Book Report of Jane Eyre

2012级英语教育一班 姓名:吴林泽 学号:201216010104

1. About the author.

Charlotte Bronte was born in a family of country minister in Yorkshire，England in 1816. Her mother was died young. Her father was a minister who was well-educated and had a great influence on charlotte Bronte’s literary creation. When Charlotte was 8, she was sent to a charitable institution. In there, she had a miserable life and her two sisters were died with a bad cold. So charlotte came back to home with her younger sister and went to a local country school when she was 15 years old. She once became a governess and then began her literary career.

In charlotte Bronte’s whole life, she only created 4 masterpieces, Jane Eyre in 1847, Shirley in 1849, Villette in 1853, The Professor in 1857 (which published after her death), in which Jane Eyre achieved a huge success at that time and made charlotte famous. Charlotte Bronte and her sisters were respected as “The There Bronte Sisters”.

2. Background.

In the 19th century, with the development of capitalism and the increasing intensity of class conflicts, Chartist Movement began. The government had series of reforms but the rights and states of women were not improved. The up-class women usually got married early or stayed with their parents. The poor women had to work in factories or most of them chose to be maidservants. Women at that time wanted badly to eliminate oppression and discrimination from men. Under such society background, Jane Eyre was created.

3. Summary.

When Jane Eyre was just an infant , her parents were dead , and so she had to live with hers uncle Reed's family at Gateshead . In this family , only hers uncle Reed raised her as one of his own and the housemaid Bessie had always been kind to her . However , aunt Reed and hers three children turned against Jane Eyre . For example , aunt Reed had blamed and shouted to her even though she was right . Three cousins had always misprized her , especially cousin , John Reed . He had always hit and humiliated her .

Afterward , Jane Eyre was sent to Lowood School , which was a charity school or an orphanage where many orphans studied and lived in , by hers cruel and arrogant aunt Reed . The orphanage had many strict rules . In Lowood School , Jane Eyre continuously suffered from mental and physical suffering , and had always starved , suffered cold , taken a beating and punished to standing in a long time with other children . But Jane lived through eight years and got a good achievement in bad conditions depended on hers tenacious vitality .

When she was eighteen years old ,she acted as a governess at Thornfield Hall. And then she fell in love with Edward Rochester who was a master of Thornfield Hall with a cold character and awful look but having a inner passion . After experiencing lots of difficulties and cumber , Jane and Edward married and had a happiness life .

4. Impressions and comments.

Jane Eyre is a great book that still has strong reference for establishing us personality. It inspires us to be independent strong women. It guides us how to struggle with hard environments and pursue a bright future bravely. It makes me realize that appearance is not so important. What we should emphasize and think highly of is inside. We are supposed to fulfill our inside and always deal with things with principle. But sometimes I think Jane was too implicative in expressing her passion. She sometimes behaved so calm that seemed like she had no feeling and is a cold machine. So in some extent, we should not be too shy to express ourselves.

At the same time, this novel tells us the best life is the human dignity and love, in today's society, if everyone wants to achieve their value; they have to turn to money for help. The dignity and love seem to be abandoned for people. People are crazy for money and status to give up love. Between the poor and the rich prefer choose richer, and choose between love and not love prefer choose not love. Very few people like Jane for the love for the personality to abandon all of things. "Jane Eyre" would like to show a truth is everyone should put down the things of unnecessary and make everything become simple. People should put down the complex heart to love with simple and dignity. In this world, everyone could find the true love whatever they rich or poor. They just need a heart of love, simple and genuine.

第二篇：英文读后感——简爱

Jane Eyre

《Jane Eyre》 is a novel with a propensity for autobiography. Its writer, Charlotte Bronte，was born in a poor and calamitous family. They lived in a remote and backward place. It was when the revolution was in progress. The country was changing from agriculture to industry and the newly emerging bourgeoisie were expanding. These all left marks in the novel. The novel mainly describes the complicated love story between Jane Eyre and Rochester to portray a strong woman who was born humbly and lived difficultly but always persist to uphold her independent personality and pursue free individuality and advocate the equality of human life. Jane Eyre lived under another’s roof with her parents both dead. She bore different treatment form contemporaries’: Aunt’s disliking and avoiding her; cousins’ disdain, insult and beating. However, she was not desperate or didn’t destroy herself or sink into those insults. All of the misfortunes bring Jane infinite confidence, sturdy spirit and a kind of inside personality strength which can’t be defeated.

When facing Rochester, Jane never feel herself inferior because of she was a humble family teacher. She thought they were equal and she shouldn’t be disrespected because she was a servant. It was her being upright, noble, and pure that made Rochester get shocked and regard her as one can talk equally with himself in spirit. And he fell in love with her gradually. His true heart moved her and she accepted him. But when Jane

knew Rochester had a wife already, she decided she must leave. She felt her pride was hurt since she loved Rochester deeply. And she made a pretty rational decision. When there was a strong power of love and a allure of nice and wealthy life, she still insist on her individual pride. This is what reflected Jane’s spirit glamour most.