The Eyre Up There (Plus Poll!)

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday to wiccagirl24, and happy early birthdays to febobe and ghani_atreides! My friends, I hope all three of you have fantastic days and wonderful years to come.

I've been rereading one of my very favorite novels, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, which leads me to a question:

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Incidentally, the new unabridged reading of Jane Eyre by Emily Woof for SilkSoundBooks is extremely well done, not to mention very reasonably priced. You can hear a sample here.


Because I can't choose just one quote for the day from Jane Eyre, here are several:

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you."

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

"Do you think I am an automaton? ­— a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!"

Comments

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to reread it for awhile now, but I need to buy a new copy. My old one got lost at some point during a move.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

"any that are filmed at Haddon Hall"

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

It's been ages since I last read Jane Eyre but I love the Timothy Dalton version of the movie. He just seemed to better fit my vision of what Mr. Rochester looked like. Oddly enough, he' also my favorite Heathcliff.

[serpentcoils.livejournal.com]

ohhh, that last quote! so beautiful. :)

[elicia8.livejournal.com]

I like Tim and Zelah. Especially Tim. :D Almost voted for the one with William Hurt, though. It was very prettily filmed. And some interesting choices made by the director.

I also (and probably sinfully) liked the film version of 'Wide Sargasso Sea.' Because Nathaniel Parker = totally gorgeous.

[penandnotebook]

Thank you! You're the first this year, be proud!

I read Jane Eyre when still too young to understand the historical and social weather in which it develops, which is a lot of wording to say that I didn't get it. The first time.

The second though, I fell in love.

Sadly, my copy isn't at hand at the moment, but I want to re-read it again.

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