Sense and Sensibility was the first Jane Austen published. Though she initially called it Elinor and Marianne, Austen jettisoned both the title and the epistolary mode in which it was originally written, but kept the essential theme: the necessity of finding a workable middle ground between passion and reason. The story revolves around the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. Whereas the former is a sensible, rational creature, her younger sister is wildly romantic--a characteristic that offers Austen plenty of scope for both satire and compassion. Commenting on Edward Ferrars, a potential suitor for Elinor's hand, Marianne admits that while she "loves him tenderly," she finds him disappointing as a possible lover for her sister.
Soon however, Marianne meets a man who measures up to her ideal: Mr. Willoughby, a new neighbor. So swept away by passion is Marianne that her behavior begins to border on the scandalous. Then Willoughby abandons her; meanwhile, Elinor's growing affection for Edward suffers a check when he admits he is secretly engaged to a childhood sweetheart. How each of the sisters reacts to their romantic misfortunes, and the lessons they draw before coming finally to the requisite happy ending forms the heart of the novel. Though Marianne's disregard for social conventions and willingness to consider the world well-lost for love may appeal to modern readers, it is Elinor whom Austen herself most evidently admired; a truly happy marriage, she shows us, exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.
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这是我自己去年写的。简爱的读后感，因为读的是简写本，所以后面的好词好句摘抄你可以不写的。
People in the novel: the main figures
Mr Reed [Jane’s uncle]
Miss Temple [Jane’s headmistress]
Edward Rochester
Jane Eyre
Mrs Fairfax [the housekeeper]
Helen Burns [a pupil as well as a friend of Jane]
The gist of the story
Jane was brought up by her aunt Mrs Reed,who promised her husband as well as Jane’s uncle Reed to look after Jane like her own children on his death bed.But actually,Mrs Reed didn’t keep her promise,she treated Jane as a servant and all the people at Gateshead didn’t like her so she had a tragic experience of her childhood.Finally,the day that she stayed with her aunt came to the end when her aunt sent her to the Lowood school where she stayed for as long as nine years including two years as a teacher.
At the beginning of the new life,it was extremely troublesome .The first thing was that she was accused as a liar by Mr Brocklehurst,the school’sfinancial manager and after she suffered it, many students were seriously ill with typhus fever and some of them died as a result of the poor food and bad living conditions.Fortunately,Jane escaped from that.Anyway,there were still some happy things,for example,the biggest harvest is Jane learned a lot in school and became excellent.Then came a turn in her life:after Miss Temple getting married and moved away,Jane decided to change her life,so she sdvertised in a newspaper and began another new life in Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for a young girl less than ten years old.It was quite comfortable and Jane felt happy and satisfied.The first time she met Mr Rochester was a night and he fell down with the horse he rode.Jane helped him to jumped on to the horse’s back when she didn’t knowthat the person was Mr Rochester.So the next time they met in the house they talked for a long time.It is obviousl that Jane made a good impression on Mr Rochester.That night ,She also knew some information about her master from the housekeeper.Before long ,they talked for several times,in the park or somewhere else,they talked about past to each other.As Mr Rochester had trusted Jane with the story of his past life,she felt proud and learned more of his character.Mr Rochester’s kindness and goodness to Jane made her think that the moments spent with him were her most happiest and even regarded him as the best compion .It seems that Jane has lost her heart to Mr Rochester.
One night,however,Jane found that someone had plotted to kill him and she saved his life from the fire.It was that night that Mr Rochester expressed his love to Jane,sincercly.But Jane’smind was full of confusing pictures and disturbed emotions,she didn’t say anything to Mr Rochester.Everything was clear when Jane saw that Mr Rochester did seem to sdmire a beautiful elegant lady_Blanche Ingram,who played the piano excellently,sang sweetly,discussed intelligently and all the time she attracted glances from every gentleman in the room,Mr Rochester included.Especially they two seemed to get married soon.If there is not the accident happened.One day,Mr Rochester disguised as the gipsy woman and told Miss Ingram that he had onlt a little money,she and her pride mother lost interest in him.Meanwhile,he found himself loved Jane so much.Also ,Jane was such a good woman that he made an offer of marriage to her.Of course,Jane agreed.That moment she was too happy to think about anything except their bright future.
The day finally came.When they arrived the church something terrible happened.Out of people’s anticipation,Mr Rochester had married for fifteen years long and his wife whoes family had madness ran in was in his house at Thornfield Hall.Jane didn’t know until that moment.She thought her hopes were all dead and her future was empty.After a sharp struggle in her mind ,she decided to leave Mr Rochester to begin a totle new life although she loved him so much.
Then she began her life at Moor House,with two girls Diana and Mary Rivers and their brother St John .They got along well with each other.Time flies.To everyone’s surprise,they found that they four were cousins by chance ,all of them were very happy.Jane inherited a fortune from her another uncle John and she became rich .After her time spent with John as a teacher in a poor village,she went back to Whitcross and returned to Thornfield.But everything was wrong,she found that the house caught a fire and was lay in ruins now.What’s worse,Mr Rochester was badly injured in the fire,losing a hand and the sight of both eyes in order to help his wife escaoe.
In this condition, she stayed with Mr Rochester and took care of him, finally, they got married.
MY THOUGHTS
In fact, Jane is a poor girl, without parents and fortune.What makes things worse is that she isn’t beautiful, and the strong characters she has makes she loses the only charming on her because she always has a strong will.Certenily, she met with various ills of life.Although she has a law social position she never feels herself inferior.In her opinion, she is the only person who can decide her own destiny. She does do a good job.
Believe it or not, I think that nobady is perfect, we should accept our shortcomings instead of being self_absed.The important thing in life is to have a great desure to improve ourselves and the determination to do it.Just do it like Jane.Everyman is the master of his future as the saying goes where there is a will, there is a way.
I also want to say something about Mr Rochester.According to the description in the novel,he is not handsome but has a great heart.He has the courage to purse his true love and when he realized he fell in love with Jane,he finally won her heart after several episodes.But as far as I’m concerned I don’t know when he fell in love with her.I just doubt whether Mr Rochester loves Jane as much as Jane likes him because I only see Jane do so many things for him.It doesn’t repays Jane’s labour well,I think.However,maybe they don’t care.
1． GOOD SENTENCE
2． She looked straight in front of her and her face was as cold and hard as marble.----The writer descripes Jane’s face as a marble,so it shows that Miss Temple didn’t like the manager,not at all.She was brave enough to do it and bears all responsibility.
3． But life has been a struggle for me, and I’ve become as hard and tough as a rubber ball.I only have a little goodness left inside.
4． I can prove that you’re cold, and ill and a fool.She said,”Listen,you are cold,because you are alone.You’re ill because you lack love.And you’re a fool because love is near you and you can’t take a step to reach it.---Here it uses three sentences with the same:you are…becayse…/.It emphasizes that the speaker knows Jane well or maybe the writer tells Jane’s feeling in this way.
5． Do you think I can watch another woman become your bride? Do you think I’m a machine without feelinfs?Do you think,because I’m small and poor and plain,that I have as much soul and heart as you.It is my spirit that speaks to your spirit.We are equal in the sight of God.---I just like these sentences,Jane speaks loudly to Mr Rochester and lets him know her feeling.The most important thing is that she never gives up…

Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul
Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.
We remember her pursuit of justice. It’s like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.
We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God’s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.
We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…
When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
Actually, she wasn’t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn’t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than ‘the plain and ugly governess’. But as the little governess had said: ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!’ This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre’s mind. God hadn’t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.
In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn’t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person’s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that ‘Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted’. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.
Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty.