Jane Eyre
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- DuchessAngel37
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Jane Eyre
I remember I hated it when I had to read it in high school, but then as I got older I realized that I didn't hate it at all, I just hated HAVING to read it. I read and write like a fiend, but I don't like having to do it on cue.
What do you think of it?
- bplayfuli
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Have you read Villette? I read that one for a Victorian Lit course & really like it as well.
- CollegeReader
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"Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures"
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Like almost everyone who has commented on this thread I tried to read Jane Eyre in high school and just couldn't get through it.
But I know why. At that time I was totally in love with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. I was at that emotional, hysterical age we all go through, and that novel really spoke to me. But when I grew up I read WH years later and found it too highstrung. Then I read Jane Eyre again and fell in love with it, because Jane is a very low-key kind of person, and I am too as an adult, so we clicked perfectly.
After that Charlotte Bronte was my favorite for a long time, until I discovered the two novels by Anne Bronte, and then I could finally understand why Charlotte said Anne was the more talented of the three sisters. Her two novels Agnes Gray and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are awesome, and my very favorites now.
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- iAMheathcliff
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Wuthering Heights almost tops Jane Eyre, it has such passion and true heartbreak.
If anyone has read Villette, is it a good read? I'm planning on pickign it up, but I was wondering if anyone else had an opinion.
- megustaleer
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To repeat the question:PsychoticxFreak wrote:I hate to sound like I'm bragging, but I'm a sophomore in high school, and I read Jane Eyre earlier this year and loved it. It really was fabulous. I started reading it because I had enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and wanted to read another 17th-century romance. Jane Eyre was the natural choice. It was really good--I couldn't put it down.
Surely P&P is Georgian (C18/19) and JE is Victorian (C19)?
Neither are C17
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mistakes do happen? why is it so necessary to keep pointing them out?...over and over and over?megustaleer wrote:To repeat the question:PsychoticxFreak wrote:I hate to sound like I'm bragging, but I'm a sophomore in high school, and I read Jane Eyre earlier this year and loved it. It really was fabulous. I started reading it because I had enjoyed Pride and Prejudice and wanted to read another 17th-century romance. Jane Eyre was the natural choice. It was really good--I couldn't put it down.
Surely P&P is Georgian (C18/19) and JE is Victorian (C19)?
Neither are C17
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