Can we discuss Jane Eyre? - Page 2

[lucyem]

I have never been able to stand any of the movies except for the Timothy Dalton version. He was perfect. I saw it years ago on A&E.

For another very interesting take on Jane Eyre there is the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Its a book that is hard to describe but the main character enters into the book and lives with the characters behind the scenes for a while. http://www.complete-review.com/revie...b/ffordej1.htm

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by lucyem

I have never been able to stand any of the movies except for the Timothy Dalton version. He was perfect. I saw it years ago on A&E.

For another very interesting take on Jane Eyre there is the Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. Its a book that is hard to describe but the main character enters into the book and lives with the characters behind the scenes for a while. http://www.complete-review.com/revie...b/ffordej1.htm

I read that. It was a while ago, but I remember liking it.

When I was little I had a book called "It all began with Jane Eyre." I had no idea who Jane Eyre was at the time, and now its out of print....

[choli]

Check out Wide Sarragosso Sea by Jean Rhys for her take on the first Mrs Rochester. Makes the reader view him rather differently

It's a really good book.

[Mama Poot]

OMG what is it about Mr. Rochester? He's so horrible....yet...so loveable... I read Jane Eyre in 11th grade....totally hooked. I thought the movie was well done, but still like to read the book.

[zebulun.sunbeam]

netflix

Look again under the watch instantly section on netflix or the starz play section. There is also a version with John Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

[St. Margaret]

I love love love Jane Eyre. Dark and deep and silly and sexy!

I had a professor in college who had written a book called "the madwoman in the attic" and I liked learning about the subtext of Jane bouncing between the madness of passion and the freezing cold of duty/religion/good conduct. And the fairy tale journey stuff.

But it's also just a book that takes you away into her story. And I remember being so young and reading it and thinking there was no way for them to be together, and off she went, meeting up with St. John... and then a fire here, blazing fall to death there, etc etc-- and a happy ending!!!! So satisfying. And Mr. R is a man really truly for a real woman.

[minkajane]

Good timing! I'm reading Jane Eyre for the first time. I saw the movie (not sure which version, but it had the little girl from The Chronicles of Narnia playing young Jane) and I LOVED it. I'm really enjoying the book so far, except I'm having trouble getting through the long philosophical conversations.

[Oriole]

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When I was little, I could never truly grasp how she could leave him. I wouldn't have the strength, I'd stay with my Mr. Rochester. Anyone else?

[fek&fuzz]

Originally Posted by Oriole

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When I was little, I could never truly grasp how she could leave him. I wouldn't have the strength, I'd stay with my Mr. Rochester. Anyone else?

I think it's because her religious/moral beliefs were so strong. I could never leave him, either, although that just makes her return to him so much sweeter.

But the passage when she is in the carriage leaving him just breaks my heart -

Gentle reader, may you never feel what then I felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and agonized 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.

[avivaelona]

The Eyre Affair is so fun. I love Jasper Fforde

[BookGoddess]

Originally Posted by Oriole

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When I was little, I could never truly grasp how she could leave him. I wouldn't have the strength, I'd stay with my Mr. Rochester. Anyone else?

Yes! I read the book as a teen in high school and you know how you feel back then. His impassioned plea to Jane to stay with him and go away to another part of Europe was so moving. I was so mad at her for leaving him in the dead of the night and then not taking any of the jewels with her.
I blamed her for the destruction of his eyesight and his home. So what if he had a mad wife in the attic? She was mad and she was in the attic. That was good enough for me to have stayed with Mr. Rochester.

Of course now being an ahem..older woman.. I realize she had to leave him for he would have lost all respect for her had she become his mistress.