QUOTE(nicki_flute @ Mar 16 2006, 10:27 PM)

No, never read it! Mrs Rochester as in Bertha Mason?
The very same. Jane Eyre is a book that has attracted at LOT of critics who variously use it to demonstrate their ideas on gender (treatment of women, the incarceration of Bertha), race and colonialism (B is supposed to be Jamaican, or something), class mobility (from poor little orphan to Mrs Rochester The Second in however-many pages it is) and other stuff. Quite interesting if you get into it. Quite tedious if you are into it for too long, though...

Hope you're enjoying it. Are you thinking of doing an English degree, perchance?