摘　 要

简爱是由英国杰出的现实主义女作家夏洛蒂-勃朗特写的一部小说，这部小说写于维多利亚时代。虽然迄今152年，但是这部小说仍然深受广大读者的喜爱，这也都归因于这部小说里面具有迷人魅力的女主角—简爱。如英语谚语所说的，外在美是短暂的，内在美才是永恒的。本文主要浅析简爱追求独立性格和平等所具有的内在美，希望更多的人能像简爱一样拥有内在美。首先介绍作者和简爱的小说的情节，其次分析简爱的生活经历来探讨这些经历如果对她性格产生巨大影响。再次则从夏洛蒂-勃朗特出发来研究作者本身对女主人公的影响。最后是从这些分析和讨论得出简爱独特性格的形成。

关键词：批评；永存；平等；独立；性格

Abstract

Having existed for more than 152 years by now, Jane Eyre which was written by the talented women writer who was critical and a realist, has been popular since the Victoria Times because of its charming heroine—Jane Eyre. As an English idiom goes, “Beauty is nothing but skin-deep”. A person’s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as one’s everlasting beauty. This thesis concentrates on the beauty of Jane’s pursuing for equality and independence, on the assumption that more people may act like “Jane” and possess inner beauty. First,it introduces something about Charlotte Bronte and the plot of Jane Eyre; Second, the essay mainly focuses on the personal experience of Jane Eyre which plays an indispensable part in her character;Third,it expresses the influence of Charlotte Bronte’s character on Jane Eyre; Finally, it draws a conclusion that all the matters happening on Jane shape her unique character.

Key words: critical; everlasting; equality; independence; character

1 Introduction
In the early years of the 19th century--Victorian Age, it was a male-dominated and “money above all” society. Women did not have the rights to speak for themselves. They were induced to an inferior position in the society.The popular character-Jane Eyre-was born in this period. Her emergence surprised people at that time and became popular immediately. She was poor and plain, but she was not surrendering to the common custom pressure but becoming an independent, self-respecting, proactive woman. Some women were very charming to men because they had beautiful face while Jane was only a penniless and plain girl. Her charm to people from the past to now was her unique character. As the book Woman in the English Novel [5] says; “ Not only do the people in that period can learn a lot from Jane, but also do the women today could.”