Okay, I know I have been reading really really slow right now, and according to my mom, I should just be done with the book. Well, I'm getting there! Before I comment on anything else, I wanted to re-comment on Alexis comment that is in total disagreement of my stance that Jane and Rochester should still be together. (I know it's been a while since we've seen them together, -if you're on page 472 like I am....- and so, this is just out of the blue.) But anyways, Alexis, I thought a lot about what you said, asking how can I stand up for Jane abandoning her principles and whatnot, especially considering I am a woman. Honestly, what the frudge does this have to do with sexism? or feminism? I just don't see the connection. Deem me completely blind, but...maybe I am. Anyways, I have come to the conclusions that the 'principles' in this book absolutely suck. They do. I say this not because they have torn Jane from Rochester specifically, but because they are so twisted. In my opinion, if your principles are not set in love, what should they be set in? I am one of those people that is pretty convinced that love makes the world spin. Literally. I don't really care that this is stupid to most other people, because it is what I stand by. If you're a Christian, why did Christ die for you? Because the Father sent him down and forced him to? Not at all. He did it out of pure love. I don't know a lot about other religions, but I know that Buddha and Ghandi were strong advocates of peace among fellow men. Well, to have peace, don't you need love? So, if you're basic principles, standards, ways of living, whatever, are not built upon a foundation of love, what do you have to live for?
Anyways, I think St. John is a little twisted in his idea that he HAS to marry Jane. There is no passion there whatsoever. The fact that he was all condemning and saying things about Rosamond that she wouldn't make a good wife and she is only a little crush basically had me throwing the book across the room. And now, he just wants to marry her for the purpose that they would make good missionaries together. yeah. what about passion? THANK YOU JANE FOR SEEING REASON! This entire 'missionary persona' that John takes on is sooo hypocritical. Look at what he says to Jane: "...it is not me you deny, but God. Tremble lest in that case you should be numbered with those who have denied the faith, and are worse than infidels!" Yeah, 'cause she is totally denying God by not marrying you.....THAT MAKES SENSE! not
Whatever. I was so proud of Jane when she sarcastically says: " 'I scorn your idea of love.' I could not help saying," I skipped for joy at the passion that is vigorously roaring through her entire frame again! For so long, with the exception of when she says "And I am a hard woman - impossible to put off." While she is demanding that John tell her the news of their relation. and a few pages before when John says (in regard of Rochester) "He must have been a bad man." and Jane harshly replies: "You don't know him - don't pronounce an opinion upon him." Pg. 440. Sorry that was a great tangent. But as I was saying, she hasn't really been emblazoned with the passion that she normally is until now, and John says "I scarcely expected to hear that expression from you," And I just instantly thought, Well, of course, because Jane has been hiding her TRUEST passion for so long, you naturally wouldn't expect her to be the type to have such a rebuke. (I am drawing this from all of the observations that John himself made of the Jane Eyre he knew, but we know far more of her passionate side.) One more quote that I absolutely love as Jane is meditating her choice between India and marriage or nada of both, she says to herself: "But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital - THIS would be unendurable." I love her strength to repress her sorrow for leaving Rochester and still admitting it to us as the reader and then showing us how even though she is tormented at night with horrid and vivid memories of the love she has lost, yet she still makes it through. In this passage, she tells us exactly how it could not be endured and how she cannot torture herself any further and so she is set in her resolution to not marry John. I think John is sort of a creeper, 'cause he just keeps watching Jane and is OBSESSED with the idea of her going to India with him as his wife, and it's just weird. Whereas before I fell into the hopelessly romantic trap of oohing and awing at Rochester's obsession of watching Jane and notice every freakin' detail about her. :) And I find it super mean of John to just suddenly force Jane to learn this weird language, and I sorta hate myself for not seeing the correlation between that act and the inevitable future. well, i gotta go finish it! SuPeR sToKeD!
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Your posts put everyone else's to shame. Ha. Well I am not so sure I completely agree with the point about religion because I hand't picked up on it, but it makes more sense as I read through this. Way to go.
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