Wednesday, September 23, 2009

A bewitching book


I was bewitched. 'Jane Eyre' kept me away from other entertainment for two weeks. I have read it twice successively. Then, I bought its DVD filmed by BBC and watched it twice too (don't be astonished, When I am interested in one thing, I will pursue everything about it until I fully understand it or until I get fed up with it).

What sort of words can I use to describe this story? Passionate, touching, appealing, romantic... I have never seen anybody so much in love as Jane and Mr Rochester were. The story is full of emotion. You can find sentence after sentence filled up with affectional adjectives (sometimes, I feel it is a little excessive.) So you can feel what Jane and Mr Rochester felt, you can picture the scenes as if you are watching a movie, you know every action that they acted.

I like the description of Jane's feeling of vengeance very much,

'Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time. As aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy; its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would I now have gone and asked Mrs Reed's pardon; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, therby re-exciting every turbulent impulse of my nature.' (Charlotte Bronte)

Now, everything is back to normal (I read the book until 3 am every night). I think Richard is afraid of seeing me holding another novel now. But, actually, I am thinking which novel I am going to read.

I love reading.



(BBC's Jane Eyre is worthy seeing. It is close to the original and the actress, Ruth Wilson acted very well. I like the actor, Toby Stephens too as he showed both the passionate side and gloomy side of Mr Rochester. But the movie acted by William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg...don't want to talk about it, it deleted too many touching scenes and dialouges and it changed some contents of the story too.)

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