3. The third resistance
When Jane met Rochester, she was always humble and generous in the face of his moody and rude personality. Because of Jane's character, Rochester gradually fell in love with Jane, and Jane began to have a good impression on Rochester, and then fell in love. However, because of Bertha Mei Sen's existence, she thinks she can't compare with Bertha Mei Sen at all. She is in control of her feelings and has been struggling with her true thoughts. Because of these ideas, she finally decided to leave.
If the first two rebellions are based on emotional impulse, then the third rebellion is the embodiment of simple and rational thinking. This rationality still depends on its own desire for free and equal love, and is not the result of completely rational thinking.
The fourth resistance
Faced with St. John's proposal, Jane fled Whitcrouse. This escape means Jane's two kinds of resistance. One is the resistance to religion. St John Rivers is an ambitious and complacent Christian with strong personal heroism. He tried to fulfill his moral responsibility at the expense of his emotional needs. Jane's resistance is against hypocritical religion. The other is the resistance to the traditional concept of love. Jane returned to Thornfield and Rochester, who were unable to take care of themselves. Jane's action is a subversion, subversion is the traditional door-to-door, subversion is the previous fairy tale. In the end, she won the final victory in the struggle for true love and independence.
From perceptual thinking to rational thinking, Jane has achieved a great leap in her struggling life and achieved the birth of feminism. Jane's resistance is not only aimed at some people and things, but also at some systems of a country and a society.
Third, the conclusion
Jane Eyre, the protagonist who lives at the bottom of society, is a kind-hearted and understanding woman. Although she has suffered a lot, her stubborn personality and the spirit of pursuing happiness are still shocking. Among them, Jane Eyre's unique view of love has deepened her personality. She believes that love should be based on spiritual equality and should not depend on social status, wealth and appearance. Only when you really love each other can you get real happiness. With such a love belief, in the process of pursuing personal happiness, she shows unusual pure and simple feelings and indomitable courage. Jane Eyre did not give up the pursuit of happiness because of her servant status. For her, love is pure and noble. Rochester's wealth has nothing to do with their love. She loves him deeply because he can be honest with her and understand Jane's extraordinary temperament, talent and virtue. Jane Eyre became a bosom friend he never found in his life. And Rochester's frank and sincere friendship and frankness towards Jane made Jane fall in love with him deeply.
This novel also describes Rochester's two completely different love experiences, and strongly criticizes the concept of marriage and love based on money in the social era. Jane Eyre, who pursues independent personality, also pays more attention to the spiritual equality between men and women. Even though the experience was not hard, she still loved life, strengthened her love belief, waited for equal and pure true love, and even resolutely gave up the long-awaited love, and finally achieved spiritual equality with her loved ones after suffering. The image of Jane Eyre portrayed in this novel is noble, and the embarrassing environment can't change her nobility, nor can the difficult fate change her nobility. Jane achieved self-transcendence, pursued freedom and equality, and realized the value of life. For contemporary women, she should have her own beliefs, create a world for herself and realize her life value!
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Analysis of Jane Eyre's Female Image [2]
Jane Eyre is a classic handed down from generation to generation in the history of English literature. It has successfully created a female image who takes an independent and positive attitude towards love, life, society and religion, and dares to resist and strive for freedom and equality. Jane Eyre is an orphan from a poor family. Even growing up in a dark environment, she is still kind, considerate, sincere and independent. Dare to resist under violence and oppression and strive for freedom and equality; Pursue happiness in the secular and snobbish, dare to express their love and hate, and finally defend their personality and dignity, and harvest their own beautiful love. Jane Eyre has always been regarded as a classic of independent women. No matter she is poor or rich, no matter she is beautiful or ordinary, she has a beautiful heart and a full mind, and she can live with an independent personality and a strong personality. From perceptual thinking to rational thinking, Jane made a great leap in her struggling life and even achieved the birth of a great feminism. Jane Eyre has always been regarded as a feminist textbook.
Firstly, the typicality of Jane Eyre and other characters is compared and analyzed.
In the novel, Helen and Jane Eyre have very similar experiences, the same age, the same orphan and the same abuse. It can be said that Helen is another Jane Eyre with different personalities. Jane Eyre and Helen have completely different personalities. When Helen is bullied, Jane Eyre will say indignantly, "If she hits me with that stick, I'll take it from her hand and break it in front of her." However, Helen persuaded Jane Eyre to say, "It is far better to endure the pain that only you feel patiently than to act rashly and involve your relatives and friends."
Another character in the novel that can't be ignored, Bertha, the wife of Mr. Rochester, the crazy woman who was locked in the attic at the top of Thornfield Mountain, was buried with the dark patriarchal society. She was taken to England by her husband from Jamaica and locked in the attic. She has never been pitied by her husband and deprived of the right to speak. This crazy woman who can't talk is a reflection of women in that era, and she has become an accessory of men, and she can never defend herself and complain.
Second, true Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre described by the author cannot allow anyone to violate her dignity. It can be said that Jane Eyre's self-esteem is her umbrella for herself. However, excessive self-esteem just represents inferiority. A really strong person doesn't need to give himself thorns all over his back like a hedgehog. Jane Eyre's initial inferiority comes from three aspects: humble birth, dissatisfaction with her appearance and poverty. But it is her inferiority that creates her self-esteem, which makes her know more about herself, understand and tolerate, know how to be a person worthy of being loved and know how to love others.
Judging from Jane Eyre's love for Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre tried to find a balance. Her love view is pure and natural, and has nothing to do with money, wealth, power and status. Although Mr. Rochester later became disabled, Jane Eyre was still waiting for him silently. It is precisely because of Jane Eyre's persistent love spirit that she has gained equal and dignified commitment to love. Jane Eyre, a "poor, plain and unknown little woman", is a spiritual giant. She has won the recognition of the times with her own efforts and struggles, and has always inspired oppressed women in all corners of the world.
Through the analysis of her works, we can also reveal the limitations of her view of women: First, Jane Eyre did not get rid of the unique servility of Victorian women. Although Jane Eyre has always passionately asked Rochester to "stand before God together and be equal to each other", we can't help but be surprised by the contradiction when she always calls Rochester "master". More importantly, Jane's service and dedication to Rochester at that moment reflected the servility of a Victorian woman. At that time, all moral precepts required women to exercise self-restraint and self-sacrifice for men. In the novel, Rochester appears as the fulcrum of Jane's life. She is happy for his happiness, and she is sad for his sadness. She is willing to live and die for him.
Secondly, Jane Eyre's happiness is realized by coincidence and accident. Jane happened to meet her cousins and got an unexpected inheritance, which is her real independence, as well as her and Rochester.
Being in an equal position economically, she returned to Rochester's side, but their union seemed to be a vulgar bourgeois marriage.
The limitation of Jane Eyre and the idealization of the ending weaken the strength of women's struggle in the novel, and also reflect the vulgarity and compromise of Charlotte's character. Her struggle and compromise revealed the inevitable confusion and contradiction of a thoughtful Victorian intellectual woman in the process of exploring her own problems.
Jane Eyre is a product of the Victorian era, and it has also become a representative of the new and new female sexual consciousness of that era. The image of this "heroine" who still dares to fight against her fate after suffering has opened up a new path for female literature. Through Jane Eyre, the author conveyed the voice and call of women in that era, proved the personality and dignity of women, and let the light of women illuminate the whole world, emitting eternal charm.