#i read the bit about jane's cousin who became a nun and just...wow
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Reasons I want to write a version of Jane Eyre that ends with Jane becoming a nun
She's used to living in an all-female community with basic attire
She has academic and artistic interests
She's religious
She needs a better religion than whatever Helen Burns had going on
She wouldn't have to marry Rochester
It would piss off Charlotte Bronte
#jane-u-eyre-y#jane eyre#charlotte bronte#i read the bit about jane's cousin who became a nun and just...wow#she's clearly got zero idea of what catholicism or religious life actually is#it's kind of hilarious#a supposedly christian story has more sympathy for actual magical superstition#than for the idea of a life of prayer#i suppose this is a good time to mention that charlotte and i are not kindred spirits#this is the most obvious example#but there's an overall sense that this book takes place in a mind#that's turned like 30 degrees from the direction my mind goes in#everything's just kind of off-kilter and i can't quite wrap my head around it#it reminds me a bit of the experience with girl of the limberlost#only not as bad in this case#that book sat in the uncanny valley#i can't decide if this one feels less unsettling because it's weirder or not as weird#it's weird in a different way
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#i read the bit about jane's cousin who became a nun and just...wow#she's clearly got zero idea of what catholicism or religious life actually is#it's kind of hilarious#a supposedly christian story has more sympathy for actual magical superstition#than for the idea of a life of prayer
Reasons I want to write a version of Jane Eyre that ends with Jane becoming a nun
She's used to living in an all-female community with basic attire
She has academic and artistic interests
She's religious
She needs a better religion than whatever Helen Burns had going on
She wouldn't have to marry Rochester
It would piss off Charlotte Bronte
#absolutely#jane eyre is a the perfect example of 1800s christianity#unfortunately a lot of modern christian books#(which I have been reading lately because I'm sick and tired of having to skip several chapters)#struggle with this same view of religion???#and like the struggle is so unnecessary and just screams for a magisterial body to guide them????#anyway#I want to write a book but that's a whole different kerfuffle
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