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Abstract:
The thesis focuses on the analysis of themes of Jane Eyre and the heroine Jane's differences from Lin Daiyu andfrom my own perpestive.In the first part, I stated the brief plots of the novel and next analyse the character Jane from some certain aspects.Key word:
Major plot, comment, themes, characteristics, Jane, comparison, analysis
Introduction:
Jane Eyre is a English novel by Charlotte Bronte, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters whose novels are English literature standards.Jane Eyre tells a story about the heroine Jane Eyre's maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompanies growth to adulthood, the strong sense of social morality and the powerful contend for her own fate.In the novel, Jane Eyre is an orphan whose parents died when she was very young, so she was looked after by her aunt, her only relative, who abused her.Then she was sent to Lowood School where she suffered humiliation and cruel control.Later, she grew to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden and fell in love with the owner Rochester, a man with warm heart despite of cold appearance outside.But After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry, she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal but insane wife.So she left
Rochester.But at last, after a series of difficulties, they finally got reunion.Comment:
Jane Eyre is one of the most great novels in the history of literature.Just as it is said in the introduction, the growth of the heroine Jane Eyre runs through the whole book.As a child, Jane was a brave girl who never gave in to Mrs.Reed and John Reed's preure and resisted them in order to get her own freedom.There are some major themes in the novel, such as morality, God and religion, social cla, gender relations, love and paion, feminism, atonement and forgivene and so on.As for morality, Jane refuses to become Mr.Rochester's paramour because of her “impaioned self-respect and moral conviction.” She rejects St.John Rivers' Puritanism as much as the libertine aspects of Mr.Rochester's character.Instead, she works out a morality expreed in love, independence, and forgivene.Throughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain an equilibrium between moral duty and earthly happine.She despises the hypocritical puritanism of Mr.Brocklehurst, and sees the deficiencies in St.John Rivers' detached devotion to his Christian duty.As a child she partly admires Helen Burns' turning the other cheek, which helps her to forgive Aunt Reed and the Reed cousins.Although she does not seem to subscribe to any of the standard forms of popular Christianity, she honours traditional morality – in particular in not marrying Rochester
until he is widowed.The last sentence of the novel is a prayer on behalf of St.John Rivers.Religion acts to moderate her behaviour but she never reprees her true self.Jane's ambiguous social position — a pennile yet moderately educated orphan from a good family — leads her to criticize discrimination based on cla.Although she is educated, well-mannered, and relatively sophisticated, she is still a governe, a paid servant of low social standing, and therefore powerle.Neverthele, Jane poees certain cla prejudices herself, as is made clear when she has to remind herself that her unsophisticated village pupils at Morton “are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy.” A particularly important theme in the novel is the depiction of a patriarchal society.Jane attempts to aert her own identity within male-dominated society.Three of the main male characters, Mr.Brocklehurst, Mr.Rochester and St.John Rivers, try to keep Jane in a subordinate position and prevent her from expreing her own thoughts and feelings.Jane escapes Mr.Brocklehurst and rejects St.John, and she only marries Mr.Rochester once she is sure that their marriage is one between equals.A central theme in Jane Eyre is that of the clash between conscience and paion-which one is to adhere to, and how to find a middle ground between the two.Jane, extremely paionate yet also dedicated to a close personal relationship with God, struggles between either extreme for much of the novel.An instance of her leaning towards conscience over paion can be
seen after it has been revealed that Mr.Rochester already has a wife, when Jane is begged to run away with Mr.Rochester and become his mistre.Up until that moment, Jane had been riding on a wave of emotion, forgetting all thoughts of reason and logic, replacing God with Mr.Rochester in her eyes, and allowing herself to be swept away in the moment.However, once the harsh reality of the situation sets in, Jane does everything in her power to refuse Mr.Rochester, despite almost every part of her rejecting the idea and urging her to just give into Mr.Rochester's appeal.As a self aured and established man, Mr.Rochester naturally aumes the position of the master in their relationship.He tends to demand rather than question Jane, manipulate and ae her feelings towards him however he wishes, and enjoy propping up Jane through exceive gifts and luxuries that only he would have been able to provide.Jane, however, believes in the importance of women's independence, and strives to maintain a position in life devoid of any debts to others.Much of the religious concern in Jane Eyre has to do with atonement and forgivene.Mr.Rochester is tormented by his awarene of his past sins and misdeeds.He frequently confees that he has led a life of vice, and many of his actions in the course of the novel are le than commendable.Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character who is powerful in will, independent, fearle, intellectual, upright, and kind and strive for freedom and equality in all her growth proce.Analysis:
After reading the novel, I find that Jane is so different from the other heroines in most novels.First, Jane is poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obsure but self-respecting.And after reading the book, we can feel we are encouraged or inspired by her coverage, her faith in equality, he strong power for freedom and independence.The most inspiring word I have read in the book is her response to the harsh words of the supervisor of the Lowood School Mr.Brocklehurst when he threatens the young girl.That is:
Mr.Blocklehurst: “where do bad people go after death? ”
Jane :“ They go to hell.”
Mr.Blocklehurst:“ And how will you keep away from hell?”
Jane:“ I must keep in good health and not die.”
That conversation has impreed me a lot.Jane is subject to cold rooms, poor meals, and thin clothing.But she never lose the faith to live on and to be strong.Second, we can compare Jane with the heroinein the novel of Vanity Fair.Jane wants to live independently and respectfully and equally to men through her own efforts.From the beginning on, she never try to use other tricks to get succeful.However, in Vanity Fair,always tries to go into the upper cla through marring a upper cla man to change her fate although her herself is as clever as Janer and has the ability to live better through her own efforts.Thirdly, the views of love of
Jane and other major women characters are also different.Still compare with, who uses every tricks to flatter upper-cla men that may change her fate.While Jane only wants to change her fate through ther own efforts.Compared with Lin Daiyu in the Chinese novel The Red Mansion, the different ending of the two characters shows the differences between the view of love in them.Many various factors contribute to the different views of love in them.Lin Daiyu is weak and has strong rebellious characteristics and she is too proud to get along with the other family members, which contradicts to the society at that time.However, Jane is strong in will and independent and advocates that everyone is equal as well as love.Compared with Lin, she knows much more about strategies and sense.So that is my own prospective about Jane.As for the whole novel, it has taught me a lot in pursuing what we want and do what we should do.No matter how hard life is, we first should have a heart of freedom and independence.No matter how poor or how plain we are, we should keep a noble heart.Conclusion:
As a plain woman in appearance but strong one in heart, Jane is like a distinctive and fresh and elegant lotus in the capital-first capitalism society bringing hope for people who are striving in the dark society and encourages many women to fight for their equality and freedom.Even up to now, Jane is still one of the most admired and loved character in
people's mind especially women's.The novel benefits me a lot and gives me a kind of different perspective of knowing that period of literature and society.
