#aoje

[its-a-state-of-angst]

I love how a gifset sets me off down a wormhole of obsession over something last year North and South....now it's Jane Eyre

and It's every well most adaptations OF JANE EYRE that's got me

@dunnetwins gif

[violivs]

AOJE episodes 12-95 thoughts (oops I binged it)

- my feelings about Jane Eyre the novel are that I love Jane as a character but I’m lukewarm about the story she’s in. I feel the same way about AOJE. So… successful adaptation, I guess.

- I’m gobsmacked that they kept Beth/Bertha as the mentally ill secret wife living in a hidden part of the house, and they kept Simon/St John literally asking Jane to marry him and go with him to India. And that it WORKED! You have to suspend your disbelief a little, but I love that they committed to the out-there plot instead of changing the marriage proposals to business partnership proposals and stuff like the LBD did.

- I adore Diana and Mary and I’m so glad Jane has them now.

- it’s always going to make me uncomfortable that Jane and Rochester are white people whose happy ending depends on the tragic suicide of a mentally ill woman of color. It is. But I like that they remind us that Beth/Bertha was human. That she’s remembered as a good, beautiful person who got sick and couldn’t get better. That she was able to have a brief relationship with Adele before she died and Adele will have good memories of her.

- It sucks that Mr. Rochester’s actor left the series early and so Rochester never properly appears on camera again after Jane leaves Thornfield post-failed-wedding. It does. But at least this is perhaps the only classic lit story where you can get away with that, because Rochester only has one more big scene at the end and I do buy that Jane and Rochs would want that to be private and off-camera.

- Obsessed with Jane deciding to live on her own and just date Rochs for a while instead of jumping right back into marrying him now that Beth has died. Absolutely the right and most healthy choice.

- “Viewer, I made a home.” Absolutely beautiful. Dare I say- even better than “Reader, I married him.”

[itwouldbeajoytobringyoutea]

my blog started middle school this fall. they grow up so fast.

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[blithe-and-bonnyy]

And it's really something To make homes of worn-out luggage What a life, man, what a life this is, yeah

[rationalseries]

The Wide World of Classic Literature-Inspired Web Series

There are dozens of web series inspired by classic pieces of literature by the likes of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, and more.

Our friend Jules wrote this great piece about literary inspired web series for Nerdist, and she interviewed us! Click through to learn about how we got into this medium and what we love about it! 

[twiceroyaldove]

im forcing my book club to watch literary vlogseries in the Year of our Lord 2021 and i couldn’t bring myself to pick favorites for the avatar so i made this lol 

[kindnessinpain2000]

My Favorite Moments (Autobiography of Jane Eyre - Ep 1 - This is me (an Introduction))