/lit/ - Literature

>“I’m ugly and I’m proud! I’m ugly and I’m proud!! I’m ugly and I’m proud!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8tqY8fX0Ec

>Jane Eyre
>Good, Victorian Feminist literature
>Not full of deus ex machinas and counter-intuitive themes
John Green, there are 11th graders with better analytical skills than you.

Why is this relevant?

Just finished this. Found it as enjoyable as it was racist (slightly yet surprisingly). Is Jane Eyre the birth of the new woman?

Also Jane Eyre general

So what is your favourite novel written in the English language and why isn't it Jane Eyre?

Don't mind me I'm just the best novel in the English language.

so did the guy have syphilis and is this the mainstream interpretation? i knew there was something off about that happy ending
i'm only ashamed that i apparently missed the implication

Jane Eyre

How gay makes me read this book?

I know for a fact most of you fuckers probably haven't read this - but it's amazing. Seriously. It's a total masterpiece.

This from a guy who's into Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, etc.

I wasted 2 hours of my life reading this piece of shit because some parts were interesting and I kept hoping it would get better but now I've learned my lesson.

How does anyone like him? His novels are all pretentious plus weird. in one of them, the narrator is 40 and has a relationship with a 20 year old girl. It reads like a wet dream of some aspie and its depressing.

Anyway I could keep ranting but what do people see in him?

An incredibly dull girl lives with assholes. Asshole matriarch sends dull girl to all-girl's school. Dull girl makes one friend, who then gets sick and dies. Dull girl becomes dull woman and leaves the school with no real abilities or skills. Asshole single father hires dull woman to become a live-in teacher for his personality-less kids. Author spends 15 pages describing something that is red every time a red thing is mentioned or seen or thought about. Dull woman falls in love with asshole father. Dull woman finds out that asshole father is also asshole husband, keeping his insane wife locked in the attic and feeding her fish heads/guts. Insane wife prowls around the house at dark and dull woman notices her but does nothing. Insane wife tries to do the reader a favor and burn the house down with everyone in it, but dull woman, personality-less children, and asshole father escape. Insane woman dies in the fire and asshole father becomes injured to the point of needing constant medical care. Asshole father sends kids away to school or just abandons them, doesn't matter, and he and dull woman go live in some "tropical paradise" which is just her tending to his wounds 24/7.

There, I just saved you the trouble of reading this piece of shit. Fuck Jane Eyre, fuck the Bronte's, and fuck my freshman high school English class for making me read it and making it worth half my grade.

I can't get through the last 3 chapters of this piece of crap.

So...

What do i need to know?

inb4 sparknotes- I've already read the summary I'm just in need of important details.

/lit/
recommend me some romantic novels.
Not the trashy kind.
KTHX

Jane Eyre worth the read?

>"The most widely read English novel"

Am I the only one who doesn't see how it's good? To me it was pretty bland and focused more on making the reader feel pity for Jane for whatever reason, instead of conveying any specific morals. It also disses the christianity in the forms Jane comes across (Helen, Brocklehurst, St. John), but never manages to tell of a 'good' version of christianity.

tl;dr - is this crap despite the praise it gets?

Anyone got something decent to say about literary features in this?