Sunday, December 6, 2009

Love is a Burnin Thing...


In the british excitement of the other day, I lost my wits and forgot to post a bit about Jane Eyre, dash it all! I shall repent of that sin immediately. *Ahem*
Charlotte Brontë..if you weren't a woman, I would have a serious crush on you. I mean, geez lady!!! You have cheated God with your brilliance!!! Any other author who dares place their work above yours is delusional and a complete moron, and possibly suicidal (because I WILL hunt them down. Hear me now, scum! You have been warned!). Lets reflect on her best work's magnificence, shall we?
Mr Rochester: You leave Edward Cullen, Mr. Darcey, and all those other now seemingly childish blokes behind by about a couple lightyears with your COMPLETE AND UTTER DROP DEAD GORGEOUS CHARACTERISTICS!!! AURGH!!! Let's kill Jane and you can marry me. I'm serious, my dearest fictional lover!! Whats a couple hundred years? I don't care how old you are, I want you, you sexy beast you.
Jane: You make every pretty rich girl want to be penniless and ordinary so they can get a man like Rochester. You are envied by women of all ages, shapes, forms, creeds, and tongues, including me. ESPECIALLY me. I know its wrong to put all your hope for a love life into a hunky hunky fictional character, but I can't help myself. Wanna trade lives? You get a world with Johnny Depp and toilets, dang it!
The Love: Alright, alright, I can't have Mr. Rochester, as painful as it is for me to admit it. It wouldn't be right. The love between Mr. Rochester and Jane is what makes Mr. Rochester the spectacular creature that he is. If I took him, he wouldn't be the man we all love and adore. *sighs, swoons, drools, hyperventilates, passes out.*
The love Jane and Mr. Rochester share is beautiful. It isn't for lust or for gain or relations. It is pure, honest love. Unconditional, irrevocable, it is the epitome of beauty. A girl who has nothing, no family, no gold, no anything, has this magical thing that the most wealthy, spoiled girls would kill for. To love and to be loved this powerfully, in such astonishing concentration, could leave you dying happy just thinking about it. The idea, the wonderful idea, that this love in fact exists makes life worth living.

I highly, highly, highly, clear up to high heaven recommend this book, and the 2006 version of the movie. The movie is on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XsB22Qjz3A). Do yourself a favor: find about four hours in your day and watch this movie. Start with that link and work your way around. Tis simply incredible. You will thank me.

2 comments:

  1. Can you believe that I've gone my ENTIRE LIFE without reading Jane Eyre. My ENTIRE LIFE!!! But this post has me resolved: as soon as I'm done with my Dave Eggers book, it's Bronte for me. Maybe I'll add Rochester to the list of fictional characters I'm in love with (which at the moment includes Holden Caulfield from "Catcher in the Rye" --I'm a sucker for hard-luck cases?, Stan Claxton from "The Whistling Toilets," and Nephi from the Book of Mormon.

    This post makes me want to read.

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  2. Oh goody!! I'm all for it. ^_^

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