We wholeheartedly agree with this opinion column from
The Times:
A marriage founded on coercion is not a real partnership at all. And illicit means to that end include suasion as well as physical compulsion. Thus Jane Eyre, in Charlotte Brontë’s great novel of that title, resists St John Rivers’s imperious demands that she marry him on the grounds that, so he maintains, she was “formed for labour, not for love”.
An ostensibly more benign, but equally charmless, mode of proposal has been gaining ground in the age of social media. [...]
Such moments of intimacy should be quite sufficient for the devoted seeker of another’s heart without literally broadcasting it.
NPR shares the transcript from a recent episode of Rachel Martin's
Enlighten Me series.
MARTIN: She and I got into this conversation about how you make meaning, right? And that's the key. We make it, whether or not we make it in the form of a God we worship at church on Sunday or in a set of rituals that were handed down to us in the Torah and instruct our life and how we treat one another. In all these different manifestations, we are creating the meaning, and we have the power to do that with anything. I mean, that was sort of mind-blowing to me. And it was echoed by Vanessa Zoltan because she derives meaning from reading "Jane Eyre"...
A post on 'Charlotte and Anne Brontë And The Fateful Coffee House' on
AnneBrontë.org.
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