Jane Eyre 英文后感
Jane Eyre is known as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works in the world of English literature. Written by Charlotte Bronte, who is one of my favourite women writers, it’s my favourite English novel. I can’t forget how excited I was when I read it for the first time four years ago. “How remarkable and amazing a work it is!” I thought to myself. I have read this work many times over the years and each time I have discovered new and meaningful elements in the story which have never failed to move me. What I have acquired from Jane Eyre is as follows:
Tenacity
Orphaned as a baby, the poor girl is taken in and cared for in her early years by her cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, who treated Jane badly while spoiling her own children. Then, the cold-blood Mrs. Reed decided to send Jane away to Lowood school, which is more a prison than a school, where Jane is treated with inhuman severity. Miserable as Jane’s life is, she still believes that there is always hopes in life instead of feeling depressed or pessimistic. What an optimistic girl Jane is! What a tenacious girl Jane is!
Kindness and sincerity
Another aspect of Jane’s character that has greatly moved me is her kindness and sincerity. Terrible as the time Jane spends in the Lowood is, I find something which is relieving enough. Helen Burns, Jane’s first friend, develops a pure friengship with Jane. The sincere friengship between the two kind-hearted girls impresses me so much. What’s more, knowing of Mrs. Reed’cheating, she isn’t angry, instead, she just forgives her.
In my view, the nature of kindness and sincerity is one of the most necessary characters for a person. Kindness and sincerity are to humans what water is to fish. He who has no kindness and sincerity is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, the fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose, he who is with kindness and sincerity undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified with what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself. To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the kindness and sincerity in humanity. They look down on people’s honesty and goodness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real matter while emotions and morality are unimportant. If they cannot benefit from showing their ‘kindness’, they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.
Equality
Long before women's suffrage movement, Miss Bronte created, in the character of Jane, an intelligent, independent and strong-willed female. "We stood at God's feet, equals as we are!" By making Jane the only character to gain resolution with her passion, the author successfully created a balance in her emotions.What Jane persues is obvious in the following famous lines: "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them."
Something else
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 to women and is a good model for women forever.
It’s a true Jane, tenacious, humble, kind and sincere with the pursuing of Equality. She is small and plain, but has more determination than any other character we meet. She has a pure, beautiful heart and a passionate, tender soul. Wish everyone learn something from the extraordinary. It is Jane Eyre that tells me the real meanings of charming ladies!