《简爱》中的主要人物分析

1、简爱中 的 主 要 人 物 分 析an analysis of key characters in jane eyrecontentsabstract . . . . . . . . .1key words . . . . . . . .1i. introduction the author.1ii. introduction to the novel.22.1 social background.22.2 the novel.3iii. analysis of the main characters.43.1 jane eyre.43.2 edward rochester.63.3 hele

2、n burns.73.4 mrs. reed.8iv. conclusion.8references.9摘要：本论文主要分析简爱中主要人物的性格特征。不管简爱见了什么, 不管她在哪里, 她总反抗那个不公平的社会, 她从不放弃试图得到自由、独立、 公平的生活和真实的爱。 由于不懈的努力她最后得到了尊严, 自由和真爱。从小说中简的话语中我们可以分析出她的性格特征：自重、自尊、自强、自立、善良、朴实、纯洁、高尚。这就是为什么一个纯洁的爱情故事能被广大读者喜爱的原因。关键词：简爱 罗切斯特 自由 独立abstract: this article mainly analyze the character

3、 of key figures in jane eyre. no matter what jane met, no matter where she was, she always rebelled against that unfair society, she never gave up to try her best to get free, independent, fair life and true love. by unremitting efforts she finally got dignity, freedom and true love. janes special c

4、haracter ran though the whole novel. from the utterance of jane in this novel, we can analysis her character: self respect; self esteem and simple. this is the reason why that a pure love story loved by masses of reader.key words: jane eyre rochester free freedom independent i. introduction to the a

5、uthorcharlotte bronte wrote this book. charlotte bronte was born on april 21, 1816, at thomton, yorkskire. she was the third child of patrick bronte, curate of hawoth. when charlotte was very young, her mother died, leaving behind six children. charlotte and three of her sisters were sent away to co

6、wan bridge school .where conditions were very harsh. the two oldest sisters died there and charlotte and emily returned home. they wrote what has become know as the “bronte juvenilia “stories of imaginary words in miniature books. charlotte bronte is one of those author whose life has attracted as m

7、uch attention as her writing. charlotte and her family have been the subject of many books, a stage play, and a film by the french director truffaut for same people, interest in bronte family is almost on the level of a cult, and there are even organized tours to the place associated with the family

8、s history.charlotte attended clergy daughters school in lancashire in 1824. she returned home next year because of the harsh conditions. in 1831 she went to school at roe head, where she later worked as a teacher. however, she fell ill, suffered from melancholia, and gave up this post. charlottes at

9、tempts to earn her living as a governess were hindered by her disabling shyness, her ignorance of normal children, and her yearning to be with her sisters.undeterred by her own rejection, charlotte began jane eyre, which appeared in 1847, and became an immediate success. charlotte dedicated the book

10、 to william makepeace thackeray, who described it as the masterwork of a great genius. the heroine is a penniless orphan who becomes a teacher, obtains a post as a governess, inherits money from an uncle, and marries after several turns of the plot the byronic hero. it was followed by shirley (1848)

11、 and villette (1853), based on her memories of brussels. although her identity was well known, charlotte continued to publish as currer bell. her tragedy, belisarius, is lost.in jane eyre the author used her experiences at the evangelical school and as governess. the novel severely criticized the li

12、mited options open to educated but impoverished women, and the idea that women ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. janes passionate desire for a wider life, her need to be loved, and her rebellious questioning of conve

13、ntions, also reflected charlottes own dreams. jane is an ugly duckling, who fulfills all the teenage romantic dreams of passion that breaks all obstacles. the gloomy hero, mr. rochester, represents a woman man: the ideal of masculine tenderness is combined with a massively masculine strength of char

14、acter along byronic lines. janes discovery at the altar that rochester has an insane wife hidden in the attic is the most shocking plot twist of the novel. bronte hints that mrs. rochester is a nymphomaniac. her character was refreshed in jean rhys novel wide sargasso sea (1966) which told the story

15、 of rochesters ill-fated creole wife.ii. introduction to the novel2.1 social backgroundin the victorian social and cultural context, woman was defined as “sexually pure”, “passive”, “dependent”, “self-denying” and “the other.” in her introduction to an anthology of essays on the victorian woman, mar

16、tha vicinus points out that the victorian “perfect lady” should conform to the following ideal model of femininity: before marriage, a young girl was brought up to be perfectly innocent and sexually ignorant. once married, the perfect lady did not work. her social and intellectual growth was confine

17、d to the family and close friends. her status was totally dependent upon the economic position of her father and then her husband. throughout the victorian period the perfect lady as an ideal of femininity was tenacious and all-pervasive. the married women, as vicinus mentions, within the victorian

18、culture were confined to the domestic sphere. as to the duties of women, that woman had to sacrifice herself to serve her husband and children and to some extent she must be “enduringly, incorruptibly good, instinctively, infallibly wisewise not for self-development, but for self-renunciation, wise

19、not with the narrowness of insolent and loveless pride, but with the passionate gentleness of an infinitely variable modesty of service”. she should be restricted to the domesticity to offer the modest service for her husband, and set up a good model to guide her children. furthermore, she should be

20、 educated, but the purpose of it is to make her capable of appreciating the conversation of her husband, rather than share her own feelings with him. a woman, in any rank of life, ought to know whatever her husband is likely to know, but to know it in a different way. to sum up, the victorian women

21、are submissive wives for their husbands and good mothers for their children. in addition to the above-mentioned opinions that helped to constitute the victorian ideal image of womanhood in the victorian society, the bible was also adopted by victorian patriarchy to impose the notions of self-denial,

22、 sexual purity and submission on women, and to legitimatize mens superiority and rule over women. from the bible, men and women could deduce the ideal pattern the creator had created at the beginning of the world.2.2 the novelwe know jane eyre was written in 1847, 159 years ago. jane eyre is the cla

23、ssic love story.the heroine of the novel, jane eyre lost her parents when she was only a baby and became an orphan. she was sent into gateshead hall, her uncle reeds. however, her aunt, mrs. reed treated her cruelly after mrs. read had died. jane received lots of neglect and abuse. at thornfield, th

24、ough jane was humble and plain, but the master of thornfield, mr. rochester still loved her because of her intelligent speaking, independent attitude and courageous behavior. jane also loved rochester because he treated her equally. they planned to marry. on the wedding day at the church, a stranger

25、 called mason appeared. mr. mason declared the existence of an impediment to the marriage. he said rochester married masons sister. masons sister was mad and locked in a room of thornfield. now, jane has no choice but to leave thornfield. jane roamed for two days and was accepted by st john rivers a

26、nd his sisters. then jane got inheritance from her uncle john eyre. she shared the inheritance with her cousins. mr. st john decided to go india as a missionary. he asked jane to go with him. jane refused st johns suggestion of marriage, because she knew what st john love was god, not her. finally,

27、she seemed to hear rochesters call, she retuned to thornfield. but now, thornfield was ruined in a big fire. rochesters mad wife died and mr. rochester was already blind eyes, with only one arm left. in spite of rochesters disability, jane married him. from then on, they lived a happy life.iii. anal

28、ysis of the main characters3.1 jane eyrethe development of jane eyres character is central to the novel. from the beginning, jane possesses a sense of her self-worth and dignity, a commitment to justice and principle, a trust in god, and a passionate disposition. her integrity is continually tested

29、over the course of the novel, and jane must learn to balance the frequently conflicting aspects of her so as to find contentment.an orphan since early childhood, jane feels exiled and ostracized at the beginning of the novel, and the cruel treatment she receives from her aunt reed and her cousins on

30、ly exacerbates her feeling of alienation. jane and mrs. reed had a face-to-face conflict. here is janes thought in her heart: yet in what darkness was the mental battle fought! i could not answer the inward questionwhy i thus suffered.(chapter 2 p.8) according to this sentence it seems, we can strai

31、ght into the inner side of the figures, see the soul of oneselfsimply being regarded as a common person, just the same as any other girl around. in lowood school, janes body and soul were deeply hurt. here she remained in it for eight years; six as its pupil and two as teacher. helen burns is janes

32、good friend. thus jane says to helen burns: to gain some real affection from you, or miss temple, or any other whom i truly love, i would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest(chapter 8 p

33、.53). afraid that she will never find a true sense of home or community, jane feels the need to belong to somewhere, to find “kin,” or at least “kindred spirits.” this desire tempers her equally intense need for autonomy and freedom. this explains jane was a born resister.as jane says: i am my husba

34、nds life as fully as he is mineto be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. we are precisely solitudes in character perfect concord is the result (chapter 38 p.378). i think her fear of losing her autonomy motivates her refusal of rochesters marriage proposal.

35、 on the other hand, her life at moor house tests her in the opposite manner. there, she enjoys economic independence and engages in worthwhile and useful work, teaching the poor; yet she lacks emotional sustenance. jane knows their marriage would remain loveless. so, she refused st. johns proposal m

36、arriage. for one thing, this ideal and brand-new beginning of life was what jane had been imagining for long as a suffering person; for another, this should be what the audiences with my views hoped her to get. jane eventually got back to rochester. in fact, when jane met rochester for the first tim

37、e, she scared his horse and made his heel strained, to a certain extent, which meant rochester would get retrieval because of jane. we can consider rochesters experiences as that of religion meaning. the fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life. janes manners, s

38、ophistication, and education are those of an aristocrat, because victorian governesses, who tutored to possess the culture of the aristocracy.janes understanding of the double standard crystallizes when she becomes aware of her feelings for rochester; she is his intellectual, but not his social equa

39、l. after the interrupted wedding to rochester, jane describes her state of mind:a christmas fort had come at mid summer: a white december storm had whirled over june; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hay field and corn field lay a frozen shoran and the woods, which tw

40、elve hours since waves leafy and fragrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pin forests in wintry norway, my hopes were all dead (chapter 26 p.244).finally, at moor house, st, johns frigidity and stiffness were established through comparisons with ice and cold rock

41、. jane writes: by degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind i fell under a freezing spell (chapter 34 p.336). when st, john proposes marriage to jane, his comrade, all would be right but as his wife at his side always, and always restrained, and always forced

42、 to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital this would be unendurable. after jane and rochesters wedding is cancelled, jane finds comfort in the moon, which appears to her in a dream as a

43、symbol of the matriarchal sprit. she shows us: it spoke to my spirit; immeasurably distant was the tone, yet so near, it whispered in my heart my daughter, flee temptation. jane answers, mother, i will (chapter 27 p.265). waking from the dream, jane leaves thornfield. jane was a tutor; she was born

44、in low class of society and common -looking. why she could attract wealthy rochester? he loved jane very much. we knew that jane was a self-respect, self-esteem, kind and independent woman. though she met difficulty, but she did not lose her way. she was not beautiful, but she was kindhearted, simpl

45、e, pure and noble. she was not a little coddle and hypocritical. especially her noble nature of moral character. her love to rochester was genuine and not selfish. when she knew rochesters wife was still alive, her left rochester. because her love to rochester was genuinely true, so she left. she ba

46、red all the painfulness and sadness silently when she refused st. johns proposed marriage. jane thought that without love marriage was terrible and despicable. certainly, janes choice depended on her character. though jane was weak, but she was very brave. jane struggled continually for equally and

47、to fight against oppression. in addition to class hierarchy, she must fight against patriarchal domination against those who believe women to be his prop and guide. (chapter 12 p.91)in her search for freedom, jane also struggles with the question of what type of freedom she wants. while rochester in

48、itially offers jane a chance to liberate her passions, jane comes to realize that such freedom could also mean enslavementby living as rochesters mistress, she would be sacrificing her dignity and integrity for the sake of her feelings. st. john rivers offers jane another kind of freedom: the freedo

49、m to act unreservedly on her principles. he opens 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 constitute a form of imprisonment, because she would be forced to keep her true feelings a

50、nd her true passions always in check.charlotte bronte may have created the character of jane eyre as a means of coming to terms with elements of her own life. much evidence suggests that bronte, too, struggled to find a balance between love and freedom and to find others who understood her. at many

51、points in the book, jane voices the authors then-radical opinions on religion, social class, and gender.3.2 edward rochesterdespite his stern manner and not particularly handsome appearance, edward rochester wins janes heart, because she feels they are kindred spirits, and because he is the first pe

52、rson in the novel to offer jane lasting love and a real home. although rochester is janes social and economic superior, and although men were widely considered to be naturally superior to women in the victorian period, jane is rochesters intellectual equal. moreover, after their marriage is interrup

53、ted by the disclosure that rochester is already married to bertha mason, jane is proven to be rochesters moral superior.rochester regrets his former libertinism and lustfulness; nevertheless, he has proven himself to be weaker in many ways than jane. jane feels that living with rochester as his mist

54、ress would mean the loss of her dignity. ultimately, she would become degraded and dependent upon rochester for love, while unprotected by any true marriage bond. jane will only enter into marriage with rochester after she has gained a fortune and a family, and after she has been on the verge of aba

55、ndoning passion altogether. she waits until she is not unduly influenced by her own poverty, loneliness, psychological vulnerability, or passion. additionally, because rochester has been blinded by the fire and has lost his manor house at the end of the novel, he has become weaker while jane has gro

56、wn in strengthjane claims that they are equals, but the marriage dynamic has actually tipped in her favor.3.3 helen burnshelen burns, janes friend at lowood school, serves as a foil to mr. brocklehurst as well as to jane. yet, over the course of the book, jane must learn how to gain love without sac

57、rificing and harming herself in the process yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it; it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to you. the sentence gives jane help in her after life. helen burns tell her life appears to me too short to be

58、 spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. helen can make jane clam. while mr. brocklehurst embodies an evangelical form of religion that seeks to strip others of their excessive pride or of their ability to take pleasure in worldly things, helen represents a mode of christianity that stresses tolerance and accept