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Book Review------Jane Eyre

A few years ago, I read Charlotte Bronte’s works-- Jane Eyre .Recently, I read the novel again. Not only in order to complete the teacher's homework, but also because Jane Eyre is a works which is worth savoring again and again.

This is a romantic colorific realism novel, mainly described the love of Jane Eyre and Rochester. The heroine -- Jane Eyre was a woman who had a clean heart and she was good at thinking; she lived at the bottom in the society, and suffered all hardships. But she had a stubborn character and the courage to pursue equality spirit of happiness. The novel used the rich lyrical prose style and profound psychological description, demonstrating the hero and heroine winding fluctuant love experience, praising the cast off all the old customs. The deepest love which rooted in mutual understanding and based on mutual respect has strong shock of mind. Its most success lies in shaping a dare to resist, dare to fight for freedom and equal status of women's status.

Jane Eyre is a thrilling works and unquestionable classic. In 19th century, Jane Eyre was Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. At that time, it was widely believed that

Jane Eyre was the portrayal of Charlotte Bronte. Because this seemingly tender but

inner was extremely strong and tough woman- Jane Eyre became a model in countless women heart.

Jane Eyre was an orphan who was born in a poor pastor family. Because her parents contracted typhoid, they died in a month. Young Jane was entrusted in aunt's house. Uncle Mr. Reed died; Jane had lived in intermittently discrimination and abuse of life about10 years. Once, because she resisted her cousin's beating, Jane was locked in a red house. The physical pain and spiritual and fear made she had a serious illness.

Aunt treated her as an eyesore and put her isolated in their children, ever since then, she and her aunt's against was more open and determined. Later, Jane was sent to the Logwood orphanage. Orphanage’s living was tough and hard, the director was a callous hypocrite. Jane continued to be destroyed at mental and physical in orphanage. Because of the bad living conditions, there was often had have children illness, her best friend Helen died in a big typhus. This typhus also made a big improvement in orphanage. Jane in the new circumstances accepted six years of education, and taught in this school for two years, because of Miss tan Bohr’s leave, Jane was tired in the orphanage life, so she advertised for family teacher's occupation.

The Thorn field manor housekeeper hired her. The plantation male host Mr. Rochester often traveled, the big house only had a less than ten-year-old girl-- Della Watts Lang, Rochester was her patronage, she was Jane's student.

At one evening, Jane went out for a walk, meeting the master just backed from abroad, this was the first time they met. Later, she found her master was a depressed and moody person, attitude toward her ups and downs. The whole house was sullen and empty, sometimes there also could hear a hair-raising and strange laughter. One day, Jane in her sleep was woken up by the laughter and she found Rochester’s room was firing, Jane wake him up with a start and helped him to put out the fire.

Rochester often held dinner after he came back. At a dinner, he made big adulation to a beautiful young lady who named Ingram, Jane was called into the living room, but she was by Blanche mother and daughter received cold reception, she endured humiliation and left the room. At this time, she had fallen in love with Rochester. Actually Rochester also had fallen in love with Jane; he just wanted to test for their love. When he asked Jane to marry him, Jane promised him. At Wedding eve, Jane saw a detestable woman in hazy that clothed with her wedding dress.

The next day, when the wedding was undertaking sadly in church, suddenly, someone claimed compensation: 15 years ago, Mr. Rochester already married. His wife was the crazy woman who actually locked in the third floor of the chamber. Laws prevented their love, and made both fallen into deep distress. At a rained night, Jane left Rochester. Looking for a new life, Jane begged along the way, experienced the ordeal, finally be sheltered by St. John and she taught in one of the local elementary schools.

Soon, Jane learned that her uncle died and left to her legacy, also found St. John was her cousin; Jane decided to divide equally the property. St. John was fanatical Catholics, and intended to go to India to proselyte. He asked Jane married him and to go with him to India. Jane brushed-off him; she decided to return to Rochester side. She returned to Thorn field manor. The house was in ruins, the crazy woman set fire and killed; Rochester was also injured and disabled. Jane found him and they got married, got her ideal happy life.

Jane Eyre was a literary works which had many years producing. So far has

163 years of history, it successfully portrayed a first to love, life, social and religious had taken out of independent active enterprising attitude and dare to struggle, dare to fight for freedom and equality status of women image in English literature; The advent of Jane Eyre at 19th century once had stirred in the literary world in the history of English literature, it had been called a classic, by an irresistible beauty attracted thousands of readers, had a kind of uncontrollable urge, drove us to pick up the book, and then, the heart also deeply moved for the tremor.

This was a novel of autobiography color, was one of the three sisters famous writers Charlotte Bronte created. This was a book with the author’s own hearts and strong spirit to cast and contained the author’s infinite emotion and personality charm, won a brilliant for women of the sky; any literary works were the authors experience a crystallization of life, from the book could see the author's shadow. Jane Eyre also was so, a lot of detail could be been corroborated in the author's life. Jane Eyre was not an autobiography; the author simply put her own

rich experience in life melted into a full imagination in the article. People knew

Jane Eyre was the author’s portraiture in life, but how many people knew the

author was under what conditions to write Jane Eyre?

Charlotte Bronte is Jane Eyre’s author, she was born in

1816 Yorkshire UK Thorne Torstein town of pastor’s family , ranked third, she had two sisters two little sisters and one little brother. Because of being lost mother since childhood, father was lacked of economy and energy, two not possess one, he had to send Charlotte and two sisters and one brother into school which founded by charity boarding. The environment and living conditions were poor, plus founder harsh restraining and severe punishment, being hungry and corporal punishment became the children’s customary life. Soon, lung disease took away two sister life. Father tried to make Charlotte and brother escape the death snare and returned home.

In 1831, Charlotte had been sent into ROM hart to boarding schools, the situation here was entirely different, and Charlotte not only made much progress in academic but also had a very pleasant time. Although it only spent a

year and four months, but the sweet life left to her an unforgettable impression.

Later, Charlotte returned ROM hart to teach in 1835, two sisters were still following her to go to school and left after three years. During 1838 to 1842, she and her sisters have traveled everywhere, as tutor for living. But this career had a meager salary; sisters lived far apart and difficult to meet. Therefore, they resolutely abandoned the job, determinate to start a school. Through various efforts, even though they were keen to start school, and made many preparations, but finally, the idea still was not successful. And then, her father fell ill and her brother took alcohol and drug, degenerated into cripple. And the weight of the family economy was more and bigger, so under these extremely difficult conditions, Charlotte and sisters began whit writing.

They often write poems together, Charlotte also put a few the best sent to the best writers Robert Southey, but they were laughed by Southey, he said:” not women's career”. At this time, they decided to write books.

The three sisters often gathered together, reading, painting and writing. Books opened their hearts, improved their nourishment, hard life made them precocious and were good at insight. The unique experience provided abundant source for creations, so when their creation enthusiasm mind jumped out, the world of literature history would miraculously in the same year, the same family was born three classics; Charlotte's Jane Eyre , Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Edgar Nice Graham. Sisters were called Bronte sisters.

Beside Jane Eyre, charlotte also created Shirley , The dimension of Wright and The Schoolmaster .There are works although evaluation were all well and good , not caught with Jane Eyre ‘s influence.

But God is always envious of the talented someone and miserly shaped the talent, and seem to stretch out never-come-out the doom hammer. Their intelligence was beginning to be recognized by others, and then they disappeared. First versatile brother died. Then write masterpiece of Wuthering Heights’s Emilie died in December. Subsequently, the other one sister Annie left from the world. After five years, in 18, Charlotte walked with her husband in the rain and became sick, in 1855 March 31 deceased, years only 39.

Jane Eyre designed a very bright finale - - although Rochester’s manor had

been ruined, Rochester himself also became a disabled, we could see, it is a condition, it made Jane Eyre no longer contradicted in dignity and love, at the same time, the contradiction between was getting satisfaction --when she and Rochester married, she had the dignity, of course also had love.

This novel told us that our life was the best life is the dignity with love, the ending of the novel’s arrangement is such a life to the heroine .Although we may think the final outcome was too perfect, even the perfection itself marked the superficial, I still respected the author of this wonderful ideal life – love and dignity. After all, nowadays, people’s value is dignity and loves, this word formula cannot without money to help. People are crazy to money and position and bury love. The poor and the rich choice between rich, in love and do not love to choose between

not love. Few would like Jane for love to abandon all. Jane Eyre shown to us a kind of simplified, a kind of return to Innocence, a kind of pursuit of the whole heart’s paying feel, a kind of regardless of the gain and loss of simplified feelings. It was like a cup of iced water, purify every reader's soul. It was considered the duo of life pursuit.