Jane Eyre

[FollowingHim2]

Ever read the book? It's very good. I read it when I was a young teenager and didn't remember much about it so read it again recently when I was unwell. Suddenly I see everything in a new light! The basic storyline is that Jane becomes a governess for a man and they end up falling in love. Their wedding is stopped and she discovers he already has a wife but she is living in the attic and is a complete raving lunatic and has to be locked up and sometimes tied up to keep her from harming herself or others. Jane leaves as she won't make a man commit adultery and then returns a year later after she discovers his wife has died. Polygyny would have been perfect in their situation! He could've had two wives, she wouldn't have had to leave and it wouldn't have been such a big problem.
I know it's only a story, but it shows how monogomy is so ingrained into society that polygyny was not even an option in a story.

Anyone on here good at writing? Perhaps some polygyny friendly fiction would be a good idea. I'd buy it!

 

[Moses777]

Thank's for your post it was really appreciated, I did literature when I was in High School and I do remember studying the Jane Eyre novel, it is a popular book and used to be a book regularly used in literature school classes.

I used to do a lot of writing in the past myself however I stopped writing for quiet a while. Your suggestion seems like a possibility to me, there are not many writers writing on the issue of PM.

 

[ylop]

Well I re-read the Classic Illustrated comic version about a year ago, does that count?

From memory the wife burns down the house towards the end, and also he becomes blind?

 

[Tali]

Oh, man alive, I will never forget when my dh and I "re-visited" Jane Eyre. Had pm been allowed, Mrs. Rochester proly wouldn't have died, and Mr. Rochester proly wouldn't have ended up blind, and Jane wouldn't have nearly ended up in a loveless religious marriage that seemed to have very little of the delightful reality of Christ and a whole bunch of rules! But boy, don't you know that the "elders" were "upholding the laws of God" when they stopped the wedding and broke Jane's heart.

After my "pm breakthrough" in Iraq, I began to see literature, music, movies, TV shows, EVERYTHING in a whole new light. I remember clearly the night I was by myself in what had been Uday Hussein's hunting lodge, and no one was in the building. The show "The Bachelor" was on, and here was this guy who was down to two, having to make "a choice," and he was crying on camera with the "impossibleness" of it all. So was the gal "left behind." You could tell that he really loved her, didn't want to have to choose, and she was utterly devastated. What a dreadful way to mess with people's hearts, heads and spirits. Talk about being "voted off the island...."

Oy, is this business of monogamania pernicious!!! :evil: I am glad that it is being exposed for what it is.....

 

[Jack P.]

what about the non fiction love times three anyone want to comment should i read it or leave it

 

[CecilW]

what about the non fiction love times three anyone want to comment should i read it or leave it

It was reviewed in another thread. Seems to be recommended in general. Haven't gotten it yet, myself.

 

[Andres&Christie]

monogamania pernicious heh...hilarious!

Reading Jane Eyre and Love Times Three asap...neeeeed booooks nooow!

 

[Isabella]

monogamania pernicious heh...hilarious!

Reading Jane Eyre and Love Times Three asap...neeeeed booooks nooow!

Aww, it is terribly boring when you are sick (((hugs))) I cannot find the energy to even read half the time and it makes my head hurt to read when I am ill....do you have a Kindle at all?

B

 

[FollowingHim2]

Ok, I have no idea what has gone wrong with these quotes and can't seem to fix i but I'm sure you will all get the idea

I used to do a lot of writing in the past myself however I stopped writing for quiet a while. Your suggestion seems like a possibility to me, there are not many writers writing on the issue of PM.

You so should! It'd be great to get more poly friendly stuff out there!

Well I re-read the Classic Illustrated comic version about a year ago, does that count?
From memory the wife burns down the house towards the end, and also he becomes blind?

There's a comic version?! Yes she does burn down the house and he goes blind. That's nearly all I could remember too which is why I decided to read it again.

Oh, man alive, I will never forget when my dh and I "re-visited" Jane Eyre. Had pm been allowed, Mrs. Rochester proly wouldn't have died, and Mr. Rochester proly wouldn't have ended up blind, and Jane wouldn't have nearly ended up in a loveless religious marriage that seemed to have very little of the delightful reality of Christ and a whole bunch of rules! But boy, don't you know that the "elders" were "upholding the laws of God" when they stopped the wedding and broke Jane's heart.

After my "pm breakthrough" in Iraq, I began to see literature, music, movies, TV shows, EVERYTHING in a whole new light. I remember clearly the night I was by myself in what had been Uday Hussein's hunting lodge, and no one was in the building. The show "The Bachelor" was on, and here was this guy who was down to two, having to make "a choice," and he was crying on camera with the "impossibleness" of it all. So was the gal "left behind." You could tell that he really loved her, didn't want to have to choose, and she was utterly devastated. What a dreadful way to mess with people's hearts, heads and spirits. Talk about being "voted off the island...."

Oy, is this business of monogamania pernicious!!! :evil: I am glad that it is being exposed for what it is.....

Ooooh, yes The Bachelor too! Didn't think of that one! The more I think about it the more I really think that the option of PM would be good for society!

monogamania pernicious heh...hilarious!

Reading Jane Eyre and Love Times Three asap...neeeeed booooks nooow!

I hope you manage to get them. Jane Eyre really is a good read. It's awful to be sick but at least you get lots of reading done!

 

[Andres&Christie]

No kindle...I like books (the feel, the smell, ect.) and want to support them being around, so I don't do much digital reading...but maybe some day I will cave! Have been able to read quite a bit while convalescing, one good part about being sick (that and losing a little weight!).

 

[FollowingHim2]

My husband finds his Kobo reader good because he can read books that you just can't buy anywhere. Ones that are 200 or so years old.

And loosing weight is a great advantage to being sick! I've recently been quite sick and lost 4kg . That's about 8ish lbs for you Americans. Hopefully I manage to keep it off this time.

 

[CecilW]

My husband finds his Kobo reader good because he can read books that you just can't buy anywhere. Ones that are 200 or so years old.

And loosing weight is a great advantage to being sick! I've recently been quite sick and lost 4kg . That's about 8ish lbs for you Americans. Hopefully I manage to keep it off this time.

Just looked it up. Over 1,000,000 free books. And has apps for Androids, such as tablets. Neat resource. Hmmm... What can we publish about PM?

 

[FollowingHim]

I've already got a pile of PM books on it, partly from the "books and links" page on this website. Polygamy and Monogamy compared, Theolypthera, Man and woman in Biblical law etc. The last one desperately needs publication in an ebook format (epub or mobi), as the PDF version is extremely hard to read on a 6" screen. Converting existing resources from HTML, word or PDF to epub and mobi would be time well spent, and much quicker than writing new oones Some older books like Theolyphera are best kept as scanned PDF though purely because text recognition doesn't cope well with then.

 

[Andres&Christie]

This Kobo Reader sounds awesome...I will have to look into that!

I lost 7 lbs. so far with this illness...hope I keep losing!