Not my cup of tea skepticism on the rise

Cristina 2022-04-19 09:03:13

“Do you think that i'm a machine that i can bear it.
Do you think that i'm poor, plain, obsecure and little that i have no that i'm without soul.
I have as much heart as you and as much soul.
And if God had given me some beauty and wealth, I would make it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave you."

"Jane Eyer will be not be over-whelmed."

Doubt:
1. John Eyer was clearly informed of Jane's death, why he insisted on leaving his inheritance to the dead many years later before he died.

2. If Rochester hadn't been blinded and disfigured, would he still be so sure about keeping Jane? To someone like him who needs the companian of human being, or will he marry another woman?

"The rules were rigid: a high-status man falls in love with a lower-status, but worthy and deserving, woman (or girl, that was even better). Fifty years of feminism and education and success had done little to eradicate the power of this myth. But how many women would eagerly sign up for the opposite: high status woman (smart, powerful, successful) falls in love with lower-status male and ends up taking care of him?" says by Candace Bushnell

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Jane Eyre quotes

  • Edward Fairfax Rochester: Give me back nine. Jane, I have need of it!

  • Edward Fairfax Rochester: She saves me from an inferno and she's glad she happened to be awake.

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