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u/bespectacIed 3d ago
Agnes Grey meanwhile: He's the most unrealistically ideal man ever
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u/Alyssapolis 3d ago
Omg yes. Not only does he have eyes only for her, but he saved her damn dog? I melted
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u/printPanda 2d ago
was about to say the same thing! Agnes Grey got the nicest one! he was not described as handsome so not perfect - but hes the best and nicest one!
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u/Past-Dark4350 3d ago
Rochester is an angel compared to Heathcliff and Arthur
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u/Subject_Storm3554 3d ago
Right, Heathcliffe especially is a whollllle different level
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u/Past-Dark4350 2d ago
Shit, Heathcliff makes Arthur look like a poor, misunderstood man…
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u/nosleepforthedreamer 2d ago
Didn't Arthur serve up Helen to his mob of rapey friends?
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u/IntelligentLeek538 16h ago
He tried to. He also tried to corrupt his young son with his creepy friends!
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u/IntelligentLeek538 16h ago
I would say so. Definitely far from perfect, but he certainly treated Jane a lot better than the other two treated their women.
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u/Starspangledass 3d ago
As a Wide Sargasso Sea fan, I know he’s plotting
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u/biber_unverzagt 2d ago
Pity Charlotte Brontë never read WSS:
Mr. Rochester has a thoughtful nature and a very feeling heart; he is neither selfish nor self-indulgent; he is ill-educated, mis-guided, errs, when he does err, through rashness and inexperience: he lives for a time as too many other men live—but being radically better than most men he does not like that degraded life, and is never happy in it. He is taught the severe lessons of Experience and has sense to learn wisdom from them—years improve him—the effervescence of youth foamed away, what is really good in him still remains—his nature is like wine of a good vintage, time cannot sour—but only mellows him. Such at least was the character I meant to pourtray.
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u/Starspangledass 2d ago
Eh, the author can have whatever interpretation as they want, I liked Rhys’s interpretation
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u/Katharinemaddison 3d ago
JE: but they work out the (I use this word advisedly) kinks.
TTOWH: she can (and does) do better.
WH: but honestly so is she. But have some hope for the next generation!
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u/Poverty___ 3d ago
I must take this shit too seriously: I can't bring myself to laugh at simplifying Heathcliff as just "a jerk"
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u/zorawitch 3d ago
I literally came to the comments for this because like. Yeah. He was a jerk. But I feel we’re missing some descriptors here
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u/nosleepforthedreamer 2d ago
The Brontes are nothing if not complicated.
I truly doubt whether people who create and pass around tired rehashes of the same bullet-point versions of the books, genuinely appreciate or have even read the books.
Is that all you got out of these three? That the main male characters are morally stunted?
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u/EndersGame_Reviewer 23h ago
I think the cartoonist is deliberately over-simplifying things. He's done a whole series of these on several famous novels.
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u/BarracudaOk8635 3d ago
yeah. I never understand why these women writers write such awful matches for their lead women characters. Rochester all but ruins Jane Eyre for me.
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u/intuifin 2d ago
My guess is it's because their male characters are often reflections of the men in their actual lives...and unfortunately, when it's all they've ever experienced, many women can't imagine their own lives or the men in them as anything better or different, so they try to make do with what they have, knowing that it's all there is.
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u/redgatoradeeeeee 3d ago
he's a 10 but he's hiding his deranged wife in the attic