Another favourite one
whose screen adaptation I also enjoyed though I did not really like how Edward
looked.
Jane though, she had the most translucent gray eyes that made her look
ethereal. Adele, well, she did not look pretty too but I loved how she would
exclaim “Mr Rochester!” There is something about this story or the setting that
reminds me of some book called Daphne of something if I remember well; where in
that huge house a man had brought his young bride, there was a huge secret that
would have him condemned to damnation if it ever came out.
 |
| Image courtesy of abebooks.com |
This is a great
read, moving from when Jane was a child, ill treated by her guardian and her
children, then taken to a boarding school where the boarding master instructed
everyone to keep and eye on her for she was deceitful. Jane rose to being a
teacher at her own school then itching for change, applied for a governorship
vacancy, which she got. She was in a comfortable position in this weird big
house where someone wailed at night and also set Mr Rochester on fire once, but
still itched for some kind of change. She falls in love with her boss, who she
initially seemed to despise and one the morning of their wedding, the truth
came out that Mr Rochester was already married and he had been about to commit
bigamy.
The wife was the lady who laughed during the night. Rochester confessed
that he had been tricked into marrying this woman who was mentally unstable by
her father in Jamaica. Jane, devastated at Edward having kept such a secret
from her, moved away to a place where she started to teach. One of the people
who had taken her in on that fateful night, wanted to marry her and take her to
India as a missionary’s wife but Jane, despite the young man being a good person,
declined the offer and went back to Thornfield finding it in ruins as Mr. Rochester's wife had set it on
fire and committed suicide by jumping from the roof.
No comments:
Post a Comment