It's interesting when read as a reply to Wuthering Heights -- even the title letters are the same.
Augh, Wuthering Heights. I actually felt cheap after reading that thing - and, you know, I was told it would be romantic, which didn't help at all. (Girls have swooned over Heathcliff the Puppy Killer? Really?)
it was basically Charlotte's version of when she and her sisters all went to that awful boarding school that killed half of them off.
Apparently I missed a bit where the dreadful hypocritical headteacher is actually blamed and called to account for his neglect? I never saw that in any of the TV versions. Had I known it was there I might have soldiered on through the suffering-porn (O woe is me, I am a Victorian; I cannot be sad unless the sadness is ladled on so thickly it melts my icy exterior; alas, alack and lackaday).
OMG YOU SPOKE ILL OF PTERRYI love Terry Pratchett! I just object to the ones where everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow and people have Learned Lessons and you get to see the fate of every.
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I just ordered a new fancy-lookin' hardcover of Jane Eyre so I could finally finish the damn thing! It's all flowers that look like licquorice:
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Augh, Wuthering Heights. I actually felt cheap after reading that thing - and, you know, I was told it would be romantic, which didn't help at all. (Girls have swooned over Heathcliff the Puppy Killer? Really?)
it was basically Charlotte's version of when she and her sisters all went to that awful boarding school that killed half of them off.
Apparently I missed a bit where the dreadful hypocritical headteacher is actually blamed and called to account for his neglect? I never saw that in any of the TV versions. Had I known it was there I might have soldiered on through the suffering-porn (O woe is me, I am a Victorian; I cannot be sad unless the sadness is ladled on so thickly it melts my icy exterior; alas, alack and lackaday).
OMG YOU SPOKE ILL OF PTERRYI love Terry Pratchett! I just object to the ones where everything is wrapped up in a neat little bow and people have Learned Lessons and you get to see the fate of every. ( ... )
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