#jane eyre by charlotte brontë

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Free Jane Eyre Typeset

Back again with another book/typeset! This time it's #53: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë! This typeset is sized for half letter/letter folio, and I actually made two versions of the title page for it. You can find both versions for FREE in my library! (Personal use only; please leave credit and consider liking/reblogging! Any errors found, feel free to let me know!)

In truth, I had thought about typesetting Jane Eyre before, but was apprehensive about it, and held off on it. Ya' see, I had had to read it way back in high school for English class, and did not enjoy my time reading it, or having to write essays on it. Reflecting upon my animosity towards the book now...I still can't say I have any particular fondness for it, but I can absolutely appreciate it's influence and place in classic literature. But also yes, I still carry an old teen aged beef with an almost 200 year old literary work just because it was a homework assignment years ago. I also hold a grudge against calculus for similar reasons.

Anyway, a picture of the chapter headings style I used is below the break (I was really excited about the font I chose for it!), as well as the alternate title page (I was veeeery tempted to do an entire version of this typeset covered with flame motifs 🔥, but, uh, thought it might come off as tacky and in poor taste 😅).

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Spring Reading List

Apparently, spring is almost here. You could have fooled me since it is still dark and cold here with no clear sign of change on the horizon. Oh well, it should be here soon enough. With a new season comes a new list of books I plan to read. This springtime, I have gone with a 60/40 split for classics and contemporary. I asked around for classics that are best enjoyed at this time of year and…

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JANE EYRE (2011)

I'm the same plain kind of bird as all the rest, with my common tale of woe.

[petaltexturedskies]

Charlotte Brontë, from Jane Eyre

[obscurelittlebird]

Mr. Rochester when Jane leaves the party he specifically organized to make her jealous

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Mia Wasikowska in Jane Eyre (2011)

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[burningvelvet]

jane eyre really said “i want that insane, pathetic, sobbing old man CARNALLY” and that’s why she’s our girl!

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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

[eva-eyre]

i post for the girls who are poor, obscure, plain, and little

[the-fairy-thing]

Jane and Rochester are my favourite couple hands down but funny enough one of my favourite scenes in the book is their breakup. Not only is it filled with such raw emotions and passion but Charlotte Brontë fed us so much poetic symbolism on their wedding night!!!

1. Rochester bridal carries Jane down the stairs when she felt faint. What stereotypically happens on a wedding night? A groom bridal carries his bride to the bedroom to consummate the marriage. Ironic how it’s reversed… they are descending the stairs and leaving the bedroom.

2. Rochester seating Jane in his chair. His chair symbolizes authority and power. Jane sits in his chair because symbolically she now holds the power and authority over what happens to their relationship. Having Rochester place Jane in his chair foreshadows his realization at the end of the scene that he is in fact powerless, and there is nothing he can do to make Jane stay unless it’s of her own free will. His fate lies within her choice.

3. Again, Charlotte plays with the theme of traditional marriage ceremonies and gives Jane & Rochester reverse wedding vows. Typically in the marriage ceremony there is a vow made followed by an “I do”. Charlotte cleverly uses this but makes it a vow of separation between Jane and Rochester. He pleads to Jane if she really means to go and Jane replies “I do”, then Rochester repeatedly asks if she means it after kissing her to which Jane responds “I do” each time.

4. Rochester’s “I could bend her with my finger and thumb” speech. This whole monologue is full of symbolism as Rochester reasons with himself if physical violence would be his last resort in making Jane stay. Nothing he has said could convince her to yield. He knows he is powerless, though there is one place he still knows he holds more power… in his physical strength. He verbalizes in pretty graphic symbolism what would happen if this option would get him what he wants (Jane) but it won’t do. Even if he got to Jane’s body he wouldn’t have her soul (and that’s really what he wants). He realizes the ONLY way he can have Jane is if her will decides it and this is the moment he finally lets her go.

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@pscentral​ event 31: faceless ↳ JANE EYRE (2006)

I knew you'd do me good, the first time I met you. I knew I wouldn't mind being in your debt.

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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre  

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Thinking again about Jane Eyre, and how her main drive in life is to love and be loved, and how Helen Burns' place in the narrative is that of a caring angel. She isn't written as affectionate or warm, and yet she's so important to Jane! Because in the moment of the test -when the giving and receiving of love that she has craved so much for is within reach, if only she compromises- there is an acknowledgement that Helen was right: you cannot do anything for love and the love of creature will sometimes demand what you shouldn't give. And Jane perceives that giving in and becoming Rochester's mistress will destroy her individuality, and once her individuality is gone, so will her love with Rochester. It's a sort of paradox where the only way to save it is to cast it away! And she does!

I have argued before that the ending of Jane Eyre can only be well understood in the context of the text as a pean to the power of mercy and forgiveness to create happiness, and I stand by it, but there's also this element of purification and fulfillment, of course: Jane has given up her love so that it isn't lost, and in the end she gets it back multiplied: she'll be a wife and not a mistress; instead of a bitter, conflicted, impenitent man, she'll have a humbled, matured grateful husband; she'll have children, and cousins she'll love as siblings, a whole family of her own to love and be loved in.

[ravenkings]

i really love the way charlotte brontë writes her male love interests bc for the a-tier ones she always has her heroines be like "he's a weird ugly mean little freak absolutely DRIPPING with rizz and i NEED him carnally" and for the b-tier ones they're always like "finance, trust fund, 6'5, blue eyes 🤮🤮"