丑陋简爱性格分析论文(英语)

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爱》及其现实意 义。

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爱

双重性格

An Analysis of Jane Eyre’s Dual Characters

Abstract

：

The novel

an

important

status

in

English

literature.

In

her

work,

the

author

successfully

portrayed a great female image--- Jane Eyre. The bright characters of the heroine give

readers a deep impression. This paper gives an analytical study of dual characters of

Jane

Eyre;

so

as

to

help

people

understand

Eyre

deeper

and

comprehend

its

realistic significance more.

Key words: Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Dual Characters

Contents

1. Introduction

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2. The Introduction of the Author and Jane Eyre

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2.1 The Introduction of the Author .... .................................................. ...................

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2.2 The Introduction of the Jane Eyre < /p>

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3. Jane Eyre?s Positive Character

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3.1 Manifestations of Jane Eyre?s Positive Character

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3.1.1 Jane Eyre?s Independence

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3.1.2 Jane Eyre?s Pursuit of Equality

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3.1.3 Jane Eyre?s Pursuit of Liberty

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3.1.4 Spirit of Pursuing Equal and True Love .................................................

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3.2 The Factors of Jane Eyre?s Positive Character

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3.2.1 Influence of Jane Eyre?s

Misfortunes and Sufferings .............................

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3.2.2 Influence of Social Background during the Victorian Age

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4. Jane Eyre?s Negative Characters

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4.1

Manifestations of Jane Eyre?s Negative Characters

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4.1.1

Jane Eyre?s self

-contemptuous

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4.1.2 Jane Eyre?s Worship of Traditional Marriage

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4.2

The Factors of Jane Eyre?s

Negative Characters ............................................

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4.2.1 Infl

uence of Jane Eyre?s Plain Appearance

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4.2.2 Influence of Personal Experience of Charlotte Bronte .........................

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5. Conclusion ......................... .................................................. ....................................12

Acknowledgements

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References

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1. Introduction

Jane Eye is an autobiographical saga novel by English writer Charlotte Bront?

. It

was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title

Jane

Eyre. An Autobiography

under the pen name

The first American edition

was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. It was Bront?

's

masterpiece and one of the most famous British novels. It has been described

as “the

first

modern

novel,

the

first

to

envelop

the

life

of

a

plain

ordinary

woman

with

romance”

.

[1]

William

Makepeace

Thackeray

also

hailed

it

as

“the

masterwork

of

great

genius”

.

Over

a

century

later,

Jane

Eyre

is

still

regarded

as

one

of

the

first

novels in English literature.

In this novel, the author successfully portrayed a great female image--- Jane Eyre.

The

unique

image

Jane

Eyre

has

is

the

character

of

female

consciousness.

She

is

a

first-person narrative of the formative years of the title character, a small, plain- faced,

intelligent,

and

passionate

English

orphan

girl.

Through

read

the

novel,

the

bright

characters of the Jane give readers a deep impression. We can also see that Jane has

obvious double character; she has firm one aspect of calm, ration, pursuit of equality

and

independence

characteristic.

And

at

the

same

time,

she

has

too

devout,

feeling

self-contemptuous from time to time.

She runs after love, at the same time preserving

and owning one aspect that obsolete and conservative tradition marriage observes.

This paper will make an analytical of characters of Jane Eyre from two aspects, on

the one hand is she?s positive characters; on the other hand is she?s

negative characters.

The purpose of it is helping people understand

realistic significance more.

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2. The Introduction of the Author and Jane Eyre

2.1 The Introduction of the Author

Charlotte Bronte was born in the family of a poor country clergyman at Haworth,

Yorkshire,

in

northern

England

on

April

21,

1816

to

Maria

Barnwell

and

Patrick

Bront?

.

In

this

period

of

tense

class

struggle

appeared

a

new

literary

trend-critical

realism.

English

critical

realism

of

the

19th

century

flourished

in

the

forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists described with much vividness

and

great

artistic

skill

the

chief

traits

of

the

English

society

and

criticized

the

capitalist

system from a democratic viewpoint.

Because Charlot

te?s mother died when Charlotte

was

five

years

old,

Charlotte?s

aunt,

a

devout

Methodist,

helped

her

brother

-in- law

raise his children. In 1824 Charlotte and three of her sisters

—

Maria, Elizabeth, and

Emily

—

were

sent

to

Cowan

Bridge,

a

school

for

clergymen

?s

daughters.

When

an

outbreak

of

tuberculosis

killed

Maria

and

Elizabeth,

Charlotte

and

Emily

were

brought home.

In 1835-1838 she worked as a school teacher, and later as governess. In

1842 she went with her sister Emily to study languages at a school in Brussels, where

during 1843 she was employed as a teacher. In the next year she was back at Haworth,

and in 1846 appeared a volume of verse entitled poems by Curer, Ellis, and Action

Bell,

the

pseudonyms

of

Charlotte,

Emily,

and

Anne

respectively.

The

Professor

,

Charlotte?s first novel, was rejected by different publishers, and it was not published

till after her death. She went to write another novel,

Jane Eyre

, which was published

in 1847 and achieved immediate success.

In writing Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte chiefly resorts to the realistic approach, but

her

realism

are

heightened

by

her

sparkle

of

romantic

imagination.

The

novel

is

marked

throughout

by

intensity;

intensity

of

vision

is

the

descriptive

passages,

intensity

of

feeling

in

the

emotional

scenes.

The

passionate

involvement

of

the

heroine

Jane

Eyre

in

every

situation

endows

the

novel,

like

Emily?s

Wuthering

Heights,

with the quality of poetry, even in the medium of prose. In 1848,

Wuthering

Heights

and

Agnes

Grey

by

her

sisters

Emily

and

Anne

respectively

were

also

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published. But sorrows came to Charlotte for in that year her only brother and Emily

died,

and

Anne

died

the

following

year.

Charlotte,

the

only

surviving

child

of

the

family, outlived her sisters and brother by some years, with restless energy, she wrote

two other novels, “

Shirley

” (1849), her second novel, dealing with the life of workers

at the time of the Luddites? movement. The last novel by Charlotte Bronte, “

Villette

”,

came out in 1853. In 1854 she married her father?s curate A.B.

Nicholas, but died a

few months later. [2]

2.2 The Introduction of the Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre 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

Low

wood

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.

This

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 Thorn field Garden. There she made the

acquaintance of lo

vely 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 Eyre. The

story

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.

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3. Jane Eyre’s Positive Character

Jane

is

brave

and

independent.

She

pursues

spiritual

liberty,

equality.

Under

thinking

that

simple

love

comes

to

know

her

having

fallen

in

love

with

the

host,

whose

condition

differs

widely

from

hers

deeply,

she

dares

to

go

to

love

in

being

equal spiritually because of the firmly believes persons are equal spiritually. A poor

teacher gall as big as a peck measure loves the previous belonging to the upper circles

personage,

rigorous

in

grade

depths

society

concept

most

probably,

the

same

as

a

beggar

ten

thousand

extravagant

hopes

to

be

the

king.

This

is

courage

to

whole

society and prejudice person.

3.1

Manifestations of Jane Eyre’s

Positive Character

3.1.1

Jane Eyre’s Independence

This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who should speak and act the

truth under all circumstances, with no thoughts of consequence to herself or others. It

seems to me that much reader?s English reading

experience starts with Jane Eyre. I

am of no exception. As we refer to the novel

Jane Eyre,

it is her character alone that

fascinates us--- her fiery spirit, her hatred of self- righteousness, her love of truth, and

her

yearning

for

independence

and

equality.

Jane

has

a

psychology

of

spontaneous

resistance

against

injustice.

Jane

became

the

representative

or

the

spontaneous

resistance

against

injustice.

Jane

became

the

representative

or

the

spokeswoman

of

independence and of those who struggle for freedom and equality.

Jane

sought

for

happiness

and

love,

but

she

didn?t

think

love

was

supreme.

She

could throw away traditions to follow love, but she would never sacrifice her dignity

and

independence

for

the

reason

of

love.

While

Rochester

pretends

to

marry

some

nobleman Miss to probe her specially, she says angrily, “Do you think, because I am

poor,

obscure,

plain,

and

little,

I

am

soulless

and

heartless?

You think wrong!

—

I

have as much soul as you

—

and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with

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