简爱英文读书笔记

1、Jane Eyre by Charlotte BronteI. Book informationII. Authors brief introductionCharlotte Bronte was born in the north of England in a priest family, in 1816. Her mother died, at the age of eight, Charlotte was sent to a boarding school where living conditions were extremely poor, due to her two siste

2、rs have died. Charlotte and her sister Emily returned home, in the desolate mountains spent her childhood. At the age of fifteen, Charlotte go to school, a few years later as a teacher in this school. She also worked as a tutor, eventually because of cannot bear the tutors discrimination and mistrea

3、tment, she resigned. She had intended to run a school. However due to the lack of students, the school did not run. But learning experiences in Italy inspired Charlottes strong desire to express them. In 1846, she completed her second novel Jane Eyre . In the autumn of 1847 the novel published, with

4、 great success, reprinted two times next year, let the unknown author become one of the famous British novelists.III. Story synopsis Jane Eyre told us the story that Jane Eyre was raised by her cruel, wealthy aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her uncle had passed away. At Lowood, Jane met a young girl named Helen Bu

5、rns who shared a lot with her and became her best friend. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen died of it. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehursts place,.Jane spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. Then She accepts a governess

6、position at a manor called Thornfieldwhichs employer is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, Jane found herself falling in love with him. On the wedding day , Jane found that Rochester already had a wife, Bertha . Rochester does not deny this, but he explains that Bertha had been already mad. Kn

7、owing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane left Thornfield sadly.Without food and money, Jane was forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three kind hearted people took her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John and Jane quickly became friends with them. They f

8、ound Jane a job teaching at a school in Morton. One day a news said that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large roperty. Then she found that her uncle was also their uncle.Jane immediately decides to share her property with her three new cousins.St. John decided to travel to India, and

9、he asked Jane as his wife. She refused to marry her cousin because she did not love him at all. Finally she found the man who she really loved so much was Rochester.Jane immediately went back to Thornfield and found that it hadbeen burned to the ground by his mad wife who lost her life in the fire.

10、Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands.At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane finally got married. At the end of the story, Rochester regained sight in one eye and was able to behold their first son at his birth.IV. Work characteristicsPeople always the beautiful aspect of

11、the fire ,but they never knew that fire was a terrible thing . It bring us happinessbut it also could give us disaster.In the novel,Rochestermad wife set s fire and lost her life .Rochester also lost his property and eyesight in order to save her wifelife.That is to say .this fire destroyed life ,fo

12、rtune and health.In all, we an see that fire had two opposite aspects.On the one hand ,it made the world warm ,harmonious,wonderful. But on the other hand , it can destroy life ,fortune and health. In addition, Janes personality fire, she was kind hearted and sentimental and she also had character.

13、Thus , it was this kind of “fire” that made her independent nd happy again. It was easy to see that throughout the story. Jane Eyre behaved strong-minded enough to her love and brave enough to seek her own independence. These are all the reflections of fire in her deep heart. Though lived in a cruel

14、 society and suffered from abuse, she never gave up, because the fire was always on in her heart which prevented her from giving into the convention.At last,to be frank, Janes ideal life is the reflection of the Charlotte Brontes thoughts. Maybe we can say that Charlotte uses this great novels to ex

15、press her feelings on the contemporary society.V. Journal entryAfter reading the novel,the image in the story may catch our attention. For instance,the fire image appeared in the story for dozens of times in different chapters.But no matter where it was put, it had symbolic meanings in some chapters

16、, It was the symbol of warmth and happiness ,while in other place it was the symbol of humanity and friendship, sometimes it even represented destrutive power. In the story, the fire image impressed us a lot while reading it,we could say fire is a symbol of human civilization and forcus of the socia

17、l and family life.Thus, fire plays an important role in the frame of the novel. At the ,fire was the symbol of warmth and happy family life . Jane Eyre who was a strongwilled woman, tried her best to fight for her own happiness and love as well as freedom,for example “Now,let me leave you an instant

18、 to make a good fire?” , in this sentance we can see that rochester saw the magic power of “fire” in love ang this became a critical element to promote their .Thus, life was impartable from the fire,once the fire died out,the would be disappearing.Fire existed everywhere in this great novel ,when Jane and Helen were invited to dinner by Mr.Temple,the fire also plyed an important