Challenge 7: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Another late night to you!

I just now finished reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and my goodness I adored it.

I'm very tired but I'll at least manage to say that I was utterly blown away by my first Bronte novel, and this has certainly become of of my favorite classics.

Jane Eyre is a young orphaned girl with no prospects, no relations, and no foreseeable hopeful future when living under the shadow of her cruel aunt and her crueler son.  However her fate changes when after suffering abuse under her aunt Jane is sent to live at a girls boarding school, where in the years that will pass she will transition from student, to teacher, to governess under the employment of the strange Mr. Rochester who lives in a far stranger manor house where unearthly laughter, explainable fires, and terrible knife wounds are caused by something living in the uppermost floor of the manor.

I feel the Brontes and Jane Austin are often held in comparison to each other, and though they both wrote romance in the same-ish time period, there styles of writing are so different I feel a comparison isn't really valid.  With sweeping descriptions of the misty moors, and a keep insight into human thought, emotion, and understanding, Jane Eyre is a completely stunning book.  I enjoyed every instant of it, and have become a rather large Mr. Rochester fan.  Charlotte Bronte is a brilliant writer and I'm filled with so many fuzzies after finishing the book I can't describe how much I loved it.

Total Pages: 502
Number of Flying Platypus Tea Cups: 10/10