The_Theme_of_Jane_Eyre簡愛賞析

1、The Theme of Jane EyreJanes natural disposition is stubborn,and because of the early death of her parents, she has to live with her aunt and her families. Her aunt is so ruthless that she sends Jane into the orpha nage which has the most harsh rules. So, duri ng her early age,Ja ne has went through

2、many kinds of bitter ness.But her spiritual world therefore becomes more fortitude. After growing up, she goes to the reinfeldts castle to become the family teacher of Mr Rochesters childre n. In her eyes,Rochester is arroga nt but full of charm, and Rochester con siders her as the only one can talk

3、 to.A nd they fall in love with each othern their weddi ng,Ja ne knows that Rochester had married, his wife is the crazy woma n!To pursue freedom and equality,Ja ne flee from him.But after a long time, she knows her real love is Rochester. She goes back to rein feldVs, but the castle has bee n bur n

4、 into ruins by the crazy woma n,and Rochester also bli nd to save her. Among the ruins, Jane look ing for Rochester,a nd they hug each other, no Ion ger separatio nt expla ins such a theme: the value of a man = dig nity + love.One theme is Jan esdig nit yn Mrs. Reed home, 10-year-old Jan e,hasto fac

5、e her cous ins* discrim in ati on and abuse. But she expresses a strong resista nee spirit. Whe n her cous in beat her, she resp onds to; Whe n her aunt exclaims that their childre n get away from her, she shouted they do not deserve with me together; When she is impris oned in the room,th inking of

6、 the abuse, she shout loudly unfair from the heart. At the orpha nage, Jan e*s resista nee character become more distictive. This is a clear con tract with her frie nd Hele n,who is oppressedcruelly but believes in love your en emyM. But Jane detests the prin cipal and the ruthless teachers. She sai

7、d: ”if she uses the root note hit me, and I will take it away from her hand, and break it in front of her/lt fully dem on stratesthat she un willi ng humiliati on and wont surre nder to the fate.Ano ther theme of the no vel is Jane and Rochesters love. Jane Eyres love view deepe n her pers on ality.

8、 She thinks love should be set up on the basis of equality spirit, and should not depe nd on social status, wealth and appears nee. Only whe n men and wome n both truly love each other,ca n they get real happ in ess. On the pursuit of happ in ess, Jane showed unu sual pure, simple thoughts and feeli

9、 ngs and in domitable courage. She does n*t because of the serva nt status give up the pursuit of happ in ess.Her love is pure, n oble.She does nt in terested in his weath. She loves him because he can treat her equally,a nd take her as a frie nd.As Rochester speak in g, Ja ne Eyre likes a stream of

10、 fresh wind, so that he is braced upn the past,Rochester had bee n used to the hypocrisy of the society. And Jane Eyres simplicity, kind and independent personality recall his pursuit and year ning for the life.Ja ne sympathize for the unfort unate fate of Rochester, thinki ng his mistake is caused

11、by the objective en vir onment. Despite his ugly, and later he becomes a ban kruptcy disabled,what she sees is his inner beauty and sympathize with his unfortunate fate.So, eventually marry him.In the novel,there are two basic melody of Janes pursuit of life: passion, fantasy, resista nee andperseve

12、ra nce;desirefor the happ in ess and freedom of life and the higher realm of spirit pursuit. The theme of the no vel is expressed through the rough life experiences of the orphan girl, success in making an heroin who is courageous and tough.Analysis of Major CharactersJane EyreThe developme nt of Ja

13、ne Eyre s character is dhetraovel. From the beg inning,Jane possesses a sense of her self-worth and dignity, a commitment to justice and prin ciple, a trust in God, and a passi on ate dispositi on. Her in tegrity is con ti nu ally tested over the course of the no vel, and Jane must lear n to bala ne

14、e the freque ntly con flict ing aspects of herself so as to find conten tme nt.An orpha n since early childhood, Jane feels exiled and ostracized at the beg inning of the no vel, and the cruel treatme nt she receives from her Aunt Reed and her cous ins only exacerbates her feeling of alienation. Afr

15、aid that she will never find a true sense of home or com muni ty, Jane feels the n eed to bel ong somewhere, to find“ kin, ” (least “ kin dred spirits This desire tempers her equally in tense need fordautonomy an freedom.In her search for freedom, Jane also struggles with the questi on of what type

16、of freedom she wan ts. While Rochester in itially offers Jane a cha nee to liberate her passi ons, Jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean en slavemby living as Rochesterf s mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feeli ngs. St. Joh n Rivers o

17、ffers Jane ano ther kind of freedom: the freedom to act un reservedly on her prin ciples. He ope ns to Jane the possibility of exercising her talents fully by working and living with him in India. Jane eventually realizes, though, that this freedom would also con stitute a form of impris onment, bec

18、ause she would be forced to keep her true feeli ngs and her true passi ons always in checkCharlotte Bront? may have created the character of Jane Eyre as a means of comi ng to terms with eleme nts of her own life. Much evide nee suggests that Bron t?oo, struggled to find a bala nee betwee n love and

19、 freedom and to find others who understood her.At many points in the book, Jane voices the author radical1 s then opinions on religi on, social class, and gen der.Edward RochesterDespite his ster n manner and not particularly han dsome appears nee, Edward Rochester wins Jane s heart, because she yee

20、re thiedred spirits, and because he is the first pers on in the no vel to offer Jane lasti ng love and a real home. Although Rochester is Jane s social and economic superior, and although men were widely con sidered to be n aturally superior to wome n in the Victoria n period, Jane is Rochesterf s i

21、ntellectual equal. Moreover, after their marriage is interrupted by the disclosure that Rochester is already married to Bertha Mason, Jane is prove n to be Rochester s moral superior.Rochester regrets his former liberti nism and lustf uln ess; n evertheless, he has prove n himself to be weaker in ma

22、ny ways tha n Jane. Jane feels that livi ng with Rochester as his mistress would mean the loss of her dig nity. Ultimately, she would become degraded and depe ndent upon Rochester for love, while un protected by any true marriage bond. Jane will only en ter into marriage with Rochester after she has

23、 gained a fortune and a family, and after she has bee n on the verge of aba ndoning passi on altogether. She waits un til she is not un duly in flue need by her own poverty, Ion eli ness, psychological vuln erability, or passi on. Additi on ally, because Rochester has bee n bli nded by the fire and

24、has lost his manor house at the end of the no vel, he has become weaker while Jane has grow n in stre ngJa ne claims that they are equals, but the marriage dyn amic has actually tipped in her favor.Helen BurnsHele n Bur ns, Jane 1 s friend at Lowood School, serves as a foil to Mr. Brocklehurst as we

25、ll as to Jane. While Mr. Brocklehurst embodies an eva ngelical form of religio n that seeks to strip others of their excessive pride or of their ability to take pleasure in worldly thi ngs, Hele n represe nts a mode of Christia nity that stresses tolera nee and accepts nee. Brocklehurst uses religio

26、 n to gain power and to eon trol others; Hele n ascetically trusts her own faith and tur ns the other cheek to Lowood s harsh polic Although Hele n man ifests a certa in stre ngth and in tellectual maturity, her efforts invo Ive self- negati on rather tha n selfassert ion, and Hele n s submissOseeth

27、dnature highlights Jane s more headstrong character. Like Jane, Helen is an orphan who longs for a home, but Helen believes that she will find this home in Heaven rather than Northern England. And while Helen is not oblivious to the in justices the girls suffer at Lowood, she believes that justice w

28、ill be found in God s ultimate judgme n God will reward the good and punish the evil Jane, on the other han d, is un able to have such bli nd faith. Her quest is for love and happ in ess ithis world.Nevertheless, she counts on God for support and guida nee in her searchSt. John RiversSt. Joh n River

29、s is a foil to Edward Rochester. Whereas Rochester is passi on ate, St.John is austere and ambitious. Jane often describes Rochester s eyes as flashing andflaming, whereas she constantly associates St. John with rock, ice, and snow.Marriage with Rochester represe nts the aba ndonment of prin ciple f

30、or the consummation of passion, but marriage to St. John would mean sacrificing passion for prin ciple. When he in vites her to come to In dia with him as a missi on ary, St. Joh n offers Jane the cha nee to make a more meanin gful con tributi on to society tha n she would as a housewife. At the sam

31、e time, life with St. John would mean life without true love, in which Jane * ssipeedaosolace would be filled only by retreat into the recesses of her own soul. I ndepe ndenee would be accompa nied by Ion eli ness, and joining St. Joh n would require Jane to n eglect her own legitimate n eeds for lo

32、ve and emotional support. Her consideraibn of St. Johns proposal leads Jane to understandthat, paradoxically, a large part of one s pers onal freedom is found in a relati on ship ofmutual emoti onal depe nden ce.Character Contrast of Rochester and John in Jane EyreJane Eyreis a famous novel written

33、by Charlotte Bronte. Jane is the heroine ofthe book, and she fin ally married Edward Rochester and they lived a happy lifetogether. There is a pers on who may be easily neglecteSt. Joh n Rivers. He wasJan escous in, and also proposed to Jane. But Jane chose Rochester after struggli ng.There are rema

34、rkable differe nces betwee n Rochester and St. JohEve n the adjectives used byCharlotte Bron te for the two male characters are opposite: Rochester is fire and St Joh n is ice.Jane is affected by both men. Bron te wrote, was almost as hard beset byhim (St John) now as I had been once before, in a di

35、fferent way, by another(Rochester) I was a fool both times. To have yielded the n would have bee n an error of prin ciple; to have yielded now would have been an error of judgme nt.”Jane was affected by Rochester because she loved him so much, because he saw what she was and appreciateda nd en coura

36、ged her. Shewas affected by Rivers because she owed him her life, because he was one of her few relatives, because she was too depressedto resist his efforts and fin ally becausehe possesseda character that did n explode with an ger to help her cha nnel her own aga inst him. Whe n Rochester offered

37、Jane a love without marriage, and John offered her a marriage without love, she gave up all them. Even tually she got the love with marriage, and she chose Rochester as her be社er half.Edward Rochester, as Jan employer and the master of Thorn field, was a wealthy, passi on ate man with a dark secret

38、that provides much of the no vlsuspe nse. At first, he seemed in differe nt to his employees, in cludi ng Jane. He was a stra nge man according to the account of Mrs. Fairfax, His character is unimpeachable. He is rather peculiar. He is con sidered a just and liberal la ndlord by his tenan ts, but h

39、e has never lived much amongst them. Volumel , Chapter 幻,166) So Jane was curious about him, and cautious whe n talk ing with him.Despite Rochestersster n mariner and not particularly han dsome appeara nee, Edward Rochester wined Jan6s heart, because she felt they were kin dred spirits and becausehe

40、 was the first person in the novel to offer Jane lasting and a real home. Bronte wan ted readers to know that Jane was not attracted by Edward appeara nee but because she recog ni zed somethi ng good in his soul.Rochester seemed to be a Gothic hero. He was haun ted by his shameful past. He was rash

41、and impetuous whe n he was young His problems of Bertha Mason and Celi ne Varens were partly the result of his reckless ness. On the other hand, he was a sympathetic figure. First, he didn aba ndon Adele Varens though he didihbelieve she was his daughter. Second, he stuck to tak ing care of Bertha t

42、hough he had suffered so long. What was worse, he was bli nd and lost one arm for sav ing his serva nts whe n Bertha set big fire. So we can draw a con clusi on, actually Rochester was a great man.While Rochester is a prototype of the fiery, passi on ate, unconven ti onal man,St. John is his opposit

43、e: cold, hard-hearted and repressecHarvard Blue Sky Most popular Study GuidesSt. John River was a handsome young clergyman who was the brother of Diana and Mary Rivers. When Jane arrived at Moor House, hungry and penniless, flee ing from Thorn field Hall, Joh n offered her shelter. Although Jane bec

44、ame close friends with the Rivers sisters, she found that St. Joh n had a eserved, an abstract, and eve n a broodi ng n aturd*.Now, I did no t like this, reader, St. Joh n was a man; but I bega n to feel he had spoke n truth of himself, whe n he said he was hard and cold. The huma nities and ame nit

45、ies of life had no attract ion for him.As I looked at his lofty forehead, still and pale as a white stone1 comprehe nded all at once that he would hardly make a good husband VolumeA , Chapter Vffl) From Janewords, we can see John was not a ideal husba nd.He was a pious Christian and humble to work f

46、or God. It is easily noticed from his words, f cannot accept on his behalf a divided allegianee. It must be entire.Page 411, and 篤Ifor instanee, am but dust and ashe(Page 411 .But from the long conv ersati on betwee n and Joh n and Jane, whe n he ask ing Jane to marry him and be the wife of a missi

47、on ary, his aggressive and con troll ing in his in teract ions with others exposed. He was en tirely alie nated from his feeli ngs and devoted solely to an austere ambition. He said, But, as it is, either our union must be con secrated and sealed by marriage, or it can not existWhe n Jane regarded him as a brother, he answ