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简爱英语论文-英语论文简爱英语论文AcknowledgementsMy deepest gratitude goes first and foremost to ProfessorGan, my supervisor, for her constant encouragement and guidance. She has walked me through all the stages of the writing of this thesis. Without her consistent and illuminating instruction, this thesis could not have reached its present form.    Second, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to Professor Huang, who led me into the world of translation. I am also greatly indebted to the professors and teachers at the Department of English: ProfessorFeng, Professor Chen , who have instructed and helped me a lot in the past two years.    Last my thanks would go to my beloved family for their loving considerations and great confidence in me all through these years. I also owe my sincere gratitude to my friends and my fellow classmates who gave me their help and time in listening to me and helping me work out my problems during the difficult course of the thesis.Bibliography 1.陈嘉. A College History of English Literature M. 北京: 商务印书馆, 1996. 67702.黄源深. Jane Eyre M. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社, 2001. 2123.胡迎春. Character Analysis of Jane Eyre J. 宿州教育学院学报, 2002, 5(2): 1081114.刘炳善. A Short History of English LiteratureM. 郑州: 河南人民出版社, 1993. 3745.王文惠. 从作者夏洛蒂勃朗特看简爱J. 齐齐哈尔大学学报, 2002,1: 86886.吴伟仁. History and Anthology of English LiteratureM. 北京: 外语教学与研究出版社, 1988. 2407.许自强. 文艺理论基础M. 北京: 高等教育出版社, 2000. 292299Abstract   Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte, who is a famous talented realistic woman novelist. This thesis discusses the characters of Jane in the social background of realism. It includes Jane Eyres pursuit of love and her pursuit of liberty and equality. Jane is neither a very beautiful woman, nor rich, but her genuine, selfless love for Rochester, and her good personality strike us deeply. On the other hand, we should see the author s limitation. In that society, it is impossible for Jane and Rochester to be really equal in social class. They are just equal in spirit. They get together because Rochester has been blinded by the fire and has lost his wealth at the end of the novel. Therefore, they get married on the condition that their gap of social classes narrows. However, We should learn her virtue. We should pursue our ideals and have our opinions about everything. Jane Eyre sets a good example for women and is a good model for women forever. Key words:  Jane Eyre;  Charlotte Bronte;  Rochester;  Critical realism;  critical  realists Contents摘要        . .IAbstract      .II1 The author and Jane Eyre   .22 The development of Jane Eyres character    .43 The characters of Jane Eyre .63.1 Jane Eyres attitude towards love .63.1.1 Janes pursuit of true love.63.1.2 The age issue between Jane and Rochester.83.1.3 The importance of honesty in love    . 93.2 Jane Eyres pursuit of liberty and equality . 103.2.1 The equality of social classes between Jane and Rochester . 103.2.2 The equality between man and woman .11Conclusions.13Acknowledgements   14Bibliography       .15 简爱是现实主义时期著名的女作家夏洛蒂勃朗特的代表作品。本论文结合现实主义的社会背景讨论了简爱的性格。它包括简爱对于爱情以及自由和平等的追求。简爱既不漂亮，也不富有，但她对于罗彻斯特真诚而无私的爱，以及她美好的人格深深地打动了我们。另一方面，我们也应该看到作者的局限性，在那时的社会，简爱和罗彻斯特不可能在社会阶级上实现真正的平等，他们只是在精神上的平等。在小说的结尾他们走到了一起，正是因为罗彻斯特在火灾中双目失明而且丢失了他的财产，因此，他们是在阶级差距缩小的情况下结婚的。不管怎样，我们应该学习简爱的优点。我们应该有自己的理想和对一切事物的看法，简爱为女性树立了好榜样，而且永远值得女性学习。 关键词：简爱; 夏洛蒂勃朗特; 罗彻斯特; 批判现实主义; 现实主义作家1043简爱英语论文1 .The Author and Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) was born in the family of a poor country clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England. In this period of tense class struggle appeared a new literary trend-critical realism. English critical realism of the 19 th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. She and three of her sisters were sent to a charity school where they were cruelly treated, and where her two elder sisters died. In 1835-1838 she worked as a school teacher, and later as governess. In 1842 she went with her sister Emily to study languages at a school in Brussels, where during 1843 she was employed as a teacher. In the next year she was back at Haworth, and in 1846 appeared a volume of verse entitled poems by Curer, Ellis, and Action Bell, the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne respectively. The Professor, Charlottes first novel, was rejected by different publishers, and it was not published till after her death. She went to write another novel, Jane Eyre, which was published in 1847 and achieved immediate success. The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens. With striking force and truthfulness, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of the common people.The method of critical realism was further adopted by such writers as Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell. In writing Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte chiefly resorts to the realistic approach, but her realism is heightened by her sparkle of romantic imagination. The novel is marked throughout by intensity, intensity of vision is the descriptive passages, intensity of feeling in the emotional scenes. The passionate involvement of the heroine Jane Eyre in every situation endows the novel, like Emilys Wuthering Heights, with the quality of poetry, even in the medium of prose. In 1848, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey by her sisters Emily and Anne respectively were also published. But sorrows came to Charlotte for in that year her only brother and Emily died, and Anne died the following year. Charlotte, the only surviving child of the family, outlived her sisters and brother by some years, with restless energy, she wrote two other novels, “Shirley”(1849), her second novel, dealing with the life of workers at the time of the Luddites movement. The last novel by Charlotte Bronte, “Villette”, came out in 1853. In Villette, the author again draws from her own life experience and creates a woman character from a poor family who fights her way in the world with her intelligence, and strong will. The heroine is shown as having no money, beauty, or friends, and in order to support herself she teaches at a girls school at Brussels, Belgium. In 1854 she married her fathers curate A.B. Nicholas, but died a few months later. 2. The Development of Jane Eyres Character  The development of Jane Eyres character is related to her life environment. From the beginning, Jane possesses a sense of her self-respect and dignity, a commitment to justice and principle, a trust in God, and a passionate disposition. Her integrity is continually tested over the course of the novel, and Jane must learn to balance the frequently conflicting aspects of herself so as to find contentment. Jane loses both of her parents shortly after birth. She lives at the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed, an unfeeling woman, who is rude and unjust to the poor orphan. Her children also find pleasure in teasing and mocking Jane. Living under this circumstance, Jane feels exiled and ostracized at the beginning of the novel, and the cruel treatment she receives from her aunt Reed and her cousins only exacerbates her feeling of alienation. Afraid that she will never find a true sense of home or community, Jane feels the need to belong somewhere. This desire tempers her equally intense need for autonomy and freedom. Mrs. Reed doesnt like Jane and sends her to a charity school for poor girls in Lowood. Maltreated by the authorities and leading a half-starved existence, Jane stays there for 8 long years, 6 spent in studies, and the remaining 2 in the capacity of a teacher. Then Jane gets a position of governess in the family of Mr. Rochester, a rich squire. Rochester falls in love with Jane, and she with him. They are about to be married when Jane breaks the engagementon the wedding day, learning that Mr. Rochester has a wife, a raving lunatic who is secretly kept under lock and key in the house. Shocked by the news, Jane flees from the house. She goes through a lot of hardships. After nearly perishing on the moors, she is taken in and cared for by a parson, Rev. Rivers. After she experiences a lot, we can see that in her search for freedom, Jane also struggles with the question of what type of freedom she wants. While Rochester initially offers Jane a chance to liberate her passions, Jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean enslavement. By living as Rochesters mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feelings. 简爱英语论文St John Rivers offers Jane another kind of freedom: the freedom to act unreservedly on her principles. He opens to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India. Jane eventually realizes that this freedom would also constitute a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings and her true passions always in check. Charlotte Bronte may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of coming to terms with elements of her own life. Much evidence suggests that Bronte, too, struggled to find a balance between love and freedom, and to find others who understood her. At many points in Jane Eyre, Jane voices the authors radical opinion at that time.3. The Characters of Jane Eyre 3.1 Jane Eyres attitude towards love 3.1.1 Janes pursuit of true love Love is the most beautiful characteristic of human beings life and love can not be measured by ones status, power or property. In most individuals life, people like to seek a meaningful, romantic relationship resulting in love, commitment, companionship and happiness. In my opinion, it is most important that a man and woman have heart and feelings that find a perfect response, and also have mutual affinity. Shakespeare said:“The course of true love never runs smooth.”Jane and Rochester get true love after a lot of sufferings. Jane loves Rochester deeply always-from the beginning to the end. There should be no distinction of property, rank or age in true love. Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester. He who has rich experience and wisdom, is softhearted, wealthy and in high rank as well as having pride and rudeness. Rochester is older than Jane by nearly 20years and could be her father. Jane loves him, but not for his wealth and high rank, because he treats her equally and in a friendly manner, although she is very poor and in low position. She is such an excellent girl, good, intelligent, considerate that Rochester is attracted by her. It is Jane but not someone else who Rochester loves.Jane thinks that it is a glorious thing to have the hope of living with him and being his wife. Jane loves him with her whole heart. They have a meeting of the mind. But in that social background, people pay too much attention to property, rank and status. If the disparity is great, a pair of lovers will suffer disagreement from their families and their friends. Mrs. Fairfax, one of Rochesters servants, is very surprised and feels puzzled that her master is madly clinging to Jane. But both of them do not care about the difference of status and property or others opinion. They pursue true love. They can smash the bonds of tradition and can surmount all obstacles. They are very happy and want to be married. But their marriage is stopped by the fault that Rochester is a married man; his wife is still alive. Rochester tells the fact to her, and he is full of regret about it. He tells Jane what he has done and confesses all his past history. Mr. Rochester had tried to conceal that he has a mad wife, because he loves Jane. He is worried that she could not endure the fact and would leave him if he tells her the truth. Now he exposes his secret to Jane, which also proves his sincere love for Jane. Jane forgives him, but in order not to impair her dignity, she thinks she must leave him. She wants to be his real wife, not his mistress. Although Jane can not get married to Rochester, she still loves him. It is impossible for her to hate him. On the day she runs away, passing the door of Rochester, she can not keep the tears from raining down her face.When she is away from him, she still feels anxiety about Rochester. Its too difficult for her not to miss Rochester. wherever she  goes, she remembers him every moment, and she often dream of him:“she was embraced by him, hearing his voice, meeting his eyes, touching his hand and face. She loved him, and was loved by him, spent all her life with him.”That is Janes well-remembered love for Rochester! After leaving Rochesters home, Thornfield Hall, Jane walks and travels without any aim. She lives in hunger and cold. As she roams about whitcross, she is nearly dead because she suffers terrible hardships. St. John helps her and saves her life. St John wants to marry Jane and takes her to India with him. Although he is a little merciful and handsome, he is also very harsh and arbitrary. He considers little of Janes benefit. He does not respect her or give her selfless love. Jane says if she joins St John, she will abandon half herself and if she goes to India, she will go to premature death. Jane insists that true love should be based on equality, mutual understanding and respect. She knows that to marry such a stonehearted person is to become a tool of him to serve God, so she refuses Johns proposal. She hears the voice of Rochester in her mind, then she comes back to look for Rochester. She learns that Thornfield hall has been burnt down, and that Rochester, attempting vainly to save his mad wife from the fire, loses one of his hands, is blind in both eyes, and becomes a crippled man. Now Mr. Rochester is not as rich as he used to, and he is disabled. But Jane loves him more 简爱英语论文than ever. Jane decides to stay with him and look after him for all of her life. This pair of lovers comes together in the end. But in that society such a marriage is considered uncommon and untraditional.People may think its strange that Jane makes her strong will to be Rochesters bride. Nobody would like to marry him because he has lost most of his wealth and is blind. As to Jane, she can marry a man who is much better than Mr .Rochester. Actually, not only in those days but also today, in a pair of lovers or a couple if one of them becomes disabled, maybe the other will leave him or her. But Jane is different, she considers that love is a kind of life; true lo