I confess that it was difficult for me to choose a novel that redefined the concept of love for me. However, after much thought, it seems to me that Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is the one.Hello, Hive #Book Club community!
The main reason is that I read it in my early youth, when the hormones of adolescence were in full swing.
At that time I only wanted to have a girlfriend and find another one later. I believed that love was just that: kisses and caresses.
But Charlotte showed me how wrong I was.
Love is enduring, waiting, supporting bad times and, of course, enjoying the good ones.
Love is a constant struggle for both of you. Not just for you or your loved one. Love is not something ideal that appears in the 9 o'clock novels.
Love is difficult, complicated.
Now, something never changed in what I thought as a child: love is beautiful.
So Charlotte, with her novel, taught me that, despite everything, it is worth looking for it.
If you have not read this classic, now is the time to do so. I recommend it.
Thanks for reading!
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Les confieso que me fue difícil elegir una novela que me haya redefinido el concepto de amor. Sin embargo, luego de mucho pensarlo, me parece que Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Bronte, es la indicada.Hola, comunidad de Hive #Book Club!
El principal motivo es que la leí en tiempos de mi juventud temprana, cuando las hormonas de la adolescencia estaban en pleno apogeo.
En aquella época solo quería tener novia y buscarme otra luego. Creía que el amor era solo eso: besos y caricias.
Pero Charlotte me mostró lo equivocado que estaba.
El amor es aguantar, es esperar, es soportar los malos tiempos y, claro, disfrutar de los buenos.
El amor es una lucha constante por los dos. No solo por ti ni por tu ser amado. El amor no es algo ideal que aparece en las novelas de las 9.
El amor es difícil, complicado.
Ahora sí, algo nunca cambió en lo que pensaba de niño: el amor es hermoso.
Así que Charlotte, con su novela, me enseñó que, a pesar de todo, vale la pena buscarlo.
Si no han leído este clásico, pues este es el momento de hacerlo. Se los recomiendo.
Gracias por leer!
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Preciosa y muy fuerte novela.
Es un clásico obligatorio, sin duda alguna.
Excellent!
I can almost agree with you, but there is one problem. Not only was the male love interest already married. He locked his wife in the attic and this book literally invented the concept of mad woman in the attic. It's not romantic, it's cruel. He was cruel. Jane deserved better but that society had nothing better to offer her.
Yes, it is true that he was married and that he had his wife in the attic. But, it is also true that, at that time, there was no such thing as divorce, meaning that he had a sick wife, a woman he didn't love, a woman who didn't love him either, and that he had no other way out than to leave her in the attic. But, not locked up, at least, not as a prisoner, because he did take care of her. So, if you have to look at that, you have to put it in the context of the time to then see what could be done, what couldn't be done, what was right and what wasn't. I am referring to the subject of love in his relationship with her, not the relationship between the threasome that they had there at that time.
Yes, divorce didn't exist back then, but you could still be decent and not cheat. Jane did have a problem with it, it's not like she agreed to be his mistress. It still worked out for them after his wife died, but I still don't like Rochester. He could have done a lot of things other than lock her up in the attic. Like the famous farm houses which hide a lot of secrets. She might have even benefited from an Asylums which did exist. Still, for Jane it all worked out for the best in the end and I look at what happen to Rochester as his punishment.
Es una novela que me fascina. Primero la escuché en la radio como a los 11 años. Me atrapó y busqué el libro para leerla. Quería vivir la otra vez. Gracias por presentar tu experiencia aquí.
Siempre he escuchado sobre este libro pero por alguna razón no lo he leído. En mi adolescencia encontré fue a Emily Brönte, no a su hermana.
Sin embargo, parece que es una lectura tan buena como usualmente dicen, porque cuando una historia te hace replantearte tus creencias, entonces habrá sido significativa y aportado algo en tu vida.
Buen post
Pues deberías leerla también. Las hermanas eran excelentes escritoras. Todo escritor debería leerlas alguna vez.
Gracias 🫂.
Me encanta la novela, igual el filme. Gracias
Gracias a ti