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A review by bojangacic
The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
4.0
How wonderful it is to see a woman writing from a male perspective, and doing so with such authority, that we can simply nod in approbation. ''The Professor'' belongs to, what I like to call, the ''Austen/Bronte'' literary club, therefore, if one has experienced a novel belonging to the before mentioned group of socially and emotionally oppressed women, he/she will have an inkling of what's to come.
''The Professor'', besides the male protagonist, bears few dissimilarities to its predecessors. Apart that it's probably the only Victorian novel that I can't picture as a motion picture, all other hints and elements came to me as a well-known and recognized continuity of ambitious men, even more ambitious women, difference in class/rank/status, etc. -the entire composition engulfed in the ideals of Victorian repression, and the ever-present power play between the sexes.
Nothing novel or innovative about ''The Professor''- yet, this is not why any of us turns to the classics- we retreat to the ''an oldie but a goodie'' section for one single purpose- reaffirmation that all the nonsense and afflictions present today were proportionately onerous centuries ago. This provides some of us with comfort, for whichever reason.
''The Professor'', besides the male protagonist, bears few dissimilarities to its predecessors. Apart that it's probably the only Victorian novel that I can't picture as a motion picture, all other hints and elements came to me as a well-known and recognized continuity of ambitious men, even more ambitious women, difference in class/rank/status, etc. -the entire composition engulfed in the ideals of Victorian repression, and the ever-present power play between the sexes.
Nothing novel or innovative about ''The Professor''- yet, this is not why any of us turns to the classics- we retreat to the ''an oldie but a goodie'' section for one single purpose- reaffirmation that all the nonsense and afflictions present today were proportionately onerous centuries ago. This provides some of us with comfort, for whichever reason.