Would “Jane Eyre” have been accepted, if Jane had become Rochester’s mistress and later repented?
Jane Eyre is my favorite novel! The Victorians loved morality tales. Would “Jane Eyre” have been well received, if Jane had become Rochester’s mistress, but later repented? I am thinking of a “good girl” fallen and then redeemed plot. She was tempted Thoughts!.
I don’t think it would have been very well accepted. I love the book from my point of time, but in that time fallen females were not forgiven. They weren’t even forgiving Jane’s mother marrying a man of God outside her social circle and sent her child away to die.
This was a quote I found from a review when it was written
Jane Eyre is, indeed, one of the coarsest books which we ever perused. It is not that the professed sentiments of the writer are absolutely wrong or forbidding, or that the odd sort of religious notions which she puts forth are much worse than is usual in popular tales. It is rather that there is a tendency to relapse into that class of ideas, expressions, and circumstances, which is most connected with the grosser and more animal portion of our nature; and that the detestable morality of the most prominent character in the story is accompanied with every sort of palliation short of unblushing justification (1848)
Nope, they don’t seem too distressed at the kid being sent down the river but that animal portion of our nature does not sound full of redemption
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