#Jane Eyre spoilers

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Jane Eyre but the mad-wife-locked-in-the-attic is a vampire. you agree

[snowshinobi]

does Jane realize this is what we're hearing

[dracomort]

Would Tom stay with Draco if Draco went insane? How would he feel about it? On one hand I don’t think he’d mind, but you can’t really have a stable (or their version of stable) relationship with a lunatic. And as you said, Draco is obsessive and I imagine madness would make that trait worse. Although Tom doesn’t seem to mind Draco’s obsessive tendencies as they are.

Prob do what Mr Rochester did to his first wife in Jane Eyre.

[ojamajoprincess]

ohhh ok so this is just like when Jane Eyre fled Thornfield Hall, rode a coach as far as it would take her, and walked literally all around a crossroads, homeless and bereft of any direction, stumbling into a doomed side plot that was not what she needed, only to return to her love in the end. i get it now.

(i have read Very Few romance genre works but I did listen to Jane Eyre in 2021)

[adventurous-nerd]

Lads I'm reading Jane Eyre at the minute, about two thirds of the way through currently? It's absolutely WILD! I knew (spoilers for the 176 year old book I guess) that he had a wife in the attic and that they end up together in the end but yes girl, run! Get as far away from there as you can!!

[darkshrimpemotions]

Been waiting months to make this one 🥰

[ladybender]

Mark S is the opposite of Mr Rochester

crazy wife in the attic VS wife with no memories in the basement

[ceriseo]

its actually sooo criminal for charlotte bronte to write " 'He is not to them what he is to me,' I thought: 'he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine— I am sure he is—I fell akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. Did I say, a few days since, that I had nothing to do with him but to receive my salary at his hands? Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster? Blasphemy against nature! Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered— and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' ". for her to write all that and expect me to just go on living???

[alixtmcknight]

May 2024

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

An absolutely brilliant novel! Possibly one of my favorite novels ever. Unfortunately in good conscience it does get a small demerit for some backward thinking when it comes to race and English superiority. I can’t know what it was like in the authors head, and what sorts of limited experience she had to undo these taught ideas. I know that is part of what we must wrestle over when reading classics, and that is how I framed it in my head. But it doesn’t negate the feeling that came over me when these issues were raised. I despise the idea that some would believe themselves better based on where they are from or the race they happen to be. That is the only reason it doesn’t have 5 stars!

Outside of that this novel has a main character who I relate to more deeply than I have to a character in many years. While relating to characters isn’t necessarily, it does provide some enjoyment on the rare occasions it comes. Her observational skills, wisdom seeking character, independence that keeps her grounded, a tendency to want to please beyond her comfort, along with a strong belief that moral responsibility comes before the wants of the heart find some semblance in my being in one form or another. She wasn’t beautiful like most main characters which was refreshing, and I appreciated her honesty and integrity that I too have always strived to emulate. Mr. Rochester was quite the conundrum for me. I approved few of his actions, but I saw a great spirit beneath his ill decisions. While he is not my type of wanted lover, his terms of endearment must be the greatest I have ever heard. I melt under flowery language, and his exaltation of Jane was enough to have me in a puddle of tears. Despite his issues with his wife, he still found it in his heart to have her in his care (however distant).

I’m in a bit of a daze, as I often am after a great novel, and I want to swim in the waves of reflections this book continues to bring to my mind. But, for now these are my thoughts, until I pick it up again as a future self.

I give this 4 1/2 stars.

[stheresya]

knowing that rebecca was heavily inspired by jane eyre is interesting because i see how bertha mason and rebecca de winter, despite occupying the same narrative role of antagonists, stand in contrast to one another in certain ways. bertha was someone whose origins were "questionable", she was not very intellectual and also mentally ill. rebecca on the other hand came from "good breeding", and her mind was strong, so strong that she was easily capable of bending everyone else to her will. bertha was the mad woman trapped in the attic, but rebecca was the whole house itself, tall, beautiful and imperious, and she was never trapped, it was the others that were trapped within her, their fates at her hand. when bertha burns the house down it gives an opportunity for the others to start anew, but when manderly (one with rebecca) burns down she takes everything with her, the destruction making the soil barren for anything else to grow.

of course that isn't to say the ending of both novels are solely the result of each women's wits where the mentally strong one succeeds and the mentally ill fails. i attribute the ending instead to their husbands. mr. rochester despite his loathing for bertha still tried to do what he could to keep her alive and safe (by 19th century standards), so he was given the possibility to move on and start over with jane once bertha was gone. maxim also loathed rebecca, but he wasn't as patient and so he ended up killing her, and in doing so he invited rot upon himself and doomed any chance of future happiness he might have, even being able to escape punishment from the law did not mean he could escape rebecca.

[bohemian-nights]

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think that Nettles needs saving from Daemon. I won’t lie and say that the age gap(she’s 17 and he’s 49) isn’t disconcerting, because it is. Or that him being the Prince Consort and her being a likely non-Valyrian bastard girl who comes from nothing doesn’t put them on unequal footing, because it does, but Daemon clearly loves Nettles.

Regardless of whether you agree if it’s romantic love(it is, but that’s a conversation for another day) or not, he clearly loves her. He literally dotes upon with seemingly no ulterior motives, other than to provide her with simple comforts she’s so long gone without. He only wants to take care of her.

Daemon loves her enough to give up his life to defend and save hers. The man who ordered Blood & Cheese, has a reputation for misusing young girls, and commits countless war crimes, is willing to give his life up for a lowborn girl.

Nettles in all honesty wouldn’t be missed if she was murdered, but Daemon saves her. He could have easily let Lord Mooton’s men execute Rhaenyra, his wife the queen’s orders. I mean this is the Rouge Prince that we are talking about here. He murdered his own great nephew among other family members. It would have cost him nothing to hand Nettles over, but he did not. Instead he was going to fight through Lord Mooton’s men and die for her. If Nettles needs saving from that then I know nothing.

[mxcottonsocks]

ooh, on the subject of Charlotte Brontë novels with Helward vibes... I read Villette in november/december and it may have been the timing which made me have Dracula ships on the brain, or it could have been the 'young english protestant travels to the low countries, meets an older, catholic professor' thing, or the teasing, or the gothic atmosphere, but I was thinking about Helward throughout the entire second half.

Jack's other favorite romance novel should be Jane Eyre, I don't know if you've read it but the more I think about it, it feels helward adjacent. I dont think Jack would be aware of that's why he likes it though.

no, but yeah, i think that’s a good assessment. i haven’t read the book myself (although it’s been in my tbr for years), but i’ve watched a film adaptation and read many quotes from it, so i feel like i’m somewhat familiar. there’s this one quote i’ve always liked, and it gives off extreme helward vibes: “He is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine;— I am sure he is—I feel akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements.” 😌❤️

[max-reblogger]

All said I was wicked, and perhaps I might be so: what thought had I been but just conceiving off starving myself to death? Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead church an inviting bourne? In such vault I had been told did Mr. reed lie buried.

Book Quotes #132 - Jane Eyre

[claudiablogger]

yay eps that render the dash unusable until you finish the fucking assignment and get to them

[must4rds33d]

finished reading the tenant of wildfell hall just shortly after christmas!! perfect december book ❄️

[funkyllama]

Jane Eyre is the original Fabio Novel and nothing will convince me otherwise.

It's got the (for some reason) way older brooding billionaire who is an asshole to the main character who is also a young and poor woman that no one cares about in any substantial capacity.

It's got the of-the-period references/tropes/themes (mysticism is all over this bitch,,,, and don't get me STARTED on the first fire scene)

It's got the main character that's an artist, like come on!

It has another woman that the main character perceives as a threat to what she wants, but then it's made incredibly clear that she was never an actual threat to the mc,,,

AND it's got the plot twist with a red herring that is just so painstakingly sympathetic like JANE stop TARGETING HER!