In search of the Brontes Part 2 - 6/6

[lavenderparfume1]

how sad my goodness!, she was pregnant.

[lavenderparfume1]

oh gosh this is so sad!.

[gateauxQ]

Thanks for uploading these. Just finished Jane Eyre and Wuther Heights. Really unfortunate ends for such talented and hard working women!

[tygrl]

Thank you for posting this video, as well as the ones on other authors. I have enjoyed them and hope to enjoy more!

Also, thank you for fostering discussion. It's refreshing to see full-fledged thoughts and differing opinions. Though the comments may confuse the issue of the sisters' true natures, where clarity fades, breadth of perspective is gained. Besides truth in history, motives and feelings is often blurred. :)

[tygrl]

I wondered at the beginning how the father would care for 6 children after the loss of his wife. By the end, I felt he would gladly have those troubles instead of what he now faced.

[frauleinw]

Great docu-drama. Thanks for the upload!

[niteddy1]

Excellent Excellent documentary. I cant imagine what it would be like to out live all of your children!! How sad.

[freddiefreejazzify]

This fiction documentary is just out of this world. Great acting, great producing, great everything... Why isn't there any DVD? Hello, BBC? ....

[gmaureen]

My heart goes out to Patrick. Hard to imagine his pain as he saw them go - one by one - knowing the brilliance they possessed.

[LadyViolet7]

Thank you so much for posting this brilliant documentary! I was in tears at the end! I wish the BBC would bring it out on DVD, that would be marvellous!

[jposh707]

God, this has got to be one of the most depressing stories of all TIME!

[2SIXimixedBABIES]

I would give my left arm to have their fathers immune system

[2SIXimixedBABIES]

seems like a bacterial infection I am not a nurse or a doctor but i have had two children,and my family is ful of so many health issues. So no need to attack me anyone who might feel the need.

[irfand4]

Excellent. Thanks for the upload.

[cuddlycows1]

thanku so much! their story is really awe-inspiring.

[guv859]

Re. Polybun's comment. Whilst I am myself an atheist, you do not comprehend at all the prevailing knowledge of the time. Darwinism was in its infancy, and in a strongly christian family - remote from modern, progressive ideas - christian ideas were accepetd as the norm. Just thank "God" that we had the Brontes, and that we have them still.

[fasteddiejs]

Charles Darwin's Origin of Species was first published in 1859, Charlotte died in 1855

[anagg17]

i love it thank you i cried :( i love this writters, ;(

[katiats]

This documentary was great!!Thank you!!!

[ariannahiggins]

ohhh so good, these characters are in my heart forever!! Such a tragic and beautiful story of wonderful spirits!!!

[ksotikoula]

Who is your favorite sister judging by their works and not as they are presented here? What is your favorite Bronte novel?

[ariannahiggins]

I havent read Anne Bronte yet, if I had to judge I'd have to say Jane Eyre.

[iamme611]

I feel the same. I feel so close to the Brontes that sometimes they even appear as characters in my dreams! lol. Anne Bronte is a great author btw.

[ksotikoula]

I agree about Anne. In fact I believe it is quite unfair for all of them to be constantly compared to each other. They all wrote great novels and each reader has his/hers preferences.

[Polybun]

Eh, fuck 'em, they deserved it. Thats what they get for asking for the help of god, rather than asking for the help of a medical minded person. People that believe strongly in religion usually get EXACTLY what they deserve.

[ksotikoula]

Charlotte was examined by 2 doctors that said her condition was normal due to pregnancy and there was not reason to worry. They were not so narrow-minded as you consider them. It is just that medicine at that era wasn't advanced. Their being religious is irrelevant and we can not judge what we deserve or not since questions like our purpose in life and how the universe works is out of our reach.

[2SIXimixedBABIES]

@ksotikoula I know sad my great grandmother had 12 children 6 died as babies I never met her she died before my mother was even born but after readind the systems that took one of the six that would die as infants.I took the letters to my daughter doctor he said it sounds as thou the youngest of her children that died,died of anemia.Its unfortunate that they didnt know how easily it could have been treated.

[ariannahiggins]

Leaving the moral argument out of it, I'd argue that it's precisely the lack of good medical care and knowledge available(as ksotikoula gives evidence for) that people were left with not much else to hope for but God's intervention. Even today, people with the best care available will die of terminal illnesses, and often people lean towards God because of it. I'm an atheist but have sympathy for people in pain who feel a need to believe in something - it eases their pain I suppose.

[Polybun]

I think it makes them a giant hypocrit. At that point, they deserve to die. Really, your going to go around telling people there is no god, then turn to god when your about to die. That is the lowest!

[ksotikoula]

If we are still talking about the Bronte sisters (which somehow I don't think so) no one of them ever said that there was no God.

Generally I believe that people are entitled to change opinions through out their lives. Experiences make some people lose their faith and others to begin believing. You can not blame either. It is a personal choice and that is why it is none of our concern to say who deserves what, as we too don't have to apologize to anyone for what we believe or not.

[rhiannonator]

Medicine in the 19th century was not as advanced as it is now. For God's sake, they still believed in bloodletting!

The Bronte's were the children of a clergyman, not one of them ever denied the existence of God.

You're an ass.

[munichlady]

What documentary were you watching ?

It couldnt have been this one.

[ana626262]

Thank you!