First the
serious, funny thing.
Mennonite Soul
The Department of English at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) has published its third annual issue of Soul in Paraphrase: A Journal of Literary Arts and Critical Inquiry. This year the theme is 'literary homage,' and it embraces the writing of 22 CMU students who analyze writers they have studied in their English courses. The journal contains parodies of famous poems; adaptations of famous passages; and drawings and photographs based on the novel Jane Eyre.
And now for the funny one, that we have utterly loved. The
New Statesman asked its readers to suggest sequels for well-known books.
Reader, I Divorced Him
Isolated in a gloomy, reconstructed Thornfield and weary of gibbering nightly pyromaniac activities of the vengeful ghost of the madwoman in the attic, Jane Eyre has grown up and recognised her marriage for what it is - the midlife fling of a half-blind, crippled control-freak with a naive, adolescent bride. Jane's "Eyre" inheritance gives her the independence and courage to flee her unhealthy situation. She abandons the girlish blue dress, the cloying sickroom atmosphere and patronising Rochester regime. This lively sequel explores her racy life in Paris, where she joins her former charge, Adele, now the fashionable Madame of a thriving, licentious brothel. Reader, I Divorced Him speaks with a liberated woman's voice for all victims of male chauvinism and Victorian prudery and sentimentality.
Shirley Curran
Fabulous!
Categories: Jane Eyre, Humour
oh NO!! :-) ... I`d be disappointed beyond words if they couldn`t make their marriage work! and what about their son? *If* shared child custody had been an option in those days, Edward would not have allowed her to take him abroad with her, let alone to Paris! And I doubt that she would have left the country without her child.
ReplyDeleteMiss Eyre
Then it could turn into The Tenant of Wildfell Hall! :P
ReplyDeleteI know, if Rochester and Jane can't make it, then who can? :)
exactly! :-)
ReplyDeleteMiss Eyre
Where did the love go. He must have never really loved her.
ReplyDeleteWell, in this version - if it's the Reader, I divorced him 'story' that you are referring to - it's Jane who leaves for a more 'interesting' kind of life. We don't know what Rochester does without her. He may have called Blanche up or simply grieved alone. Who knows? ;)
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