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Guoxin1 Qin Guoxin Instructor Hu Selective Works of British and America Literature October 29, 2010 The feminist love Pursuing real love is one of the best human beings wishes. But because of the social customs and religions bound, people have been hard to find real love。In the pursuit of love, the power of women has been weak. But the power of women has been becoming stronger and stronger in the resistance against the social customs and religions bound. Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice and Jane in Jane Eyre show the feminist opinion about love. Elizabeth and Jane are the two of women who treat love and life and pursue independence in unique ways. Their attitudes toward love depend on their self-respect character, which is also the essence of feminist thought. Compared with Elizabeth, Jane, the representative of patriarchal society, has more realistic color. In the time of Jane Austen, the writer of Pride and Prejudice, brownstone young women actually were impossible to obtain the true independence. At that time, only a few professions were available to women and these professions were mostly humble and onerous. Unmarried women must live together with their Guoxin2 families, so marriage was the only means for them to break family ties. from this point, Elizabeths love was under the background of strongly patriarchal style. Charlotte Bronte, the writer of Jane Eyre, lived in the nineteenth century-the glorious Victorian era, when People praised highly thrifty and unity. Because of the social economic prosperity, women had access to spend their time freely, so women had feminism consciousness. Hence, Jane was brave to breaks through the traditional the chains, seeking for womens liberation and spiritual independence. Elizabeth and Jane are two great rebellious female. They are two women who pursue independence and treat love and life in a unique way. They are self-respect, defy might and pursue independence and equal status. Their char