I guess I could say today’s readings were literally burned into me! This week my husband and I found ourselves pool side and when I am at the pool I like to catch up on my magazine happenings. I was able to get a lovely sunburn and magazine shadow outline on my thigh from my pool side lounging. Reapply, Reapply, Reapply! Anyhow, Vanity Fair, featured William and Kate or formally known as The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, catching me up on insider royal wedding details and how they are adding Kensington to their list of homes to be used when they are in London.
This week Jane Eyre befriends Helen Burns. Helen is an older girl at school and Jane looks up to her because of her self-discipline and quick comprehension of lessons. One teacher is constantly scrutinizing Helen and often publicly humiliates her or gives her lashings across the neck with a switch. Helen does not cry or blush with embarrassment during these public displays embarrassment. When Jane questions Helen about how she feels about this her response is, “it is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.” Both Jane and I are perplexed and did not see this response coming. Where will Bronte take this character? Helen is opposite of Jane at this point, Jane resents her cruel aunt whereas Helen endures her injustices. From where I am at right now in the novel, the question that comes to my mind is when to stand up for injustice and when to endure?
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