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.共3页，当前第1页1 23

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　　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 。 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.共3页，当前第2页12 3