浅析《简爱》中女主人公的性格特征

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毕业设计（论文）题目：浅析《简爱》中女主人公的性格特征

（英文）：A Brief Analysis of the Heroine’s Personality

in Jane Eyre

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日期：2013年5 月

A Brief Analysis of the Heroine’s Personality in Jane Eyre

ABSTRACT

As a representative work of early British female literature, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre has vividly shaped a female image who, in order to gain justice, equality, human dignity and independence, dared to fight against poor life, social discrimination and male chauvinism. She deeply attracted people’s eyes and shocked their hearts. In this work, the writer’s description of Jane Eyre’s spirit of never surrendering to the fate and pursuing the freedom, equality and independence had presented a girl who has the distinctive characteristic, even has become an independent and confident woman from a shy, plain-looking and small girl. Thanks to Jane Erye’s charming characteristics, the work has become very popular from that time until now. This paper will reveal Jane’s individual beauty in front of the readers through the analysis of Jane Eyre who was striving for freedom, pursuing true love and blending sense and emotion.

In conclusion, we state that Jane Eyre is a unique woman who has various distinctive characteristics.

Key Words: Jane Eyre; personality; confidence; freedom; inferiority

浅析《简爱》中女主人公的性格特征

摘要

作为一部英国早期女性文学的代表作，夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《简爱》形象而生动地塑造了一位敢于为正义、平等、人格尊严独立而与生活困境、社会歧视及男权主义进行坚决斗争的女性形象。在这部作品中,作者对主人公简爱不屈服命运,追求独立自由精神的描述,在读者面前呈现了一个从自卑、不美、矮小的女孩成长为一个自强、自立、自信的女性。这部作品会这么受欢迎是因为简爱的个性魅力,本文通过分析简爱在追求自由、真爱以及理智与情感的交融，将简爱的人格美展现在读者的面前。

总的来说,简爱是一名具有与众不同的性格的女性。

关键词：简爱；性格特征；自信；自由；自卑

Contents

I. Introduction (1)

II. Jane Eyre’s sense of inferiority (1)

2.1 Her sense of inferiority in poor appearance (2)

2.2 Her sense of inferiority in dependence (2)

2.3 Her sense of inferiority in love (3)

III. Jane Eyre’s self-reliance and self-confidence (4)

3.1 Her self-reliance and self-confidence in life (4)

3.1.1 In Gateshead (5)

3.1.2 In Lowood Orphanage (5)

3.1.3 In Thornfield (6)

3.1.4 After leaving Thornfield (7)

3.2 Her strength in sentiment (7)

IV. Jane Eyre’s pursuit of freedom, equality and independence (8)

4.1 Her pursuit in life (8)

4.2 Her pursuit in love (9)

V. Conclusion (10)

Bibliography (12)

Acknowledgments (13)

A Brief Analysis of the Heroine’s Personality in Jane Eyre

I. Introduction

Jane Eyre is a popular novel which has been encouraging countless females to grow up and as well as a precious heritage in the history of literature. It is one with the author’s autobiographical works, and uses the first person so that the heroine can pour out her own emotions and ideals, love and friendship. Therefore, it has gracious artistic charm. It has shaped a female image who always took an independent, positive attitude to strive for equality in life, society, love and religion. This image is different from any previous one of the characters in literary works. She is humble, thin and small, and not beautiful, but she has self-esteem and independent personality and always tries to get rid of discrimination and oppression in the patriarchal society. This is one of Charlotte Bronte’s pioneering works. Poor family mistress Jane with the strong pursuit of feminism and equality dedicated herself to defending her independent human rights and true love. Her extraordinary temperament and rich emotion have conquered thousands of readers’hearts and inspired countless women to find their own position in the society and realized their own independent personality. Because of this, Jane Eyre had made a miracle breakthrough in the novel history, and Jane Eyre became one of the British literary history’s most glorious female image.

This article analyses Jane Eyre’s various characteristics through reading her independent personality growth story. In her characteristics, self-esteem and self-respect occupy absolutely dominant position, but the author thinks, all her self-esteem, self-respect, are from her inferiority. Inferiority promoted her to constantly strive to forge ahead, enrich and improve herself, to make her pursue independent personality and social identity. Jane Eyre can not become a confident female without inferiority. Whether it was in Gateshead or in Lowood Orphanage, her every progress was from dissatisfaction with her situation and instinct resistance to the surroundings. In Thornfield, she met Mr. Rochester, but she still could not get rid of the shadow of inferiority when facing her love. She once fled but later lived with Mr. Rochester only when they two were equal in status. At that time, she realized her distinctive characteristics, her own value of life and confidence as well as her true self, and finally found the road to happiness.

II. Jane Eyre’s sense of inferiority

Jane Eyre feels inferior, and she never gets rid of the unfortunate psychological barriers. Why is Jane Eyre’s inferiority complex called the eternal shadow? Because it went beyond the normal limits, and became part of her personality so it kept bothering her. There are many reasons such as the poor appearance, dependence in economy and so on.