Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul 目录 Introduction……………………………………………………………………1 Charlotte Bronte and her Jane Eyre…………………………………………1 Background of Growth………………………………………………………..2 Family Background………………………………………………………3 Social Background……………………………………………………….3 Spiritual Independence…………………………………………………..4 A Probe into the Feminist Idea of Jane Eyre………………………………...5 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………..6 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………...7 Introduction The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt’s house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is and intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness. Charlotte Bronte and her Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), the daughter of a clergyman in a small mill town in northern England, has long been considered one of the most outstanding and controversial women writers in the literary world of the nineteenth century. She, together with her sisters Emily Bronte and Anne Bronte, constituted the most marvelous myth in the history of British literature. Their mother died of cancer when the children were still young and they were mostly left on their own as their father felt that “their prattle distressed him, reminding him of his dead wife”(Zhang 2009). In 1842 Charlotte and Emily were sent to join their elder sister Maria and Elizabeth at Clergy Daughter’s school in Cowan Bridge. The condition of the school made a horrifying impression on Charlotte’s mind. The discipline was harsh. Maria suffered a great deal