英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~要感想~不是翻译!400字即可.General Order #3"The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,all slaves are free.This involves an abs

英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~要感想~不是翻译!400字即可.General Order #3"The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,all slaves are free.This involves an abs
英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~
要感想~不是翻译!400字即可.
General Order #3
"The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,all slaves are free.This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property,between former masters and slaves,and the connection heretofore existing between them,become that between employer and hired labor.The freed are advised to remain at their present homes,and work for wages.They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts; and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
Read by Major General Gordon Granger,Galveston Texas,June 19th,1865

英文高水准者进!读文章写英文感想~400字~要感想~不是翻译!400字即可.General Order #3"The people are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States,all slaves are free.This involves an abs
On June 19,1865 in the city of Galveston Major General Gordan Granger declared the institution of slavery dead in the state,setting off joyous demonstrations by freedmen and originating the annual "Juneteenth" celebration,which commemorates the freeing of the blacks in Texas.
However,declaring slaves free didn't do much to help them.He merely changed the connections between them from master and slave to employer and hired work,doing little for their civil rights.The african-american population still had to endure another hundred years of opression and stereotypical treatment before Martin Luther King Jr.finally set them free in the Civil Rights Movement of 1965.Although the major general calls it "an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property",the former slaves could not possibly receive the same treatment as the white.For one thing,they have no property to speak of.And since they were "advised to remain at their present homes,and work for wages",how much they earn for their labor is still left to the former slave masters to decide,which is low.But because the state will not support idleness,the low wages will just have to do for the newly freed slaves.The north has always boasted freedom and job opportunities for the blacks,but when industry fails and factories start closing,they are no better off than the southern farmers.Also,the fact that blacks could not collect at military posts is quite for those who could not find other fitting jobs.
All in all,this declaration is more of a joke than anything.It does nothing more than change a name,from slave to employee.But the meager wages they earn and the high price they have to pay for sustaining themselves have made their conditions no better,if not worse,than the times of slavery.

Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, w...

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Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family at Marsh's End (or Moor House) and Morton, where her cold clergyman-cousin St John Rivers proposes to her; and her reunion with and marriage to her beloved Rochester at his house of Ferndean. Partly autobiographical, the novel abounds with social criticism and sinister gothic elements.
and in the novel there are four themes have crutial impact on the understanding of this novel.

Morality
Jane refuses to become Rochester's paramour because of her "impassioned self-respect and moral conviction." She rejects St. John Rivers's puritanism as much as Rochester's libertinism. Instead, she works out a morality expressed in love, independence, and forgiveness.[1] Specifically, she forgives her cruel aunt and loves her husband, but never surrenders her independence to him, even after they are married. He is blind, and thus more dependent on her than she on him.
Religion
Throughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain an equilibrium between moral duty and earthly happiness. She despises the hypocritical puritanism of Mr. Brocklehurst, and rejects St. John Rivers' cold devotion to his perceived Christian duty, but neither can she bring herself to emulate Helen Burns' turning the other cheek, although she admires Helen for it. Ultimately, she rejects these three extremes and finds a middle ground in which religion serves to curb her immoderate passions but does not repress her true self.
Social class
Jane's ambiguous social position—a penniless yet learned orphan from a good family—leads her to criticise discrimination based on class. Although she is educated, well-mannered, and relatively sophisticated, she is still a governess, a paid servant of low social standing, and therefore powerless. Nevertheless, Brontë possesses certain class prejudices herself, as is made clear when Jane has to remind herself that her unsophisticated village pupils at Morton "are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy."
Gender relations
A particularly important theme in the novel is patriarchalism and Jane's efforts to assert her own identity within male-dominated society. Three of the main male characters, Brocklehurst, Rochester and St. John, try to keep Jane in a subordinate position and prevent her from expressing her own thoughts and feelings. Jane escapes Brocklehurst and rejects St. John, and she only marries Rochester once she is sure that theirs is a marriage between equals. Through Jane, Brontë refutes Victorian stereotypes about women, articulating what was for her time a radical feminist philosophy:
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.

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