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[ SECRET POST #4498 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4498 ⌋

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Either you like the broody bad boys or you don't. It's not rocket science, just preference.

But why

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(Anonymous) - 2019-04-30 23:25 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 20:59 (UTC) - Expand

I don't mind the stereotype, but IMO Rochester isn't even a tempting example of it.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-04-30 23:18 (UTC) - Expand

NAYRT—I really like a few of them, and others I absolutely loathe. Rochester is actually in the middle, for me, mostly because at least he’s not Heathcliff, who is firmly in the “loathe” camp for me (and I’m boggled that anyone likes Heathcliff. He’s horrifying.)

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(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 08:08 (UTC) - Expand

Not sure why this is a secret? For the love of Mike, even the Bronte sisters agreed that Rochester and Heathcliff would be unbearable in real life.

Him dressing up as the fortune-teller was so creepy.

I found it more pathetic than creepy. I mean honestly, it's something a tween with no impulse control would come up with.

Was he a tall, dark and handsome bad boy who could be fixed with the power of love? That’s probably why.

The power of love and cleansing fire.

It was actually St John who confused me - like, what the hell was Jane seeing in this utter wankhandle of a man that she was so conflicted about whether to marry him? He was unbearable!

He did end up dying terribly.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 02:25 (UTC) - Expand

While I like to think Jane's conflict is mainly due to the fact that he basically saved her life and took her in from the literal wild, I do wonder if Bronte meant something more with the repeated assertion that this utter cold fish of a man was physically a Greek god.

Look, everyone expects me to magically fix shit for them every day, with the smiling faces of happy people who will want me to fix even more shit for them tomorrow as my only reward. If I want to fantasize about fixing something through the power of being myself that not only stays fixed but is also a hot, rich guy who's super into me? I know it's make-believe, but just let me have my imaginary hot guy.

But... Rochester isn't hot? Like, quite explicitly, in canon, not hot! Also kind of a manipulative sexist jerk.

But at least he's rich, I guess?

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(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 01:31 (UTC) - Expand

Exactly!

Relevant Hark a Vagrant! comic:

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=202

Came here to see if anyone had already linked this, lol.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 00:23 (UTC) - Expand

Oh good, somebody posted this. I always liked Anne's books, and her evident sensibilities, best by far out of the three of them, so I've always felt incredibly vindicated by that comic. :D

Chris Brown
Sean Connery
Mark Wahlberg
Christian Slater
Robert Downey, Jr. was pretty popular even when he hadn't cleaned up his act
Et cetera

Re: At least he's fictional.

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Re: At least he's fictional.

(Anonymous) - 2019-05-01 00:31 (UTC) - Expand

I read Jane Eyre a long time ago and remember liking the book, but not Mr. Rochester. He was such an ass, but I get why people would like him, especially after the fire when he's blind and missing a hand. Something about the bad boy being vulnerable and needing to be taken care of.

They got each other's jokes. And, Jane had a bit of a morbid streak, that helps.

But mostly Rochester looks at her and doesn't think "drab, creeping thing" like Blanche, or "made for work" like St John, the other suitor. He sees Jane as a wild bird, as someone of *character*, who could stand, still and grave and unbowed on the brink of Hell.

He admires her, is what I'm saying. He sees her as she wants to be seen. Difficult to walk away from that, buddy.

Honestly, I agree. But it could be because I read Wide Sargasso Sea before Jayne Eyre, so I was already predisposed to dislike Rochester.

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