Jane Eyre, as one of Charlotte Brontexq's representative works, had a wide influence in British society at that time. The female consciousness embodied in Jane Eyre has aroused widespread concern at that time and later generations, and Chinese and foreign scholars have their own opinions on feminism in Jane Eyre.
Wu Juan's "Progress from Awakening to Regression-A Probe into Female Consciousness in British Female Novels in the 19 th Century" (20 10) shows that a number of outstanding female writers, such as trans-century novelists Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters and George Eliot, appeared in the literary world one after another in the 19 th century. It is pointed out that women, as secondary sex and redundant ribs, are in a subordinate position in the fettered patriarchal society. From the perspective of women's consciousness, this paper discusses the tortuous course of British women from awakening to struggle and from running away to returning in the19th century, which is reflected in the novels of women writers from Austin to George Eliot. They explain women's situation with their own personal experiences, express women's voices, examine social reality with women's unique eyes, vividly reflect women's bumpy fate in a patriarchal society, and profoundly reveal their emotional crisis, moral confusion and rebellious consciousness.
Qian Feng's "Women's Social Subjectivity in Charlotte Brontexq's Text" points out that Charlotte Brontexq's novels reveal a great deal of information about British social public affairs in the19th century in their seemingly female private narratives. Charlotte Brontexq turned external social psychology and social phenomena into a part of his writing. On the one hand, the novel reflects the social background of British overseas colonization; On the one hand, the novel also pays attention to the social problems in Britain; On the other hand, many social problems are reflected through the relationship between property and marriage. The work castrates and challenges the rights in the dual historical context with the attitude that the marginal people are close to the mainstream society, and realizes the author's distinct equality consciousness and feminist values. Charlotte's novels collude with readers in the first person narrative, telling the anxiety and helplessness of female writers themselves. As can be seen from her works, Charlotte tried to break through the historical context of women's guilt and patriarchy through her own female texts and writing, and resist the marginalization of women and the ignorance of language consciousness in the patriarchal society.
Xiao Wei's Landscape of Contemporary Feminist Ethics (200 1) points out that contemporary feminist ethics is the product of women's liberation movement, aiming at criticizing, belittling and discriminating women's ethical theory and establishing an ethical theory of equality between men and women. Its main topics are political ethics, ecological ethics, life ethics, moral education and sexual ethics. It is believed that contemporary ethics is the product of criticizing the patriarchal view of women and inheriting the patriarchal view of women. However, there are two main trends in its development: breaking and establishing, which reflects the purpose of feminist ethics: criticism and construction. The theoretical characteristics of contemporary feminist ethics can be summarized as follows: autonomy in relationship; The atmosphere of the situation; The bond between experience and emotion; Pillars of ability and practice; The perspective of diversity and difference; The category of gender analysis. Zhou Zeng's Dissemination and Development of Feminist Literary Criticism in China (2004) points out that the development of feminist criticism as a foreign theory in China has gone through three stages: introduction, localization and scientization. Each stage has different characteristics, and has experienced a tortuous course from rejection to acceptance, rooting and sprouting, and vigorous development. It is believed that the traditional cultural accumulation and post-liberation ideology ignore the principle of self-possession in female consciousness; The current social existence and lifestyle cover up the existence of gender identity and lack of full understanding of gender differences; Feminist literary criticism was in a marginal position in literary criticism at that time; These three points are the reasons why feminism appeared quietly in China in the early 1980s. The publication of some western translations and essays and the enhancement of female writers' awareness of gender writing have played a very good role in promoting the spread and development of feminist literary criticism in China.
(1) Selection basis
The heroine in the book has distinct feminist characteristics: although she is a young woman of humble origin, she is independent, enterprising and intelligent. Despise the strong, laugh at their stupidity, pursue spiritual freedom and equality, dare to pursue complete love in the true sense, and show self-reliance and self-improvement personality. The light of feminism reflected in Jane Eyre deeply attracted me and contributed to the completion of this topic.
(2) The emergence of feminism in China: the accumulation of traditional culture in the early 1980s and the ideological norms for women after liberation ignored the principle of autonomy in women's consciousness; The current social existence and lifestyle cover up the existence of gender identity and lack of full understanding of gender differences. The above two points contributed to the emergence of feminism in China in the early 1980s.
(2) Main research contents
○ 1 The feminism of Jane Eyre in the period of dependence on others.
○ 2 Jane Eyre's feminism in boarding school.
○3 Jane Eyre's feminism during her governess.
○ 4 Feminism when Jane Eyre became the heir.
○ 5 Changes of Jane Eyre's female consciousness in different periods.
(3) Research ideas and schemes
This topic mainly discusses Jane Eyre's feminist consciousness from the following three aspects:
1, the first manifestation of Jane Eyre's feminism, including insulting her cousin while living in a patron's house and resisting beatings.
2. The second stage of feminism, the resistance of boarding schools to traditional education, etc.
3. Female consciousness as a governess includes the pursuit of equal status and love.
In the final stage of Jane Eyre's feminism, she returned to Roberts as an heiress.