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Abstract
Jane Eyre is a novel written by Charlotte Bronte, which describes the tortuous life experience of a poor genteel governess who lives in the society dominated by the rich and the male. The main body of the novel is about the love affair between Jane and Rochester who is the host of Thornfield. ... It tells us the story of Jane¡¯s life by means of a narrative tone. Jane was an orphan and adopted by her aunt. ... Later, Jane gradually became a learned lady with strong will and independent character. However, in the end, Jane got the happiness with her lover in an equal status that she was hunting throughout her life.
However, Jane Eyre is one of the greatest feminist novels is not because of its romanticism but because of its feminism in the book. Charlotte Bronte revealed her appealing for the equality between men and women through the outcry of Jane. It is the advanced ideology in Jane Eyre that makes it the Bible for a lot of women readers. And it also makes the image of Jane one of the perfect female images.
My thesis aims at discussing the female images in Jane Eyre. ...
Jane Eyre: A Woman Facing Her True Emotion
¡°Conventionality is not morality. ... ¡±
Charlotte Bronte wrote down these words in the preface of the second edition of Jane Eyre. Having read those words, the impression we get towards this novel is that Jane Eyre is unusual. Jane Eyre, first published in 1847, presented us an unusual female character that was unique and unforgettable. The image of the heroine of Jane Eyre was liked, discussed, and studied from generation to generation till today.
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If we are to fully understand Jane Eyre, we have to get a brief idea of the time the writer lived in. ... In this ¡®age of female novelist¡¯, we can find some great writers---Jane Austin, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte and George Eliot. ... 37) At that time, women were not supposed to work; it was not decent for a woman to take up a job. ...
¡°The queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ¡®Women¡¯s Rights¡¯, with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety¡God created men and women different---then let them remain each in their own position¡Woman would become the most hateful, heartless and disgusting of human being were she allowed to unsex herself, and where would be the protection which man was intended to give the weaker sex? ... That was why Charlotte Bronte once wrote to a critic that ¡®to you I am neither man nor woman. ...
Having got the general idea of Charlotte Bronte¡¯s background, we can find out that Jane Eyre is an autobiography of Bronte herself. Both Charlotte and Jane began to make a living at the similar age. ... By means of her fiction, she presented her real life and true feeling to us. ... She is the heroine of her two most powerful novels¡She has written down not only her feelings, but the more superficial accidents of her life¡and if Jane Eyre is not so literal, except in the opening account of the school-life much of it is almost as strictly autobiographical. ... 723-39)
We can feel very clearly that Charlotte Bronte was revealing her true self. From the image of Jane Eyre, we can see the passion and the spirit of Charlotte herself. ... However, we are greatly impressed by the strong character and independent soul of Jane Eyre. ... Now in today¡¯s society in which men and women are seemingly equal, a lot of women are still moved by Jane Eyre. And they regard Jane Eyre as the greatest feminist novel in the world. If Jane lived in today¡¯s society, she would still be an excellent women with strong will and wisdom. No wonder the image of Jane Eyre is regarded as a perfect image of women: she is brave, independent and clever.
Beside that, I suppose, the most touching feature of Jane Eyre is that the spirit of the novel is independence from man. In another word, Jane Eyre says ¡®no¡¯ to men. ... From Jane Eyre, we can feel the outcry of Charlotte Bronte; we can feel that she was appealing for the equality between men and women.
In the novel, Jane fought against his cousin John Reed¡¯ bullying; she made every efforts to declare her innocence against Mr. ... And the climax of the novel is that Jane rejected Rochester¡¯s marriage. ... She went back to Thornfield for her true love. A lot of people expected to see a happy ending just like those fairy tales: Jane and Rochester lived happily together forever in Thornfield. If the ending of Jane Eyre were like that, the author would not have been Charlotte Bronte.
In the end of the story, although Jane had inherited a large heritage and she had become a rich woman, the author still made Thornfield ruined and Rochester blind and disabled. ... If she thought the equality was enough, she would only made Jane a rich woman. ... He could not go without the help of Jane. ... He became sensitive and afraid whether Jane would leave him alone. In this sense, we can say that the author was on purpose make Rochester inferior to Jane, both physically and mentally, that is, men inferior to women.
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Jane is an orphan who has no father or mother, no brother or sister. ... From the very beginning of this novel, image of little Jane is clearly presented in front of us. ... Not if Jane had dolls, we would mistake the image of Jane for the image of an adult female. All in all, Jane is a woman who is continuously struggling to be her true self. ... And the climax of the childhood of Jane comes when she is to leave the family of Reed. Here, Jane is revealing her true feeling towards the Reeds. ... ¡¯(Jane Eyre P.29)
If Jane leaves Gateshead Hall without saying a word, that girl would not be Jane.
Approximate Word count = 5101
Approximate Pages = 20.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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