Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice?
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Re: Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice?
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Pride and Prejudice is almost the opposite, a novel of manners. Everyone basically plays by the rules, with as little drama as they can manage.
I don't know. I love them both. It's apples and oranges.
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I would not say that Jane Eyre is ahead of its time in including dark themes-- that was exactly the state of literature of the time. Try Edgar Allan Poe, or Sir Walter Scott.
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I say this, with no threats over my head or chips over my shoulder. Not even a reward. Only the truth.
Even when these variables are present, am happy to choose it all the same.
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I love this comment! I think in addition to being different styles, I think the characters are different enough that neither book can really be “better.” Jane tries to be reserved as an adult and struggles with her naturally strong spirit, while Lizzy is such a free spirit that she ends up overlooking the face that Darcy is in love with her. Both heroines have unique challenges.ChainsawCat wrote: ↑28 Jul 2019, 16:27 Are they really the same genre? Jane Eyre is a Gothic novel, and full of the associated high drama, madness, crumbling manors, extreme situations, etc. You read it for relishing the madness.
Pride and Prejudice is almost the opposite, a novel of manners. Everyone basically plays by the rules, with as little drama as they can manage.
I don't know. I love them both. It's apples and oranges.
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That's true! Elizabeth is presented as exceptionally free-spirited in the context of her quite restrained surroundings, and Jane is presented as reserved in the context of her out-of-control-dramatic surroundings. But really... does Elizabeth Bennett do anything that crazy? She accepts an offer of marriage from a man a tiny notch above her social class (by some but not all reckonings), with whom she previously had a less than amiable relationship, and who gave some advice and perhaps wrote some letters of which she disapproved. And Jane Eyre... she's the one going from the poorhouse to marrying a dude in a manor house, who was already married.owachtel wrote: ↑09 Aug 2019, 08:25I love this comment! I think in addition to being different styles, I think the characters are different enough that neither book can really be “better.” Jane tries to be reserved as an adult and struggles with her naturally strong spirit, while Lizzy is such a free spirit that she ends up overlooking the face that Darcy is in love with her. Both heroines have unique challenges.ChainsawCat wrote: ↑28 Jul 2019, 16:27 Are they really the same genre? Jane Eyre is a Gothic novel, and full of the associated high drama, madness, crumbling manors, extreme situations, etc. You read it for relishing the madness.
Pride and Prejudice is almost the opposite, a novel of manners. Everyone basically plays by the rules, with as little drama as they can manage.
I don't know. I love them both. It's apples and oranges.
We accept the novels' frames and ruling worldviews very readily.
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