#explain!!

[fictionadventurer]

Trying to sort some thoughts about Jane and Rochester.

I started by liking Jane and dreading Rochester coming on the scene.

Rochester showed up and was funny. He added a necessary element of humor to the book. I liked that he was here.

Last time, Rochester lost me with the gypsy fortune teller stunt. This time, it was hilarious.

No, this time, he lost me with the Blanche Ingram stuff. He's courting a woman he actively hates who is actively cruel to a child under his protection. Then he keeps pretending he wants to marry her up until the moment of proposal to Jane???

I can't wrap my head around his reasoning here. Best I've got is maybe he thinks that since he's married and can't chase after Jane, he's got to make Jane chase after him.

The worst part is that I'm also starting to dislike Jane.

Rochester seems like the only person she completely likes and respects. Everyone else doesn't measure up in some way. Her family's horrible, of course. None of Rochester's visitors get any positive description. She likes Mrs. Fairfax but considers her too silly. She judges all of Adele's flaws.

I know I said I'd take this book on its own terms, but I can't help comparing it to Austen and Gaskell.

Austen had a sense of humor. She recognized varying personalities, and even when she skewered them, she could still like them, respect them or sympathize with them. Jane and Rochester's humor is all very detached and dry, separating them into their own little world. There's no fondness for the ridiculousness of others.

Gaskell has compassion. A skill at tracing out and sympathizing with varying personalities. Here, everyone who doesn't fit into Jane's narrow mold comes under scrutiny in some way.

I'm being unfair to Jane. She likes Bessie and Robert. She likes Adele and Mrs. Fairfax. But the disapproval of their flaws is presented in a way that shades the entire relationship.

Maybe I'm supposed to dislike Jane here. Maybe that's the point.

She's about to enter into an unholy union with an unrepentant sinner--maybe that's making her worse.

Jane herself admits that her inexperienced eighteen-year-old self was blind to his flaws.

I've got to give her a chance to grow from here.

But for now I'm skeptical as to how much of Jane's behavior I'm supposed to think she's meant to grow past.

[dovewingkinnie]

your office men are starting to change my brain chemistry. 🫡

i don’t know what i put in these office workers to get such reactions from people!!!

[mushtoons]

Rise Leo 🤝 12 Timothy 🤝03 Usagi 🤝S2 Baron Draxum

not a single clue what this implies /lh /nm

[sleepanonymous]

But I'm still full of the love you want Still waking up beneath it all And I'm still full of the love you want I'll reach for you on faith alone

[irhabiya]

🦊 😿😿😿

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[amaryria]

Alright it's another DING DING DING ANOTHER " AWHY THE FUCK DO THESE HETALIA PAIRINGS EXIST "

after fucking 65 responses on my pruaus one the next one is.. ..Dennor?? Denmark?? Norway??

And AND ITS NOT EVEN INCESTUOUS?? On the hetalia fandom wiki?? Also in no way am i shitting on pruaus and dennor and future shippers I just.. question marks fly in my head

Like i get it calm down nordic fans im also one too i have nothing against our babies but aawhya why hwwhy WHY

(also just the time for me to FUCKING MENTION THE DANISH SLAUGHTERHOUSE OHOHOHO..)

[kawareo]

Art snobs are actually a thousand times less annoying than people who respond to everything with "it's not that deep bro"

[captainobviois]

Training my parents to be funnier

[fishandshesmygills]

they should invent an understanding and intellectualizing your feelings that makes them go away!!!

[specks-of-time]

[bamsara]

I love blocking people I've never interacted with based off their replies on some random popular post. Wow random user on a post with 50k notes with the worst take ever, I hope I never meet you and will make sure we never do

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[ochibrochi]

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[chiljax]

me too wade, me too

bonus:

[bags-of-regret]

Oh god theres more