tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post519398641163757279..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Jane Eyre and the fairy folk - "Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriouslyAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34578923449490927242008-05-18T21:53:00.000-05:002008-05-18T21:53:00.000-05:00Hope, thanks - Rochester uses (or narrator Jane ma...Hope, thanks - Rochester uses (or narrator Jane makes him use) this fairy langauge at their first conversation. It doesn't just soften Rochester's character, but it shows that he has an imaginative side much like Jane's. See also his interest in her paintings.<BR/><BR/>Maria's comments are very helpful and remind me that different parts of the book are written for different audiences. I think I detect a private joke with Emily, Anne, and/ or Branwell here.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-27773193135763298772008-05-16T16:00:00.000-05:002008-05-16T16:00:00.000-05:00Wow! I've always been intrigued by these elf/fair...Wow! I've always been intrigued by these elf/fairy passages but I've never heard anyone else mention them. They are essential (in my thinking) to the softening of Rochester's world-weary, carousing character. He sees something "magical" in plain Jane. How romantic is that?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-30811281764634380222008-05-15T11:30:00.000-05:002008-05-15T11:30:00.000-05:00It struck me as odd that these two very staid youn...It struck me as odd that these two very staid young women -- whose brother is a block of marble -- should be reading a shocking work like "The Robbers." The play's central character is a dispossessed son who returns, at the head of a pack of lawless students, to wreak havoc on the brother who wronged him and to denounce all forms of tyranny. It thus fits in with the themes of orphaned children and of the precarity of family loyalty (after all, it is Rochester's father and brother who betray him!).<BR/><BR/>"Die Raeuber" caused a near-riot in the theater in Mannheim where it was first performed. There were 8 translations into English between 1792 and 1827, but theaters in England in the 1790s couldn't get a license to stage the play. One of the English translators even altered Schiller's text and "‘prun’d’ the play ‘with British care’, divesting it of ‘all the Jacobinical Speeches that abound in the Original.'<BR/><BR/>In 1825, Carlyle still thought it necessary to say that, with Karl Moor (say, exactly where is Jane wandering again?) Schiller had "set up to the impetuous and fiery temperament of youth a model of imitation, which the young were too likely to pursue with eagerness, and which could only lead them from the safe and beaten tracks of duty into error and destruction’Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com