Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre | REVIEW

[Music] welcome back to my channel this channel is where I talk about books movies and occasionally talk about music all my socials will always be in the description box below and I do post videos every every Wednesday and Friday so but to get into what today's video is about I'm going to be doing a book review on Charlotte brontë's Jane Eyre I've been reading this book since in the tail end of the summer it took me entire month to read it is a 500 plus page book so it is a the first and I probably the well know I would say the first tone book I have read in a very long time and I am glad that I did so before I go into the spoiler part of the book review and my thoughts I will tell you what the book is about it says orphan Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt where she endures loneliness and cruelty and out of charity school with a harsh regime this troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit which proves necessary when she takes a position as a governess in Thornfield Hall but when she falls in love with her sardonic employer sorry it's tough it's torn so the words messed up Rochester the discovery of his terrible secret make forces her to make a choice should she stay with him and live the consequences or follow her convictions even if it means leaving the man she loves a novel of intense power and intrigue Jane Eyre dazzled and shocked readers with its passionate depiction of a woman search for equality and freedom so there is you know that is a lot but that is the basis of what the book is about I'm sure there are so many there are so many adoptions adaptations of this novel and you know it is a very popular book it is set I believe it was written during the Victorian or Edwardian period and England and you know it's just this book is this story has been was the literally the story that launched me into falling in love with literature I read it the FIR when I was in second grade the Great Illustrated classics version of this book and I it was the first romance I ever read and I just fell in love with it and so it feels good to like that I was able to at my age of 21 to go back and reread the original and just fall in love with Jane Eyre again if you have not noticed obviously I loved this book it is my favorite I will tell you that it is a book that even though the writing prose is very fluid and very easy to understand for anyone either if you're a reader an avid reader or a non reader it is something that is easy to go through but there are so many layers to this novel which is why it is 500 pages because there it's just so much more than a romance but I will go into that in the spoiler part of this review but anyway I will tell you guys - I highly suggest if you to read it if you have not yet and um yeah it's just excellent um anyway so without further ado we're gonna go into the spoiler part of this video so if you've not read Jane Eyre I highly suggest or have seen films I highly suggest that you do not continue to watch but those of you who chooses to stay hello anyway so I will go into several parts that I loved I loved Jane Eyre because it is very much true um the way that she shows her independence and her freedom through her thinking and her spirit and her be ambitious way that she is not necessarily career wise but Indian lightining of her as an individual I just I found myself in her so much and there's that is a big reason why I love this book because I see so much of Jane Eyre I really connect with her on that um I love that she is not a you know feminist Joan of Arc powerful woman who's trying to push through like it's those characters not that those characters aren't great they're actually really cool and fun to read but I think Jane Eyre is a lot more realistic way you know through her the way that she is she's a lot more of a realistic approach of how we can kind of be different from societal norms you know our son ways of how we can fight against our the oppressive system gender system and it's just she doesn't in so many ways she does it in the way that she refuses her cousin Joan read through marriage the way that she refuses to be mr. Rochester's mistress because of the way that she feels about integrity and you know and faith I love the way that she is critical of the oppressed of the Church of England and the way that schools that the you know that the the schooling for you know for young children were at the time and I even love the way that she fought back against her oppressive aunt and you know I also love the fact that the way that she grows in time it shows her from a very rebellious child into someone who accepts the system but is it passive she's not a passive character if anything she you know just you know in her subtle ways figures out a way to find herself and stay an individual despite all the heaviness on top of her through you know with gender society and class um I really loved Rochester I loved that he was not a typical love interest he isn't someone that is easily likable he is very stubborn he's very vain he can be very very abrasive and but at the same time you see that in the heart he is a very broken man um he is a big reason why I think this book is very polarizing not a lot of people like him he is like I said very controversial but he's just very realistic as a character there are so many I have met many guys that are like Rochester and but they do have really great qualities and it's what makes them human and so I'm really Charlotte brontë has this gift of understanding the human nature and understanding people and she made them she really made Jane here and mr. Rochester come to life in this book I like I said before I do love the writing prose I love how vivid it is I love the vocabulary that I've learned I read stuff I mean I learned so many words in this book it's insane I even love the way that she describes the landscape I can I saw the Moorish England in my head I felt the coldness I felt the dew from the grass I felt the overwhelming cloudiness of the sky I just felt everything and I was really immense into the world of Jane Eyre you know so i really suggest that you guys read this book if you have not read it already it is an amazing amazing novel and there's are a lot of historical context in this so I you know if you do want to even enrich your reading even more I would suggest maybe doing a little bit of research on Charlotte Bronte in the time that she lived in and you can see that she how Charlotte also pushed a lot of her own opinions through Jane Eyre and kind of Jane Eyre was this literary this literary manifestation of Charlotte Bronte I also forgot to include there there are themes of race in this book because you have mr. Rochester's wife Antoinette and her brother Mason I'm well they are the Masons sorry that's when it makes him whatever and her and her brother who are Creole people which are people that come from Jamaica they aren't necessarily and they're mixed you know um so there's that but there's also implication when Don Reed is talking about going to India because the British the British did own the British Empire in India was part of the original one this was written and so he was going there to do missionary work and the way he describes the Indian people so people of color in this book are discussed in a very negative light a very nasty and deplorable ways but that something that is very normal in old literature I think that it's that I just wanted to include that disclaimer for those of you guys who you know for the faint of heart it you know that now part like you know so that you guys know what to expect when you read this book personally I did not get offended by it because it is part of history and it is known how and it even now P the way people regard people of color you know usually that's just the way that they view it so I would just tell you guys I just wanted to include that in this review just so you guys are aware of what you're getting into if you have not read this book yet but it's just an amazing book I highly suggest you read it like I said before and yeah so thank you guys so much for watching this video I hope that you found this review helpful and I hope that you guys if you have not read the book I hope that you would read it if you have let me know in the description box below what you guys thought of it and yeah so that is it guys I will see you guys next time [Music]

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Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 25 2017