a pretty good imagination! (THE LIBRARY message #1702)

a pretty good imagination!

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Posted by greg on October 12, 1997 at 12:32:59:

In response to My best guess, written by Rachel on October 12, 1997 at 10:40:20

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I think that sometimes you don't have to directly experience the thing, but if you knew someone who had, that can help to fill in the blanks. I myself have never experienced physical abuse, but my mother did when she young. She used to talk about it sometimes, and I have an idea of what it might have been like. I think that you can use the experience of others, but you really have to be a good writer to make them as convincing as if you had the experience yourself.

] Rachel

of course you must be right, that she somehow got enough clues from other sources to provide the start that her great writing faculties needed - but such brilliant flame of passion between jane and rochester! is a woman(or charlotte bronte) simply born with it? what previous works of fiction could have insinuated such a bold notion to bronte? for example, it seems that rochester is almost at the mercy of what appears to be a woman's superior understanding of the human heart(not just in the romantic sense) - something that must have been original indeed in 1847! jane eyre's "air" - her indomitable spirit - electrifies and energizes the passion.

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But the sexiest thing about their passion... Amy 13:17:09 10/12/97 (2)
- I agree. Luisa 18:02:41 10/13/97 (0)
- Extrapolate and Idealise Cassia 14:25:34 10/12/97 (0)

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