Comments on: “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë

By: Foreign Reader

Foreign Reader — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:17:44 +0000

I don’t like them much to be honest. It looks just a little like stealing to me – but it has been done and I guess it will be done again.

The first Mrs Rochester wasn’t a very nice person anyway, if we believe Mr Rochester – so why bother?

By: CoraStam

CoraStam — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:54:10 +0000

Yes, I read Jane Eyre too, several times. I wonder if it’s a ‘girly’-book. In my teenage years I was impressed by Jane’s steady character.
Who cared that Mr Rochester became a cripple and blind etc, it was still a beautiful love story.
Later I tried to read ‘Wide Sargossa Sea’ by Jean Rhys, about the first Mrs Rochester, but I did not enjoy that novel much.
What do you think of authors who try to write a sequel on a famous novel?

By: admin

admin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:32:34 +0000

Welcome to my blog, Ann. Thanks for your comment. We have a lot in common, it seems – even the favourite books.

By: Ann Godridge

Ann Godridge — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:14:27 +0000

I love Jane Eyre too, Irina, and first read it when I was very young too.

I remember weeping for Jane when she was locked away in the haunted room by her dreadful Aunt Reed, and again when she was sent to the dreadful school.

When I was young, we went to Haworth on a school trip and saw the place where the Brontes lives, and I was horried to discover that Charlotte Bronte had experience of those kinds of schools.

I agree about Mr Rochester though – he may be a fine romantic hero, but I don’t think he would be very comfortable to live with.

Ann