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message 1: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Mar 07, 2019 09:39PM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) I'm not at all sure why Lolita (#12) and Jane Eyre (#17) are on here... I've read them both but I can't see a Bluebeard retelling in either of them. Both were added by the same voter (and fortunately both only have the one vote).


message 2: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn BookLovingLady wrote: "I'm not at all sure why Lolita (#12) and Jane Eyre (#17) are on here... I've read them both but I can't see a Bluebeard retelling in either of them. Both were added by the ..."

I sure agree. I was really wondering about that.


message 3: by Anna (new)

Anna Biller In Lolita, Humbert Humbert kills Charlotte with his pen (his diary where he confesses his lust for Lolita and his contempt for Charlotte). He doesn't even have to murder her—she runs in front of a car in despair after she finds the key to his secret diary. He's a more modern and refined type of Bluebeard, but a Bluebeard nonetheless. In Jane Eyre, her husband has a locked room containing a horrible secret that Jane is forbidden to investigate.


message 4: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn Anna wrote: "In Lolita, Humbert Humbert kills Charlotte with his pen (his diary where he confesses his lust for Lolita and his contempt for Charlotte). He doesn't even have to murder her—she runs in..."

Wide Sargasso Sea is about the woman locked in the room and I always wondered about that. I never liked Rochester for that reason.


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