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1、Charlotte Bront1816-1855,Focus,1.Her life2.Her works3.Her Masterpiece:Jane Eyre 1)Plot 2)Setting 3)Character 4)Theme 5)Writing features,Bront sisters,Emily1818-1848,Anne1820-1849,Her life,The Bronte sisters were born in Yorkshire.In 1820 Mr.Bront moved his family to Haworth,a remote and gloomy villa

2、ge on the Yorkshire moors.During the following years at Haworth,they had a great deal of freedom to explore the surrounding countryside.（They were impressed and inspired by it),Bronts Country Yorkshire,Home of the Bront sisters Haworth,This is theschoolroom where all three of the Bronte sisters taug

3、ht.,North Lees,Charlotte Bront s inspiration for Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre,Thornfield,Thornfield:thorn（荆棘，使人生气或苦恼的事物）field.It is an image in Bible which alludes to Janes suffering from the unfair life and resisting the temptation from the outside world.,Her works,Jane Eyre(1847,简爱)Shirley(1849,雪莉

4、)Villette(1853，维莱特)The Professor:A Tale(1857,her first written but last published，男教师),BBCs Adaptation of Jane Eyre,Her masterpiece:Jane Eyre,1)Plot 2)Setting 3)Character 4)Writing features 5)Theme,1.Plot,There are five distinct stages of development,each linked to a particular place:1.Childhood at

5、Gateshead 2.Girlhood at Lowood School 3.Adolescence at Thornfield 4.Maturity with the Rivers family at Moor House 5.Fulfillment in marriage to Rochester at Ferndean.,At Gateshead,Janes parents died as she was a baby.Jane grows up at Gateshead Hall Mrs.Reed and her children John,Eliza and Georgina tr

6、eat Jane cruelly.Bessie,the servant at Gateshead Hall is a sympathetic woman who feels sorry for Jane.,At Lowood,Mrs.Reed sends her to Lowood School.She makes friend with a girl called Helen Burns.She also admires her head teacher Miss.Temple.She stays eight years as a pupil and then two years as a

7、teacher.,At Thornfield,Jane becomes the governess for Adele.Jane met Mr.Rochester,the master of Thornfield.Mr.Rochester stays longer than usual at Thornfield.One night Jane wakes up and hears a laughter.When Jane comes back to Thornfield from her aunt,Mr.Rochester is so happy to see her again.He con

8、fesses his love.They decide to marry.,Before the wedding day,Janes white dress is torn.On the weeding day,the ceremony is stopped as Mr.Rochester has a wife still living.Jane decides to leave Mr.Rochester and flees in night.One day she comes to a house in the moor.,In the Moor House,They pick up Jan

9、e and look after her.They treat her nicely.St.John,the clergyman,helps her to find a job as a teacher They,who are the Janes cousins,tell her that their uncle died and Jane is the heiress of 20.000 pounds One day she decides to go back to Thornfield hall,only to see what has happened to him.She lear

10、ns that Mr.Rochester lives but he is blind.,At Ferndean,They come together again,marry and Jane gives birth to a son,Detailed Novel reading,1.At Gateshead Childhood:Orphan,1.At Gateshead(Chapter 1),1)landscape painting:A chill November day(1.No possibility of taking a walk?2.Translate the images in

11、Para.1)2)wretched emotional state:(How do you think of the past participle“nipped”;“saddened”,“humbled”?),1.At Gateshead(Chapter 1),3)The said clustered roundmamma Me excluded(Draw a picture of the drawing-room.And how do you think of Janes position in the family),1.At Gateshead(Chapter 1),4)Role-pl

12、ay of the dialogue between John and Jane.5)How do you think of Janes response?If you were Jane,what would you do?,1.At Gateshead(Chapter 2&3),1.Fill in the blanks of the paragraph about red room.“chill,because;silent,because;solemn,because”,1.At Gateshead(Chapter 2&3),2.Fill in the blanks of the par

13、agraph about Janes reflection on poverty.Poverty looks _.;:;connected with _ clothes,_ food,_grates,_ manners,and _ vices:Poverty synonymous with _.,2.At Lowood Girlhood:Friendship,2.At Lowood Girlhood:Friendship,1.Symbolic meaning of the natural scenery in chapter 5“Rain,wind,and darkness fill the

14、air;a door”,2.At Lowood Girlhood:Friendship,2)Role-play of the dialogue between Helen and Jane in Chapter 6.3)How do you understand the endurance in the life?,2.At Lowood Girlhood:Friendship,4)Translate the sentence by Jane on experience and liberty in Chapter 10&11.And what role does it play in the

15、 whole novel?,3.Adolescence:love,3.At ThornfieldAdolescence:love,1.landscape painting and atmospheres of mystery,horror and prophesyStrange Laughter(Chapter 11)Clear frosty night(Chapter 12)Mid-summer evening(Chapter 23)Lightning and storm(Chapter 23),3.At ThornfieldAdolescence:love,2.portrait of Ro

16、chester(Chapter 12)3.How does Jane think of her encounter with Rochester?(Chapter 12),3.At ThornfieldAdolescence:love,4.Role-play of the dialogue between Rochester and Jane in Chapter 14.5.How do you think of Janes inner thoughts“I grieve for your grief”in Chapter 15 and his frustrated love in Chapt

17、er 16&17.,3.At ThornfieldAdolescence:love,6.Role-play of the dialogue between Rochester and Jane in Chapter 23.,4.Maturity:inner conflicts,That I have to leave him decidedly,instantly,entirely,is intolerable.I cannot do it.chapter 27,5.At FerndeanFulfillment:family,To be together is for us at once a

18、s free as in solitude,as gay as in company.,5.At FerndeanFulfillment:family,Role-play of the dialogue between Rochester and Jane in Chapter 37.,Writing features(Point of View),Jane Eyre is written in the first person(“I”)which functions as follows:1.indicates the characteristic of autobiography.2.be

19、 favorable to reveal intense,fierce and sharp feelings directly and powerfully.3.provides a full and complete thoughts of the whole event and the other characters from the angle of vision of the narrator.4.makes the work consistent and tends to give authority and credibility to the narrative.,The us

20、e of verb,adjective and adverb reinforces the strength of emotions.It makes the sentence more intense and reflects the sharp anguish and inner struggles of the characters.While reading,we cant help temporarily identifying ourselves with the characters.It proves especially in Janes declaration.,Writi

21、ng features(Style),Passage Reading,I grieve to leave Thornfield:I love Thornfield:I love it,because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,momentarily at least.I have not been trampled on.I have not been petrified.I have not been buried with inferior minds,and excluded from every glimpse of c

22、ommunion with what is bright and energetic and high.I have talked,face to face,with what I reverence,with what I delight in,with an original,a vigorous,an expanded mind.I have known you,Mr.Rochester;and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever.I see t

23、he necessity of departure;and it is like looking on the necessity of death.,Passage Reading,“要离开桑菲尔德，我感到忧伤，因为我爱桑菲尔德；我爱它，因为我在这里过了一段充实而愉快的生活，尽管是短暂的。我没有被人踩在脚下。我没有被吓倒。我没有跟一些头脑迟钝的人一起遭到埋没，而且没有被排斥在同聪明、能干和崇高的人交往的圈子之外。我曾经面对面地与我所敬重所喜爱的人，与一个有独到见解、充满活力而开朗的心灵促膝谈心。我已经对您有所了解，罗切斯特先生，要我非得从您这里永远走开，我感到恐惧和痛苦。我看到我非走不可，就

24、仿佛看到我非死不可一样。”第23章，戴侃译。,Passage Reading,I tell you I must go!I retorted,roused to something like passion.Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?Do you think I am an automaton?-a machine without feelings?and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips,and my drop of living wate

25、r dashed from my cup?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 full 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 t

26、o leave you.I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom,conventionalities,nor even of mortal flesh:it is my sprit that addresses your spirit;just as if both had passed through the grave,and we stood at Gods feet,equal-as we are!,Passage Reading,“我告诉您我一定要走，”我有些恼火地反驳说。“您以为我能留下来做一个对您毫无意思的人

27、吗？您以为我只是台自动机器，一台没有感情的机器吗？您以为我能容忍别人把我那一小口面包从嘴里抢走，把我那一滴赖以活命的水从杯子里泼掉吗？您以为我既然又穷又贱，长得又不美，个子又小，我就没有灵魂，没有心肝了吗？您想错了！我的灵魂跟您的一样高尚，心也跟您的一样充实！要是上帝能赐给我一点美和许多的财富，我也会让您难以离开我，就像我现在难以离开您一样。我现在并不是从世俗习惯、甚至也不是从凡人的躯体出发对您讲这番话，这是我的灵魂在跟您的灵魂对话，仿佛我们俩穿过了坟墓，一起站在上帝的脚下。彼此平等因为我们就是平等的呀！”,Themes in Jane Eyre,1.personal progress2.st

28、ruggles and independence3.love and gender relations4.religion,Character Analysis,Jane is an orphan who grows up lonely with nobody caring for her.Jane is a small,plain and poor governess of Victorian era instead of the rich,gentle,frail,beauties of the conventional heroine.Jane only has an intense f

29、eeling,a ready sympathy and a strong sense of equality and independence.,Character Analysis,Most importantly,Jane dares to love her master and marries him openly in defiance of the social convention and prejudices.It makes her as an entirely new woman in the era of Victorian.Jane is a spirited and i

30、ntelligent woman to accept her appointed place in society with unusual frankness and with a passionate sense of the dignity and needs of her sex.,Homework,1.What do you think of Mr.Rochester?Why does he fall in love with Jane?What intrinsic qualities of Jane attract him?Is his former life happy?Why?2.Is John River cruel?Does he really love Jane?Why does he choose Jane as his partner to India?3.What had Jane always been pursuing in her whole life?How does the author express Janes feelings?4.What impresses you the most in the novel?,