Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Jane Eyre on Marriage

Charlotte Bronte's Gothic heroin offers single people a refreshingly biblical warning about the dangers of wanting a spouse too much.
"My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for his creature: of whom I had made an idol."
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Chapter 24, closing paragraph. 

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