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macmcfleetwood 's review for:
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
3.75
Ohhhh the melodrama! I love a gothic novel, and as this is a classic I am very happy to have read this.
It has a good deal of humor in a jesting manor that I didn’t expect but kept the book fun.
I had no knowledge of what this plot was and I was throughly impressed at how progressive it was! Aannnnd then I got to about the 70% mark when it folded in on itself back to a more conventional (but for todays standards, very problematic) relationship dynamic.
That’s to to say, taken in the context of its time it wasn’t progressive, as it certainly was. But I went from feeling like this was the most feminist literary gothic that was WAY before its time to feeling flustered and reminded heavily that this book is from the mid 1800s.
Ohhhh the melodrama! I love a gothic novel, and as this is a classic I am very happy to have read this.
It has a good deal of humor in a jesting manor that I didn’t expect but kept the book fun.
I had no knowledge of what this plot was and I was throughly impressed at how progressive it was! Aannnnd then I got to about the 70% mark when it folded in on itself back to a more conventional (but for todays standards, very problematic) relationship dynamic.
That’s to to say, taken in the context of its time it wasn’t progressive, as it certainly was. But I went from feeling like this was the most feminist literary gothic that was WAY before its time to feeling flustered and reminded heavily that this book is from the mid 1800s.