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Summary: it's an awesome book, i love it!
Review: jane is an orphan who's aunt treats her bad and is sent away to a school were she stays for 8 years.after she leves she becomes a governess for a young french girl. wile she is there she meets mr. rochester and they fall in love. he askes her to marry him and they are all prepared to, but jane found out mr. rochester was married already and she left him but she was never happy, so she went back to him. she found that his wife had died and they got married.
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Summary: HOW FRUSTRATING IS THIS BOOK??
Review: Easy to read and full of events, I found this book one of the most frustrating, as the tale of Jane Eyre never reaches a "happy" ending, in the sense that Jane is never released from male dominant figures.
Jane's life is constantly repressed by men: her cousin, the owner of the orphanage and Mr. Rochester, who, even though he breaks her heart, marries her. This is too much to comprehed.
Is Charlotte Bronte trying to highlight the plight of women, or is she exposing how passive they are? All in all, it is a "nice" novel, with the "goodies" and the "badies". One final question to ponder on...Where would you place Mr. Rochester?
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Summary: Sign of a good book: number of cracks in the binding
Review: Just imagine. You're reading along, you come to a place in the bok that captures your attention. You're completely engulfed by the story, you're not reading it, you're living it! The "real" world is gone. You hear neither phone nor voice. You feel neither hunger nor thirst. You feel only what the author's pen tells you to feel. You are eager to read on. Your eyes cannot read the enthralling story fast enough. In your frenzied haste to know more, you grip the book tighter and bend it back, cracking the binding.
Years later when you pick the very same book up again, you can tell the scary, happy, or sad parts of the book by the location of the creases. Jane Eyre is such a book. It is one of three or four books who contentend for the multiple-crack champion.
I was assigned to read this book for an AP English class. Although I love to read, class-assigned books had a dubious history with me. Most, I felt, were boring or too pessimistic to find favor with me. I had heard many people talk about the book favorably after having read it in middle school. I put my hope in their past experiences and began to read. Although the first pages did not entirely confirm the praises the book had recieved, the book so far surrpassed my expectations that I finished the book in only a few days time! I would have read non-stop if it had been within my means to do so. When I did get the chance to read, I read as much as I could to the exclusion of food and family sometimes!
You may be wondering what about this book could make me such a fanatic. Well, I could give you deep literary criticism about the symbolism, the metaphors, or the imagery, but that doesn't really help you enjoy the story more, it only rounds out the meaning. Instead, let me tell you why you want to read this book.
This book combines passion and logic. An odd combination that don't often go together. Jane Eyre starts out in life full of passion and emotions, through torture and schooling, she learns to control her feelings and be ruled by logic. As she moves through life she struggles to find a balance between what her emotions tell her and what logic demands. Logic helps her through times when she feels abandoned and emotions guide her back to love when the tables are turned.
This book skillfully combines elements from nearly all genre and is sure to please anyone. It has action, romance, comedy, suspence, even the supernatural! This book is sure to put cracks in YOUR binding
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Summary: Jane Eyre vs. Villette
Review: I have been required to pick an author and read two works by the author and then write a research paper about the connecting themes, symbols, and plots of the two novels as part of my eleventh-grade requirements. I selected Charlotte Bronte because I was interested in what her books would be about since I read that she was a feminist and it showed through her writings. I wanted to know how she did this. So, I chose her most famous Jane Eyre and also Villette. I found two major themes that were clear in both. Love and Equality. In both novels, the main character works very hard to prove herself on the same level that the next person is on, never settling for less (this theme is more abundant in Jane Eyre). Also in both, the main character doesn't find true happiness until she finds true love. They both tried to be happy on their own after they had fallen in love but that didn't work. They were only happy when they were by their men, which I think contradicts Bronte's feminism, in a way. Both books contained few symbols, the tree being the biggest in Jane Eyre. I did notice that gardens and plants were almost an obsession in both novels, being mentioned and referred to constantly.
I do think, though, that the books were too detailed and very boring at times. They both got exciting towards the end, but all those in-between chapters put me to sleep. I liked Jane Eyre better because I liked the characterization Bronte used with her. I liked her personality. Lucy Snowe, the main character in Vilette, was always depressed and it tended to be annoying to read because Bronte has a good way of making you feel what the character feels.
There were a few events in both stories which seemed too much of a coincidence and not enough reality. I pondered what events took place in Bronte's personal life that made her write so much on teaching, love, desperation, depression, and abuse. I haven't yet gotten a chance to read a biography of her to find out, though.
I liked these books, Jane Eyre more than Villette, but I don't think I would have read them without this requirement. Maybe Jane Eyre. I would like to know what others think, though
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Summary: I hate this book
Review: I don't think this book even deserves 1 out of ten. I was forced to read it at school and it was awful. Boring with no decent story line and a main charater who was far too goody goody for words . If you ever see a copy of this book BURN IT
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Summary: Quickly became one of my favorites.
Review: There is something to be said for classics and this is definately a deserved one. The character of Jane Eyre is one that is so intriguing that we envy her life in a way yet we are gald that we do not live it. The book itself is one that cannot be put down in pure fear that while you are not reading a tradegy will befall our Jane. The majestry of the characters that Charlotte Bronte offers us is near perfection. With this it is also good to see a refreshing and different perspective of the upper class and its ways during this time period. I would speak of the unforgettable love story that by some luck befalls on our main character, but the majic and wonder of a love such as that is one that can only be read and imagined- not described by the ordinary writer such as myself
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Summary: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is basically a religious novel.
Review: Contemporaries of Bronte's have called Jane Eyre an "anti-christian" novel. The novel, however, is full of biblical imagery. It is a story of God's influence on man's behavior
I read this book as a requirement for an English Composition class. The story is enjoyable and tremendously uplifting. I would recommend it to any adult.
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Summary: You won't put it down until the last page is turned!
Review: Jane Eyre is a tale of love and hope that is inspiring to everyone who has ever wanted something in life. I loved this book because it told of a governess and her life, and the way she falls in love but cannot be married. The book is a perfect 10 in all aspects. I kept turning pages, wanting constantly to know what happened next. This book seemed to breath a life of it's own, which captured my heart. The classic characters and settings brought to life a wonderful place, both dreary and bright. I suggest whole-heartedly that anyone with a love of true literature should read this book
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Summary: Jane Eyre is a timeless classic.
Review: Jane Eyre is a timeless classic. This book combines great literature with the ever gripping universal theme of love.
Bronte outdoes herself, as she passionately throws the reader into the life of a Victorian governess. The reader
enters a world of heartbreak. The reader almost becomes Jane as she is neglected and mistreated by her
aunt. One feels Jane's agony and desire for her master. We feel the pain as she leaves him upon discovering
his wife. We feel her heart ripped open when she discovers the burnt down house. We rejoice when she and her now mamed lover are reunited. Whether male or female, whether in love or scorched by it, Jane Eyre captures the very essence of being
human and experiencing love. Bronte does not speak of love, the reader does not merely read about it. Bronte
immerses the reader into the experience of true love and all of the pains which come with it. Vicariously,
through Jane, we delve into the matters of the heart--the only theme that truly makes a difference, and definitely composes great literature. Jane Eyre is a timeless classic.
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Summary: A good book to read in the tub(if you take long baths often)
Review: Jane Eyre Book Review
By Deborah Friedell
Jane Eyre is the story of a "plain, small, and Quaker-like" governess who breaks through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loves. She is a heroine not because she is beautiful and rich but because she has raw intelligence and compassion. In this classic piece of fiction, Charlotte Brontë showed a great command of the English language and proved to be a master storyteller. In Jane, Brontë created a character that is as multifaceted and as real as any living person I have ever known. Perhaps Jane seems real because she is -- her experiences mirror the author's. When the book begins, the ten-year-old orphaned Jane is in conflict with her aunt and cousins that raised her. After ten years of suffering at their hands she strikes back at them. Jane's aunt is unwilling to deal with her, and sends her to a charity school, the Lowood Institution. There, among great suffering, Jane becomes strong and learns about faith. After eight years at Lowood, she becomes the governess of Adéle, the French ward of Mr. Rochester a man cloaked in mystery and despair. Despite their twenty years age difference and their different castes they fall in love and plan to marry. At the marriage ceremony it is revealed that Rochester is already married to a Creole woman named Bertha, who Mr. Rochester keeps locked up in his home because she suffers from (what I believe to be) atypical general paresis, the consequence of a syphilitic infection. Jane runs away in despair, and for a time is homeless and starving. She is taken in by a clergyman and his two sisters. The clergyman, St. John Rivers, has a cold and insensitive nature that provides a stark contrast to Rochester's passion. Coincidentally (too coincidentally for this reader) when Jane inherits a legacy from an uncle it is discovered that the clergyman is Jane's cousin. This does not stop St. John from asking for Jane's hand in marriage and demanding that she accompany him as a missionary to India. Jane prays for guidance and hears Rochester calling her name. She travels back to him, and finds him blind and crippled due to a fire that Bertha had set, causing her death. All is forgiven; they marry and have one son. Jane receives a letter from St. John in India, saying that he is looking forward to his death and the rewards that come in heaven. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created a timeless work of fiction. I am only a high school student, and have never been in love. However, I have trouble seeing anyone in love with Rochester. He is a proud man, bold, vindictive, impatient, eccentric, and untruthful. When he tries to seduce Jane he emanates a false sympathy for her, "You- poor and obscure, and small plain as you are- I entreat you to accept me for a husband." Charlotte Brontë is a good writer because she makes Jane's love seem logical, even if the reader does not like her choice.
Jane Eyre is a great book because the author wrote about a subject she knew about-- herself. Like Jane, Brontë grew up without a mother and in her aunt's household. Brontë's two sisters died as a result of ill treatment at the Cowan Bridge School and subsequent tuberculosis, similar to the way Jane's friends died at Lowood. It has been rumored that Brontë fell in love with the husband of the woman who operated the school where she taught. This suffering may be the inspiration for Jane's despair over Rochester. Charlotte Brontë is rich in symbolism. The horse chestnut "struck by lightening in the night, and half of it split away" serves to foreshadow tragedy and fire. The fire that destroys Thornfield, cripples Rochester, and kills Bertha seems to be a work of God, similar to the lightening that befalls the tree. Jane's friend at Lowood, Helen Burns, supports Christian beliefs and seems closer to God than any of her biblical teachers, especially Mr. Brocklehurst. Helen's death of consumption can be viewed as a sacrifice because it teaches Jane a valuable lesson in faith that according to Christian doctrine may be enough to save her. Helen's tombstone reads "Resurgam" or "I shall rise again" making her into a Christ-like figure. Jane is able to endure homelessness and near starvation because of the faith that Helen gave her.
Jane Eyre is a story about passion. Too much of it, and you end up like Bertha Mason. Too little, and you end up like St. John Rivers. In St. John's letter to Jane at the end of the book he says that he is looking forward to death and the rewards that come in heaven. However, those who have love, and just the right amount of passion, have no need for the gift of death, and can reap their rewards on Earth.
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