Jane Eyre

sun-star · 08-10-2004, 11:49 AM

What a strange question

I don't think of it as a specifically English novel at all. A specifically Yorkshire novel maybe (is it set in Yorkshire? I know Charlotte Bronte was very proud of being a Yorkshirewoman, and liked to make her characters very Yorkshire - I'm thinking of Shirley in particular - so I might be just making an assumption.)

Obviously the setting and language would make it English, but what do you mean about the characters' situations and actions?

08-10-2004, 11:49 AM	#37
sun-star Lady of Letters Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Either Oxford or Kent, England Posts: 2,476	What a strange question I don't think of it as a specifically English novel at all. A specifically Yorkshire novel maybe (is it set in Yorkshire? I know Charlotte Bronte was very proud of being a Yorkshirewoman, and liked to make her characters very Yorkshire - I'm thinking of Shirley in particular - so I might be just making an assumption.) Obviously the setting and language would make it English, but what do you mean about the characters' situations and actions? __________________ And all the time the waves, the waves, the waves Chase, intersect and flatten on the sand As they have done for centuries, as they will For centuries to come, when not a soul Is left to picnic on the blazing rocks, When England is not England, when mankind Has blown himself to pieces. Still the sea, Consolingly disastrous, will return While the strange starfish, hugely magnified, Waits in the jewelled basin of a pool.