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Book Review of Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte, an English woman author in 19th century. The works possess romanticism and realism. It is also thought that this book is author‟s autobiography.
Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl, who lived in substrata of society and struck with life. But she was fractious and the sprite of perusing happiness. The works sing the love respecting each other and break away from conman customs and preoccupation. The most successful of this book is to figure a female image who dared to gainst and try for liberte and egalite.After I close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left me so much to recall and to think.
I remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.I remember her pursuit of justice. It’s like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.I remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God‟ s feet. Though there are differences in status, in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality. We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence.
When I think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
Actually, she wasn‟t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn‟t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than …the plain and ugly governess‟. But as the little governess had said, Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong.This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre‟s mind. God hadn‟t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.
Jane Eyre was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt，the only relative she had，treated her as badly as a ragtag. She had a terrible childhood but it‟s not affected her future because she is poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl.
Jane was also a thinkable woman in her love, she thought love is equal, free and respecting, so she gain a happy ending with beautiful personality.
In my mind, Jane owns goodness for her lover, Rochester, who lost arms and eyes, and also for someone who had hurt her. Jane owns pursuit for justice; it helps her to promote goodness on one side and check the badness on the other side.Jane owns self-respect and clear situation on equality. Although her life experience is hardships, she never underrates herself. She thinks everyone is the same. She has the
right to gain happiness through hardworking.She is not beautiful and wealthy and very normal in conman‟s mind. But in my opinion, the beauty on the face is not important than in the heart because the beauty of heart could live forever but not the beauty of face.
So, to me or to all girls in the world, we need not inferiority and complaint with ourselves if we don‟t have beauty and wealth because the true happiness is not gained by the tow things. Actually, we should learn to be a person who is like Jane, how fearless woman.In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn‟t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person’s Gr Eat virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Ka-hill Gibran has said, that …Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted‟. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.
People always see the beautiful aspect of the fire ,but they never knew that fire was a terrible thing . It bring us happiness but it also could give us disaster.In the novel, Rochester‟s wife set s fire and lost her life .Rochester also lost his property and eyesight in order to save her wife‟s life.That is to say .this fire destroyed life ,fortune and health.
In all, we an see that fire had two opposite aspects.On the one hand ,it made the world warm ,harmonious,wonderful. But on the other hand , it can destroy life ,fortune and health. In addition, Jane‟s personality fire, she was kind hearted and sentimental and she also had character. Thus , it was this kind of “fire” that made her independent and happy again. It was easy to see that throughout the story. Jane Eyre behaved strong-minded enough to her love and brave enough to seek her own independence. These are all the reflections of fire in her deep heart. Though lived in a cruel society and suffered from abuse, she never gave up, because the fire was always on in her heart which prevented her from giving into the convention.
At last,to be frank, Jane‟s ideal life is the reflection of the Charlotte Bronte‟s thoughts.Maybe we can say that Charlotte uses this great novels to express her feelings on the contemporary society.。