Criticism:
I must say, before anything else, that this book is slow. Really slow. Nevertheless, it is very interesting and unpredictable. But it is very heavy and the reader has to be very motivated and eager to finish it. It's not the kind of book that you read each time you find a free moment; but you have to make yourself carry on reading it. Once reading it, it is interesting and very likeable, and I don't feel that I wasted my time reading it at all; but to make oneself read it is difficult.
I think this because, I found this novel too streched out, and I think that it scoots away from the subject on many occasions. The author wrote parts that, from my point of view, were unnecessary; like the part of Jane's life when she goes away. Furthermore, it is not very personal and in the end of the book the reader doesn't have a powerful connection with the characters that makes him or her able to understand and "know" them, in some sort of way. This is not a book that the reader will read to empathise with the characters. On the contrary, I think that it is written to transmit the philosophic point of view of the author. It has very interesting observations and points of view that differ from any I would have been able to reach on my own, but it is noticeable that Charlotte Brontë hasn't experienced or isn't familiar with the feelings she describes because she doesn't make the reader feel them with power.
Despite all this, Charlotte Brontë passes through to us her philosophy of life in a very clear and interesting way that makes reading this book resemble receiving an ethical course in a different way, finding out the author's criticisms and points of view about society and people's hypocricism. The main character , furthermore, is like a real person, with her virtues but without turning into one of the magnificent characters that we find in most books now. This makes the reader be able to feel identified by her, and therefore enjoy the book even more.
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