Reflections on Jane Eyre

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My favorite English novel was Jane Eyre, which was written by Charlotte Bronte, the eldest of the famous “Bronte Sisters”. The work was one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. If you have not read it, listen to me.

It told the story of an orphan girl called Jane Eyre, the daughter of a poor parson. She lost her parents shortly after her birth, and then her uncle Mr. Reed became her guardian. But after her uncle’s death, she was sent by Mrs. Reed to a charity school for poor girls in Lowood, where she lived an intolerable life for eight years. Then Jane became a governess to a little girl in the family of a squire Mr. Rochester. The two gradually fell in love with each other. While they were about to hold their wedding ceremony in the church, Jane learnt that Rochester had got a wife who was mad and locked in a private room. Shocked by the news, Jane fled from the house. After many twists and turns, the two united together finally.

Finishing the reading, I set my heart at rest. Well, in my eyes the story was closed in a happy ending. It reminded me of a series of TV plays produced by Japan, named Love Generation. It also narrated a moving love story between a man and a woman, with the central theme that true love never runs smoothly. Oh, sorry, I wandered off the point. The deepest impression Jane Eyre left me, of course, was the image of Jane Eyre. She was to some extent a new woman at that time: independent, self-respected, generous and rebellious. Plain-looking as she was, she filled with emotion and always pursued true love.

“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, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh; —— it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, —— as we are!”

It was Jane Eyre who said the paragraph above. From it, we could see her pursuing of happiness and her striving for freedom, as well as her seeking of women’s equal social status with men. I was touched entirely by Jane, the little plain and obscure girl. She was already freed from the bondage of prejudices of the Victorian age and did what other women dare not do.
——- A Great Woman!