However, when she realizes it she becomes upset because the love between Mr. Rochester and her would not be accepted by the society in that period. There is a big gap between them in age, possession and status, and each of the difference between them would lead to a bad ending of the love. As a woman with self-esteem, she looks squarely at her own emotion and never wants to escape that, but she would not bear the discrimination from the society, either. Therefore, when forced to confront Mr. Rochester, Jane desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him. She is such a brave woman that never afraid of difficulties, thus Mr. Rochester, a grim-looking, energetic, quick-tempered but an understanding man, is deeply attracted by her. What Jane says to Mr. Rochester to declare her love and equality is so moving and powerful that even today, more than 200 years passed, Jane’s attitude to her love and life should be learned by the young girls who are ready to face the society and every kind of unimaginable hardships in the future: “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 to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: --it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”(Jane Eyre, 2010:156)
Although Jane insists on her love for Mr. Rochester, she is shocked and deeply hurt on her own wedding with Mr. Rochester that he is already married and his wife, though raving mad, is still alive. That is unbelievable and Jane makes up her mind to leave Rochester. The plot gets a dramatically change that the Rivers are really Jane’s cousins, and from them she also learns that she is now a rich heiress. Just when Jane decides to accept John’s loveless proposal, she finally changes her mind to follow her own heart. She finds the burnt-down Thornfield Hall and its master, a blind but free man. She is not hesitating to make up her mind that she would live with Rochester and takes care of him in her whole life.原文请加辣,文.论,文'网QQ324,9114
We may be a little skeptical about Jane’s attitude that her appearance was so thin and weak, how could she accumulate such strong power that astonishes everyone. Jane Eyre is not a novel only about love, but it was often been used to talk about love, maybe to teach girls how to love is more accurate. Because the novel records the growth of a girl, also the choices and strength that she has to learn. Charlotte Brontë’s families left her one by one, she suffered huge pains in her life, but she was still tenacious to face the reality. She had not a satisfactory marriage in the end. Although she made Jane and Rochester go through series of difficulties, she made her heroine get a happy ending eventually.
3 The Comparative Study of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre Based on Feminism
3.1 Elizabeth Bennet’s Life in Pride and Prejudice毕业论文
http://www.751com.cn/ Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë were both advocates of feminism. They claimed that women should have their own pursuit of career and marriage, but not being arranged by men or anyone else. They advocated that everyone was equal and unique, and women should be brave enough to fight for their own independence, freedom and equality even in the patriarchal society. Jane and Charlotte might be good friends if they could live in the same period; however, we can find some obvious differences between the two female novelists from the endings of their works.
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