Jane eyre概要1.ppt

Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre human value = dignity + love Charlotte Bront? (/?br?nti/, commonly /?br?nte?/;[1] 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront? sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell. Charlotte Bronte 1 2 3 It has the form of a Bildungsroman, a story about a childs maturation, focusing on the emotions and experiences that accompany growth to adulthood. The novel also contains much social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core. and finally has the brooding and moody quality and Byronic character typical of Gothic fiction. The novel merges elements of three distinct genres. Jane Eyre 1 2 3 Gateshead - hate - cruel - horrible Lowood school - hope - death - live Thornfield hall new life - love-despair-happiness Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! --I have as much soul as you, and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for -=-me to leave you. I am not talking to you now --===through the medium of custom, convention- alities, nor even of mortal flesh --it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just