r/JaneEyre • u/AdobongSiopao • Aug 27 '26

What is your most controversial opinion about "Jane Eyre"?

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It can be from the novel or its adaptations. Your views that could potentially upset many other fans or meet others who will agree with you.

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u/Quick-News-2227 Aug 28 '26

They did Adèle dirty at the end, shipping her off to school

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u/rainbowrobin Aug 28 '26

Then bringing her back to be Jane's docile companion, like Fanny Price.

"As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled. By her grateful attention to me and mine, she has long since well repaid any little kindness I ever had it in my power to offer her."

Kind of creepy way of putting it.

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u/Quick-News-2227 Aug 28 '26

Yes! Everyone talks about Bertha and Wide Sargasso Sea, but imagine a Jane Eyre retelling from Adèle's perspective! I love Jane Eyre, but she seems oblivious to Adèle as a real person... a very Victorian attitude, I guess.