【正文】 ted and “money above all” society, and women were regarded as secondclass, unexpectedly, emerging a girl who disdains money and power and had a great courage to bat traditional injustice and oppression. Jane Eyre?s life was full of tears, misery, and starvation, but she constantly strived to bee stronger and has the courage to fight continuously for freedom and equality. She became strongminded and persistent in struggling against her fate. The Life and Career of Charlotte Bronte The author, Charlotte Bronte was born in Yorkshire, England on April 21, 1816 and was one of the most famous female workers in English literature. In this period of tense class struggle appeared a new literary trendcritical realism. English critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the early fifties. The critical realists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the England society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. She created several works. But Charlotte?s first book, The Professor, never found a willing publisher during her lifetime. Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre later that year which is her typical works. The book, a critique of Victorian assumptions about gender and social class, became one of the most successful novels of its era, both critically and mercially .The narrator?s habit of addressing the reader directly throughout the book, making statements such as “Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt,” and “reader, five me for telling the plain truth!” are quite effective in drawing the reader into the action of the novel. On June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nichols, her father?s curate. She died nine months later during her first pregnancy. Historical Background of Jane Eyre The period of Charlotte Bronte writing Jane Eyre was fighting for the democratic rights of the British proletariat age of rising charter movement。 this movement rose of women?s right to the status of important issues and put forward the slogan of power for women?s freedom. They created pictures of bourgeois civilization, showing the misery and suffering of the mon people. Although capitalist had appeared, old convention and prejudice remained dominant. Women were still regarded as the secondclass hierarchy. At this time, women were employed as cheap labor and were forced to do very hard jobs, and they did not get the vote until 1918. So in the late period of Victorian Age, a feminist movement started fighting for women?s equality and freedom, and for their educational and employment opportunities. Petitions to parliament advocating women?s suffrage were introduced as early as in the 1840. Charlotte breathing the broad requirements of democratic rights of the people and according to their own teaching experiences portrayed an image of Jane Eyre. 2. The Brief Introduction of Feminist Consciousness Female consciousness is woman?s selfconsciousness of status, influence and value as the subject in the objective world. It is a personal motive to stimulate women?s pursuit for independence, freedom, initiative, and creativity. Concretely speaking, female consciousness means women wake up and fulfill her historical mission, social responsibility, personal obligation。 meanwhile they know their selffeature well and take part in social activities in their own ways. The establishment and development of female consciousness is a process of changing and enrichment with the change and development of the society. The standards of female consciousness? status are still in research. Peking University scholars Fu Xin and Wang Sufang claimed that the wakening and improvement of female consciousness?s manifest in four main aspects: Women realize themselves as the subjects in the society, this realization is one of the universal attributes of human beings, according to human beings? overall necessities to establish their lives spontaneously。 they realize women?s special qualities and portray a real female quality in harmony with their physiology and psychology。 they understand and play a variety of roles in balance。 they regards man properly and can work with man in harmony. I think the standards of wakening should include the sex consciousness, which requires women to be selfrespective、 selfconfident but not selfabased、selfflabby。 They can take a correct judgment on the two sexes, insisting on sexual equality, but not male superiority nor female inferiority or woman supremacists。 the female groups consciousness? awakening begin with selfrespect, selfconfidence, independence, and towards to female groups? selfreliance. 3. The Feminist Consciousness of Jane Eyre Jane Eyre was a novel about one woman?s journey through life, so Charlotte Bronte described Jane?s experience and her four rebellions in detail to show the inferior position of the woman and the poverty of society. It gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that made us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality, She was a marvelous figure, and it was safe to say that Jane Eyre gave readers treasure fe