In short, she could not have written 'Jane Eyre'.Īnd had Charlotte Bronte composed a story with the plot of, say, 'Pride and Prejudice', much grist for passionate yearnings, passionate sufferings and struggles, passionate resentments, perhaps even a passionate triumph at the end, would have been hers to make dramatic use of. It would have been a comedy, would have affirmed the idea that a pivotal self-improvement of some kind would be rewarded by life with some happy outcome, and would have left us considering the whole cast of characters with a more philosophical bemusement. ![]() John, would have implied that the heroine's ambiguity had something important to do with something she had yet to learn about herself, and may well have had the heroine marry some third character who had been humbly well-meaning and virtuous and decent somewhere along the periphery of the story all along. Had Jane Austen composed a story with the plot of 'Jane Eyre', she could not have written so much tragedy into it: she would have poked fun at both Rochester and St. Implicit in Jane Austen's work is the notion that what one experiences depends significantly upon how he or she chooses to look at it. It seems very much a matter of taste in which some favor one or the other author, and some love both if for different reasons. ![]() Probably I am not well qualified to address the original question, as I read 'Jane Eyre' twenty-five years ago (and 'Villette' maybe three years ago), and am much more familiar with Jane Austen's novels.
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