About Jane Eyre
Love versus Autonomy
Jane Eyre is very much the story of a quest to be loved. Jane searches, not just for romantic love, but also for a sense of being valued, of belonging. Thus Jane says to Helen Burns: “to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest” (Chapter 8). Yet, over the course of the book, Jane must learn how to gain love without sacrificing and harming herself in the process.
Her fear of losing her autonomy motivates her refusal of Rochester’s marriage proposal. Jane believes that “marrying” Rochester while he remains legally tied to Bertha would mean rendering herself a mistress and sacrificing her own integrity for the sake of emotional gratification. On the other hand, her life at Moor House tests her in the opposite manner. There, she enjoys economic independence and engages in worthwhile and useful work, teaching the poor; yet she lacks emotional sustenance. Although St. John proposes marriage, offering her a partnership built around a common purpose, Jane knows their marriage would remain loveless.
Nonetheless, the events of Jane’s stay at Moor House are necessary tests of Jane’s autonomy. Only after proving her self-sufficiency to herself can she marry Rochester and not be asymmetrically dependent upon him as her “master.” The marriage can be one between equals. As Jane says: “I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine. . . . To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company. . . . We are precisely suited in character—perfect concord is the result” (Chapter 38).
Motifs
Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.
Fire and Ice
Fire and ice appear throughout Jane Eyre. The former represents Jane’s passions, anger, and spirit, while the latter symbolizes the oppressive forces trying to extinguish Jane’s vitality. Fire is also a metaphor for Jane, as the narrative repeatedly associates her with images of fire, brightness, and warmth. In Chapter 4, she likens her mind to “a ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring.” We can recognize Jane’s kindred spirits by their similar links to fire; thus we read of Rochester’s “flaming and flashing” eyes (Chapter 25). After he has been blinded, his face is compared to “a lamp quenched, waiting to be relit” (Chapter 37).
Images of ice and cold, often appearing in association with barren landscapes or seascapes, symbolize emotional desolation, loneliness, or even death. The “death-white realms” of the arctic that Bewick describes in his History of British Birds parallel Jane’s physical and spiritual isolation at Gateshead (Chapter 1). Lowood’s freezing temperatures—for example, the frozen pitchers of water that greet the girls each morning—mirror Jane’s sense of psychological exile. After the interrupted wedding to Rochester, Jane describes her state of mind: “A Christmas frost had come at mid-summer: a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hay-field and corn-field lay a frozen shroud . . . and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and fragrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead. . . .” (Chapter 26). Finally, at Moor House, St. John’s frigidity and stiffness are established through comparisons with ice and cold rock. Jane writes: “By degrees, he acquired a certain influence over me that took away my liberty of mind. . . . I fell under a freezing spell”(Chapter 34). When St. John proposes marriage to Jane, she concludes that “s his curate, his comrade, all would be right. . . . But as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable” (Chapter 34).
Symbols
Symbols are objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
Bertha Mason
Bertha Mason is a complex presence in Jane Eyre. She impedes Jane’s happiness, but she also catalyses the growth of Jane’s self-understanding. The mystery surrounding Bertha establishes suspense and terror to the plot and the atmosphere. Further, Bertha serves as a remnant and reminder of Rochester’s youthful libertinism.
Yet Bertha can also be interpreted as a symbol. Some critics have read her as a statement about the way Britain feared and psychologically “locked away” the other cultures it encountered at the height of its imperialism. Others have seen her as a symbolic representation of the “trapped” Victorian wife, who is expected never to travel or work outside the house and becomes ever more frenzied as she finds no outlet for her frustration and anxiety. Within the story, then, Bertha’s insanity could serve as a warning to Jane of what complete surrender to Rochester could bring about.
One could also see Bertha as a manifestation of Jane’s subconscious feelings—specifically, of her rage against oppressive social and gender norms. Jane declares her love for Rochester, but she also secretly fears marriage to him and feels the need to rage against the imprisonment it could become for her. Jane never manifests this fear or anger, but Bertha does. Thus Bertha tears up the bridal veil, and it is Bertha’s existence that indeed stops the wedding from going forth. And, when Thornfield comes to represent a state of servitude and submission for Jane, Bertha burns it to the ground. Throughout the novel, Jane describes her inner spirit as fiery, her inner landscape as a “ridge of lighted heath” (Chapter 4). Bertha seems to be the outward manifestation of Jane’s interior fire. Bertha expresses the feelings that Jane must keep in check.
The Red-Room
The red-room can be viewed as a symbol of what Jane must overcome in her struggles to find freedom, happiness, and a sense of belonging. In the red-room, Jane’s position of exile and imprisonment first becomes clear. Although Jane is eventually freed from the room, she continues to be socially ostracized, financially trapped, and excluded from love; her sense of independence and her freedom of self-expression are constantly threatened.
The red-room’s importance as a symbol continues throughout the novel. It reappears as a memory whenever Jane makes a connection between her current situation and that first feeling of being ridiculed. Thus she recalls the room when she is humiliated at Lowood. She also thinks of the room on the night that she decides to leave Thornfield after Rochester has tried to convince her to become an undignified mistress. Her destitute condition upon her departure from Thornfield also threatens emotional and intellectual imprisonment, as does St. John’s marriage proposal. Only after Jane has asserted herself, gained financial independence, and found a spiritual family—which turns out to be her real family—can she wed Rochester and find freedom in and through marriage.

书虫之傲慢与偏见
Pride and Prejudice ", a novel a pleasure to behold, a beautiful and moving story.
The article describes a number of daughters Bo Nate story. Ji-an eldest daughter, gentle kind-hearted, beautiful Keren, Bentley and rich kids at first sight, but at the crucial moment has brought a twist. Second daughter, Elizabeth, Qingli intelligent, ambitious, assertive, consistent with the property of the nobility million youth met Darcy. Can be as arrogant Darcy eccentric, Elizabeth for his prejudice are serious, they love but refuse to recognize the obvious, but also continue to hurt each other with words, but fortunately dispelled the last mistake, married lovers.
Reading this novel, I have benefited greatly. In our people, there are many very modest, but there are some arrogant people. These arrogant people who sometimes annoying, they have eyes in the head long, others are dismissive. Indeed, the arrogance is a shortcoming in the environment to develop a character. Chinese children from an early age by their parents as holding掌上明珠typical "little emperors." If so has been from small to large养尊处优, how could it not arrogant? So I think that we should not be arrogant people who have prejudices, but the more soul-searching myself, to see if they have not arrogant, after their own things to learn to no longer allow parents to worry about, tired.
As the book said: "Heart of pride in everyone. As long as we have so a little bit of strength, they will feel especially great. But pride and vanity while the same meaning, but in real terms in different kinds of self-pride is a feeling, Vanity will need to involve other people overestimate their own, so people have a pride without vanity, which is justifiable.
可以适当删减~~~
翻译如下~~
《傲慢与偏见》，一部值得细细品味的小说，一个美丽动人的故事。
文中描述了柏纳特一家几个女儿的故事。大女儿姬安，温柔善良，美丽可人，与富家子弟宾利一见倾心，却在关键时刻发生了波折。二女儿伊丽莎白，聪慧清丽，有志气，有主见，与家产万贯的贵族青年达西相识。可因为达西高傲孤僻，伊丽莎白对他存有严重的偏见，两人明明相爱却不肯承认，还不断地用言语刺痛对方，幸好最后误会冰释，有情人终成眷属。
看了这本小说，我受益匪浅。在我们这些人中，有许多很谦虚，但也有一些傲慢的人。这些傲慢的人有时的确令人讨厌，他们把眼睛长在头上，对其他人都不屑一顾。的确，傲慢是一种缺点，一种在环境下养成的性格。我们中国的孩子，从小就被父母视为掌上明珠捧着，典型的“小皇帝”。要是从小到大一直这么养尊处优，怎么会不傲慢呢？因此，我觉得我们不应该对傲慢的人产生偏见，而是该多反省自己，看看自己有没有傲慢，以后自己的事也要学会自己做，不再让父母操心，劳累了。
正如书中所说：“骄傲之心人皆有之。只要我们拥有那么一点点长处，就会觉得自己特别了不起。但其中的骄傲和虚荣虽含义相同，却实质不同，骄傲是种自我感觉，虚荣则需要牵扯到别人高估自己，所以，一个人拥有不含虚荣心的骄傲，这也是无可非议的。”

《阿拉丁和神灯》读后感
今天，我看了《阿拉丁和神灯》这个话剧。它记叙了：当朝宰相贪欲不足，虽已是一人之下，万人之上，拥有百万身家，但他还不满足，企图篡夺王位。贫穷少年阿拉丁碰见了宰相派去刺杀皇上的人，在不知不觉中和他调了一个牛皮袋，因此而打乱了宰相的计划。随后，诚实善良的阿拉丁又被狡猾而又贪心的宰相骗去拿拥有无边法力的神灯。当他拿回了神灯，无意间发现了宰相的诡计，于是，他巧用连环计，在灯神的帮助下将宰相变成了一条小狗。
这童话故事告诉我们一个道理：贪心的人是不会有好下场的；诚实善良的人，一定会被上天善待。大家只有都学习第二种人，天下才会更加美好、和谐！
联系我们自己的生活想想，“妈妈，我要吃冰棍！”“爸爸，我肚子饿了，你给我买点吃的来，越多越好！”“某某同学，请我客，一元钱！”……这些难道不是同学们常用的话语吗？这样整天不停地向父母和别人索求，是会慢慢养成我们的贪婪之性的！我想起了我学过的一篇文章。它写了一个姓胡的青年，自小被父母惯着，还很贪吃，常到食品仓库偷糖果、鸡蛋。后来越吃越馋，偷窃的瘾头也越来越大。到17岁，他再也不满足这类小东西了，开始到轮船上、汽车上偷钱包。被公安局依法送去做劳动教养。释放出来后，偷窃成性的他又重操旧业，而且不择手段，仅仅一年零五个月的时间，就作案52起，偷窃国家和人民财产24万多元，堕落成为作恶多端的盗窃犯。再看，阿拉丁，诚实善良是他的本性，为了信守诺言，他宁愿去找一盏“破灯”（那时，他还不知道它是盏神灯），也不去拿满山的金银珠宝。最后，他不也是成了国王的女婿、王位的继承人了吗？这就是“贪心”和“诚实善良”的差别！
古语有云：贪它一斗米，失却半年粮。
让我们从我做起，从现在做起，做一个诚实善良、不受金钱和权利诱惑的人吧！

书虫系列读后感

　　当阅读完一本名著后，相信大家都积累了属于自己的读书感悟，现在就让我们写一篇走心的读后感吧。那么我们该怎么去写读后感呢？下面是我整理的书虫系列读后感，供大家参考借鉴，希望可以帮助到有需要的朋友。

　　书，是人类进步的阶梯;书是知识的海洋;书，是全人类的老师。只有读书，才能让我们懂得无限的知识。是书，带领我们进入广袤无边的大海。

　　每一个人都有各自喜欢的书籍。其中我比较喜欢看《鲁滨孙漂流记》。因为这本书中的主人公——鲁滨孙，是一个勇敢、有主见的`人。而我就比较喜欢这类的人。

　　英国著名作家丹尼尔·笛福把鲁滨孙的一个个故事，一个个情节写得栩栩如生。其中我最喜欢看的部分就是第一章了。因为这一段情节描述了鲁滨孙在遇难后的生活，与自己辛勤努力的结果，而且在这儿的从中体现出了他的机智与勇敢。

　　鲁滨孙居然能在荒岛上生活了28年，这个巨大的数字，是我们每一个人所不能承受的，而且他在那个鬼地方无依无靠，只能用自己的双手与智慧来战胜困难，但是我觉得他也是十分幸运的，因为在这么多人中，只有他幸存下来，他利用自己的智慧与勇敢战胜了困难。在1868年终于回到了祖国，离别了28年的祖国。

　　他的精神十分值得人佩服。这使我明白了，不论遇到什么困难，都不是不可能战胜的，所以我们一定要勇敢的面对。

　　书能让我们从中懂得许多的道理与知识。

　　出身于商人之家的鲁滨孙，不想平庸地生活，一心向往着充满冒险与挑战的海外生活，于是毅然舍弃安逸舒适的生活，离家出海航行，去实现遨游世界的梦想，但每次都历尽艰险。有一次，风暴将船只打翻，鲁滨孙一个人被海浪抛到一座荒无人烟的海岛上，在那里度过了28年孤独的时光。

　　带着自己的梦想去畅游鲁滨孙的世界，体会他勇于冒险和百折不挠的精神。了解了他的性格：他敢于冒险;勇于追求自由自在，无拘无束的生活;即使流落荒岛，也绝不气馁;一个硬汉子的坚毅性格和英雄本色。“鲁滨孙”已经成为冒险家的代名词和千千万万读者心中的英雄。鲁滨孙在荒无人烟，缺乏最基本的生存条件的小岛上，孤身一人，克服了许许多多常人无法想象的困难，以惊人的毅力顽强地活了下来。没有房子，他自己搭建;没有食物，他尝试打猎，种谷子，驯养山羊，晒野葡萄干;他还自己摸索着做桌椅，做陶器，用围巾筛面，做面包~~~在这荒无人烟的海岛上，鲁滨孙运用自己的智慧，创造性地解决了衣食住行等多方面的问题。做陶器，做面包等细节描写都充分表现了他积极面对困难的豁达态度和他非凡的创造力。

　　从古到今，出现了一批又一批勇敢的探险家，他们上天入地，走南闯北，打开了自然界一扇扇紧闭的门窗，让我们知道了世界上的许多秘密