Another Attack on Jane Eyre
What makes me most let down by Jane is her inability to
follow her feelings. She finds or creates reasons not to be with the person she
has strong feelings for. Her running away from Rochester is quite childlike.
And, although he is not perfect, he is older and more experienced. He is somewhat entertained by the childish response to feelings. Really, he should be concerned.
Jane, after all, knows everything she knows from books. How
much do you really know if you’ve only read about it? Jane remarks that love
will pass as it always does. This may be true, but she only knows because she
read someone else say it. Before commenting on something, Jane, you should try leaving your high chair and living a bit.
Jane is one of the most emotionally immature characters I’ve
ever encountered. In fact, her cold and calculating ‘Christianess’ is jarring
to me. She, like all emotionally premature humans, cannot function with
feelings. She does not understand them. She does not know what to do with them.
They are alien to her. She is afraid of them. Afraid of herself. She runs and
hides behind thinly veiled self-deception to comfort herself. But you cannot hide from yourself forever.
Jane creeps me out. She should creep you out too.
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