Analysis of Jane Eyre
Purpose and Significance of study：
Jane Eyre is a classical work produced in Victorian time by Charlotte Bronte. This novel has attracted widely attention and discussions for over 150 years after its publishment. On the surface, Jane Eyre is a love story about a poor young woman Jane Eyre and a rich man Mr. Rochester. But when we read it carefully, we can find out much deeper connotation, and we can understand that this work is not only a simple love story, but also reflects some social situations. Especially was the problem of the relationship between women and the traditional morality in Victorian time. In this novel, Bronte expresses strong dissatisfaction for females’ unequal social status, and Jane Eyre was her own embodiment to resist the oppression of the social traditional morality and to break the age’s fetter. And this novel also reflects that at that time, women have been already realized they should struggle for their independence of spirit and equal rights on many aspects in the social life. This thesis according to expounding the females’ situations under the traditional morality in Victorian age and the analysis of heroine’s behavior and thinking which broke the traditional morality at that time in Jane Eyre, to find the appearance of feminine consciousness and the demands of women for having equal social status like men in society and getting independence of life and spirit.
Situation of study：
Jane Eyre is a famous work by Charlotte Bronte, and this novel was published in 1847 and became an immediate success. Through this novel the author told a love story about a young orphan Jane Eyre who grew up, went to school, worked, married, and created the life for herself to readers with autobiographic form. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte expresses strong sympathy for the working class and the poor,
forcefully condemns both upper-class exploitation and arrogance. Jane is a typical Victorian literature’s rebellious heroine, and her unique character make this novel have permanent attraction.
In the history of English literature, the Victorian Age produced a group of women novelists. How women were regarded and regarded themselves as members of society became one of the chief concerns of writers in that period. Charlotte Bronte was one of them. Her works shows the women’s power and the resistance to men’s oppressions. In Jane Eyre, the autobiographic novel, by Jane Eyre’s telling to readers Charlotte Bronte expresses her own mind that women are powerful and women should not be controlled by traditional rules.
This thesis will research the “unwomanly” character of the heroine under the Victorian traditional morality. All of Jane’s behaviors showed her difference from traditional morality. In such a period, a little girl struggled for her equal rights in her guardian’s family; a student made efforts to improve the living condition of school; a young governess pursued her real love and refused the proposal of the man she did not love. All of these behaviors disobeyed the traditional morality in Victorian age. She broke the model of “angel in the house” throughout her life. Her “unwomanly” character was also showed obviously. This image was also a symbol of feminine consciousness. Her “unwomanly” character showed the demand of women to gain their equal social rights and independence. By Jane, Bronte expresses the dissatisfaction to unfair treatment to female of the traditional morality. And through Jane, the feminine consciousness’s appearance of the author can be found clearly. Detailed Outline：
1. Introduction
2. Traditional Morality in Victorian time
2.1 Family
2.1.1 Household
2.1.2 Education
2.2 Society
2.2.1 Work
2.2.2 Marriage
2.2.3 Property
3. Jane Eyre
3.1 Family
3.1.1 Her behaviors in her aunt’s house
3.1.2 Her behaviors in Lowood School
3.2 Society
3.2.1 Her job
3.2.2 Her marriage
3.2.3 Her property
3.3 Her attitude to the men surrounding her
3.3.1 John Reed
3.3.2 Mr. Brocklehurst
3.3.3 Rochester
3.3.4 St. John
4．Conclusion
5. References
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Oliver Twist, one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens', is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist, an orphan, who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain, such as hunger, thirst, beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver, I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy, but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief, as was written in all the best stories, the goodness eventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft, little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them, or Rose read to him, and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodness could conquer every difficulty. Although I don't think goodness is omnipotent, yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me, the nature of goodness is one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodness is to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodness is an utterly worthless person. On the contrary, as the famous saying goes, 'The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose', he who is with goodness undoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done, and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
To my disappointment, nowadays some people seem to doubt the existence of the goodness in humanity. They look down on people's honesty and kindness, thinking it foolish of people to be warm-hearted. As a result, they show no sympathy to those who are in trouble and seldom offer to help others. On the other hand, they attach importance to money and benefit. In their opinion, money is the only real object while emotions and morality are nihility. If they cannot get profit from showing their 'kindness', they draw back when others are faced with trouble and even hit a man when he is down. They are one of the sorts that I really detest.
Francis Bacon said in his essay, 'Goodness, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.'
That is to say a person without goodness is destined to lose everything. Therefore, I, a kind
person, want to tell those 'vermin-to-be'to learn from the kind Oliver and regain the nature of goodness.