从《简•爱》看知识改变女性命运

Abstract

Jane Eyre is an excellent autobiographical works. The heroine Jane had not beautiful appearance or a supple, graceful carriage, but she still attracted us deeply like the beauties of other works; Jane was born into an impoverished family and became an orphan, and then she was sent to Lowood Institution, living hard, but finally, she became a versatile Miss, having extraordinary temperament and getting Mr. Rochester’s deep love. How could common Jane become an uncommon female? One of the reasons is: Jane loved reading and learning and eagerly sought knowledge from them, finally she obtained the momentum of survival, growth and struggling for happiness and freedom.   
The females today go out of home, competing with males to display their wonderful life, and showing the complete and true ego. So the females today need more knowledge to improve and enrich ego. This paper will explain that knowledge is very important to females, especially to the females today. It will deal with the effects of knowledge on Jane, and then make further analysis on the significance which knowledge brings to the females today.

Key Words

Knowledge; Females Fate; Jane Eyre

 
摘　要

《简•爱》是一部出色的自传小说。女主人公简没有娇好的面容，婀娜的身姿，却和其它著作中的美人一样，深深地吸引着我们；简出生贫寒，是一个可怜的孤儿，随后又被送进寄宿学校，过者艰苦的生活，但最终她成为了一位多才多艺的女子，拥有非凡的气质，并得到罗切斯特先生的深爱。平凡的简是怎样变成一个不平凡的女性的？原因之一是：简爱读书和学习，她渴望从中得到知识，并从中汲取到生存，成长和争取幸福、自由的力量。
今天的女人走出了家门，和男人们比拼着生命的精彩，向世界展示着完整真实的自我，今天的她们需要更多的知识来提升和充实自己。本文将由知识对简一生的影响谈起，说明知识对女性，尤其对当今女性的重要性，并进一步分析知识给当今女性带来的益处。

关键词

知识;；女性命运；简.爱

 
Introduction

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! --- I have as much soul as you, --- and fill as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…and we stood at God’s feet, equal, --- as we are!” When you read this paragraph of classical dialogue, you will think of “the Cinderella- Jane” who is the leading character in the novel Jane Eyre of Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre has already come out for one and a half century. But up to now, readers still remember the works, because its heroine Jane is distinctive---She has normal appearance and unfortunate experiences, but has internal temperament and happy marriage. Why could the unfortunate heroine’s life change? This paper will analyze the reason---Knowledge changes Jane’s destiny. And then can the knowledge change the fate of females today? The answer is certain. Knowledge can make homely females become good-looking, and make beauty become more beautiful; Knowledge can bring the capital of modern females to the females today; Knowledge can make women mentally healthy; Knowledge can change females’ future and make them win the world.

 
I. The Brief Introduction of the Novel and Its Author

A. Introduction of the Novel
Jane Eyre is an important works in the history of British literature. Jane Eyre is such a great novel that it holds an important position in the history of British literature. It has been translated into various languages and adapted for movie, dazzling generations of readers all through the world.
The period when Jane (the heroine in the novel Jane Eyre) lived roughly corresponds with the time of queen Victoria’s ruling. Victoria who ruled over the British Empire for over 60 years was a well known queen in English history. She mounted the throne in 1837 when British literature reached a prosperous period. In the 1940s, British literature reached its peak. The realists were one of the main groups at that time, and the author of Jane Eyre belonged to this group.
This novel begins with little Jane as a despised orphan in the house of her uncle’s widow. Being rebellious, she is packed off to a charitable boarding school, which administers harsh discipline with especial vigor. Jane sets herself to learn, qualifies herself as a teacher, advertises for a post, and is employed as governess of the illegitimate French daughter of Rochester in his country mansion, Thornfield. A love relationship develops between Jane and Rochester. Jane’s resolute free spirit, her soul of fire, brings from the dominant Rochester a proposal of marriage. But at the very moment, the wedding ceremony was interrupted, for Rochester is discovered to have a mad wife who is hidden in that house. Jane doesn’t want to be Rochester’s mistress and subsequently leaves Thornfield, wandering far away. She is rescued by the Rivers family and urged to marry John Rivers in order to undertake missionary work at his side. Almost she consents, but as she ponders, Rochester’s voice crying her name resounds in her ears. Then Jane gains a large amount of inheritance from her uncle whom she has never known before. She returns to Thornfield, but the mansion has been destroyed by a fire started by the mad wife. In a scheduled country house nearby, she finds Rochester, blind and alone; they marry and find happiness together.
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