00:00It's that classic, passionate Victorian romance.
00:03The quiet, fierce governess who falls in love with her brooding boss, Mr. Rochester.
00:10You see it on paperback covers everywhere, sweeping, misty English landscapes, two lovers staring intensely into each other's eyes.
00:20It gets tossed onto Valentine's Day reading lists right next to Pride and Prejudice, which is wild to me.
00:28Because if you actually sit down and read Jane Eyre without those nostalgic romanticized glasses on, it is not a
00:37sweet romance at all.
00:38It's a deeply unsettling gothic horror story driven by systemic entrapment, psychological manipulation, and literal physical confinement.
00:48That's not romantic, my friends.
00:53So, look at what actually happens to Jane.
00:56Jane, she's an orphan child abused by her family, locked in the red room where her uncle died, sent to
01:02a starvation school where her best friend dies of typhus, and then lands a job at Thornfield Hall.
01:08Where her brooding romantic lead, Edward Rochester, is a gaslighting millionaire who keeps his first wife locked in the attic,
01:18lies to Jane about her very existence.
01:20She's in a bit of an animal murder, so she's not a man of her head over the Sheik-Lyche,
01:20and she's now a man of her head that I am a man of her friends.
01:21So, look at the devil's mother and a man of her son who is a her son, who is a
01:22man of her son.
01:22The devil and a man of his father, are dying!
01:23The devil's mother, the devil's mother, is a lot of her son, and a man of her son.
01:23The devil never even get out of her son.
01:23Do not have an adult child, but this isn't a great deal.
01:23You
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