请提供关于《简爱》的英文评论,用来写论文.谢谢表现简的自尊自立顽强的性格

请提供关于《简爱》的英文评论,用来写论文.谢谢表现简的自尊自立顽强的性格
请提供关于《简爱》的英文评论,用来写论文.谢谢
表现简的自尊自立顽强的性格

请提供关于《简爱》的英文评论,用来写论文.谢谢表现简的自尊自立顽强的性格
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Bertha Mason is the insane wife of Rochester. In precise contrast to the angelic Helen, Bertha is big, as big as Rochester, corpulent, florid, and violent. Much of Bertha’s dehumanization, Rochester’s account makes clear, is the result of her confinement, not its cause. After ten years of imprisonment, Bertha has become a caged beast (Showalter 73). As Bronfen states, “where Helen ‘fed’ off her dead ancestors, Bertha feeds off the living, bites and draws blood from her brother, repeatedly threatens the life of her husband, and embodies a return of what they would like to repress” (200). Bertha can be seen as Jane’s darkest double, as her ferocious secret self, who appears whenever an experience of anger or fear arises on Jane’s part that must again be repressed (“Jane Eyre” 167). Acting for and like Jane, she enacts the violence Jane would like to but can’t express, especially in respect to marriage. She also articulates Jane’s fears and desires about her own mortality (Bronfen 200).
There are multiple themes in Jane Eyre. One of the main themes is the need for love contrasting with the need for independence. As a Bildungsroman, Jane Eyre is the story of Jane’s striving for independence, struggling with passion, and finally growing into maturity. As the story starts, Gateshead is the place in which the passions of childhood are given free rein (Lamonica 70). In Lowood, although Jane is no longer dependent on the Reed family, her passion is restricted by the severe rules. In Thronfield, however, an excess of passion between Jane and Rochester ultimately causes her to run from Thornfield Hall with no plans for the future, ending up starving and delirious on the doorsteps of the Rivers family at Marsh End . Marsh End, like Lowood, is a place where restraint of passion is a way of life. While she cares deeply for St. John, who asks her to marry him, Jane knows that she would never be able to love him with the kind of passion she feels for Rochester. As Teachman states, “Jane is a woman who, having once known true passion, cannot settle for anything less in marriage”. In Ferndean, the final location of the novel, passions have been moderated to some degree by both time and experience. Burn have rendered Rochester dependent on others for his daily care. Jane thus finds him changed from “a vital and sometimes threateningly passionate man into a man tamed by both emotional and physical trauma” . Jane, on the other hand, had found loving cousins. She has also inherited her uncle's fortune, making her an independent woman with no need of the financial support. “As a result of this increased level of independence, she is able to regulate her passions, indulging them when she feels it appropriate and choosing not to act on them at other times. This final section of the novel reveals the integration of essential parts of Jane's personality and education into a strong adult woman, who also at this time becomes a mother and a true partner to her husband”
Another main theme of Jane Eyre is Jane’s search for religion. Throughout the novel, Bronte presents contrasts between “characters that believe in and practice what she considers a true Christianity and those who pervert religion to further their own ends” (“Jane Eyre” 170). Mr. Brocklehurst, for example, is a hypocritical Christian. He professes charity but uses religion as a justification for punishing the orphans. Helen Burns, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Brocklehurst: she endures her punishment patently, forgives the cruelty of her teachers, and fully acknowledges the legitimacy of their chastisement. St. John Rivers is a “more conventionally religious figure” (“Jane Eyre” 170). In spite of his determination to do good deeds, he is cold, forbidding; moreover, he courts martyrdom. He does not regard Jane as a full, independent person but an accessory that would help his proposed missionary work. In the novel, Jane witnesses and resents the hypocrisy of Mr. Brocklehurst, and she cannot quite profess Helen’s absolute, selfless faith. Jane “does not follow a particular doctrine, but she is sincerely religious in a nondoctrinaire way” (“Jane Eyre” 170).
2.Another theme of Jane Eyre is the search for home and family, which is also closely associated with search for identity. Throughout the novel, Jane searches for kinship, a sense of place in a relationship characterized by “fellow-feeling,” a term Jane uses repeatedly. According to Lamonica, “the novel plots her course from displacement at Gateshead Hall, where she is ‘like nobody there’, to ‘full fellow-feeling’ with the Rivers family at Moor House, and finally to symbiosis with Rochester at Ferndean, where she is ‘ever more absolutely bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh.’” (67-68).
In the opening scene of the novel, the Reed children cluster around their mother in a classic Victorian family tableau, the mother “reclined on a sofa by the fire-side” with her “darlings about her,” looking “perfectly happy” (Bronte 3). Jane, an orphan less than a servant, is excluded. Jane’s original self-conception at Gateshead is thus determined expressly by her difference and distance from the family unit. She is, to both herself and her relations, an anomaly (Lamonica 74).
Shunted off to Lowood Institution, Jane finds a home of sorts, although her place here is “ambiguous and temporary” (“Jane Eyre” 171). Jane’s time at Lowood gives her the “opportunity to position and define herself within a new, all-female community” (Lamonica 76). Her time under the influence of Helen and Miss temple serves to placate the deep impression of her childhood sufferings, but it does not alter the character of her quest. She persists in asserting, “I was no Helen Burns” (Bronte 75).
Jane’s relationship with Rochester is governed by the self-images she acquired at Gateshead and Lowood. The various, sometimes conflicting, aspects of her developing selfhood – “her passion and her self-control, her desire to live ‘as an independent being ought to do’ and to think well of herself, as well as her need to be accepted and thought well of by others” – determines her longing for kinship (Lamonica 78). However, for Jane, this kinship must allow for a meaningful personal identity within the relationship, which explains why Jane develops an attraction to Rochester – she states “he is not their kind. I believe he is of mine” (Bronte 219) - and why Jane is reluctant to become Mrs. Rochester, a symbol of a self-sacrificing union. Jane’s finial union symbolizes the ideal harmony