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诚信考试，公平竞争；以实力争取过硬成绩，以诚信展现良好学风。以下三种行为是严重作弊行为，学校将从严处理：1.替他人考试或由他人替考；2.通讯工具作弊；3.组织作弊。 南京工业大学 西方文论 试题（A）卷（开） 2015-2016 学年第二学期 使用班级 英语1303班 班级 英语1303 学号 2401130332 姓名 左洁 题号总分得分An Interpretation of Jane Eyre from the Perspective of Socialist Feminism1. Introduction 1.1 Socialist feminism The basis of socialist feminism is historical materialism, which emphasizes that material life figuring peoples concepts persistently. Socialist feminism digests new ideas and develops itself into liberal feminists, Beauvoirs feminism theory, radical feminism and Marxist feminism. The class oppression that the proletariat suffers from contributes to females bad situation on material and economic capability. Socialist feminism pays close attention from the perspectives of the issue of economic reasons and states of capitalism. People in favor of socialist feminism support that it is essential to change the social structure drastically. Only in this way can the gender equality become reality.1.2 Jane EyreThe author of Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). This legacy of feminism was published in 1847, and the characters in this book were the profiles of the social situation at that time in different aspects. On the one hand, In 19th century, it is a matter of course that financial burdens should be undertaken by male. In this way, females at that time lost their subjectivity and merely the tool for washing clothes and cooking meals. On the other hand, the females in 19th century frequently in a environment of rural small town, they barely saw a big earth. Within the walls of that grim family circle. And with the absence of the rapid developing of cities in the mainstream life, females seldom had the chance to get economic independence, so naturally, females in the 19th century had to place hope on their marriage partners, which means that they were not own their happiness themselves but their desperate marriages. Charlotte Bronte has a strong consciousness of socialist feminism. In this book she mainly expound that women is also a part of the productive force and the relationship between women and the society is interdependent. Therefore, people should pay attention to feminism in the perspective of socialism. This book harbored the idea of womans economic independence, thus demonstrating a kind of economic conflict between women and the society in the sense of Jane Eyres assets changing. This paper tries to analyze the relationship between women and the society from the perspective of socialist feminism so as to make people abandon the concept of machismo and shape the correct value in women.1.3 Purpose of the studyThe interpretation of Jane Eyre from the perspective of Socialist feminism can help females who lived in the 19th acquiring insight into their own characters and make them volunteered to be members of productive force. Such spirits of economic independence for females also can be found in the book Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility which encouraged women for equal status in the patriarchal society. These books expanded the influence of Marxism and make such a theory deep rooted among not only female but also male. Nowadays, gender discrimination still exist in many Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq. Although the countries mentioned above are capitalist countries, they didnt provide women opportunity to change their working condition. Women in these countries are in the struggle for freedom and the pursuit of equal pay, equal competition opportunity and senior positions. Through the discussion of Jane Eyre, to understand the fundamental reasons for women not to be treated equally, to provide guidance for the working life of modern women. The combination of womans Liberation and socialist future is of positive significance for people today. 2.1 Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sarah Reeds social status2. 2.1.1 Jane Eyres social statusJanes ambiguous social position-a penniless yet decently educated orphan from a good family-leads her to criticize some discrimination based on class, though she make class discrimination herself. Although she is educated, well-mannered, and relatively sophisticated, she is still governess, a paid employee(middle class), and therefore relatively powerless. She respectfully deters to Rochester and his guests from the upper class, but she asks Leah, the housemaid(lower class), to get her a candle rather than get it herself, and has a servant girl when she is school mistress at the small village school in Morton. While Jane is always conscious of her social position(Rochester is master and she is employee)in everyday matters, at heart she sees herself as his equal, as evidenced in her passionate speech prior to Rochesters first proposal. “.It is my spirit that addresses your spirit;just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal,-as we are!”2.12 Mrs. Sarah Reeds social statusMrs. Sarah Reed is Janes aunt by marriage, who adopts Jane on her husbands wishes, but abuses and neglects her. She eventually casts her off and sends her to Lowood School. Mrs. Sarah Reed is a typical upper-class character, selfish and obstinate. She dislikes Jane Eyre, but for her husbands last wishes, she has to take the responsibility of raising Jane. For one reason, she is not the virtual owner of the whole family, she have no rights to get Jane out of her house for her own sake for the women of that time have to obey what their husband says. On the other hand, she has no job to make a living, all she could count on was her son, so I guess thats why her son can maltreat Jane so hard under his mothers permission.She has no chance to get in touch with the outside world for his family, her house is her whole world, she doesnt know what the outside world looks like, all the information was delivered by the people who visit her house and told her.2.2 Jane Eyre and Mrs. Sarah Reeds family status2.2.1 Jane Eyres family statusWithout any living family that she is aware of throughout the course of the novel Jane searches for a place that she can call home. Significantly, houses play a prominent part in the story. The novels opening finds Jane living at Gateshead Hall, but this is hardly a home, Mrs.Reed and her children refuse to acknowledge her as a relation, treating her instead as an unwanted intruder and an inferior.Shunted off to Lowood Institution, a boarding school for orphans and destitute children, Jane finds a home of sorts, although her place here is ambiguous and temporary. The schools manager, Mr.Brocklehurst, treats it more as a business and a place of correction than as a school in place of the parent. His emphasis on discipline and on spartan conditions at the expense of the girls health make it the antithesis of the ideal home.Jane subsequently believes she has found a home at Thornfield Hall. Anticipating the worst when she arrives, she is relieved when she is made to feel welcome by Mrs.Fairfax. She feels genuine affection for Adele(who in a way is also an orphan) and is happy to serve as her governess. As her love for Mr.Rochester grows, she believes that she has found her ideal husband in spite of his eccentric manner and that they will make a home together at Thornfield. The revelation -as they are on the verge of marriage - that he is already legally married-brings her dream of home crashing down. Fleeing Thornfield, she literally becomes homeless and is reduced to begging for food and shelter. The opportunity of having a home presents itself when she enters Moor House, where the Rivers sisters and their brother, the Reverend St.John Rivers, are mourning the death of their father. She soon speaks of Diana and Mary Rivers as her own sisters, and is overjoyed when she learns that they are indeed her cousins. She tells St.John Rivers that learning that she has living relations is far more important than inheriting twenty thousand pounds. However, St.John Rivers offer of marriage cannot sever her emotional attachment to Rochester. In an almost visionary episode, she hears Mr.Rochesters voice calling her to return to him. The last chapter begins with the famous simple declarative sentence, “Readers, I married him,” and after a long series of travails Janes search for home and family ends in a union with ideal mate.2.22 Mrs. Reeds family statusMrs. Reed has a son and several daughters, as her husband dead, she is the only adult and the only person who can conduct the whole familys maids. The novel starts when Jane is ten years old and several years after her parents died of typhus, her uncle Mr. Reed was the only one who treat her well in the family. In my opinion, Mrs. Reed never thought Jane Eyre as a family member but a burdensome, the family property will get by her son, so after Mr. Reeds death, she thought she doesnt have to treat Jane nice. If Jane is a sweet tongue little girl maybe her life wont be too hard, but Jane tries to seek for her own rights and it irritate Mrs.Reed. Mrs. Reed is a typical upper-class lady who has born of superiority, she cant stand people like Jane challenge her authority again and again. Thats why Jane Eyre and Mrs. Reed cant get along with each other.ConclusionPrimarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre f