This book is full of despicable characters, psychotic stories and takes place through many years of Jane Eyre’s life. Definitely a recommendation for the class, a story of “the orphan girl”, and the most complex one I know. The plot is beautiful and deep and there are many stories within and many twists. The book embarks philosophy, wisdom, tragedy, and romance. Jane Eyre is not a boring character, and I personally feel like she is far more interesting than the Pride and Prejudice character of Elizabeth, though quite different to compare the two.
Jane is complex especially for a woman at the time, and Jane of course breaks her boundaries across the board. She outsmarts most people she meets and endures a tremendous amount of abuse throughout her lifetime but has the gentlest spirit.
This book is written as an autobiography, but not in the naked way. It is almost written as a diary as to how personal it can be and the narrator is constantly talking to the reader, reminding us that she is telling us the story directly. There isn’t a specific category this book can go into as it reaches many genres. Perhaps it can be horror, gothic, romantic, mystery, drama, and action. The writing is so precise it can be contemporary though it is written far before our time. We all thought Cinderella had it bad, well Jane had it real bad.
I love the religious aspect of the book as well; Bronte sticks to her spirituality in the novel. The book ends in a spiritual way and a quote from the book along that lines is “We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.”
The Book is literary brilliancy, and I am not exaggerating I promise.
(on a side not the Jane Eyre National Theatre Live production was extraordinary and worked very well with the minimalistic set)
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