My Final Realizations

My dear teacher and fellows,

 How are you? What news? Have you changed the time?))
As I finished to read the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte I can say that it impressed me very much.I admired,admire and I will admire Bronte sisters,Bronte family entirely and their creations.All of them were very talented.

     My last post ended at the moment when Jane thinks to go with St.John to India and she somehow hears Mr.Rochester's voice calling her name.So,next that I read was:
     The next morning,Jane leaves Moor House and goes back to Thornfield to find out what is going on with Mr.Rochester.She finds out that Mr.Rochester searched for her everywhere and when he couldn’t find her, sent everyone else away from the house and shut himself up alone.After this,Bertha set the house on fire one night and burned it to the ground.Mr.Rochester rescued all the servants and tried to save Bertha too,but she committed suicide and he was injured.Now Rochester has lost an eye and a hand and is blind in the remaining eye. 
     Jane goes to Mr.Rochester and offers to take care of him as his nurse or housekeeper.What she really hopes is that he'll ask her to marry him – and he does.They have a quiet wedding and after two years of marriage Mr.Rochester gradually gets his sight back.St. John Rivers,meanwhile,goes to India alone and works himself to death there over the course of several years.

That's all!!! I finished it!!! Huray!!! It took me a lot of time to read this "great" novel,but,anyway,I liked it.The book became one of my favourite ones that I have read. What about you,guys? Did you like the book? What did impress you the most?
So,good luck to everybody and to those who haven't finished yet.

Love,
A.G.

Just a post:)

Hello dear teacher and fellows,

How are you? As I like "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte very much I decided to post just some information about this wonderful novel.

I would like to speak about its themes.
    So,one of them is "Marriage".In Jane Eyre,marriage is about a combination of three things: compatibility, passion,and ethics.A marriage also has to have more than common ground – it has to have passion.
    Another theme treated in this novel is "Education".The education in this novel,however,is mostly aesthetic; characters learn basic music performance,basic artistic skills and a little bit of foreign language.It’s enough to make them seem cultured,but not to make them actually useful for anything except teaching music,art and foreign language.Education is also a safe haven,something that provides emotional satisfaction in a protected space separate from the hardships and difficulties of the world.
    The theme of  "Appearances" is not a major theme but anyway stays here.Beautiful women turn out to be intriguing harpies or selfish idiots; plain women turn out to have hidden depths of passion; ugly men aren’t actually ugly,but excitingly masculine in a harsh,craggy way.Virtuous characters resist having their appearances radically changed or improved because doing so seems like pretending to be something they aren’t.
   "Society and Class".Jane Eyre,I mean the novel not the charcater looks down its nose in disgust at the existing Victorian class hierarchy.Jane Eyre implies that poverty can be thoroughly respectable,as long as it’s accompanied by an earnest desire to better oneself – or at least earn one’s living.Definitely,it’s easy to value poverty and hard work when,in the end,all the right people get the money.
   There are very few things in Jane Eyre that are actually supernatural, but "the supernatural" is still a major theme in this novel.Over and over,events that seem eerie,uncanny,Gothic or supernatural will be explained away by rational circumstances.
   In the strictest sense,Jane Eyre is all about "morality" – in fact,it’s close to being didactic.Characters seem to have an innate sense of right and wrong,and it isn’t difficult to tell what decision to make in an ethical crisis.It is,however,extremely difficult for these characters to make ethical choices in a world where morality and passion seem to be mutually exclusive.Characters must choose between being right and being happy.
    Foreignness and "The Other" are complex themes in Jane Eyre.The novel depends heavily on the relationship between England,at the center and a variety of other places and groups:colonial holdings, continental nations,missionary outposts and even oriental stereotypes.England and Englishness are both strengthened and threatened by each of these factors and the ability to move between the foreign and the domestic is an opportunity for financial and personal gain – but also a chance for contamination,threats,fear or prejudice.Even characters who seem to be at the very center of England and the very center of the novel can easily be made to seem foreign and out of place.
    In one sense,Jane Eyre is about the quest of an orphan girl for a home.In this novel,"home" isn’t just where you hang your hat – it has to be somewhere that you not only feel comfortable and safe,but also have loving relationships with other people.It’s even possible for characters to be metaphorically homeless here even though they’ve lived in the same place their whole lives.It’s also possible for characters to have more than one home because they have different family and romantic relationships that create several comfortable refuges for them.

So guys,these are all the themes that I managed to find in this novel.I hope that you will enjoy to learn about them too as well as me.Good luck my dear,read this wonderful novel and enjoy it!

Love,
A.G.

My Realizations on "Jane Eyre"

My Dear Teacher and My Fellows,

  I am glad to come back here with other fresh and new impressions. This book becomes more and more attractive. I like it. What about you guys?

So,I would like to continue where I have stopped.
     Jane travels in a casual direction away from Thornfield. Having no money,she almost starves to death before being taken in by the Rivers family,who live at Moor House near a town called Morton. The Rivers siblings – Diana,Mary,and St.John – are about Jane’s age and well-educated people,but somewhat poor. They take wholeheartedly to Jane who has taken the pseudonym "Jane Elliott" so that Mr.Rochester can’t find her. Jane wants to earn her living,so St.John arranges for her to become the teacher in a village girls’school. When Jane’s uncle Mr.Eyre dies and leaves his fortune to his niece,it turns out that the Rivers siblings are actually Jane’s cousins,and she shares her inheritance with the other three.
    St. John,who is a clergyman,wants to be more than Jane’s cousin. He admires Jane’s work ethic and asks her to marry him,learn Hindustani,and go with him to India on a long-term missionary trip. Jane is tempted because she thinks she would be good at it and that it would be an interesting life. Still,she refuses because she knows she doesn’t love St. John. To top it off,St. John actually loves a different girl named Rosamond Oliver,but he won’t let himself admit it because he thinks she would be a bad wife for a missionary.
    Jane offers to go to India with him,but just as his cousin and co-worker,not as his wife. St. John won't give up and keeps pressuring Jane to marry him. Just as she is about to give in,she supernaturally hears Mr. Rochester’s voice calling her name from somewhere far away.

My dear,unfortunately,I have stopped here. That's all I've managed to read untill now. I expect that Jane will return to Mr.Rochester because she actually loves him and maybe she thinks that something had happened with him and Mr.Rochester needs her help and support. Anyway,I will see.

Good luck to you,beautiful people:)

Yours truly,
Alina

My Other Realizations

My Dear Teacher and My Fellows,

How are you? How does your week-end pass? I hope that everything is fine. My week-end is awful,I've got a terrible flu and a very high temperature-39,2. It's one of the worst moments in my life but I will fight with this ailment,eating lemon,honey,garlic and onion:)
 
    This week I've read some more pages and I enjoyed it as usual.Now,I will summarize all that I've read.
So my dearest people,my previous post finished at the moment when Jane accepts Mr.Rochester's proposal.
    Let's continue: Everything seems to be going great.It's the day of Jane and Mr.Rochester's wedding. It should be the happiest day of Jane's life,but during the church ceremony two men show come claiming that Rochester is already married! Mr.Rochester admits that he is married to another woman,but tries to justify his attempt to marry Jane by taking them all to see his "wife".
      Mrs.Rochester is Bertha Mason,the "madwoman in the attic" who tried to burn Rochester to death in his bed,stabbed and bit her own brother (Richard Mason),and who’s been doing other creepy and dreadful things at night. It is Bertha who is hidden on that mysterious third floor. Mr.Rochester was tricked into marrying Bertha fifteen years ago in Jamaica by his father who wanted him to marry for money and didn't tell him that insanity ran in Bertha’s family.
      Mr.Rochester tried to live with Bertha as husband and wife,but she was too horrible,so he locked her up at Thornfield with a nursemaid,Grace Poole. Meanwhile,he traveled around Europe for ten years trying to forget Bertha and keeping many mistresses.Adele Varens (Jane's student) is the daughter of one of these mistresses,though she may not be Rochester’s daughter. Eventually he got tired of this lifestyle,came home to England,and fell in love with Jane.

After explaining all this,Mr.Rochester claims that he’s not really married because his relationship with Bertha isn’t a real marriage. The main problem is that he can’t divorce her because it was pretty tough and difficult to get a divorce at all in the Victorian period,and Bertha’s behavior isn’t grounds for a divorce,since she is mentally ill and therefore not responsible for her actions. He wants Jane to go and live with him in France, where they can pretend to be a married couple and act like husband and wife. Jane refuses to be his next mistress and runs away before she is tempted to agree.

That's all I've managed to read this week. Very interesting! What will happen next??? I will read for sure and I will discover. But I can predict (from Nastia's last post) that everything will be alright. Jane will forget Mr.Rochester,will miss him,will come back to him and they will marry truly. But how? If there is still Bertha. Something special will happen. I will see.

Good luck sweathearts(as Marcela likes to call us:)!!! Enjoy reading and life!

Sincerely yours,
Alina

Some images - Jane Eyre

 This is Jane at Thornfield as a governess

The moment when Jane meets Mr.Rochester for the first time

Jane is teaching Adele Varens, Mr.Rochester's daughter

The wedding.Jane accepted Mr.Rochester's proposal

The cover of the book (I think its end will be the same,anyway)

My Realizations

My dear teacher and fellows,

How are you? What news? What else new  have you discovered about Jane,about Mr.Rochester,about Adele and some other characters?

I like this book more and more,it is so captivating:) I would like to share with you my current impressions and news that I have read.
       So,as I have stopped there when Jane meets Mr.Rochester and they are immediately intersted in each other I will continue.
   Mr.Rochester learns at once that he can rely on Jane,especially one evening when Jane finds Mr.Rochester asleep in his bed with all the curtains and bedclothes on fire and she puts out the flames and rescues him. Jane and Rochester have fascinating conversations in the evenings and everything seems to be going really well…until Mr.Rochester invites many rich friends of his to stay at Thornfield,including the beautiful Blanche Ingram. Mr.Rochester lets Blanche flirt with him constantly in front of Jane to make her jealous. There even appear such gossip as he may be engaged to Blanche.
    During the weeks-long house party,a man named Richard Mason comes to Thornfield and Rochester seems afraid of him. At night,Mason sneaks up to the third floor and somehow gets bitten and injured. Mr.Rochester asks Jane to tend Richard Mason's wounds secretly while he fetches the doctor. The next morning before the guests find out what happened,Mr.Rochester sneaks Mason out of the house.                     
Before Jane can discover more about the mysterious situation,she gets a message that her aunt Mrs.Reed is very sick and is asking for her. Jane,being merciful and forgiving Mrs.Reed for mistreating her when she was a child,goes back to take care of her dying aunt. When Jane returns to Thornfield,Blanche and her friends are gone and Jane realizes how attached she is to Mr. Rochester. Although he lets her think for a little longer that he’s going to marry Blanche,eventually Mr.Rochester stops teasing Jane and proposes to her. She happily accepts.

My beautiful people,I hope that everything will be O.K. and Jane will have the most beautiful wedding with Mr.Rochester and they will have two or three children:) But as I have read about that third mysterious floor I am very curious to find out what is there,what or who is hidden there. I will read,I will learn the truth and I will tell you,my dear.

So,Good luck to everybody,enjoy the book and see you soon:) Be more positive babies:)

Love,
Alina

My Realizations

My Dear Teacher and Fellows,

How are you? Do you like the book? I can say that this book becomes my favourite from all I have ever read and when I am reading it I receive much pleasure. I admire Bronte's sisters.

I have read some chapters and I can't keep from sharing with my impressions.Definitely they are good.On other hand I fell pitty for Jane and her life but I am sure that everything will be alright.

So,Jane Eyre is the story of a young,orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins,the Reeds,at Gateshead Hall. Like all 19th century orphans,her situation pretty much resembles. Mrs. Reed hates Jane and allows her son John to torment the girl. Even the servants are constantly reminding Jane that she’s poor and worthless. Only a servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. At the tender age of ten, Jane rises up against this treatment and tells them all exactly what she thinks of them. She is punished by being locked in "the red-room," the bedroom where her uncle died, and she thinks his ghost is appearing. After this, nobody knows what to do with her, so they send her away to a religious boarding school for orphans – Lowood Institute.

     At Lowood,which is run by the hypocritical and cruel man Mr. Brocklehurst,the students never have enough to eat or warm clothes. However,Jane finds a good friend,Helen Burns,and a sympathetic teacher,Miss Temple. Under their influence,she becomes an excellent student,learning all the little bits and pieces of culture that made up a lady’s education in Victorian England:French,piano-playing,singing and drawing. Unfortunately,an epidemic of typhus breaks out at the school and Helen dies.
     Jane spends eight more years at Lowood,six as a student and two as a teacher. After teaching for two years,Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adele Varens. Jane goes there thinking that she’ll be working for a woman named Mrs.Fairfax, but Mrs.Fairfax is just the housekeeper.The owner of the house is a mysterious Mr. Rochester and he's Adele's guardian.Jane likes Thornfield,although not the third floor,where a strange servant named Grace Poole works alone and Jane can hear eerie and strange laughter coming from a locked room.
    One evening when Jane is out for a walk,she meets a mysterious man when his horse slips and he falls – and certainly this is Mr. Rochester. Jane and Rochester are immediately interested in each other. She likes the fact that he’s somehow craggy,dark and rough-looking instead of smooth and classically handsome. She also likes his abrupt,almost rude manners. He likes her unusual strength and spirit and seems to find her almost unworldly. He is always comparing her to a fairy or an elf or a sprite.

Guys,I have stopped here but I promise that I will read further. I am very interested in Jane and also in this mysterious man Mr.Rochester. I hope that till the end they will be together,I think so. I believe that Charlote Bronte as a woman couldn't be so rude and cruel not to write a happy end for the unhappy Jane.

Good luck my dear fellows,go on reading,this book is very interesting indeed,I like it:)

Sincerely yours,
Alina