Jana Eyrová – Bronteová Charlotte (2018)

For a century and a half, Jane Eyre has fascinated readers, and experts still puzzle over why this work is so beloved. As is often the case with books that remain alive, the story must contain something more than just unexpected twists of romantic episodes and dramatic elements of the Gothic novel. Time has blown away the rigidity of the Victorian era and quieted the scandalous behavior and opinions of the unrestrained heroine, for whose defense the author wrote: "Let us not confuse convention with morality!" Queen Victoria was, after all, directly thrilled by the book. The secret of great and widely beloved literature cannot be defined, but something is revealed to us by generations of enthusiastic readers. We realize that we are reading a fictional story, yet we feel that the narrator's voice is remarkably real, the emotions are genuine, and the events are explosive. That is why the struggle of the indomitable and brave heroine against her inhuman guardian, the cruel conditions in the boarding school, and the rigid social order is so powerful. It reveals the author's own experience, the ordeal of a bullied girl after the loss of her parents. And let us not blame the author for allowing love to overcome cruel adversities, the whims of fate, and the weight of a terrible secret in her grand epic tale. "Do you think, Mr. Rochester, that...