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[didanagy]

JANE EYRE (2011)

dir. cary joji fukunaga

[elinordash]

JANE EYRE (2011)

I'm the same plain kind of bird as all the rest, with my common tale of woe.

[fitswilliamdarcy]

JANE EYRE (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga

[perioddramamen]

TOBY STEPHENS as Mr. Rochester JANE EYRE (2006) | Episode 1

[jaeausten]

Strangers would wonder what I am doing, evidently objectless and lost. Not a tie holds me to human society at this moment — not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures are — none that saw me would have a kind thought or a good wish for me. I have no relative but the universal mother; Nature. What was I to do? Where to go? Oh, intolerable questions, when I could do nothing and go nowhere!

[viillette]

It does good to no woman to be flattered by her superior, who cannot possibly intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds, whence there is no extrication.

— Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

[perioddramasource]

Yet after all my task was not an easy one; often I would rather have pleased than teased him. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol.

[branfraser]

Mia Wasikowska in JANE EYRE (2011) dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga