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Manga Classics: Jane Eyre
by Crystal S. Chan, Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre is a wonderful book. I love Charlotte Bronte's writing style, and I love the fact that the protagonist of this book is not a beautiful woman. I also love Jane Eyre's feminism. For the time in which this book was written, even passages such as the one found on page 111, in chapter 12, which reads, "It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it...Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a filed for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a constraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer..." are rather feminist in their statements.
Besides containing a lovely romance entwined with dark thorns which make it seem impossible for anyone's happily ever after to come true, this book contains many passages of pure beauty, or purple passages, which is a name they are also known by. "It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--'Day its fervid fires had wasted,' and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Where the sun had gone down in simple state--pure of the pomp of the clouds--spread a solemn purple, burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame at one point, on one hill-peak, and extending high and wide, soft and still softer, over half heaven. The east has its own charm of fine, deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon" (ch. 23; 251).
I loved this story through each page. I loved Jane Eyre; I loved the writing style; and I enjoyed the read. No wonder this book is a classic!
Besides containing a lovely romance entwined with dark thorns which make it seem impossible for anyone's happily ever after to come true, this book contains many passages of pure beauty, or purple passages, which is a name they are also known by. "It was now the sweetest hour of the twenty-four:--'Day its fervid fires had wasted,' and dew fell cool on panting plain and scorched summit. Where the sun had gone down in simple state--pure of the pomp of the clouds--spread a solemn purple, burning with the light of red jewel and furnace flame at one point, on one hill-peak, and extending high and wide, soft and still softer, over half heaven. The east has its own charm of fine, deep blue, and its own modest gem, a rising and solitary star: soon it would boast the moon; but she was yet beneath the horizon" (ch. 23; 251).
I loved this story through each page. I loved Jane Eyre; I loved the writing style; and I enjoyed the read. No wonder this book is a classic!