To me it seems a bit more than friend love it seemed innocent and true but as they grew up it could be romantic
shareI doubt it.
If there aren't any skeletons in a man's closet, there's probably a Bertha in his attic.
No, females actually do have close relationships without being lesbians.
shareThey were more like sisters.
"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"
Of course they do, but you don't have to be a lesbian to love a female. You can appreciate someone for who they are. If you connect with someone on that level gender shouldn't matter. They, at least to me, seemed like they had a real genuine connection.
shareWhy are you asking when you've clearly already made up your mind?
You don't want to have a dialogue, you want to tell people who disagree with you (and there are many) that they're wrong.
Jane loves Helen as she would a dear sister, one that she has never had, being an orphan. Jane has always longed for family, which is something that we see play out in the book during her time with the Rivers'. She is not in love in any romantic sense with Helen. Whose name you didn't even bother to write; why is that?
Charlotte herself had this experience repeat itself over and over again throughout her life, which is perhaps why it shows up in Jane Eyre. All of her family; brother, sisters, and mother died at an early age from disease.
But we're wrong, they're lesbians and this isn't about gendered love but whatever you want it to mean because the text itself and the life experiences of the author can be tossed like so much garbage, they don't matter. I loathe postmodern and gender theory.
Have a lovely day.
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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch
The relationship was written to mirror Charlotte's relationship with her sister, Maria, who died of tuberculosis at age 11 when they were at a boarding school. Like others here, I think she wrote Jane and Helen to have a sister bond.
Jane was certainly love-starved and clung to Helen, but I do not think it was meant to be written with any ideas of romantic notions between the two of them.
When a cold momma gets hot, boy how she sizzles!
The relationship was written to mirror Charlotte's relationship with her sister, Maria, who died of tuberculosis at age 11 when they were at a boarding school. Like others here, I think she wrote Jane and Helen to have a sister bond.