quiet entry: My Review of Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre c. October 19th, 1847, by Charlotte Bront ë What I admire most about Jane Eyre is her resoluteness and humility. Experiencing a soft return to Christianity in my own life, I often looked upon the principles which she held with a greater degree of observation than most would likely offer. Humility, intellect, resoluteness, belief in herself and reverence for the pathways God bestowed to her—all of these coalesced to form a protagonist worthy of generations of readers’ love. Without the romantic tropes, Jane herself, no matter how ordinary her life was, was easy to admire and follow, because she made the best of every environment in which she entered. She saw beauty in the individuals which constituted each environment and made lasting impacts in her different communities; regardless of her early life hosting a difficult environment and unforgiving, cruel characters. Although she went through dispositions of strong...