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1、分析简爱的美AbstractJane Eyre is written by famous talented English critical realist woman novelist Charlotte Bronte in 1846. Although having more than 152 years by now, it is popular with lots of people because of the heroine Jane. Eyre.As an English idiom goes, “Beauty is but skin-deep”. A persons great

2、 virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as an everlasting beauty. The thesis focuses on the analysis of Jane Eyres beauty, on the assumption that more people may act like “Jane” and possess inner beauty. First, it introduces the author Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre path of life, as w

3、ell as its historical background of this work. Second, it mainly analyses the characters in Jane Eyre through her life experience in terms of psychology, language, mentality, behavior and so on to reflect the theme. Third, it is about Janes love. It express Jane longing and pursuit for the most beau

4、tiful characteristic of human beings, which enlighten us greatly. Finally, it has a discussion about Janes personalities and concludes that Jane is a beautiful feminist.Key Words:Female; independent; dignity; freedom; equal; beautiful摘要简爱是英国著名女作家夏洛蒂勃朗特的代表作写于1846年。虽然迄今150多年，但是这部作品仍然深受广大读者的喜爱，这都是因为这部作

5、品的女主人翁简.爱。外在的美是短暂的，内在的美才是永恒的。本论文主要分析简.爱的美，希望有更多的人像简.爱那样拥有内在的美。首先介绍作者，简爱的生活经历以及小说写作的历史背景。其次从简.爱的生活经历中，通过心理，语言，思想，行为等方面分析简爱的内在性格，以及简爱的爱情，在人间最美的这件东西上给予了我们很多的启示。最后一部份，从对前面的这些分析和讨论，简一位美丽的女性。关键词:女性; 独立; 自尊; 自由; 平等; 美丽IntroductionJane. Eyre is written by famous talented English woman novelist Charlotte Bro

6、nte in 1846. It is Charlotte Brontes second novel and is one of her masterpieces. In this work, Charlotte Bronte pictures an amazing female heroine Jane.Eyre in British Literature. Although having more than 152 years by now, this work is popular with lots of people because of its heroin Jane Eyre. I

7、n the early years of the 19th century Victorian Age, it is a male-dominated and “money above all” society, and women are regarded as second-class, unexpectedly, emerging a girl who disdains money and power and has a great courage to combat traditional injustice and oppression. Everyone has his or he

8、r own standard for what is beauty. Generally, there are two kinds of beauty, physical beauty and inner beauty. In Janes period, people usually measure a person on the basis of social status, wealth and physical beauty. On the contrary, Jane is an orphan, penniless and plain. She possesses neither we

9、alth nor physical beauty, which are considered symbols of a womens social position in her times.However, our heroin has unique character that makes her beauty everlasting. Little Jane is an orphan, brought up by her despotic and prejudiced aunt. In her aunts Gates heed, Jane is treated cruelly. Bein

10、g rebellious, she is packed off to a charity school. The school condition is very poor and its administration is harsh and severe. Jane sets herself to learn and qualifies herself as a teacher. Then Jane is ambitious to advertise for a post, and leaves the charity school to be a governess. In Janes

11、path of life, she dares to challenge traditional opinions and oppression. Janes witted mind and independent character win others respect for her. Her indomitable spirit changes her fate. No matter how difficult and strenuous, she never gives up straggling for freedom and equality. Jane is a marvelou

12、s person, a beautiful feminist. . Overview of Jane .EyreJane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte who is a famous talented English critical realist woman novelist in the 19th century. It ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction, although having more t

13、han 152 years by now. It is popular with lots of people because of its heroine Jane. Eyre.A. Introduction to Charlotte BronteCharlotte Bronte was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire England, the third of six children. Her father, Patrick Bronte, an Irish Anglican clergyman, her mother, Maria Barnwell Bro

14、nte, died of cancer on September 15th 1821. In August 1824, charlotte Bronte were sent with three of her sisters to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge. Its poor conditions, permanently affects her health and physical development, and hastens the deaths of her two elder sisters about 11 and

15、10 years old. Soon after, she moved from the school and lived with her surviving brother and sisters, Emily and Anne. They began to write stories, articles and poems together. In order to get normal education, Charlotte continued her education at Roe Heed School in Mir field from 1831 to 1842, where

16、 she met her lifelong friends and correspondents. Between 1835 and 1838, she returned as a teacher. In 1839, she took up the first of many positions as governess to a family in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841. After her aunt died of internal obstruction in October 1842, Charlotte returned

17、 alone to Brussels in 1843. In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under assumed names of Currer, Ellis and Action Bell, although only two copies were sold, they decided to continue writing for publication and began working on their first novels. It is very un

18、fortunate, in 1848 her brother died of Chronic Bronchitis. Emily and Anne both died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1848 and 1849 respectively. She and her father left alone. Under the very hardship condition, Charlotte continuously worked hard in the journey of creating literature and published Shirle

19、y and Villette and began to create long novel Emma in 1853. On June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her fathers curate. She died nine months later during her first pregnancy.B. Historical BackgroundThe early years of the Victorian Age was a time of rapid economic development. England d

20、eveloped into a rich, advanced industrial country; however, there were many social problems, for instance the sharpest contrast between the rich and the poor and rigid social hierarchy. In this period, women were still regarded as second-class hierarchy. However some outstanding women appeared, such

21、 as famous women writers Bronte sisters. They were great English realists of the time. They created pictures of bourgeois civilization, showing the misery and suffering of the common people. Although capitalist has appeared, old convention and prejudice remained dominant. Women were still regarded a

22、s the second-class hierarchy. At this time, women were employed as cheap labor and were forced to do very hard jobs, and they did not get the vote until 1918. So in the late period of Victorian Age, a feminist movement started fighting for womens equality and freedom, and for their educational and e

23、mployment opportunities. Petitions to parliament advocating womens suffrage were introduced as early as in the 1840.C. Jane Eyres Path of LifeJane Eyres life is full of tears, misery, and starvation, but she constantly strives to become stronger and has the courage to fight continuously for freedom

24、and equality. She becomes strong-minded and persistent in struggling against her fate.1. Life in Gatesheed and Lowood InstitutionJane Eyre is an orphan, so brought up by her uncle. When she is ten years old, her uncle died too. Little Jane is left to live with her aunt Mrs. Reed who is despotic, pre

25、judiced, harsh and unsympathetic. Mrs. Reed lets her daughters and son cluster round her perfectly happy and keeps little Jane at a distance. Mrs. Reed declares that Jane is not important than a servant in her family. Other peoples do not give any sympathy to Jane because she is not pretty and her p

26、arents leave her nothing. Some of the servants prejudice to her. Furthermore, Jane is often beaten and insulted by her cousin John. As Jane says that every nerve she has fears him, and every morsel of flesh in her bones shrinks when John come near. One day John strikes Jane cruelly and hard. When Jo

27、hn lifts the book to hit her, she really cannot bear bad-treatment any more and change her tolerance to rebellious feelings. She points to John, claims that he is wicked and cruel boy, and is like the evil rulers of ancient Rome. Then, Mrs. Reed imprisons Jane in the red-room in which Janes uncle Re

28、ed died. While locked in it, Jane believes that she sees her uncles ghost, then Jane creams and faints, the fear that children of this age can truly feel.When Jane awakes to find her in the care of Bessie who is a servant in Gates heed and she is the only one who gives Jane lots of kindness. In addi

29、tion, the kind doctor who suggests Mrs. Reed to send Jane to school, then Jane goes to Lowood, a charity school, the school condition is very harsh and the girls could not even keep the simplest living standard. The school headmaster is very severe and hard-heated person who prevents the girls from

30、having normal mental growth. At here, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns. The students in this school often suffer starvation and frost. The bad condition and imperious rules make all the pupils lose their clever children nature and make most of them tend to catch diseases easily. A massi

31、ve typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of consumption. Jane survives for her tenacious will power. She spends eight more years at Lowood. During the eight years, Jane becomes a teacher after six years hard work.2. Tutor in Thornfield HallAfter years of misery in the Lowood School, Jane adv

32、ertises for a position of governess finally she is employed to teach an eight years old French girl named Adele whose custodian is Mr.Rochester master of Thornfield Hall. Jane gets along with Adele very well. As for Rochester, he is a very proud, sardonic, harsh and moody master of Thorfield Hall bu

33、t he is kind-hearted to Jane. At here Jane also meets a kindhearted Miss Temple who has no power in the word but possesses great spiritual strength and charm, not only she shelters Jane from pain, she also encourages her intellectual development. One night Jane saves Rochester from a fire. As for th

34、e fire, Rochester claims that a drunken servant named Grace Pool starts it. Nevertheless, because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that she has not been told the entire story. Rochester continues to admire Jane and look after her tenderly. Moreover, Rochester gives her a t

35、rue sense of belonging. At the same times, Jane finds herself fall in love with him deeply. However, unfortunately, on the morning of her wedding day, Jane knows the fact that Rochester has married Bertha Mason in Jamaica some fifteen years earlier and now Bertha is still alive and living at Thornfi

36、eld. No matter how sorrowful Jane is, she leaves Thornfield finally.3. Life in Moor House and the Manor house of FerndeanJane uses up all her small stored money for the coach, so she has to suffer starvation. Because of having no money and hungriness, Jane is forced to sleep outdoors. She actually b

37、egs for food. She is almost dead on the Moors. Luckily, St. John Rivers and his sisters save her with great efforts. It happens that Jane is dieing but the servant refuses to give her aid, no matter how Jane pursues sincerely. At this moment, St. John Rivers comes back and saves her kindly. At here

38、Johns two sisters Mary and Diana, they take her under the shelter of their roof giving her kind aid. Jane enjoys the time the pleasure arising from the perfect agreement in taste, feeling and ideas with them. Indoors they agree equally well. Jane is eager to accept any means of employment that can s

39、upport her. With St. John Rivers help, she gets a job as a teacher in charity school in Morton. Jane carries on the work of the village school as actively and faithfully as she can. She gains social respect from her teaching. The students parents are grateful to her. One day, a lawyer declares that

40、Janes Uncle John Eyre has died and left her large fortune, which surprise Jane greatly. Simultaneity Jane knows that John and his sister are her cousins. Jane immediately decides to share her inheritance equally with her three newly found relatives. After a period, St. John finds that Jane is helpfu

41、l for his missionary if he takes Jane as his wife, so he tries to persuade Jane to marry him and travel to India as a missionary. However, Jane realizes that she can never abandon the man she truly loves. One night when it seems that Jane hears Rochesters voice calling her name over the moors, she i

42、mmediately hurries back to Thorn field and finds it has been burned to the ground by Bertha Mason who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants and his mad wife but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane goes to a new residence, Fern dean where Rochester lives with two servants n

43、amed John and Mary. At here, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon get married. Jane and Rochester enjoy perfect equality in their life together. After two years, Rochester regains sight in one eye and soon Jane gives birth to their first baby. They feel very happy because they are

44、together after a long-suffering. . Analysis of Main Characters of Jane EyreAfter reviewing a long journey of Janes spirit, from the readers point of view, what she gives us is not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality, She is a ma

45、rvelous figure, and it is safe to say that Jane Eyre gives readers treasure spirit.A. Self-respect and Pursuit of Freedom and IndependenceFrom Janes journey of life, we have learned that she was exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggles for her ideal life. The story

46、can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit. When Jane lives in Gatesheed for ten years, little Jane suffers with hard work, mistreatment and unchanging hatred, so Jane has no one to rely on. Her hobby is reading. She always observes circumambient thing with her witted mind, when in Low

47、ood School, although condition is so harsh that oppresses human nature, and Jane often bears starvation and frost with other orphans, but she says that she would not exchange stay in Lowood with Ggatesheads privations and daily luxuries. Jane learns variety of subjects to enrich her brain. After six

48、 years, Jane becomes one of teachers at here. Under the tyrannical controlled ruler, Jane feels that she would relish a new challenge, so she advertises for a work as tutor. At Thornfield Hall, Jane shows her independence fully. First, she works as a governess to support herself. She gets along with

49、 Adele very well; she teaches what she knows to this little girl. In spite of Jane is plain and penniless, Rochester falls in love with her, and Jane feels as if he were her relative rather than her master, although rich Rochester would be glad to help Jane, Jane refuses to his helps, her troubled comment on Mr. Rochester proposal that Gentleman in his situation is not accustomed to marry their governess. Rochester is a man with warm heart despite a