希望对你有帮助：An Analysis of Jane Eyre
The novel is rich in poetry, symbolism and metaphor. It does not fit easily into a definite pattern, being neither a novel of "manners" in the tradition of Austen, or a straightforward Gothic Romance in the style of Mrs Radcliffe. What Charlotte Bronte did was to create a work which cleverly blends elements of the two styles, and which remains uniquely independent of them at the same time, since it addresses issues which were at the time rather controversial.
The novel is written in the first person, and thus magnifies the central character - the reader enters the world of Jane Eyre and is transported through her experiences at first hand. This at once makes the work subjective, especially since we know that Charlottes Brontes own life and experiences were so closely interwoven with the heroine's. As well as this we learn only at the end of the novel that the events are being related to us ten years after the reconciliation with Rochester - thus the narrative is RETROSPECTIVE (looking back). CB is clever in blending the narrative so that at times Jane seems to be speaking as an adult with adult hindsight , while at others she she is "in the middle" of them, as a child or young woman. The indecision which is a central issue in the book, is heightened by this device. We never know, as readers, whether to be entirely trustful of Janes actions and thoughts, because we are never sure wheher she is speaking impulsively or maturely.
This intensifies the readers dilemma as to what is "right" and "wrong" in the dramatic relationships which are part of JE's life. Can we believe what the heroine says, or is she deceiving herself? The novel is primarily a love story and a "romance" where wishes come true but only after trials and suffering. The supernatural has its place, as do dreams, portents and prophesies. The heroine begins poor and lonely and ends up rich and loved; the orphan finds a good family to replace the wicked one; all the basic ingredients of classic romantic fairytale are present.
The romantic element is present in two forms in Jane Eyre; the "family" aspect is dealt with in the Gateshead, Lowood and Moor House episodes, which involve the exchanging of the wicked Reed family for the benevolent Rivers one; and the Love romance is dealt with in the Thornfield and Ferndean episodes. Both aspects are, of course linked and interwoven throughout the novel.
There is also a strong element of realism in the novel, which, married to the romantic aspect, enhances the novel's strength.The sense of place is very strong; we are able to experience both exterior and interior settings with startling clarity throughout the story, in a series of vivid deive passages. The central characters are also realistic and their confrontations and sufferings change them in a believable way.
Even the unlikely is made plausible, with a unique blend of high drama and perceptive low comedy (the attack on Mason, for instance)
The more fantastic romantic aspects; the coincidences; the secrets; the supernatural occurrences, are balanced by the realism, and this is of course a major strength.
The Gothic influence cannot be ignored, although CB has refined the technique considerably from the "authentic" Gothic of the 1790's. In the original genre, the heroine would typically be abducted and threatened with seduction, or worse!. There would be a lover - a respectable, well-bred young man - who would endeavor to rescue the heroine and would succeed after many trial. the seducer would be a brigand "Know that I adore Corsairs!" and he would lock the girl up in a remote castle.
There was little freedom for middle class women during the period of the Gothic novel, and this was still the case in the time of CB. Marriage especially was often a bargain, whereby fortunes were secured by using the female as a pawn. A woman's value largely depended therefore on her sexual purity and she was guarded and secured as a result. Men, on the contrary, were potent and free; lovers and mistresses were common. Ironically the women who provided their services were social outcasts as a result.
In Jane Eyre we see elements of the Gothic romance, in that Thornfield Hall and Rochester are described very much in the brigand/castle style BUT Jane Eyre is not abducted by R. On the contrary she chooses to go there of her own free will. AND she is clear in her determination to have Rochester as a husband. Neither is there a gentleman rescuer; St John Rivers may look like a Greek God, but he is neither kind nor benevolent; driving Jane back to Ferndean, not rescuing her from it.
The trials which the hero is supposed to undergo in a Gothic romance are in fact undergone by the heroine in Jane Eyre. The bandit Rochester is only skin-deep. Underneath the brooding exterior is a sensitive soul, which a WOMAN frees. In this way we see that CB created rather a daring departure from conventional fiction, although there are still many aspects of the novel which remain true to Victorian convention.!

读后感
近段时间一直在拧一些乱乱的文字，看得乱流突袭，开始发觉在生活中讲话都失去语感。于是产生了懒惰情绪，不愿意再在艰涩晦深的问题中继续停留，转而回身读一些小时候所看的东西。《简爱》是这么一本东西。我的英文水平，是可以读原文的，但是看着那令人目眩的动辄三四行的长句，往往就望而却步。手头一个版本是黄源深翻译的。感觉还不错。随看随翻。在午后阳光和一杯乌龙茶的帮助下，我成功的做到了神游物外，逃避现实，重新回到初一时第一次读这本书的记忆中。
我在读初一前，看的大多是古书，或者白话文。所以我现在能用现代语写作和勾引MM，启蒙者是我初一暑假读的那一堆西方文学著作。这一点，我认同王小波的话：真正的现代汉语，是一群伟大的翻译家留下来的。从这个意义上来讲，他们是我语言的老师。
对于《简爱》，早先我是完全被它的语言所打倒。如痴如醉，魂牵梦萦，有段时间张口闭口都在学那种英国式优雅的口吻。小时候图个好玩，没对情节具体参悟，在心目中这就是一部完美华丽的诗歌。是记忆花园中最后的秘藏。但是重新读过一遍之后，语言的流丽依旧，却在情节与构思中发现了一些别的。
听过一个说法，就是《简爱》发表之初，有人认为它和《呼啸山庄》出自同一人手笔。如果现在来看，我得承认的是，《呼啸》的水平，怕是在《简爱》之上多矣。语言方面我没资格去斤斤计较——英文还没到如此水平——仅仅论及结构和流势，如此而已。
我在重读《简爱》的过程中，发现了一些令我不安的东西。那些东西附身于小说的夹缝之中。我之不安是在于：我已对其产生隐约的不满，而我又不想去忤逆我曾经至爱的经典。无论如何，我在行文之中，发现了一些不令我愉快的东西。
洛特的自尊与平凡。那是一个灵魂炽热而外表简单的女子。这一形象无疑是不朽的经典。可是与其夫罗切斯特一样，这个形象始终在用一种类似于自傲的口吻言论——他们对于他人的鄙薄，多多少少，曾经使我快慰，现在却令我不安。夏洛特托身于简爱，
这是我所知道的。但我所感觉到的是：她对于高层贵族的鄙薄与一种近乎敌视的态度，有些刻意了。反过来说，我从中读到了自卑的情绪。
简爱是个敏感而容易受伤的女子。开头用了太长的篇幅来叙述她幼时的情景。但是我感觉到的是，在叙述简爱这个人物时，夏洛特不曾将自己离开这个躯壳，所以她也没有用全知角度叙述。如此一来，她所描述的差不多可以认定是她的意见。那么，我在简爱中，看到的是某种情绪化的自卑，而后是近乎于传奇的爱情——惟其传奇性，昭示了某种不真实与幻想性——和最后一个几乎有点硬凑的结尾。她遇到了JOHN RIVERS。虽然前头有笔，但还不是那么自然。夏洛特对于简爱的处理，开头非常真实，中间段非常精彩，但是隐伏着不安，到了结尾，则几乎归于俗套——一个我料到的俗套。最后无疑是皆大欢喜，带一点感伤。她的铺垫和衔接很完美，几感觉不到瑕疵。但是我隐约间感到的是，这是一个人间女子编造的故事。它已经缺少了令我战栗的小说结构——更多的时候，我读到了简爱离开山庄，就没再读下去。如果我是夏洛特，或许我就会在那里结束。因为之后的一切，在我看来，比之于前，是很拙劣的。
在文学史上，有许多的经典名著将要永不垂朽，但《简爱》这样深深的进入人们的灵魂，它以一种不可抗拒的美感吸引了成千上万的读者，影响着人们的精神世界，甚至对某些人来讲，影响了他们一生的作品并不多。
19世纪英国文坛“勃朗特三姐妹”之一的夏洛蒂·勃朗特的小说《简·爱》，以19世纪早期英国偏远乡村为背景，用女主人公简·爱的视角以自叙方式讲述了一个受尽摧毁、凌辱的孤儿，如何在犹如儿童的人间地狱的孤儿院顽强地生存下去，成为一个独立、坚强、自尊、自信的女性的成长故事。
简·爱是个孤儿，从小寄养在舅母家中，受尽百般欺凌。后来进了慈善学校洛伍德孤儿院，灵魂和肉体都经受了苦痛的折磨。也许正是这样才换回了简·爱无限的信心和坚强不屈的精神，她以顽强的意志以成绩优秀完成了学业。为了追求独立生活，她受聘在桑菲尔德庄园任家庭教师。故事的重点是身份低下的家庭教师简·爱与男主人罗切斯特之间历经磨难的爱情。这段爱情因男女主人公悬殊的社会地位和个性的差异而充满了激烈碰撞，也因两人志趣相同、真诚相爱而迸发出灿烂的火花。作者以简·爱鲜明独特的女性视角和叙事风格娓娓道来，真实而有艺术感染力。特别是简·爱的独特个性和思想，爱是一个不美的，矮小的女人，但她有顽强的自尊心。在打动身为贵族的男主人公的同时，也紧紧抓住了我们读者的心。
简·爱作为爱情小说的女主人公是以前所未有的女性形象出现在这部十九世纪的文学作品中的。以往爱情故事的女主人公都是些美丽温柔、高贵贤淑的女子形象。而简·爱，她“贫穷，低微，不美，矮小”，但她拥有的一颗智慧、坚强、勇敢的心灵，使那些外在的美在这内在美面前黯然失色。更为可贵的是简·爱并不因为自己的贫穷和外貌而自卑，相反，她勇敢坚定：“我和你的灵魂是平等的。”“我跟你一样有灵魂，——也完全一样有一颗心！”“我现在不是凭习俗、常规，甚至也不是凭着血肉之躯跟你讲话——这是我的心灵在跟你的心灵说话，就仿佛我们都已离开了人世，两人一同站立在上帝的跟前，彼此平等——就像我们本来就是的那样！”
也正因为此，简·爱敢于去爱一个社会阶层远远高于自己的男人，更敢于主动向对方表白自己的爱情——这在当时的社会是极其大胆的。幸福不再是某个人、某个阶层的专利，她属于芸芸众生的每一个人。只有两个相互对等的灵魂才能组成一份完整的爱情，所以简·爱坚持，自身的独立与追求爱情的完整是不能分离的。后来，简·爱含着悲痛离开了罗切斯特，也是基于同样的理由，她决不能允许自己和一个有妇之夫结合在一起。那会是一份不完整的爱。如果她继续留在罗切斯特的身边，那她也就不会还是原来那个独立、平等的简·爱了。如果说简·爱的这次离去是由于无法改变的现实而不得不做出的一次理性选择的话，那么她最后的归来则是她出于坚持感情的追求的又一次理性选择。
在这里，我们看到的不仅仅是一个如何赢得了男贵族爱情的平民女子的苍白的灰姑娘的故事。而是简·爱勇敢果决的走出了灰姑娘的童话，迈向一个有着新女性、真女性的文学道路的起步。简·爱藐视财富、社会地位和宗教的威仪，她认为，“真正的幸福，在于美好的精神世界和高尚纯洁的心灵。”她的信念和行动展现出来的力量，，深打动了一代又一代读者的心，使生活在金钱万能的社会中的人们的灵魂得到净化。简·爱是，一个对自己的思想和人格有着理性认识的女性，一个对自己的幸福和情感有着坚定追求的女性，一个不再只是盲从于男人和世俗要求的女性，一个对自己的价值和情感做出了独立判断的女性，一个坚强独立的女性。夏洛蒂·勃朗特创造了一个前所未有的女性形象；简·爱发出了一个属于女性自己的声音——对于平等、独立、完整、自由的坚持和追求。
夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《简爱》这部现实主义长篇小说自1847年出版以来，以不同语言在全世界不同种族的人们中广为流传，经久不衰。简·爱已作为独立女性的经典，我希望阳光下，鲜花里有更多的简爱走出来，不管是贫穷，还是富有；不管是美貌，还是相貌平庸，都有美好的心灵和充实的心胸，都能以独立的人格和坚强的个性生活。
读《简爱》最深的感受是,这是一部充满人性化的作品,写的是一位饱经沧桑的女性在生活中获取的经验和心境,它在传达现实生活的追求和向往上体现了对困厄和孤独的抗挣,表现
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出那时英国女性对现实生活的迷茫,孤独和恐惧,蕴涵着穿行于冰冷物质空间人们对真情与温情的渴望,显示出别样的精神价值.19世纪的英国同样是一个金钱至上的社会,故事情节的开始就展现出简凄惨,可怜的身世,没有父母,唯一疼爱自己的舅舅也离她而去.天生叛逆的她在本是快乐的童年生活中充满了反抗,在残酷的现实生活中,她幼小的心在渴望温暖和真情,寻找本属于自己的一点一滴.
迷惑在进行,反抗在进行,寻找也在进行,在里德夫人和约翰的欺凌下,简终于走进了教会学堂.但伤痛是存在的,有许多本质的东西,有许多隐藏在生活潜流下的痛感仍需要面对.生活的困境,好友的离去,还有来自勃洛克赫斯特先生当众的痛斥都让她在迷惑的生活中感觉空气的污浊和心的疼痛. 生活总算是有了进展,上帝也发了些许的慈悲,在教会学堂两年的教师生活对于简或许是平静的死水一般.然而在不是欢快,沉静的生活中,却渗透着她强烈的孤独感和恐惧感,她需要的是在现实生活的困惑中去游离和奔波,获得自由,欢快和爱情. 她唯一忘记的是那令她害怕的盖次海德府,她对它如此的恐惧.
恐惧使她远离了"幸福",但也正是因为有了恐惧,她才会有所爱,有所无畏,尤其是对女性而言,恐惧的感情往往与温情,与人性的善良直接的相联.在追求自己的生活中,简渴望温情和善良,在死水般阴暗的生活中,简终于迈出了自己的脚步来到了罗切斯特先生的府邸.在那里她深切的感受到了女仆的和蔼,孩子的天真,还有罗切斯特先生炽烈的爱意.在那里她的灵魂终于驻足,然而这又是那样的短暂,在一个对爱坚信会使不信仰神的民族信奉上帝的爱人面前,她们美丽的爱情却在顷刻间化成了泡影,残酷的现实和社会的压力让这个灰姑娘找不到方向,在心的破碎和情的毁灭中,她又开始了自己迷茫的生活,在无际的世界中寻找他方.
钱是没有的,爱是没有的,而生活却是现实的,沿街的乞讨让简仍在寻找善良和真情.在风雨中,与圣约翰的相逢则是她新生活的又一个开始.在和玛利,黛安娜共同生活的那段时间内,她深切的感受到了爱的温暖.当她知道她们又是一个血统时,她的心兴奋的几乎要跳出来,在圣约翰那不知是否能称得上爱的面前,简每天都希望能满足他的期望,但是这样,她感觉自己抛掉了天性,失去了自我.在继承叔叔的遗产去平分时,她是那样的果断和坚定,而在此刻,圣约翰的企求下 ,她开始了徘徊,因为她自己知道她对罗切斯特先生的思念一刻也没有停止过.对生活追求的信念在简看来不是阳光所能驱散的雾气;也不是画在沙滩上的人像能被暴风雨所冲掉;它是一个刻在大理石碑上的名字,注定要和石碑同生共死.圣约翰先生的期望在继续,叛逆的简在亲情,恩情和爱情中犹豫和思考.她深切的知道他爱她就像士兵爱一件好武器,仅此而已.简的灵魂在心里回答,去做一件正确的事,完成上帝的旨意,以冲出怀疑的云雾,找到确定的广阔天空.
终于,简又开始了最后的找寻,面对着灰飞湮灭的昔日庄园,周围一片死一般的寂静,孤寂,荒凉,和凄切.而此刻充溢于简灵魂的是无尽的害怕和思念.古老的建筑深深地隐藏在一座树林里,芬丁庄园沐浴在凉气透骨的绵绵细雨中,而失明的罗切斯特先生却在户外焦急的等待.平静的生活和无尽的思念或许是他灵魂飞扬的源泉,就在这简单的生活中,简和他紧紧的相拥,似温馨迷人的梦,美好而又实在.在烦躁的生活中,时间让简彻底的找到了属于自己的生活,在树林的古建筑里和爱人平淡的度过每一天的生活.
光阴是短暂的,又是美好的,已逝的岁月里简和心爱的人共同面对生活中的一切,她们也彻底的成为了彼此的骨中骨,肉中肉.故事结束了,而真实的,毫不含糊的现实生活却在你我的心中演绎.征程的坎坷,旅途的疲惫,生活的曲折,拼搏的寂寞萦绕在心头,而怀抱里的各种志愿却在风雨中愈发的不可动摇.面对阳光,面对风雨,你是否如此地坦然;面对理想,面对希望,你是否执着地追求! 在简平凡而又曲折的生活中,她时刻放飞着美丽的梦想,为幸福而追求,为平凡而找寻.她别样的精神价值在新的时代里赋予了青年们幸福与快乐的真谛.——在深深树林中的一座古老建筑里有一对白发苍苍的老人感受着上帝的恩赐和彼此的温暖,或许这就是生活的幸福.

An Analysis of Jane Eyre
The novel is rich in poetry, symbolism and metaphor. It does not fit easily into a definite pattern, being neither a novel of "manners" in the tradition of Austen, or a straightforward Gothic Romance in the style of Mrs Radcliffe. What Charlotte Bronte did was to create a work which cleverly blends elements of the two styles, and which remains uniquely independent of them at the same time, since it addresses issues which were at the time rather controversial.
The novel is written in the first person, and thus magnifies the central character - the reader enters the world of Jane Eyre and is transported through her experiences at first hand. This at once makes the work subjective, especially since we know that Charlottes Brontes own life and experiences were so closely interwoven with the heroine's. As well as this we learn only at the end of the novel that the events are being related to us ten years after the reconciliation with Rochester - thus the narrative is RETROSPECTIVE (looking back). CB is clever in blending the narrative so that at times Jane seems to be speaking as an adult with adult hindsight , while at others she she is "in the middle" of them, as a child or young woman. The indecision which is a central issue in the book, is heightened by this device. We never know, as readers, whether to be entirely trustful of Janes actions and thoughts, because we are never sure wheher she is speaking impulsively or maturely.
This intensifies the readers dilemma as to what is "right" and "wrong" in the dramatic relationships which are part of JE's life. Can we believe what the heroine says, or is she deceiving herself? The novel is primarily a love story and a "romance" where wishes come true but only after trials and suffering. The supernatural has its place, as do dreams, portents and prophesies. The heroine begins poor and lonely and ends up rich and loved; the orphan finds a good family to replace the wicked one; all the basic ingredients of classic romantic fairytale are present.

小说设计了一个很光明的结尾.罗彻斯特的庄园毁了,他本人也成了一个残废..在这样的情况下,简爱不再在尊严和爱之间矛盾.而同时获得满足-------她和罗彻斯特的结婚是有尊严的,同时也是有爱的.
小说告诉我们,人们最美好的生活就是尊严加爱.小说的结局按排的这是这样一种生活.虽然我觉得这样的结局过于完美,这样的完美有点浮浅..但我依然尊重作者对这种生活的美好理想.就是-------尊严加爱/
The
novel
tells
us
that
the
best
people
to
increase
the
dignity
of
life
is
love.
Novels
by
the
end
of
the
row
that
this
is
such
a
life.
Although
I
think
this
kind
of
outcome
is
too
perfect,
so
perfect
..
a
little
superficial,
but
I
still
respect
this
author
The
ideal
of
a
better
kind
of
life.
-------
Is
to
increase
the
dignity
of
love
/
够字了吧？
In
modern
society,
few
people
will
like
Jane
Eyre,
for
the
love
for
the
character
and
abandon
all,
and
without
looking
back.'s
Whole-hearted
pursuit
of
pay,
and
pure
like
a
glass
of
ice
water
.......