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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

25 reviews

deluna's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, and Religious bigotry

mandapanda8's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I was hoping this story would be about Jane growing as an individual woman who survive an abusive upbringing, is drawn to men who don't serve her and learns to move on. Unfortunately, the main love interest continues throughout the story to be a typical older man who draws her in and it's just...not it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Physical abuse and Sexism

melist6's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Incest and Death of parent

1ngrid's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Was bored for the most part, as I get with classics. I struggle to follow along with the language. I was captivated by the middle of the book, as i probably grew used to the language. 
I wonder how I rooted for the love between this teenager and grown man. Charlotte is an amazing writer to make it happen, I suppose. 
My teacher spoiled the book for me, as she spoke about Bertha, but it made me want to read and find out about the drama. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide

alyssapusateri's review against another edition

challenging mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Incest, Misogyny, Racism, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual violence, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, and Colonisation

hcrosby4236's review against another edition

too boring and slow for me personally

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

not REALLY an adult/minor relationship but jane is just freshly 18 & rochester is like 40 something

condor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

It does keep you in your toes with some plot twists but also got me frustrated many times when the characters act completely illogically. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

linneak's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Sexism, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Racial slurs, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

stephmcoakley's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

erica_cronje's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Immediate Initial thoughts

Oh My Word. 

I am absolutely in love with this novel. It is the perfect combination of character and plot and descriptive language. I adored annotating and as such, analyzing this novel and all it's characters. Everything was absolutely amazing, it was much better that Pride and Prejudice in my opinion, the entire character development, love story and progression of the love story, i just enjoyed it much more, it felt like there was more depth with the characters even though, there is arguably less information and character growth in Jane than in Pride. In simple terms, I enjoyed Jane more in every wat possible. 

Day-after-thoughts

I adored this book, have i mentioned that by chance?

There were so many aspects of this novel that just, it was just perfect, in my opinion. The characters, the plot, everything, the progression in the characters and such.

Plot and Characters: although it is not perhaps the most essential part of the novel, there is no lack of plot. The thing that made this novel so wonderful to read , is the characters and the plot intertwines with each other. The characters thoughts and actions are integral parts of the plot. The characters and the plot is not two different things, instead they work as a team, enhancing each other even more. For example, when Jane is shoved into the Red Room, we see her lash out, people commenting on her behavior and yet the plot moves on, they keep tying her to a chair, we keep seeing Jane's thought process, it should be a very chaotic scene, yet it is perfectly balanced. 

Writing Style: I am so absolutely in love with the writing style of Charlotte Bronte. the way that 'Jane' is constantly addressing the reader personally, it makes the entire experience just even more personal and you connect easier to Jane as a character. I wrote in an annotation on page 93, 

Its almost like it is a long personal letter to a friend, almost like she wrote it for you.

 Then the descriptions in general were absolutely gorgeous, of both Jane's thoughts, as well as what is around her, and her actions. 

Chapter 2, pg. 13, "The reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear, very painful and crushing, but only half-intelligible. 
Chapter 9, pg. 75, "When mists as chill as death. . .for the forest on its banks, that showed only ranks of skeletons. 
pg.76. " Disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and deaths its frequent visitor.

My favorite of all though, is the descriptions of nature and feelings in general. They are personalized and due to this personalization, it just adds something so eloquently beautiful, it just reads beautifully, as often seen in the descriptions of the moon. 

pg. 116, "a blue sea absolved from taint of cloud, the moon ascending it in her solemn march, her orb seeming to look up as she left the hilltops, from which she had come. . .
pg. 158, " Memory had giving given her evidence of the hopes, whishes and sentiments I had been cherishing since last night. . . Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way, a plain, unravished tale, showing how I had rejected the real and rapidly devoured the ideal. 

the discussion of the themes: Bronte has various commentaries on the society of the time, the way love was seen and portrayed, gender roles and how they are enforced into people since birth, women being learned and expected to repress their emotions, as seen with Jane herself. Bronte intertwines it into characters that, if one is nor looking for it, it would be unnoticeable, yet it is prevalent throughout the novel. 

In conclusion, there s nothing about this book that i do not love, it is is unbelievably perfect, from the plot, to the descriptions, to the commentary on society and all the themes prevalant in general.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Classism

Moderate: Mental illness and Misogyny

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Colonisation