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Manga Classics: Jane Eyre
by Crystal S. Chan, Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre, as read by a woman in 2018, is anything but a romance novel.
The first quarter of the book was about Jane's childhood. I cried buckets. I loved little Jane and my heart hurt for everything she endured. It hurt. But I told myself it'd be worth it because Jane would get her HEA in the end.
Then she meets Mr. Rochester and the delicious slow burn of the novel commences. I'm not crazy about the fact that she's only 18 to his 38, but it's the 1840's. I kept telling myself that until the 40 year old behaves like a dumbass by impersonating a fortune teller to find out if she likes him. While rubbing a beautiful girlfriend in Jane's face. Like he legit said to Jane more than twice, "My beautiful beloved". The beautiful beloved being another woman who was cruel to Jane. Poor Jane had to leave the room because Rochester and the other woman were too much for her to bear. But that jackass actually stopped her in the hall and, in the same breath, asked why she was crying and brought up his beautiful, wealthy, connected "beloved". I was pissed but thought he was quite possibly the most clueless man in the history of romance novels. Only to find out that it was all an act! The beautiful fiancee wasn't in on it. But it's okay because she's a gold digger. Wtf is wrong with this dude?
So, now not only is he twice her age and thirsting after an 18 year old, he's an immature asshole too? What are his redeeming qualities at this point? None that I can see other than the fact that he LOVES Jane Eyre. Fine, whatever, his devotion for her I can get behind.
Spoiler ahead. But this book's been out for what, over a hundred years so does it really count?
Then they go get married and we find out THAT HE'S ALREADY MOTHER FUCKING MARRIED!!! THIS MOTHER FUCKER PLAYED US ALL. Fuck you Edward Rochester.
She dumps his ass because sis is definitely not here for that shit. And also because bigamy is illegal. What does he do? He asks her to run away with his dumbass to where no one knows them and be "married". The fuck you say? Miss Jane Eyre is no one's side piece.
The rest of the story is crazy. Like, holy mother of God what the hell is going on? Type of crazy. While I thought the ending was fitting because karma, I'm pissed Jane didn't end up with someone else or pulled an Astrid from the Crazy Rich Asians movie and was all, "deuces". Also, her cousin, the handsome missionary, was an asshole. Fuck the men in this book.
The first quarter of the book was about Jane's childhood. I cried buckets. I loved little Jane and my heart hurt for everything she endured. It hurt. But I told myself it'd be worth it because Jane would get her HEA in the end.
Then she meets Mr. Rochester and the delicious slow burn of the novel commences. I'm not crazy about the fact that she's only 18 to his 38, but it's the 1840's. I kept telling myself that until the 40 year old behaves like a dumbass by impersonating a fortune teller to find out if she likes him. While rubbing a beautiful girlfriend in Jane's face. Like he legit said to Jane more than twice, "My beautiful beloved". The beautiful beloved being another woman who was cruel to Jane. Poor Jane had to leave the room because Rochester and the other woman were too much for her to bear. But that jackass actually stopped her in the hall and, in the same breath, asked why she was crying and brought up his beautiful, wealthy, connected "beloved". I was pissed but thought he was quite possibly the most clueless man in the history of romance novels. Only to find out that it was all an act! The beautiful fiancee wasn't in on it. But it's okay because she's a gold digger. Wtf is wrong with this dude?
So, now not only is he twice her age and thirsting after an 18 year old, he's an immature asshole too? What are his redeeming qualities at this point? None that I can see other than the fact that he LOVES Jane Eyre. Fine, whatever, his devotion for her I can get behind.
Spoiler ahead. But this book's been out for what, over a hundred years so does it really count?
Then they go get married and we find out THAT HE'S ALREADY MOTHER FUCKING MARRIED!!! THIS MOTHER FUCKER PLAYED US ALL. Fuck you Edward Rochester.
She dumps his ass because sis is definitely not here for that shit. And also because bigamy is illegal. What does he do? He asks her to run away with his dumbass to where no one knows them and be "married". The fuck you say? Miss Jane Eyre is no one's side piece.
The rest of the story is crazy. Like, holy mother of God what the hell is going on? Type of crazy. While I thought the ending was fitting because karma, I'm pissed Jane didn't end up with someone else or pulled an Astrid from the Crazy Rich Asians movie and was all, "deuces". Also, her cousin, the handsome missionary, was an asshole. Fuck the men in this book.