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A review by nuala_koala
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
5.0
Oh my goodness. When I picked up this book, ready to read it during my holidays, little did I know that it would become my absolute FAVOURITE book of all time!
There are so so so many things I loved about this book.
First of all, the writing was absolutely stunning. Charlotte Bronte did such an amazing job both at describing scenery and nature but also feelings - the human emotion. The depth of emotion that Charlotte managed to portray is absolutely fantastically stunning. I really empathised with all of Jane's sorrows and troubles.
The character development was spectacular - Charlotte Bronte created such a complex character that really felt REAL. I grew so invested in Jane's life, empathised with her, felt every trouble. I cried quite a bit during her hardest moments.
I also think that Charlotte Bronte was really courageous to write this book - it had so many controversial themes and criticisms of society (especially for the 1800's). Some of these included:
- Criticising the class system in England. The book criticised the excessive belongings of the rich and how society treated the poor. It almost scorned the class system, imploring society to have a lesser divide between rich and poor.
- Criticising the misogyny and sexism that occurred during that time. One of my favourite passages involved Charlotte imploring society to realise that women had the same likes and feelings as men: they should not be confined to housework.
- Criticising religion. While Jane Eyre definitely showed the pros and good things religion brought, the plot of St John River really made you think about the negative impacts that religion can have.
- Criticising society's treatment of the disabled. I won't go further into this as I don't want to spoil anything, but this, was very powerful.
Overall, I thought that Jane Eyre was a courageous, powerful, beautiful, spectacular story. It is my favourite book of all time, and spoke to me in so many different ways.
A must read!!!!!!!!
There are so so so many things I loved about this book.
First of all, the writing was absolutely stunning. Charlotte Bronte did such an amazing job both at describing scenery and nature but also feelings - the human emotion. The depth of emotion that Charlotte managed to portray is absolutely fantastically stunning. I really empathised with all of Jane's sorrows and troubles.
The character development was spectacular - Charlotte Bronte created such a complex character that really felt REAL. I grew so invested in Jane's life, empathised with her, felt every trouble. I cried quite a bit during her hardest moments.
I also think that Charlotte Bronte was really courageous to write this book - it had so many controversial themes and criticisms of society (especially for the 1800's). Some of these included:
- Criticising the class system in England. The book criticised the excessive belongings of the rich and how society treated the poor. It almost scorned the class system, imploring society to have a lesser divide between rich and poor.
- Criticising the misogyny and sexism that occurred during that time. One of my favourite passages involved Charlotte imploring society to realise that women had the same likes and feelings as men: they should not be confined to housework.
- Criticising religion. While Jane Eyre definitely showed the pros and good things religion brought, the plot of St John River really made you think about the negative impacts that religion can have.
- Criticising society's treatment of the disabled. I won't go further into this as I don't want to spoil anything, but this, was very powerful.
Overall, I thought that Jane Eyre was a courageous, powerful, beautiful, spectacular story. It is my favourite book of all time, and spoke to me in so many different ways.
A must read!!!!!!!!