《简爱》是一本具有多年历史的文学著作。至今已152年的历史了。它的成功在于它详细的内容，精彩的片段。在译序中，它还详细地介绍了《简爱》的作者一些背景故事。

　　从中我了解到了作者夏洛蒂．勃郎特的许多事。她出生在一个年经济困顿、多灾多难的家庭；居住在一个远离尘器的穷乡僻壤；生活在革命势头正健，国家由农民向工业国过渡，新兴资产阶级日益壮大的时代，这些都给她的小说创作上打上了可见的烙印。

　　可惜，上帝似乎毫不吝啬的塑造了这个天才们。有似乎急不可耐伸出了毁灭之手。这些才华横溢的儿女，都无一例外的先于父亲再人生的黄金时间离开了人间。惜乎，勃郎特姐妹！

　　《简爱》这本小说，主要通过简。爱与罗切斯特之间一波三折的爱情故事，塑造了一个出生低微、生活道路曲折，却始终坚持维护独立人格、追求个性自由、主张人生平等、不向人生低头的坚强女性。

　　简。爱生存在一个父母双亡，寄人篱下的环境。从小就承受着与同龄人不一样的待遇：姨妈的嫌弃，表姐的蔑视，表哥的侮辱和毒打。。。。。。然而，她并没有绝望，她并没有自我摧毁，并没有在侮辱中沉沦。所带来的种种不幸的一切，相反，换回的却是简。爱的无限信心，却是简。爱的坚强不屈的精神，一种可战胜的内在人格力量。

　　不幸，在学习生活中，简。爱仍然是承受着肉体上的受罚和心灵上的催残。学校的施主罗可赫斯特不但当着全校师生的面诋毁她，而且把她置于耻辱台上示众。使她在全校师生面前丢尽了脸。但简。爱仍坚强不屈，化悲愤为力量，不但在学习上飞速进步，而且也取得了师生们的理解。

　　不久，简。爱又陷入了爱情的旋涡。个性及强的她同样保持着个人高贵的尊严，在情敌面前显得大家闺秀，毫不逊色，对于英格拉姆小姐的咄咄逼人，她从容面对。

　　同样，在罗切斯特的面前，她从不因为自己是一个地位低贱的家庭教师，而感到自卑，她认为他们是平等的。不应该因为她是仆人，而不能受到别人的尊重。也正因为她的正直，高尚，纯洁，心灵没有受到世俗社会的污染。使得罗切斯特感到自惭性秽，同时对她肃然起敬，并深深地爱上了她。他的真心，让她感动，她接受了他。后来，简。爱发现罗切斯特已有了妻子，她的自尊自重再次出现，毫不犹豫地离开了他，她对爱情的专一，让我敬佩。

　　最后，简。爱得知，罗切斯特为了拯救在活中的妻子不幸双目失明。躯体严重残疾，完全丧失了生活能力，而同时又妻亡财毁。简。爱全身心的爱再次投入了他的怀抱。。。。。。

　　从这本书中，可以看出它塑造了一个体现新兴阶级的某些要求的女性形象，刻画了工业革命时期的时代精神。

　　简爱读后感英语【1】

　　This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life.

　　The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.

　　It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyer.

　　I am of no exception.

　　As we refer to the movie “Jane Eyer”, it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way, but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person, both physically and mentally.

　　Jane Eyer was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt，the only relative she had，treated her as badly as a ragtag.

　　Since Jane’s education in Lowwood Orphanage began, she didn’t get what she had been expecting——simply being regarded as a common person, just the same as any other girl around.

　　The suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else.

　　As a reward of revolting the ruthless oppression, Jane got a chance to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden.

　　There she made the acquaintance of lovely Adele and that garden’s owner, Rochester, a man with warm heart despite a cold face outside.

　　Jane expected to change the life from then on, but fate had decided otherwise: After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry, she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal wife, who seemed to be the shadow following Rochester and led to his moodiness all the time ----Rochester was also a despairing person in need of salvation.

　　Jane did want to give him a hand, however, she made up her mind to leave, because she didn’t want to betray her own principles, because she was Jane Eyer.

　　The film has finally got a symbolist end: Jane inherited a large number of legacies and finally returned.

　　After finding Rochester’s misfortune brought by his original mad wife, Jane chose to stay with him forever.

　　I don’t know what others feel, but frankly speaking, I would rather regard the section that Jane began her teaching job in Thornfield as the film’s end----especially when I heard Jane’s words “Never in my life have I been awaken so happily.” 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.

　　But the professional judgment of producing films reminded me to wait for a totally different result: There must be something wrong coming with the excellence----perhaps not only should another section be added to enrich the story, but also we may see from the next transition of Jane’s life that “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you would get.” (By Forrest Gump’s mother, in the film “Forrest Gump”)

　　What’s more, this film didn’t end when Jane left Thornfield.

　　For Jane Eyer herself, there should always be somewhere to realize her great ideal of being independent considering her fortitude, but for Rochester, how he can get salvation? The film gives the answer tentatively: Jane eventually got back to Rochester.

　　In fact, when Jane met Rochester for the first time, 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 Rochester’s experiences as that of religion meaning.

　　The fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life.

　　After it, Rochester got the mercy of the God and the love of the woman whom he loved.

　　Here we can say: human nature and divinity get united perfectly in order to let such a story accord with the requirements of both two sides.

　　The value of this film may be due to its efforts to explore a new way for the development of humanism under the faith of religion.

　　简爱读后感英语【2】

　　Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul

　　Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl.

　　After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:

　　We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.

　　We remember her pursuit of justice.

　　It’s like a companion with the goodness.

　　But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.

　　We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality.

　　In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God’s feet.

　　Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.

　　We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…

　　When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.

　　Actually, she wasn’t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn’t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it.

　　And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than ‘the plain and ugly governess’.

　　But as the little governess had said: ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!’ This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre’s mind.

　　God hadn’t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain.

　　Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.

　　In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn’t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more.

　　For a long time, only a person’s GREat virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that ‘Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted’.

　　I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.

　　Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty