

ifweweresorrows's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I went into Jane Eyre with surface level information about it and I was so confused about what was so appealing about Mr. Rochester.

I think Jane is dumb for going back to him when he basically told her that he was going to ‘chain her up’ with jewellery. He is by far the most unlikable character I’ve ever come across in a book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Colonisation, Confinement, Ableism, Classism, and Abandonment

knottmad's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

This book is very well written, but the themes and the moral of the story is so awful. It's better to just Google best quotes from this book than read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Child abuse, Colonisation, Confinement, Classism, Sexism, Racism, Death, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

bibliocinephile's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-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

4.0

for starters, the stark contrast between the styles of the bronte sisters is striking--jane eyre is refreshing in a modern world, while wuthering heights felt drawn out and almost pretentious. jane eyre herself was a very dynamic protagonist, and the page-long monologues of internal thought flowed so nicely that they barely felt lengthy and instead felt immersive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Confinement