Viewing Women In The Position Of Love From Jane Eyre
温州师范学院外语系98英专（3）
陈光楣
Abstract:
The author of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (1818-55) was one of the daughters of
a poor country clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England. Charlotte
Bronte was thirty when she started writing Jane Eyre. She experience of English
country life, especially in the north of England, of boarding schools, educational
practice and the work of a governess. She was well educated in the few subjects
then available to young women and in her case these included excellent French.
She had been unhappily in love, but was still unmarried. She had had virtually
no experience of the social life and manners of the aristocratic or wealthy, and
had hardly traveled at all. Most of Jane Eyre was written out of her own limited
knowledge. When the demands of the story took her into the unknown her lack of
experience was supplied by imagination.
Jane takes little pride in her social position and none at all in her possessions,
which are negligible until she inherits a fortune from her uncle. She is humble
about her appearance and personal charm. Jane is nevertheless fiercely proud of
her status as an educated and independent woman. Jane says: "Because I am
poor, humble, unbeautiful, short and slight in figure, have I had no soul and
feelings. You are wrong. Both my soul and my feelings are as same as yours wholly.
And if God grants me a little beauty and wealth I will let you feel to leave me
difficultly as well as now I feel to leave you difficultly… Standing in front
of God, we are equal-because we are equal as human beings." And the leading
man, Rochester, say: "Yesterday evening in the frigid moonlight you are angry
when you raised a claim that you and I were equal to resist your fate. By the
way, Jane, it was you that to propose me."
Key words:
Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester, love.
Notes.
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(2) YORK NOTES---JANE EYRE
(3) A History of English Literature---Volume 3
