哥伦比亚大学的7堂经典文学课

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• All the angers and resentments that afflicted with Jane Eyre in childhood and adolescence die along with Bertha ,as does the adolescent temptation to romance that was part of Jane's attraction to Rochester. Jane at last grows into adulthood , and, as she listens to St. John River's proposal of marriage, she is subject for the first time to an adult temptation-the weary temptation to accept something second-best while trying to convince yourself that it isn't. (查看原文)

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• By refusing Rochester and Rivers, Jane Eyre rescues them both. SHe rescues Rochester from the lonely inequality of keeping a mistress whom he would eventually despise. She rescues Rivers from his temptation to tyrannize her in his private life while liberating others in his public life. (查看原文)

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