从女性主义角度分析《简·爱》_英语论文

The Feminist Interpretation of Jane Eyre

摘要

《简.爱》是19世纪英国著名女作家夏洛蒂.勃朗特的代表作，自小说出版以来因其独特的主题，抒情的色调，受到广大读者的喜爱。它不仅仅是19世纪女性作家中的出色作品，更象征了19世纪女性主义意识的觉醒，更为后世女性主义者视为女性主义先驱作品。则本论文就从女性主义角度分析了《简.爱》。本论文首先对《简.爱》的背景，内容，意义和女性主义作了简要的介绍。文章的第一章对简小时候的生活环境和反抗意识从女性主义角度作了分析，讨论了简的独特性格形成原因。而本文第二章则是分析了简在洛伍德的经历和海伦和坦普尔小姐对她的影响，也在此阶段最终形成了简的自尊自爱，要求独立平等的性格。本文的第三章则分析了小说的高潮部分，简在桑非尔德的性格体现，还有她与罗切斯特先生的爱情,然后从全文出发讨论分析简对自由平等的追求。最后总结性讨论了本论文的主要论题。

关键词：女性主义 独立 平等 反抗《简.爱》

Abstract

Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte who was one of the famous British novelists in 19th century. The novel is loved by readers for its particular theme and its lyric style since it had published. Jane Eyre was not only the famous works of a female novelist in 19th century but also represented the awakening of feminism at that time. It is regarded as the representative work by the feminist. And this article interprets Jane Eyre with feministic thoughts. In this article, it briefly introduce the background, the content and significance of Jane Eyre and the feminism. The Chapter one describes Jane's living environment and her conscientiousness of revolt in her childhood and then discuss the reason why Jane's special personality formed. After that the Chapter two expounds the Jane's experience in Lowood and the two women-Helen and Miss Temple who were important to her. And she finally formed her own self-esteem, independence personality in Lowood. Then the Chapter three interprets the most splendid part in this novel—The reflection of Jane's personality in Thornfield and her love with Mr. Rochester, and then discusses Jane's pursuit of equality and freedom. Finally, the conclusion summarizes the theme of the whole paper.

Key words: Feminism, Independence, Equality, Jane Eyre