If we look back to the reality of Jane Austen, we may really understand the so-called dismal. Jane has no marriage in her life. She has a great gift for being a novelist, but the ending of her could not comfort readers’ hearts. She used the defects of her life writing another woman’s happiness, and all she wished may be the imaginative happiness of her herself. The ideal love with the man was just like Elizabeth with Darcy, not for money, status or anything else, just for love and a common wish. She couldn’t realize it in her real life, so she made her heroine to realize it instead of her, which could also make her satisfied. Elizabeth’s happy ending was the fact that Jane wanted to tell the readers that though love is attractive, money is indispensable. It’s certain that we should follow our hearts and lead lives that can obey the principles of our own, especially when it comes to love and marriage. Meanwhile, we should also know clearly that a satisfactory ending needs the combination of rational emotion and material guarantee. When you are practical and also insist on the voice from the bottom of your heart, you may find your own happiness is just around the corner.
2.2 Jane Eyre and Charlotte Brontë
“Jane Eyre, the story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan, at Gateshead Hall with her aunt and cousins. Her aunt, Mrs. Reed, a selfish and cold-hearted woman, and her three children all treat Jane very badly. One day, in an outbreak, Jane fights back and is shut up in the horrible red room. To get rid of this eye-sore, Mrs. Reed sends her away to Lowood, a charity school for the orphaned or unwanted children. Jane suffers a lot there, both physically and mentally, only to be consoled by the kindness of a teacher, Miss Temple and the friendship of Helen Burns, a pupil who dies as a result of the bad conditions there. Jane stays at the school for eight years, first six as a student and the rest two as a teacher. An advertisement gives her the chance to be a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she falls in love with the master of the house, Mr. Rochester, a grim-looking, energetic, quick-tempered but an 原文请加辣,文.论,文'网QQ3249'114 understanding middle-aged man. He too is attracted to the little plain governess for her quick wit, honesty, frankness, loving heart and her spirit of independence and self-dignity. But their wedding is canceled on the ground that Rochester is already married and his wife, though raving mad, is still alive. Shocked and deeply hurt, Jane makes up her mind to leave Rochester. She flees into the moorland. She would have died of starvation but for St. John Rivers and his two sisters. It turns out that the Rivers are really her cousins, and from them she also learns that she is now a rich heiress. One day, St. John Rivers, a very handsome clergyman who is determined to devote himself solely to God, asks Jane to marry him and accompany him to India for missionary work. Just when Jane, now desperate of her union with Rochester, is about to accept John’s loveless proposal, she hears Rochester calling for her. Following her own heart, Jane returns to Thornfield. She finds the burnt-down Thornfield Hall and its master, now a blind but free man. The two lovers are finally united and live happily ever after.”(Zhang Boxiang, 2005:257)
The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt’s house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.毕业论文
http://www.751com.cn/ The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.
Let’s look at Jane Eyre’s life in an overall situation, then we may understand why she is so tough and determined in her inner heart. Jane is an orphan and grows up in her aunt’s family that makes her go through the hurts both physical and mental. Not to mention she never feels the warmth from her aunt or other relatives, she even experiences the so-called irony of relationships between relatives. After that, Jane’s aunt sends her away to Lowood, a charity school for the orphaned or unwanted children, she also suffers a lot in there though she meets some people who are kind-hearted. As a result, Jane becomes forceful and strong gradually in her growth; she learns how to protect herself from other’s hurts and also understands how to become tougher and tougher that other people cannot hurt her any more. Meanwhile, as a young girl who is lack of love and warmth from her parents and family, she is eager to meet a man who would totally understand not only the strong mask of her appearance, but also the fear and loneliness in her inner heart. Thus, when she meets Mr. Rochester, a married man who is much older than her and already has several children, she couldn’t help falling in love with him not for his possession or status, but for his maturity and love, which could dote on her and forgive her just like the deep love from father.
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