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A guide to the classics: Jane Eyre
| September 27, 2011 | Posted by Jess Kadow under guide to the classics |
After enjoying Wuthering Heights so much, I had assumed that the talents of Emily Brontë would triumph in my heart over those of Charlotte, the older and more widely acclaimed sister, but one whose tales do not inhabit the same gothic genre as the wild and passionate abode of Heathcliff and Catherine. How wrong I was. Jane Eyre is packed full of misery and pain in their most raw forms, but they are also mingled with the scents of hope and love, making it beautifully sad when Jane’s fortunes stumble into the gutter but providing a feeling of elation when she picks herself back up again. The life of the plain orphan girl, who begins her struggle for happiness in the… more
