My summer just began and to start it off I have a pile of books waiting to be read. Jane Eyre was my first read and I must say that all others will have a hard time contending with it.
My only regret in reading this book is that I have not read it sooner. I have heard good things about Jane Eyre and thus had it on my To Read List, but I wish that I could have fit it into my schedule much sooner. Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, has been a favorite of mine since I first read it in high school, and I was surprised to see that Charlotte Bronte, Emily’s sister, could give me a better story to read than Wuthering Heights.
I found the two stories to be very similiar. They both stand out to me as depicting great, romantic love. Heathcliff and Catherine, and Jane and Rochester each are noteworthy love stories that contemporary writers have been influenced by. In fact, Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, uses a passage from Wuthering Heights to describe the love between Bella and Edward.
As well as being love stories, they are each tragic. Their is a barrier between love in each story. For Jane and Rochester, it is Rochester’s wife, while Heathcliff and Catherine it is money and eventually death. These barriers increase the romance factor and ignite emotions while reading them. I was on edge to see if the lovers would find true happiness and love.
My satisfaction in reading Jane Eyre was that love wins in the end. Their was awhile there where I thought Jane and Rochester would be forced to lead lives apart from one another, but Charlotte brought the wayward lovers together in the end and all was well.
I do not normally like novels that end with everything being perfect because ,well, life never happens like that. In Jane Eyre‘s case though, I loved it. I found with this book hope in despair and love in unusual places. It is a book that should be on the top every romantic’s to read list.
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