Jane Eyre- Final book blog

Comment on the perspective from which the book is told and how the author’s choice affects your relationship with the book’s content.

Charlotte Brontë has Jane Eyre tell the story 10 years after the majority of the story takes place, and even longer than from the beginning of the story. As much as I like this story, I wish it hadn’t been a re-telling of the story and instead just as the story was happening. It’s harder to believe a story that includes memories from when the character was 10 years old. I also wondered how Jane was such a well mannered and statured child when she was treated so horribly by her aunt and cousins, and know I wonder if she actually wasn’t and instead chose to remember herself that way. But I have to believe everything Jane says or else the whole story would be unbelievable, and I like the story too much to believe that it is made up.

I do like the little twist in the story about Mr. Rochester already being married. It was surprising and original. Most stories now would have had Jane freak out about being married and that’s why she would have left. I thought I read the book wrong or missed something when St John asked Jane to marry him.

“ ‘God and nature intended you for a missionary’s wife. It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not for love. A missionary’s wife you must – shall be. You shall be mine: I claim you – not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereigns service.’ “

This passage did a very good job of evoking a strong emotion from me, which is very hard for books to do to me.
The ending was a little weird. The conclusion of the story went very fast compared to the rest of the story. And what happened to Rochester and his home was a little too much of an easy solution, that his wife died and he was all of a sudden free. Anyway I was happy that Jane finally gets to marry Rochester and finally not be poor and depend on other people.

“I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh.”

This part at the end is a beautiful description of her love for Rochester and it really shows how much Jane loves him because she is usually such a dependent character. Happy endings are always good but this ending shocked me. I was expecting something more awing or meaningful All in all I had a good relationship with the book and I would read it again.