Because my brain is still on Jane Eyre, I have a VERY IMPORTANT question for my readers. Well, about half my readers.
Question of the Day: Who would you rather rip open your boddice? Mr. Darcy or Mr. Rochester?
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Apt. 11d 
SO Mr. Darcy. I never got Rochester’s appeal.
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Wait, doesn’t the other half get to choose between Jane & Elizabeth?
I find both those guys unappealing. I think I could go for Gilbert or Teddy (from Emily of New Moon) or Perry (also from Emily).
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Is Fabio not available?
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bj, I absolutely love you for bringing up the Teddy/Perry debate, because in some ways, Perry is so much appealing than Teddy, but we KNOW Emily and Teddy are fated to be together….but still! Fierce upstart determined Perry!
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Totally and completely Mr. Darcy! (The BBC Colin Firth version too!). I too do not get Mr. Rochester’s appeal.
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Darcy!!!!
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No contest. Mr. Darcy. Oh, Fitzwilliam!
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P.S. You’re a fun sick person.
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DARCY for sure!Enjoying just dreaming about it right now…….
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oh, and another DARCY vote from me.
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Definitely Mr. Darcy.
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Wait, doesn’t the other half get to choose between Jane & Elizabeth?
The other half has no clue as to who Jane and Elizabeth are.
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Darcy and Jane both win these votes going away. We don’t need the guys to vote to know that Jane wins.
We can’t start talking about Teddy and Perry because the next thing you know, we’re discussing Teddy versus Prof Baer (I think I’m spelling that wrong) and why Alcott had it in for Jo like that and it just never ends well.
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Oh DAMN. I thought I was typing Elizabeth. Does my lizard brain believe something that my conscious brain doesn’t want to consider? Or am I just being foiled by iPod typing?
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Thursday Next.
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Darcy. No question about it.
(Um. Well. Except that I’d rather interrupt Jane and Rochester than Elizabeth and Darcy.)
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Darcy. No contest.
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Another Mr. Darcy.
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I’m going to go with Mr. Rochester, specifically for the bodice-ripping. To marry, Mr. Darcy; but there’s something about Rochester.
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Darcy. No contest.
But how about Colonel Brandon? I’m a Sense and Sensibility kinda gal.
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Craig Ferguson.
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Jody, thank goodness, I thought you were insane. Elizabeth without a doubt.
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Mr. Darcy! (though, I have not read Jane Eyre. I think I watched the movie with my grandmother, though)
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I am shocked, SHOCKED, that no one voted for Rochester. Brooding dark eyes, hot tempered, bad boy edge. and he’s even cute after he gets disfigured.
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Poor Edward Rochester–he’s just misunderstood. Mr. Darcy is a bit a fop and rich guy with a good heart, but Mr. Rochester is passionate, poetic and brooding. Reader, I *you know what* him.
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Isn’t it implied that the first Mrs. Rochester is syphilitic (hence mad)? Hence Mr. Rochester is undoubtedly syphilitic, too.
I can’t really imagine Mr. Darcy ripping anybody’s bodice (he’s got too much honor and smoldering self-control), but I definitely prefer him. With Mr. Rochester, you’d always be wondering if there was an attic chamber being prepared for you if you stepped out of line.
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Mr. Darcy.
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I’m commenting for the first time just point out — in agreement with Amy P — that Darcy is simply not the bodice-ripping type. You can argue over whether that’s because he’s too gentlemanly or just too uptight, but it’s definitely not his style! Rochester’s, yes.
Which brings me to your previous question regarding comfort books. Mine are the collected works of Georgette Heyer, whose heroes fall into two basic categories: the gentlemanly Darcy types and the overbearing Rochester types. Her heroines also fall into two categories (sensible and silly, if you will) and it intrigues me that she can mix and match types.
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This is a good place to repeat what Florence King said about the fatal charm of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights: Heathcliff has destroyed more women than the cholera.
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I thought the problems for women began with Beauty and the Beast.
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Heathcliff has destroyed more women than the cholera.
To be fair, cholera made the bathroom smell worse than Heathcliff ever did.
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Um, I wouldn’t be too sure about that MH.
The appeal of Rochester is very hard for me to see. But infinitely easier than Heathcliff.
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Sure, if Heathcliff had cholera.
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MH: It appears you didn’t see the film of Wuthering heights where both Heathcliffe and Catherine looked like they’d rolled around in the mud directly before filming. I suppose mud smells better than the Cholera, however.
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The only two good things about Wuthering Heights are that almost all the characters die before the end and Monty Python’s semaphore version.
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I think somebody has vandalized the wikipedia page for Wurthering Heights. There’s no way that the actual plot could be that strange.
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