一位獨立、成功的女性---簡愛(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內容簡介】 ohn is going to go on missionary work in India and repeatedly asks Jane to acpany him as his wife, she refuses. Instead, she is drawn to thoughts of Rochester. One day, Jane seeks Rochester out at Thorn field. She discovers that the estate has been burned down by Bertha, who died in the fire, and that Rochester, who was blinded in the incident, lives nearby. He is overjoyed when he knew Jane loved him. He and Jane marry and enjoy life together, and he regains his sight in one eye. 2. The hard way of Jane Eyre’s independence In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte portrays one woman’s desperate struggle to attain her identity in the mist of temptation, isolation, and impossible odds. Although she processes a strong soul she must fight not only the forces of passion and reason within herself, but other’s wills constantly imposed on her. 3. The causes of the obstacles Imagine a girl growing up around the turn of the nieenth century. An orphan, she has no friends or family, no wealth and position. Misunderstood and mistreated by the relatives she dose have, she is sent 9 away to a school where the cycle of cruelty continues. All alone in the world, she seems doomed to a life of failure. What’s a girl to do? If the girl is Charlotte Bronte’s heroine Jane Eyre, she takes the latter route. Although this may have shocked readers of the time, Jane’s actions would open the door for a new interpretation of women. Jane Eyre showed that it was possible for a woman in the nieenth century to achieve independence on her own, no matter what odds were against her. The obstacle that Jane es across is her own background. Usually, one can count on family or position to get ahead in life, Jane has neither. Since infancy, she has not only worn the label of orphan, but also that of lowerclass. Her mother married to Jane’s father, poor clergymen. Jane also faces discouragement. At Gates head, she is despised by her Aunt Reed and her cousins John, Eliza, and Geiana. They never let her fet her lack of wealth or poison,. They see her as nothing more than a servant, and treat her. Stationed with other girls like herself, under the watchful and unfiving eye of Rev. Brocklehurst, she is further made aware of all that she lacks. Perhaps the most important of these is love. Jane’s cries for love are mistaken by both Aunt Reed and Rev. Brocklehurst as outbursts of evil. 4. The process of overing the obstacles Jane is able to overe her background chiefly by two means: distance and chance. In leaving for Thornfield, she escapes Lowood and 10 its disorder. Jane’s later return to Gateshead is a victory in that it not only shows how well she has succeeded on her own, without the Reeds, but it also reveals that as she once needed them, they now need her. As foe her state of poverty, Jane triumphs over that she is made aware of her relation to them and the great inheritance from their uncle that they now all share. This is Jane’s first step in attaining the wealth and family that has been denied her for so long. III. A successful woman of Jane 1. Successful achievement in oppression The first obstacle that appears throughout Jane’s life is oppression. Women of the time often had to deal with oppression because of the stereotype imposed upon them。 it is no different with Jane. The following paper will examine the stereotype of women that Jane sought to disprove, explore the obstacles that Jane encounters in her struggle, and show she is able to overe them to attain the life she has always dreamed of having. Women were stereotyped as being “submissive, dependent, but ignorant”. They were seen only as trophies, meant to cling to the arms of men, but never meant to develop a mind of their own or to venture out on their own. This stereotype proved diffi