Jane Eyre
1847 • 580 pages
Ratings375
Average rating4
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Ratings375
Average rating4
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her. Will she or will she not marry him?
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2 released booksPenguin Readers: Level 3 is a 2-book series first released in 1847 with contributions by George Mikes and Charlotte Brontë.
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I see a pattern here. Another unjustly treated child. Again without consequences. The author spend a lot of time describing the abuses Jane has suffered as a child for no end other then to establish that she lived in an unfair environment. Unless there is some cunning element at play or something that latter will play a major role in the story, I don't care.
Also, while I almost felt sympathy for the character, the story is just a romance. Poor girl meets rich guy. They're both ugly. Rich guy seems to like her, but he is eccentric, so she cannot know for sure his feelings.
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>> Been reading “Jane Eyre” (yes, the classic) and am horrified by the character of St. John Rivers. (Please don't condemn me for my choice of literature. I love reading and it pains me that people would assume I'm in the wrong for the literary choices I sometimes make.)
Purity Orphan passes from one abusive male to the next for an insufferable number of pages.
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