Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre

Wunderbar geschrieben, wunderbar übersetzt und ein wirklich schönes Ende

More like: 4.5 stars!

I put reading Jane Eyre off for years for no reason other than I will sometime!! I wish I read it before but also I'm glad it didn't take me any longer.

This wasn't what I was expecting!! I was acquainted with "the mad woman in the attic" storyline and of the love story, however the dialogues and their philosophical nature and conservations on Christianity, Jane's childhood, the chapters after the discovery of Bertha Mason, these are glossed over, or perhaps I had a quite surface-level knowledge of the book.

If it were a love story, I don't think I'd give it any more than 3 stars. I actually think the relationship dynamics (and were they dynamic!) are one of the most interesting in classical literature, but what made me admire Jane Eyre and why I wouldn't consider it solely a romance is that: even the last words of the book isn't dedicated to the fervor of love and never-ending happiness but other aspects of life, other relatives and characters, without losing the sense of contentment it gives. It is written as a real life or love should be, with its ups and downs (however normally downs SHOULDN'T include a mad wife kept in the attic!), blindingly beautiful and less pleasant aspects of life are presented together, a woman isn't solely a graceful being who is sent from heavens, neither are men dashing gallant youths.

The characters, from main to supporting to minor, have a life, a character and thoughts of their own and it is what made Jane Eyre a very special read for me.