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1 滨江学院滨江学院 学年论文 设计 学年论文 设计 题题 目目 Analysis of Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre 对照夏洛对照夏洛 蒂勃朗特和简蒂勃朗特和简 爱的性格爱的性格 院院 系系 滨江学院 专专 业业 英语 学生姓名学生姓名 李丹 学学 号号 200749101021 指导教师指导教师 柏成鹏 职职 称称 教授 二二 一 一 年年 十二十二 月月 二十二十 日日 2 Abstract Jane Eyre is a realistic masterpiece in 19th century which has a strong romanticism color People universally consider that the work is based on its author s life story This thesis discusses the similarities and differences of characters between the writer Charlotte Bronte and the heroine Jane Eyre and mainly focuses on the character of Jane Eyre This article includes life experiences of Charlotte and Jane and the true love but complicated between Jane and Rochester Therefore the novel successfully builds a feminine image that is born to be mean and live a path winding however actually keeps a positive attitude which maintains independence and keeps initiative in love life and society and dares to struggle and dares to strive for the free equal standing The aim to write this article is through Jane Eyre we can find a new female who enjoys noble quality which involves self respect tough and independent KeyKey wordswords Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre equality independent love 摘 要 简爱 是 19 世纪一部具有浓厚浪漫主义色彩的伟大现实主义长篇小说 人们普遍认为该作品是其作者生平的真实写照 本论文结合当时社会背景讨论 了作者夏洛蒂 勃朗特和女主人公简 爱的性格异同点 并着重分析简 爱的性格 论文内容包括夏洛蒂 勃朗特和简 爱的生平事迹以及简 爱与罗切斯特之间一波 三折的爱情故事 成功地塑造了一个出生低微 生活道路曲折却对爱情 生活 和社会始终坚持独立自主 维护独立人格的积极进取态度和敢于斗争 敢于争 取自由平等地位的坚强女性形象 写作本论文的目的在于 透过简 爱的人格魅 力 我们看到了一个新时代女性身上赋有的自尊自爱自立自强的高贵品质 关键词 夏洛蒂 勃朗特 简 爱 平等 独立 爱情 Contents 1 INTRODUCTION OF SOCIAL BACKGROUND AND JANE EYRE 3 3 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE S AND JANE EYRE S CHARACTERS 3 2 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE S CHARACTERS 3 2 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF JANE EYRE S CHARACTERS 4 3 CONTRAST THE CHARACTERS BETWEEN CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND JANE EYRE 6 3 1 THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND JANE EYRE 6 3 1 1 Different characters in childhood 6 3 1 2 Different situations on pursing equality 6 3 1 3 Different situations on pursing independence 7 3 2 THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND JANE EYRE 7 4 CONCLUSION 9 Analysis of Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre 李丹 南京信息工程大学英语专业 南京 210044 4 1 Introduction of social background and Jane Eyre Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte s representative work in 19th century and it is such a great novel that it holds an important position in the history of British literature Our eyes were caught by her words which struggled for equality and freedom Charlotte Bronte made herself as a prototype created successfully a new woman Jane Eyre who was plain but constantly strived to become stronger she had courage to fight continuously for freedom and equality in the male word Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre had some experiences in common So through the analysis of the novel we can see the miserable predicament of English women in that time and their strong desire of seeking for equal social position with men The novel begins with little Jane as a despised orphan in the house of her uncle s widow Being rebellious she is packed off to a charitable boarding school which administers harsh discipline with especial vigor Jane sets herself to learn qualifies herself as a teacher advertises for a post and is employed as governess of the illegitimate French daughter of Rochester in his country mansion Thorn field Dramatically Jane and Rochester have affections they two fall in deep love with each other When they prepare to get married Jane unfortunately gets the news that Rochester has a legal wife Without any complains Jane leaves After rescued by the River family Jane happens to get a sum of heritage When John proposes for Jane s love she hears a supernatural cry from Rochester without hesitation she rushes back to Thorn field only to find the house has been burnt down and Rochester has been maimed and blind However Jane decides to marry him in the end because she thinks they are in real equal 2 The development of Charlotte Bronte s and Jane Eyre s characters 2 1 The development of Charlotte Bronte s characters Charlotte Bronte is a typical female who is rather independent and tough in character She is born in 1816 at Thornton in Yorkshire England Her father is an Irish Anglican clergyman and her mother is a housewife who is unfortunately dead of cancer when Charlotte is only five years old Charlotte is the third child of the six 5 children In 1824 Charlotte is sent with three of her sisters to the Clergy Daughters School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire Because of its poor condition and awful treatment two of her sisters die Charlotte still maintains but her health and physical development are permanently affected so she and her sister Emily removed from the school and go back home in Haworth Parsonage When Charlotte is a little girl she is very interested in literature and she writes many short stories and poems to prepare for her literary vocations When Charlotte grows up to fifteen years old she continues her education at Roe Head School in Midfield In 1839 Jane leaves Roe Head School and she takes up the first of many positions as governess to various families in Yorkshire The job at that time is treated with bias and she suffers and bears so much During 1839 to 1841 Jane workes as a governess two times but each period was short because she hated even abhorred the occupation so she can t take it up any more To make a living Charlotte and her sister Emily want to open a school to teach children French but they are not good at this language In 1842 they travel to Brussels to learn French They meet Mr Herger the owner of the Pension at Herger a girl s school where Charlotte and Emily are pupils and Charlotte later teaching Mr Herger is a handsome and intelligent man During the period of learning Charlotte falls in love with the married man But she puts her affections deeply in her heart Her first novel The Professor published under the name Currier Bell is based on her experiences of teaching in Brussels but never found a publisher in her lifetime Undeterred by her own rejection Charlotte begins Jane Eyre which comes out as an immediate success The novel is described as the masterwork of a great genius To describe Charlotte s love story it is simple During the period between 1839 and 1842 there are two men ask for Charlotte s proposal one is the brother of Charlotte s friend another is a young clergyman Charlotte rejects to them for the reason that she thinks she is not their true love but a tradition but to follow the tradition to marry a woman however when Charlotte meets her true lover Mr Herger who has been married she just puts her love in heart deeply Her attitude towards love is very vivid it is precious that she knows who she loves and what she wants 2 2 The development of Jane Eyre s characters The heroine Jane Eyre is a very poor girl but in her temperament she strives for equality and self respect Jane Eyre is an orphan in the eyes of Mrs Reed and the 6 mistress s children Jane is an external person an alien a person rather than servant In Gate head everyone treats her meanly and coldly she does not have an explicit position and identity she does not feel comfortable about her living environment but she is not able to change it The reality brings her up into a personality of solitary sensitive and obstinate She cherishes her rights and dignity as a human especially when she is only a little girl she uses a pair of eyes of early maturing child and a pure child s heart to observe and judge good or bad around She has a rich inner world but no one to tell so it brings her a personality of quiet and indifferent outside but passionate heart inside As Mrs Reed cannot hold Jane any longer Jane is sent to a charitable school for poor girls in Logwood At first she thinks it is a paradise but in fact a hell except the benevolent intention in name Bad food thin clothes two girls live in one small bed six persons use one basin People can t receive timely cure if they catch a cold so pestilence is spreading Jane suffers molestation of the spirit and body continuously but the strong motion of studying and the rebel independent spirit makes her survive in difficult environment she grows up bravely and becomes a woman who has good accomplishment Just like Jane says to her good friend Helen Burn when we are struck at without reason we should strike back again very hard I am sure we should hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again During that period Jane becomes more mature in mind and she makes a further development of her severe self dignity and self consciousness Before long Jane is employed as a tutor of the illuminate daughter of Rochester in his country mansion Thorn field It is a new beginning for Jane she works very hard there and adapts to the new environment and new job easily As a tutor Jane knows what status and dignity she is in she professes herself as an independent worker when facing the master she is neither obsequious nor supercilious but generous in manner she is so calm and unhurried in Thorn field Gradually she attracts the attention of the wise and honest Rochester Jane s character which is out of the ordinary and intelligence like a spring wind on his face gives Rochester a shake for heart and soul As for Jane Mr Rochester is my relation rather my master During the day in Thorn field my thin crescent destiny seemed to enlarge the blanks of existence were filled up my bodily hearty improved and I gathered flesh and strength They soon fall in love with each other Though Jane s emotion for Rochester is so deep she feels bitterly disappointed because she must reminds herself continuously that there is always a chasm between them Rochester is an upper class 7 gentleman while Jane is a poor tutor Rochester possess a high social status and a great sum of fortune while Jane has nothing She encourages herself I care for myself The more solitary the more friendless the more uncontained I am the more I will respect myself So when she hears that Rochester has a legal wife Jane leaves Rochester without hesitation leaves Thorn field In Brit 19th century of Britain making such a choice is undoubtedly astonishing for a plain woman who has no social status However this is decided by Jane Eyre s rebel personality On the way of a wild and remote village Jane Eyre loses consciousness because of cold and hunger Fortunately she is saved by priest John and his two sisters They take care to her and with their help Jane becomes a teacher in primary school John proposes Jane in Moor house but she refuses because Jane recognizes John is not her ideal lover She seems to hears a supernatural cry from Rochester steady so she goes back to Thorn field only to find Thorn field has burned into wasteland and Mr Rochester loses sight of both eyes and disabled because to save his mad wife in big fire Under this circumstance Jane comes back to Rochester caring him for noting but love At that time Jane gains completely independence of economy and human dignity In the end she gets married with Rochester in true equal status 3 Contrast the characters between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre 3 1 The differences between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre 3 1 1 Different characters in childhood There are something difficult in characters in their childhood because their suffers and encounters in little are resemble but not same And the experiences they suffered produce their different characters Charlotte Bronte is the third child of the six children she has sisters and brother Her mother dies when she is little then she and three other sisters are sent to a school During the days in school two of her sisters die because of the poor conditions The news beats Charlotte very seriously After 8 Charlotte and Emily go back home they study by themselves and by their father s teaching In their daily life they either stay in their father s library or have imaginations on the wild field I can say Charlotte has a bleak childhood because she has no friends and she does not keep touch with neighbors Charlotte s family encounters and the surroundings make her the personality of solitary loneness quiet and uncommunicativeness Contrast to the heroine Jane Eyre there are some differences between their childhoods Throughout Jane s childhood she is fighting all the time fighting with her cruel aunt Mrs Reed fighting with her cruel cousin John Everyone in Gate head treats her badly and she is nobody so that Jane fights to them in return As a little girl Jane protects herself by nature and fights to others by nature When Jane gets to school the suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else For the two little girls Charlotte is solitary and quiet while Jane is rebel and brave to struggle her own rights and respects Both of them are eager to be looked as equal as men but Jane s character is more vivid 3 1 2 Different situations on pursing equality Charlotte Bronte lives in a male chauvinism society when people look down upon females women have no rights as men they are just considered as angle wives Charlotte grows up under this circumstance so she is desirous to pursue equality When Mr Southey says to her that literature is not business of women she does not give up writing in order to prove women can do what men do She writes Jane Eyre under the name Currier Bell and when the novel turns out to be a great success there is no doubt that Charlotte is winning she gains the equality as men In the novel Charlotte puts her dream of pursuing equality on Jane Eyre Jane wants equal as men throughout her life When she is young she fights for equality everyone in the house is treated as ordinary but Jane is an alien and abnormal Mrs Reed and her children can vituperate even beat Jane at their own will though for little thing Jane can t bear the disgrace any more so she fights back Both of the two females are pursing for equality but reflect in different ways and different situations Jane is an imaginative feature of Charlotte 9 3 1 3 Different situations on pursing independence As we all know Jane Eyre is an outstanding novel to reflect her independence Most of her childhood she spends in the library with her two sisters and it is her obligation to take care for them On the other hand Charlotte does not like to play with other children instead she always has imaginations on the field These encounters make Charlotte becomes an independent girl For Jane she is an orphan without brothers and sisters she has no relatives after her Uncle Reed s death What s worse the mistress even the servants in the house don t like her very much Therefore Jane must make the personality of independence although at her immature age she must learn to protect herself and take good care of herself When she is sent to the girls school the hypocritical headmaster and teachers pay no sympathy for the girls the school rulings are strict and abnormal the girls have little food and thin clothes After Jane s good friend Helen Burn s death of illness she has no choice but to survive on her own strong independent spirit under that bad environment Charlotte and Jane Eyre have similar personalities like equality independence and noble human dignity but their personalities are raised in different life experiences Charlotte confers most of her life experiences upon Jane but not completely The purpose is to set up an image that is staunch and self pride 3 2 The similarity between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre Throughout Jane s love story it reflects the author s attitude towards love So in this aspect the two females have many similarities in love According to the character of Charlotte Bronte her family life may like calm water but she may not feel happy she may have been poor but she may not value the property too much she may not be very beautiful but she may have a romantic idea about love Charlotte Bronte must have been thought of what the perfect partner should be they must cherish the same ideals and follow the same path as the trees rooted in the same soil or two branches on the same tree they must have the same texture so they can gain appreciation and understanding and love from each other In Charlotte s life one young man is refused by Charlotte is her intimate friend s brother he is a shy and quiet gentleman with a gentle personality and good quality If they marry their life will be courteous calm and happy Moreover she can live together 10 with her best friend but Charlotte flatly refuses although it is a big temptation In her mind love and marriage are unifying but she intuitively captures some discrepancies between them Her romantic passion and unyielding ambition is not adapted to his quiet life like water Charlotte boldly predicts that a gentle soften religious woman is the right marriage partner of his Charlotte resolutely to refuse his proposal because she is certain she could not give him happiness In Charlotte s term love is noble and love is built based on equal human dignity Then Charlotte Bronte creates a female figure who has much in common upon her love experiences furthermore Charlotte makes Jane s love story more idealism and a happy ending Jane Eyre meets the master Mr Rochester when she leaves for Thorn field Hall He is a hardy man because his unhappy marriage he marries Miss Mason the woman has mean mind and extremely bad temper and becomes mad in four years after their marriage When Rochester gets the first sight of Jane he feels there is something new a new vitality and a new feeling The process from strangers to love each other Rochester is deeply conquered by the kind of rebellious spirit and the equality of self esteem of Jane Also Mr Rochester s grace personality and vast knowledge attracts Jane very much When Jane finds that she falls in love with the owner after such a disparity of social status she has the courage to love because she believes that people are equal in spirit Jane