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Jane Eyre
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five stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she gains friends and role models but suffers privations and oppression; her time as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her mysterious employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her earnest but cold clergyman cousin, St. John Rivers, proposes to her; and ultimately her reunion with, and marriage to, her beloved Rochester.
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Popularity
The book has come to public for more than 150 years.Why it still enjoys great popularity and never was ignored?
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Attraction
The book tells us: a person, even he's nobody, can overcome the hardships and drawbacks he encounters to achieve his own goals by his mature and intelligence,on condition that he can persist in heading for hisfuture.What's more, the character Jane is set in a believable situation, she has inner feelings, mortals shortcomings and strengths. The contents of the book are anchored in aordinary life including individual life, works, romantic relationship, marriages and so on. But just these ordinary feelings strike a sympathetic chord among the same group.
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Attraction
Gender relations Jane struggles continually to achieve equality and to overcome oppression. In addition to class hierarchy, she must fight against patriarchal domination---against those who believe women to be inferior to men and try to treat them as such. Three central male figures threaten her desire for equality and dignity: Mr.Brocklehurst, Edward Rochester, and St. John Rivers. Each tries to keep Jane in a submissive position, where she is unable to express her own thoughts and feelings.
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Comments
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“Why do you confide in me like this? What are you and she to me? You think that because I’m poor and plain, I have no feelings? I promise you, if God had gifted me with wealth and beauty, I would make it as hard for you to leave me now as it is for me to leave you. But He did not. But my spirit can address yours, as if both have passed through the grave and stood before heaven equal.”
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Main Characters
Jane Eyre:
A girl whose coming on the stage seems very abrupt as an ugly nobody without any money in the handsome and beauties. She s unique, strongwilled as well, she even dares to criticize the religious affairs, to tease at the social customs,to put a slight upon social stage and treasures, to claim equal rights to men.
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summary
Historicai Backgrth century ---the Victorian Period,England • A society of patriarchy • Woman had little chance to receive education or to be a poet, or painter, or doctor, or lawyar, or take up a self-fulfilling career. Society allowed only the man to make major decisions, both public and private. Woman had very few legal rights. Legally a woman could not contract just by herself.
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Attraction
the description of view
No matter the marsh, thunderstorms, clouds, birds, old trees,furniture and other things, they stand for her psychological consciousness. They are emotions,moods, happiness and sorrows,pursuits, desires. They become a unseparated components of the work's connotation.
Portrait by J. H. Thompson at the Brontë Parsonage Museum
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Her Life
Her homelife was difficult. Their mother died when Charlotte, Emily, Anne,and their brother Branwell were children; the two oldest sisters died young. Branwell was a drug addict and an alcoholic whom Charlotte,Emily, and Anne nursed through his collapses, his psychosis,and his final days. The devoted sisters found support and companionship in one another; at night, they read their novels and their poems to one another. Their society did not encourage women to fulfill their talents. The popular image for the ideal woman was "the Angel in the House." who was expected to be devoted and submissive to her husband. The Angel was passive and powerless, meek, charming, graceful, sympathetic, self-sacrificing,and above all-pure.
Positive view: unique, new form,sincere, and moving. Optimistic view:ineffective,rough, go against Christian
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Main Characters
Rochester :
The master of Thornfield Hall. A Byronic hero, he has a face "dark, strong, and stern." He was tricked into making an unfortunate marriage to Bertha Mason years before the novel begins.
