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Yes, very much a feminist book, and bravely critical of Christianity for a parson's daughter.I devoted a whole section of my review to "MALE POWER, FEMINISM, AND RELEVANCE TODAY":
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thank you for your review, Cecily. It has been incorporated above.
I read this book years ago, and I don't think I recognized its grace and wisdom at all. Indeed, I forget most everything about it, other than the odd movements of the plot.I think I remember even being confused about its greatness, or its insights. "Why was this book a classic?" I thought. "What makes it so very good?"
I'll certainly have to read it again.
Neal wrote: "I read this book years ago, and I don't think I recognized its grace and wisdom at all. Indeed, I forget most everything about it, other than the odd movements of the plot.I think I remember even..."
Indeed! I wish to do so as well. Next year, perhaps, if I'm not already assigned it for school.
I remember my Gothic Lit professor saying, "I envy those of you who will be reading this for the first time." It was my first time. Ten years later and I think of that sentiment every time someone tells me it is their first time reading it.
"...But the story is very much about the nature of human freedom and equality, and if Jane was seen as something of a renegade in nineteenth-century England, it is because her story is that of a woman who struggles for self-definition and self-determination in a society that too often denies her that right...Rochester, that thorny masculine beast whom Jane eventually falls for, is a man who sets his own laws and manipulates the lives of those around him; before he can enter into a marriage of equals with Jane, he must undergo a spiritual transformation..."
(C.K., p. 167)
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