The Eyre Up There (Plus Poll!)
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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:
[Poll #1033387]
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!"
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:
[Poll #1033387]
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!"
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Date: 2007-08-05 05:02 am (UTC)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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Date: 2007-08-08 01:56 pm (UTC)I'm so thrilled to find that the book holds up so well to rereading. I remember all over again why I fell in love with it. :)