Jane Eyre (Wordsworth Classics) の感想

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Jane Eyre (Collector’s Library)
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I reread this book after a long interval, and I had not imagined that this is such a wonderful masterpiece until I reread this time. But in calling this book a wonderful masterpiece, I hasten to attach some reservations. Firstly, if one regards this book as a love story between Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester, this is a mediocre book with several defects such as too many incredible coincidences and a grave prejudice against a schizophrenic. To do it justice, one has to look upon it as a psychological novel, namely the first and the last novel dealing with the psychology of a plain woman.
As for the appearance of Jane Eye, that she is not beautiful is repeated through her own dialogue and other people’s dialogues too often. This indicates that Jane Eye is Charlotte Bronte herself, who is said to have been plain, and that Charlotte is very conscious of her plainness. Because she was not beautiful, I think, Charlotte must have often suffered bitter mortification in the company of