I have new prints up on my Etsy shop! Inspired, yet again, by the Bronte Sisters! Three photo intaglio printed portraits of the famous trio, perfect for any Bronte lover!
“‘Is it really for love he is going to marry you?’ she asked. I was so hurt by her coldness ans scepticism, that tears rose to my eyes. ‘I am sorry to grieve you,’ pursued the widow; ‘but you are so young, and so little acquainted with men, I wished to put you on your guard. It is an old saying that “all is not gold that glitters”; and in this case I do fear there will be something found to be different to what either you or I suspect.’”
“I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.”
“Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jeweler’s shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation. As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back, feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten – the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee. ‘It would, indeed be a relief,’ I thought, ‘if I had ever so small an independency; I never can bear being dressed like a doll by Mr. Rochester, or sitting like a second Danae with the golden shower falling daily round me.’”
“Much enjoyment I do not expect in the life opening before me: yet it will, doubtless, if I regulate my mind, and exert my powers as I ought, yield me enough to live on from day to day.”
i’m just finishing my senior year at NYU Tisch Drama, and my senior thesis project was a theatrical adaptation of Jane Eyre that i’ve been writing/composing for the last two years, which investigates the toxic structures that lie beneath the tropes of feminist romance.
before it opened, it had to become a digital thesis project! so we made a visual album of some of the music from the show, over the last month with our cast from afar! thought you might enjoy it! hope you all are well. <3
I love that part where Jane is leveling with her audience, like ‘Reader, I know, I know, he’s a mess, but I put a ring on it anyway’
Yes. That’s why it’s my favorite novel and love story.
In the musical he asks her “what can I offer you?” After learning her fortune and her well earned and long desired independence. And that’s the point. He can give her nothing but his heart and desire. That’s all she wants. It’s her choice.
Jane Eyre is about her finding her own self and making her choices no matter what society thinks, her belief in god is cultivated completely on her own and not formed what was preached to her on an abusive level for 8 years, her love with Rochester was always about throwing convention out the window. So when people make those judgments about her own choice at her own desired happily ever after I feel they are getting the entire meaning of the book completely the wrong way round.
