![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, life can seem unreal at times, but there is often a sense of disillusionment as if something is missing. Taylor weaves this idea of truth versus fiction throughout the narrative and even though Cassandra’s life is much like Jane’s, there’s more realism in Cassandra’s story. “Don’t you think truth is stranger than fiction, Miss Dashwood?” Rochester.” She uses this as an element in the story - it’s as if the reader is getting a novel within a novel, as Cassandra is aware that her life is paralleling Jane’s. “She knew the Jane Eyre had answered up better than that to her Mr. Taylor does not hide that fact that Palladian is a retelling of Jane Eyre. The novel also explores the other dysfunctional characters, who are Marion’s relations. She quickly falls for her employer, the reserved and melancholy Mr. Cassandra Dashwood (also an ode to Jane Austen with that name…) goes to Cropthorne Manor (get it? Thornhall…) after the death of her father to serve as a governess for Sophy. ![]() For those who don’t know, Jane Eyre is my favorite novel of all time and anything that is reminiscent of it in anyway, I want to read. Palladian by, Elizabeth Taylor is a Jane Eyre-esque novel. ![]()
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