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Abstract :

Jane lost parents when her young, she lodged with relative, her aunt Mrs.Reed, and suffered many unfair treatment. This life lasted long time until her left Row Ward Charity. Jane evolves beginning as a poor and plain woman without captivating charm to her mature stage as a compassionate and confident whole woman. As she matures, she comments much on the complexities of the human conditionAlthough Jane suffers much, she is never portrayed as a damsel in distress who needs pursue freedom, fair, and equal love. Finally, she found her true love, being a compassionate

Key words: the life experience of Jane Eyre , A Struggling Woman, freedom, love

1Brief Introduction of Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre was raised by her cruel, wealthy aunt, Mrs. Reed. Her uncle had passed away. At Lowood, Jane met a young girl named Helen Burns who shared a lot with her and became her best friend. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen died of it. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst’s place,.Jane spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher. Then she accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfieldwhich’s employer is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, Jane found herself falling in love with him. On the wedding day, Jane found that Rochester already had a wife, Bertha. Rochester does not deny this, but he explains that Bertha had been already mad.

Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane left Thornfield sadly. Without food and money, Jane was forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three kind hearted people took her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John and Jane quickly became friends with them. They found Jane a job teaching at a school in Morton. One day a news said that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large property. Then she found that her uncle was also their uncle.Jane immediately decides to share her property with her three new cousins. St. John decided to travel to India, and he asked Jane as his wife. She refused to marry her cousin because she did not love him at all. Finally she found the man who she really loved so much was Rochester.Jane immediately went back to Thornfield and found that it hadbeen burned to the ground by his mad wife who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane finally got married. At the end of the story, Rochester regained sight in one eye and was able to behold their first son at his birth. Then they lived a happy life forever.

2 Author

Charlotte Bronte was born in the north of England in a priest family in 1816.Her mother died, at the age of eight. Charlotte was sent to a boarding school where living conditions were extremely poor, due to her two sisters have died. Charlotte and her sister Emily returned home, in the desolate mountains spent her childhood. At the age of fifteen, Charlotte go to school, a few years later as a teacher in this school. She also worked as a tutor, eventually because of cannot bear the tutor’s discrimination and mistreatment, she resigned. She had intended to run a school. However due to the lackof students, the school did not run. But learning experience in Italy inspired Charlotte’s strong desire to express them. In 1846, she completes her second novel ―Jane Eyre‖.

In the autumn of 1847, the novel published, with great success, reprinted two times next year, let unknown author become one of the famous British novelists.

3 Characteristics of characters

Jane Eyre

Jane was a kind and reflective woman, who lived in the poverty and went through all kinds of difficulties. Her life was sympathetic but her strong mind to pursue equality and happiness was prized. Jane thought that love could only survive on the basis of spiritual equality not social status, money and appearance. In her view, only loves each other can couple obtains happiness. In her way to pursue love, she did not give up her love to Rochester because she was his servant. She loved Rochester because he could treat people equally and treat her like a friend not his wealth. Jane represents women who fight for equality and freedom from the lower class. Edward Rochester

Jane’s lover; a dark, passionate, brooding man. A traditional romantic hero, Rochester has lived a troubled wife. Married to an insane Creole woman, Bertha Mason, Rochester sought solace for several years in the arms of mistresses. Finally, he seeks to purify his life and wants Jane Eyre, the innocent governess he has hired to teach his foster daughter, Adèle Varens, to become his wife. The wedding falls through when she learns of the existence of his wife. As penance for his transgressions, he is punished by the loss of an eye and a hand when Bertha sets fire to Thornfield. He finally gains happiness at the novel’s end when he is reunited with Jane.

4 Plots

One night Jane is awakened by the same shrill scream she had heard before. Opening her door, she sees smoke billowing from Rochester s room. His bed on fire, Rochester is awakened just in time by Jane. He refuses to allow her to awaken the household, telling her the fire may have been set by Grace Poole, who has periodic fits of insanity. The rest of the servants are told the fire was accidentally caused by a candle falling.

Jane, sensing that her employer is suffering from the consequences of some mysterious sin of the past, gives him all her sympathy and gradually finds herself falling in love with him. But her hopes are thwarted when Rochester begins going to parties in the neighborhood where he is courting the beautiful, frivolous Blanche Ingram. At a party Rochester gives in Thornfield Manor, the aristocratic Blanche and her friends treat Jane with haughty condescension. Jane feels she can never compete with these snobbish, elegant people.

While the house guests are staying at Thornfield, Rochester receives a mysterious caller―a Mr. Mason from the West Indies. That night Jane hears a scuffle and a cry for help in the room just above hers. Rochester quiets the household s alarm but asks Jane privately to help nurse Mr. Mason who is bleeding and unconscious. Before dawn the wounded man is spirited away from the house.

One day soon after, Jane is enjoying the lovely midsummer evening in an orchard when Rochester comes upon her and informs her he-is shortly to be married. Jane, miserable, assumes he intends Co marry Blanche Ingram. She asks him tearfully how he can expect her to remain on at Thornfield under the circumstances. Rochester kisses her and tells her it is she whom he wishes to marry.

Jane s happy excitement before the wedding is interrupted one night when she awakens in horror to see a strange, ugly woman trying on her bridal veil and then tearing it to pieces. Rochester assures her it is only a bad dream, but in the morning Jane finds the ripped fragments of the veil.

5 My thoughts of Jane Eyre

If God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal — as we are!

----- Jane Eyre I have learned from her that one cannot decide his birth, but everyone in the personality of equality, should not depend on a person's status, wealth, beauty and ugliness, looks to determine a person's rank. Everyone has their own life pursuit. Each man is the architect of his own fate. Choose what kind of life is decided by yourself. Jane Eyre with this belief is, not because of her poor birth, the general appearance and complains, but through her own efforts and struggle, gained her desire for equality and sincere love, have what she wants peace and quiet life. Is such a woman, she is not beautiful, still the crowd that is a lot of efforts that, not more than normal, but with her unique personality charm and unremitting self-improvement life moved countless readers.

―Does not erupt in the silence, in the silence of death \in the face of evil and injustice, she dares to resist. In the face of tall and big cousin John Reed beat abuse, who had been used to obey his Jane finally unbearable, stand up bravely to protect themselves, and he struggles, calling him \" ruthless bad boy \" \" like a murderer, to abuse of slave foreman, like those of Rome tyrant \also made him cry loudly. However was a victim of the Jane Eyre therefore it is thrown into the horror of the red house, where, Jane Eyre in fear at the same time, think of my aunt Mrs. Reed hatred, her son John's abuse of outrageous, her two daughters arrogant apathy, the servants of the eccentric, realized himself in the Gates head house is in how humble status, the reality of awake and painful understanding so that she sent out \" – unfair! unfair! \" Cry, and the first to rely on its own strength to win their status and rights.

6 Conclusions

This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a

hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.

It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyre. I am of no exception. As we refer to the movie ―Jane Eyre‖, it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way, but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person, both physically and mentally.