I watched the rest of "Jane Eyre" on PBS tonight and I was thinking.

[crim son]

When Jane returns to Thornfield after the fire and surprises Mr. Rochester, they have a tender, tearful reunion where she swears she will never leave him as long as she lives. Then (yawn) she gets tired and he says a polite goodnight. My Gawd! After what they'd been through, how could either of them have considered separating, even for a night? If I were Mr. Rochester I would have bound Jane to my bed, seen to her comfort and then, being the gentleman I would be, slept on an armchair with my arm outstretched so I could feel her present through the night. But no, they bid one another good evening as though terrible & unexpected catastrophes didn't mangle their lives at every turn.

Okay, that's all I have to say about that.

[SPKrazy]

1. Well, That's The Way Things Were For Them

pssssst

it's a story...



:hug:

[crim son]

2. Do you know how Charlotte Bronte died?

It's a terribly sad story written by somebody who lived a terribly sad life whose moments of happiness were always marred by tragedy, right up to the end. She of all women would have known what I mean.

What, do you think I'm reading to much into this? :D

[SPKrazy]

3. I Think It's All A Conspiracy

started by Bronte

all to create a sense of outrage amongst, well just you actually...

prolly not just you.

I surspect I know someone else who would agree, although she loves that book...

[crim son]

4. I love the book too but it always made me sad -

that love should cost so much and yet come with no promises beyond just itself. In those days I imagine people lived their lives with more gratitude than we do now. That's my hunch, anyway.

[SPKrazy]

5. They Lived Short Lives

and didn't take things for granted as much because death was so much a thing that was part of life and expected to happen at times other than when a person is old. Look at how many women died in childbirth, or children didn't survive to see their first year.

I imagine your hunch is right on.

Gratitude can be had in this day and age too if one seeks it.

[deadparrot]

6. 'cause Jane's all about the modesty.

:)

Don't know if you've read the book, but Jane is extremely religious, which doesn't get emphasized much in the film/TV adaptions. That's the whole reason she left Rochester in the first place; she was tempted to stay with him, but she couldn't go against what she saw as God's law. She certainly wasn't going to compromise her moral code at their reunion, even after everything they've been through. He was alive and they were together, and that was enough to get them through.

But I can imagine that their wedding night was reaalllly wild. :D

[crim son]

7. I've read the book a hundred times.

The only direct allusion to her modesty in this production was when Rochester says, "If I asked you to do something that wasn't right, would you do it? No, no. Of course not." I know you are dead right which is why I picture the gentleman in an armchair next to the bed :)

[deadparrot]

10. I don't have Jane's reservations.

I'd jump Rochester then and there. He's one of my biggest literary crushes. :)

[crim son]

11. I married a Mr. Rochester.

It's much more romantic in the book :P

[deadparrot]

14. Don't spoil my girlish fantasy!

:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I haven't seen very many productions of Jane Eyre.......

But I've read the book many times, and I love it.........

Great story.......:hug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Propriety, my deah...Propriety!

;-)

[BarenakedLady]

12. Fiction is fiction

and reality sucks...that is all.

[crim son]

13. Hi sweet one.

The story gave me a perverse hope not that there is a miracle in my future but rather that I will survive a life devoid of miracles. I will have this optimistic feeling until roughly 3:00 a.m. when I'll slip into my normal deep funk.

You have been quiet lately. I miss you - again.