That we have put such prime value on lust and looks and power that we have forgotten to be real in our writing. So, instead of doing things the way Jane would have wanted him to do, he overwhelms her with expensive affection. And that's what left my now-closer-to-thirty-than-twenty self very satisfied and, quite frankly, rather impressed. But life there improves and Jane stays on as a teacher, though she still longs for love and friendship.

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One man would turn his back on the laws of God and society for the love of the young Jane, whilst the other obsessive and devout has expectations of self-sacrifice for God, his own vanity and ambition.Teaching did not appeal to Brontë and in 1838 she left Roe Head to become a governess to the Sidgewick family -- partly from a sense of adventure and a desire to see the world, and partly from financial necessity.

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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation. Or you can view this as an story of formation of a strong and independent female protagonist, a nineteenth-century feminist, light-years ahead of its time. The highest stimulus, as well as the liveliest pleasure we had known from childhood upwards, lay in attempts at literary composition. But it’s a romance between two characters who are not conventionally beautiful, which is unbelievably rare. I was somewhat looking forward to this book as it's an example of a strong woman who knows herself, but no.May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love. Best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, and a collection of surviving poems, she remains one of the most intensely original and passionate voices in English literature. There is such a rawness to the writing, although some would say overly dramatic but for me it is another beautiful and remarkable aspect to this book, because it works.

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and then if you were diagramming you'd have a frightfully kudzu-covered six-story scaffold of indirect objects and modifiers trailing behind it. This couture-inspired collection also features The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice. These early experiences help to define her later character, and, ultimately influence how she sees the world; she still hides behind a curtain in Rochester’s house when he flirts with Miss Ingrum. Its heroine Jane endures loneliness and cruelty in the home of her heartless aunt and the cold charity of Lowood School. Jane endures dreadful hardships: she is orphaned; her aunt says she is "less than a servant, for you do nothing for your keep" and invokes the wrath of God who "might strike her dead in the midst of one of her tantrums"; she endures injustice as she strives to be good, but is always condemned, while the faults of her cousins are indulged or ignored.She wants more for herself, not driven by ambition but by virtue and the right to think and love freely. Fleeing Thornfield Hall, Jane finds solace in the sequestered Moor home, with St John and his sisters. Jane Eyre empowered women, written at a time when in so many ways we were considered second-class citizens.