Introduction
Jane Eyre was an orphan. She was born into a poor priest family. Soon his parents died one after another.
The young Jane Eyre was fostered in the home of her aunt and uncle. After the death of her uncle, Mr. Reed, Jane Eyre lived a life of 10 years of discrimination and abuse. Her aunt regarded her as a thorn in her side and isolated her from her children. From then on, her confrontation with her aunt became more open and determined, and Jane was sent to Lowood Orphanage.
The orphanage has strict rules and difficult life, and the director is a cold hypocrite. Jane Eyre continued to suffer mental and physical torture in the orphanage. Due to the poor living conditions, children often died of illness in the orphanage. Her best friend Helen died of tuberculosis. After Helen's death, the orphanage also made great improvements.
Jane Eyre received six years of education in the new environment and taught in this school for two years. Due to Miss Temple's departure, Jane Eyre was tired of the life in the orphanage and advertised for a career as a tutor. The housekeeper of Thornfield Hall hired her. Rochester, the male owner of the manor, often travels. Her student is a girl named Adela Valencia, who is less than 10 years old, and Rochester is her protector.
One evening, Jane Eyre went out for a walk and met her master who had just returned from abroad. This was the first time they met. Later, she discovered that her master was a melancholy and moody person, and his attitude towards her was also good and bad. The whole house felt gloomy and empty, and sometimes a strange and creepy laughter could be heard. One day, Jane Eyre was awakened by this laughter in her sleep and found that Rochester's room was on fire. Jane Eyre woke him up and helped him put out the fire.
Rochester often held family dinners after he came back. After courting a beautiful young lady named Ingram at a family dinner, Jane Eyre was called into the living room, but was treated coldly by Blanche and her daughter. She endured the humiliation and left the living room. At this time, she has fallen in love with Rochester. In fact, Rochester has also fallen in love with Jane Eyre. He just wants to test Jane Eyre's love for him. When he proposed to Jane Eyre, she agreed to him.
On the eve of the wedding, Jane Eyre saw a hideous-looking woman in a hazy state, putting on her wedding dress in front of the mirror. The next day, when the wedding was quietly held in the church, someone suddenly produced a certificate: Mr. Rochester had been married 15 years ago. His wife turned out to be the crazy woman locked in the secret room on the third floor. The law hindered their love and plunged the two into deep pain. On a miserable and rainy night, Jane Eyre left Rochester.
On the way to find a new way out of life, Jane Eyre slept in the open, begged along the way, and went through many hardships. Finally, she was taken in by the pastor St. John in the Marsh House and taught in a local primary school. Soon, Jane Eyre learned that her uncle passed away and left her an inheritance. She also discovered that St. John was her cousin. Jane Eyre decided to divide the property equally. St. John was a fanatical believer and planned to go to India to preach.
He asked Jane Eyre to marry him and go to India with him, but the reason was that Jane Eyre was suitable to be the wife of a missionary. Jane Eyre rejected him and decided to look at Rochester again. She returned to Thornfield Manor, which was in ruins. The mad woman fell to her death after setting fire, and Rochester was also injured and disabled. Jane Eyre found him and was greatly shocked. She eventually married him and got her ideal happy life.
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Character introduction
Jane Eyre
The heroine is a strong character, simple, strong and soft, An independent and enterprising woman. She comes from a humble background and has an ordinary appearance, but she does not feel inferior due to this. She despises the arrogance of the powerful and laughs at their stupidity, showing her self-reliant personality and beautiful ideals. She has tenacious vitality, never bows to fate, and finally has the beautiful life she longs for. Jane Eyre lived in an environment where her parents had died and she was dependent on others.
Since childhood, I have been treated differently from my peers: disgusted by my aunt, scorned by my cousin, insulted and beaten by my cousin. But she didn't despair, she didn't self-destruct, she didn't wallow in insults. On the contrary, all the misfortunes brought about are Jane Eyre's infinite confidence and Jane Eyre's unyielding spirit, an invincible inner strength of personality.
She thinks and works hard to grasp her own destiny, value, and status, has a rational understanding of her own thoughts and personality, and has a firm pursuit of her own happiness and emotions. From Jane Eyre, the image of today's new women is expressed: self-esteem, self-respect, self-reliance, self-improvement, firm ideals and persistent pursuit of one's own personality, emotions, life, judgment, and choices.
Rochester
The owner of Thornfield Manor, possesses wealth and a strong body, is about thirty-six or seventeen years old (nearly twenty years older than Jane Eyre), is kind-hearted, and has a good appearance. He looks a little cold and stubborn. At first, in Jane Eyre's eyes, he is gloomy and moody, with a kind of masculine temperament. He has a strong body and is not very handsome, but his face is very resolute, with thick black curly hair and a pair of big, bright black eyes.
When he was young, he was persecuted by his father and brother, and was deceived into marrying the mad woman Bertha Mason. Some of the demands at that time could not abandon her.
Mr. Rochester traveled to various European countries in pursuit of a new life, but he never found his sweetheart. Instead, he was frequently betrayed.
Later, he decided to live a serious life, so he returned to Thornfield Manor, met the governess Jane Eyre, fell in love with her, and proposed to her, but the fact that she was married was revealed. Jane Eyre left, and he was devastated. Due to the crazy arson of the madman's wife, he lost an arm and an eye, and the other eye was also blind. Finally became Jane Eyre's husband. Two years after the marriage, my eyesight returned.
Appreciation of the work
1. Theme of the work
This novel is a realistic novel with strong romanticism. "Jane Eyre" is a popular work, a novel with an autobiographical color. Jane Eyre's pursuit of life in "Jane Eyre" has two basic melodies: a spirit full of passion, fantasy, resistance and perseverance; the desire for freedom and happiness in the world and the pursuit of a higher spiritual realm.
The theme of this novel is that through the rough life experience of an orphan girl, it successfully creates an image of a woman who is unsatisfied with the status quo, unwilling to be humiliated, and dares to fight, reflecting the candid expression of an ordinary soul. and censure, the desire of a lowercase person to become an uppercase person.
The novel mainly describes the love between Jane Eyre and Rochester. Jane Eyre's view of love deepens her personality. She believes that love should be based on spiritual equality and should not depend on social status, wealth and appearance. Only when a man and a woman truly love each other can they achieve true happiness. In the pursuit of personal happiness, Jane Eyre showed unusual innocence, simple thoughts and feelings, and courage to move forward.
She did not give up the pursuit of happiness because of her servant status. Her love was pure and noble. She disdained Rochester's wealth. The reason why she fell in love with him was because he could Treat others as equals, treat her as a friend, and be honest with her. For Rochester, Jane Eyre was like a breath of fresh wind, which refreshed his spirit. Rochester was accustomed to seeing the cold hypocrisy of the upper class in the past. Jane Eyre's simplicity, kindness and independent personality rekindled his pursuit and yearning for life.
Thus he can sincerely express his kind wishes and determination to change in front of Jane. Jane Eyre sympathized with Rochester's unfortunate fate and believed that his mistakes were caused by objective circumstances. Although he was mediocre in appearance and later became bankrupt and disabled, she saw his inner beauty and pitiable unfortunate fate, so she eventually married him.
The novel criticizes the money-based view of marriage and love through Rochester's two completely different love experiences, and always describes the love between Jane Eyre and Rochester as a combination of thought, talent, quality and love. Complete spiritual understanding. This novel illustrates that the best life for a person is human dignity and love. The ending of the novel arranges such a life for the heroine.
Although this ending is too perfect, and even this perfection itself marks superficiality, although Rochester's manor was destroyed and Rochester himself became a disabled person, it is such a condition that makes Jane Eyre unable to survive. There is a conflict between dignity and love, but she is satisfied at the same time. When she married Rochester, she had dignity and of course love.
Jane Eyre is a woman who is unwilling to endure social oppression and has the courage to pursue personal happiness. Whether it is her poverty and low social status, or her wandering and helpless life experience, it is a true portrayal of the life of the lower class people in Britain at that time. The author is able to place an awakening new woman from the lower class of society as the protagonist of the novel, and enthusiastically praise the protagonist's tenacious struggle to resist oppression and social prejudice, strive for independent personality and dignity, and pursue a happy life. This was rare in the literary works of the time.
A Jane Eyre who has dignity and pursues equality. This seemingly weak but extremely strong and resilient woman has also become a model in the hearts of countless women because of this work. The novel fascinatingly shows the ups and downs of the love experience of the hero and heroine, and celebrates getting rid of all old customs and prejudices. Deep love rooted in mutual understanding and respect has a strong artistic power that shocks the soul. Its most successful thing is to create an image of a woman who dares to resist and fight for freedom and equal status. ?
2. Artistic Features
The extensive use of psychological description is a major feature of this novel. The book is well-conceived and has ups and downs of plot, creating an eerie atmosphere for readers without breaking away from the background of a middle-class family. The author also describes the sincere love between the protagonists and the natural scenery in a quotation style, with rich and strong emotional colors. When describing landscapes, the author appreciates them from a painter's aesthetic perspective and grasps the harmony of light and shadow with a painter's taste. The colorful scenery is detailed and vivid, and the wording is precise.
The content structure of "Jane Eyre" has the following characteristics:
1. The structure of "Jane Eyre" is a "Divine Comedy"-style artistic framework. Jane Eyre experienced the roasting of hell (Gateshead and Lowood), the purification of purgatory (Thornfield and the Marshes), and finally reached the ideal state of heaven where she could realize her enlightenment (union with Rochester and the birth of Rochester, which symbolizes rebirth). next generation).
2. The author uses exaggerated atmosphere, nightmares, hallucinations, and premonitions to create the atmosphere of hell and build an allegorical environment.
In Gateshead, Jane Eyre felt the "gloomy memorial atmosphere" from life, saw the "ghosts" that appeared and disappeared, and the depressing, terrifying and creepy "red house" almost became a hell. Incarnation.
In Lowood, "death has become a frequent visitor here", "darkness and terror are shrouded within the walls", exuding "the stench of death". For Jane Eyre, it is undoubtedly a new world that she has just jumped out of. Fire pit, but was thrown into a more terrifying hell. In Thornfield, mad women appear frequently like ghosts, and storms constantly attack the Thornfield house.
3. In order to endow an ordinary love novel with classic meaning and mythical connotation, the author repeatedly quotes the Bible, myths, epics, classical masterpieces, and historical allusions from Shakespeare's works. 4. A major feature of this novel is its passion and poetry. The hero Rochester and the heroine Jane Eyre both use poetic words to express their passions. ?
Influence of the work
"Jane Eyre" is a book with a certain influence. For more than a hundred years, the image of Jane Eyre has been immortal, and this novel It has always been welcomed by people all over the world, and experts have also given many praises.
The poetic and lyrical dialogue between the hero and heroine in the novel has had a certain impact on subsequent literature. Its language features have become an important reason for the popularity of readers, especially young readers, and its social practical significance is especially It is the aspect of women's liberation that is more worth pondering.
About the author
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), a British novelist, was born in a poor priest family and studied in a boarding school. Later teachers and tutors. In 1847, Charlotte Bronte published the famous novel "Jane Eyre", which caused a sensation in the literary world. From the autumn of 1848 to 1849, her brother and two sisters died one after another. Under the shadow of death and confusion, she persisted in completing the book "Shelly", expressing her grief for her sister Emily, and describing the early spontaneous labor movement in Britain.
She also wrote "Villette" (1853) and "The Teacher" (1857), both of which were written based on her own life experiences. Charlotte Bront? was good at describing natural scenery with lyrical brushwork, and her works have a strong emotional color.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jane Eyre (novel written by Charlotte Bronte)