简爱英语-毕设论文.doc

Abstract
Jane Eyre is an excellent autobiographical novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It is also her most famous work. In this novel, Jane is a common woman who has no beautiful and charming appearance, but attracts us deeply. The author regards Jane as a tough and independent woman who pursues true love and equality, and is a good example of all women. Jane is an orphan, and has been ill-treated as a little girl. Then she is sent to Logwood institution to receive education, she strives her life to live. Finally she becomes a knowledgeable woman.She learns how to live and how to make a life by her, but dares to express her own ideas. Though she has little figure, she is huge in soul. Her kindness, intelligence and independence attracted the hero Mr. Rochester.Though they experience a lot of setbacks, she gets a perfect love at last. Thence her fate is changed by knowledge. In this paper, it will deeply explain that knowledge can change female’s fate.
Key Words: Jane Eyre; knowledge; female’s fate

摘要
《 简·爱 》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特的一部很优秀也很著名的自传小说。在这部小说里，女主人公简是一个平凡的人，没有漂亮迷人的外表，但却深深地吸引了我们。作者认为简是一个坚强而独立的人，追求真爱和平等，是所有女性当中一个典型的例子。简是一个孤儿，从小就被虐待，然后就被送到洛伍德学校接受教育，在那里居住环境很差，为了生活而奋斗坚持生活，最后成为了一名博学多才的女子。她学会了怎样去生活以及怎样去谋生，敢于表达自己的想法，她身材瘦小但志向远大。她的善良、智慧、独立吸引了男主人公罗彻斯特先生，虽然经历了很多波折，但最终得到了一份完美的爱情。从此她的命运也改变了。这篇论文将详细地解释知识能够改变女性的命运。
关键词:简·爱；知识；女性命运

Introduction

Jane Eyre is an important work in the history of British literature. The work is one of the most popular and important novel in the Victorian Age. The novel narrates Jane Eyre’s life experience from an orphan to an independent woman. This novel begins with little Jane as an orphan child with a fiery spirit, longing to love and be loved in the house of her uncle’s widow. She is unfortunate when she is born, because she loses her parents and is sent to her aunt’s family, where she is heartlessly treated. But she has her own ideas and then being rebellious for some intolerant reasons. Jane arms herself with learning more and more.Finally,Knowledge makes her come out of the miserable fate.Thence Jane not only attracts the ordinary readers of different countries, but also got the eyes from all kinds of literature and art criticism of schools of thought .From the 1960's, with global democracy and freedom and the civil rights movement fighting for equality, the female consciousness has also become gradually awaken.
Combined with the development of the Contemporary Characteristics , this article explains the importance of knowledge to women in today's society, and encourage women readers to keep learning and make progress. And believe that knowledge is power, knowledge can change the fate.Jane is the most easy-going idol in w omen's hearts from one generation to another, she won't be arrogant, and we can feel the shadow of her is around us all the time.

Chapter 1 Brief Introduction of the Novel, Author and Jane Eyre

1.1 Introduction of the Author

Charlotte Bronte was born in a Priest’s family in York Shire in 1816. She had two elder sisters, two younger sisters and one younger brother. Her mother died when she was five years old, leaving six children. Fortunately, her father was intellect, so he often taught his children to read books and magazines and read stories to them. These influenced Charlotte in developing her interest in literature. When she was very young, she was sent to a boarding school with her three sisters. In 1825, her two elder sisters died of infectious disease in that school. Then her younger sister Emily and she were forced to go back home and compiled a journal named “Youth”, which laid a solid foundation for their later creation literature. When she was 15, she went to another school to study. And in order to support her family, she became a teacher in this school after her graduation. After she left this school, she went to a rich family to be a tutor for twice, during which she declined to men who wanted to marry her. In 1847, under the name of Currier Bell, she published her first novel Jane Eyre which was a great shock at that time and made her successful. Her two younger sisters also published their novels and succeeded. The great success of the Bronte sisters brought great happiness to their family. But in the following years, Charlotte suffered from great sorrow: her younger brothers and two sisters died one by one in two years. But she persisted in writing and published another three

fictions. She got married with a priest when she was 38 years old. After enjoying happiness for six months, she died in the next year.

1.2 Introduction of the Character of Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre successfully portrayed a new type of small bourgeois women—Jane.and described a vivid character who struggle for women's economic independence and equal rights of love.
“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 fill 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 through the medium of custom, conversation, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addressed your spirit; just as it both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet equal, as we are!” When read this paragraph of classical dialogue, we can learn that Jane has normal appearance and unfortunate experiences, but she has internal temperament and fiery spirit. The heroine Jane is a person with gangle body,ordinary appearance ,no money and no status, but had extraordinary temperament and very abundant emotion world.
On her way to seek the ideal life, she encounters many difficulties and frustrations, and takes a series of fights. She is brave enough to fight against many evil and terrible things. Her rebellious character changes her tragic fate. Jane’s childhood is full of violence Then her school life makes her suffer from many obstacles. Her love also makes her disappointed. In people’s eyes, she experiences a very unfortunate life. But Jane finds her boundless confidence and tough spirit, and a kind of inner power can’t be defeated. Her self-esteem is related to her life environment. She is poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul. In her view, everyone is the same at God’s feet. Though there are differences in status, in property and also in appearance, all the human beings are equal in personality.

1.3 Introduction of the Novel

This novel begins with little Jane as an orphan child with a fiery spirit, longing to love and be loved in the house of her uncle’s widow. She is unfortunate when she is born, because she loses her parents and is sent to her aunt’s family, where she is heartlessly treated. But she has her own ideas and then being rebellious for some intolerant reasons. So she is packed off by her aunt to a charitable boarding school, which administers make discipline with especial vigor. All the people in this school are bad to Jane. But Jane is not destroyed by the ugly fact, and she is not be defeated by difficulties. On the contrary, she learns how to live and how to be strong. And she has the courage to struggle with the pressure. Jane sets herself to learn, qualifies herself as a teacher, advertises for a post, and is employed as a governess of the illegitimate French daughter of Rochester in Thorn field. A love relationship develops between Jane and Rochester. Jane’s good qualities and unique personality win Rochester’s proposal of marriage. But at the very moment, the wedding ceremony is interrupted for Rochester is discovered to have a mad wife who is hidden in that house. Jane doesn’t want to be Rochester’s mistress and subsequently leaves Thorn field, wandering far away. She is rescued by the rivers family and urged to marry John River.

Almost she agrees, but she thinks it over, she refuses to marry. Because she can not forget Rochester whose voice crying her name resounds in her ears. Then Jane gains a large amount of inheritance from her uncle whom she has never known before. She returns to Thorn field, but Rochester’s mansion has been destroyed by a fire started by the mad wife. However, she finds Rochester is blind and live in a small room nearby. But Jane doesn’t leave him alone; she really loves him and wants to look after him. At last they get marry.

Chapter 2 Knowledge Influence upon Jane

2.1 Jane’s Childhood Life

When Jane was a child, she lived in the house of her Aunt Reed who usually abused and beat her. And her cousin, John Reed also made fun of her, John Reed treated Jane quite badly, often bullied and published Jane. But Jane was reluctant to suffer those. She resisted with them by her strong will. But she is too weak to gain her own proper position. Unfortunately, her rebellious acts brought her more cruel facts. Jane liked reading books, so she slipped into her aunt’s book-room which contained a bookcase to read books. One time, she was so absorbed in those books that she did n’t discover John Reed coming into the room, and then she was published by John Reed. From that on, she was forbidden to go into book-room to read books. She felt very disappointed. But she did n’t give up reading books; she was deeply attracted by the books’ pictures and stories. When reading a book, she found herself as if she were in another perfect world and forgot the injustice in the real world.
Generally speaking, a good family environment is very important to the growth and the future of a child. If children lived in such kind of broken families, their childhood life would be fulled of unhappiness. In modern society, much less one child can stand a family situation like Jane’s. So we can say that one bad family environment will produce an unhealthy child easily. But Jane tolerated all of these pains. She found her survival hope through reading some books. Under such a bad condition,

she did n’t become others’ slavery, but became the master of her fate. That is because she obtained energy from books, and understand the preciousness of life .Jane cherish her life and resist with her cousin automatically out of the self-protection.From her early child life,we can learn that knowledge is power to motivate her to grow healthily.

2.2 Jane’s Educational Life

Jane received education from Logwood Institution, which was a charitable boarding school. The condition of the school was very bad; there were n’t enough food to provide for students. But students still must go on studying. Logwood Institution practiced one kind of ruthless education which declared “punish body to rescue soul.” Jane could not eat fully and wear warmly. Additionally, Mr. Brocklehurst, who was the headmaster of Logwood Institution, accused of her falsely: “The evil one had already found a servant; she was a really bad child.” At that time, Jane hardly believed that her life was such terrible. She almost wanted to end her life to go another world which she thought might be perfect. Fortunately, she met Miss Temple and Helen who helped her much and had a great influence on her life. She found her life goal and decided to study hard to realize her dreams. She regarded Miss Temple and Helen as her best friends. She studied hard to make a difference in her lifetime. Her memory was not naturally good, but much exercise sharpened her wits. She wanted to learn more knowledge to improve her life and made her survive for a long period of time. After the eight-year life in Logwood Institution, Jane was tired of the dull everyday life .Thus she made a decision to advertise in a newspaper for a job as a governess. She desired to have a look at the outside world and see with her own eyes about the persons, the pictures which in the books she had read. Then she began her new and different life. All these are caused by the knowledge she got from the books.

2.3 Jane’s Love Life

Jane was employed as a governess at Thorn Field. One time, she met Rochester, the master of a mansion of Thorn Field. Firstly they did n’t know each other, and then Jane gradually attracted the attention of the wise and rich Rochester. It was unbelievable that they fell into the river of love and could n’t be departed forever. However, they faced with many obstacles in the process of their love. When Jane found that Rochester had a mad wife, she could n’t accept the real fact and left him. After that, she experienced a lot of frustrations .she calmed down for a period of time, and thought it over, she returned to find Rochester. At last she got her true love forever. How could Jane get the deep and true love from Rochester? It is neither her pretty appearance nor good shape but extraordinary personality and unique characteristics, especially her strong will, self-respect and independence characters.
In a word, all of her qualities came from the accumulation of knowledge. Rochester once told Jane: “You-you strange, you almost unearthly thing! –I love you as my own flesh. You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are---I entreat to accept me as a husband.” From these words, we could know that Rochester loved Jane so much and Jane was such an extraordinary woman that deserved to be loved. In Jane’s love world, she was so wise that she could make reasonable choice. She understood herself what she really wanted to get from her lover. In her mind, true love was the meeting of hears and minds of two people. She believed that true love should be based on equality, mutual understanding and respect. So she finally chosen Rochester as her lover and decided to stay with him forever. Although Rochester became disabled and poor, but Jane didn’t care about those at all. She only knew that she had found her true love and would like to take good care of her lover. In most young people’s eyes, nobody would like to marry a man who lost his sight and most of his wealth. They might leave him. But Jane was such a different girl. She had her own view on love. Maybe she had read many books and learned how to deal with things wisely. It was the knowledge that had made her get true love.At least knowledge helps her got the truth of true love and gave her courage.

Chapter 3 The course of Jane’s Fate

31 Tragic Fate

Jane had an unhappy childhood, she suffered many humiliations and a lot of violence from her cousin and aunt , the headmaster and classmates in Logwood Institution. She was abused by her Aunt Reed who always looked up down her. And Aunt Reed’s son John Reed liked making fun of Jane, bullied and punished her. Everyday she must stand so many sorrows. Her life was even worse than the servants of Aunt Reed. She couldn’t stand those, so she began to become rebellious to protect herself. But the result was worse; she had to bear the physical torture and the mental damage. Because