Book ReviewJane Eyre by Charlotte Bront

Hoi and welcome to you Jane Eyre week. All
the videos that I will be posting this week as you might have guessed will be Jane
Eyre themed. This book is loved by so many people but I just
kind of want to devote an entire week to it maybe its good chance for you to
reread it or if haven't read it yet maybe this is
a good time to start. This is my copy of Jane Eyre it's kind of a weird Penguin
edition but I love this mass paperback size.

I read this book when I was at University I
wrote an essay on it but I don't really remember a lot and I cant remember if I read the entire thing
but I have seen the adaptations so many times so I'm quite familiar with
the story. I feel like when you review a classic novel people sometimes expect
you to sort of really break it down and talk about the
historical background and almost kind of teach it as a sort of lesson on the book
but what I really want to do is just talk about my personal experience of reading Jane Eyre but if you want a more
detailed breakdown I suggest you check out the Jane Eyre episodes from crash
course literature. Jane Eyre is about a young girl called
Jane Eyre and when she was younger her aunt was sort of forced to take her in because
she was an orphan and then she sent her off to this school for girls called
Lowood. Its strict, it's cold, the girls don't
get a lot of food and in general they sort of have a miserable
time there but Jane sort of manages to make the best of the situation shes always very
rebellious but obviously at the schools just she has to tone that down and learn how to be
quiet.

She gets a good education and eventually becomes a teacher there
and when she's 18 she decides that she wants to advertise as a governess so she can see a
little bit more the world. So she ends up at Thornfield Hall
where she is the governess to a young french girl called Adele and she lives there with the
caretaker house Mrs Fairfax and then one day when she is out to bring a letter to a nearby
town she runs into someone or he sort of runs
into her because he is on a horse, horse stumbles and he falls off his
horse. She helps this mysterious stranger back on his horse while he
accuses her of being a witch. They both go on their merry way but when she comes
back to Thornfield Hall she realizes that that was Mr Rochester the man who owns
Thornfield Hall.

He seems a bit grumpy and a bit rude but as they
spend time together turns out they get along quite well but
meanwhile there are also some mysterious things happening in Thornfield Hall and Im going to stop here because I don't give too much
away but there a lot more going on because quite a big
book my edition has about 600 pages. First of all Charlotte Bronte published
this book under the pseudonym Currer Bell which is either a male pseudonym or a neutral pseudonym. What I found quite
interesting and that there are lot instances of Jane talking about how she
wishes that women to do the same things that men do just go out and just have an exciting
life and not be stuck at home and its quite interesting to think about how
people at the time would have perceived this if they had known it was written by
a woman or they thought it was written by a man. I found Jane a very pleasant character she's
very smart she really likes to observe people and figure out their personalities she seems very stable from a younger age she
sort of has this rage inside and she wants to burst free.

The setting is really remote Thornfield
Hall is very quiet and empty most of the time and it makes it a
really good setting for creepy stuff to happen but Jane Eyre's life in general
is quite lonely and limited she used to live with
her aunt and then she went to Lowood and then
she went to Thornfield Hall and like she says she's never really seen a lot of the world before although she does
fantasize about it and then to contrast that there is Mr Rochester who has been all across the world and he has all
these amazing stories about far away countries. One of my favorite bits is when Jane is talking
about how she's never really seen a hot guy before but she bets that if she
would ever see one she would know gives you a good idea of like how limited
her contact with the outside world has been which is also something that comes up in
the book quite a lot where she talks about the theme of if you havent experienced a
lot, if you're quite plain or if you're younger does it make you less
than anyone else? Especially with the treatment of
children at Lowood where they're just kind of like mmm kids don't really have
feelings so its okay they just need to learn how
to behave and be quiet and I feel like a lot of the book
is Jane fighting for her little place in the world. I also like that when she first
meets Mr Rochester and he's being kind of
rude her first reaction is that's very exciting cuz I imagine if
he would have been very polite that would've been quite boring at least that's the way to bring the
excitement to my life. Because the little girl Adele is French and Mr Rochester speaks
French and Jane speaks French there is quite a bit of
French in this book and there were sometimes just entire paragraphs in French and if you
don't speak French you can just skip it and you'll be fine you might miss a couple phrases but youll
get the general gist of what's going on.

It's fine to not know everything and it
kind of puts you right in that place and it feels a lot more real than if the narrator
goes well actually this is what they just said, I'll just translate it for you. A lot of the
quotes on the back of my copy talk about love quite a lot and I don't feel like this book is as much
about love as people think it is. There are lots of problematic things in this book
especially romanticising Mr Rochester which is sort of totally
understandable and while I think its really interesting to
read about sort of the deep connection that Mr Rochester and Jane have its always good to think things over
while you're reading it. This is a book that I can see myself
reading over and over again in years to come.

I love the story, I
really enjoy the writing, there's so many different themes being discussed. I actually
think that this could be a great starter classic even though it is quite
big it's not that hard to read. You don't have a bunch of different characters and
sort of a nonlinear story. Im looking at you Wuthering Heights and I feel like there's a lot of things that
any teenager or adult could relate to.

Those are my thoughts on
Jane Eyre I really, really enjoyed reading it again and while I reading I was sort of doubting
how much I'd actually read of it before. I really
wish I could read it for the first time again. So in the comments to would be great if you could avoid
posting spoilers and if you do want to kind of discuss something about the end maybe put spoilers in all caps and have
a couple of open lines and then itll just disappear under the read more bit. Another fun thing
that will be going on this week is that if you tweet using #JaneEyreWeek
whether it is sharing your favourite quote from the book or
sharing a picture of your copy or just talking about Jane Eyre in general everyone that uses the hashtag is
automatically entering themselves in a competition to win a really cool Jane Eyre poster just basically the
text of I think the first couple chapters of Jane Eyre with an image Jane and Mr Rochester sort of in the middle of
that.

I think that's it more Jane Eyre themed videos coming later this week I hope you
enjoyed this review and I'll talk to you guys later. Doei!.