Then when Jane does say yes but says no to all of the things he was going to buy her he gets all angry and disappointed but Jane isn't the kind of girl who would just give everything up for a guy and that's what he wants her to do. The thing that really pisses me off is that Jane gets all weepy and scared that Mr. R. won't come home. I thought this book was supposed to be feminist but no instead the heroine turns into a damsel in distress. I expected more out of Bronte.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Proposals
Seeing as Mr. R is my least favorite character it's no surprise that I didn't like the scene where he proposed. First of he like stalks her out into the garden and makes her look at a moth. Then he makes up this crap about marrying Blanche Ingram just to see if it'll make Jane jealous, why don't you man up, grow a pair, and come out and ask her instead of making up some story about how you're going to marry Blanche and send Jane to Ireland. Then he's all surprised when Jane thinks he's kidding about marrying him, I mean he said he was marrying someone else like three seconds earlier and now he expects Jane to just believe that she's really the one he wants to marry, not to mention that when Mrs Ingram and the other ladies were ripping on governesses he didn't stand up and say anything.
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Hey J....so I know lav-dawg doesn't like when we make stupid posts, but haha "grow a pair"...i love how you can put "grow a pair" into the subject of like early london days..."the days of yore!" haha
in all honesty i find when i blog right after i read i take on the tone of the book...
which has changed. the tone went from feminist to paternal..now she's becoming so dependent on him, she's even believing his story of his first marriage, and then his extensive sex retreat, and she's giving him all these chances...she's being too dependent, bottom line
i agree that Jane is becoming too dependent. Every once in a while we will see sparks of freedom and independence that will always make her Jane Eyre, but as the book progresses she seems more and dependent on what will happen in the future. Previously she was so sure of the present and what was happening. Suddenly, especially after the disastorous marriage she seems so dependent on the love that Rochester claims he has for her. I believe to some extent he does love her but what he did was selfish. Of course in ways he was trying to save himself but he did not need to ruin Jane to do it! If he had just let her go to Ireland where he claimed he had a new place for her Jane could have continued on as the confident woman she was.
I've no issue with the idea of "growing a pair" (reminds me of that old joke: "Balls!" said the king, and the queen laughed not because she had to, but because she wanted to).
Anyway, all three of you are right on the money in terms of being concerned that Jane is becoming a little suborned (though remember how she resists many of Rochester's attempts to fawn over her and buy her pretty things). I think that perhaps Bronte needs to have her character 'sink' just a bit so that she can rise again and "resist all the way." We'll see. Good post (and comments).
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