【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ronte Sisters　1. 一般識(shí)記 Their lives amp。 literary Career 　　Charlotte Bronte (18161855), Emily Bronte (18181848), amp。 their gifted sister Anne Bronte (18201849), came from a large family of Irish origin. Their father was a clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire. When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen39。s daughters. The oldest two died there due to the poor amp。 unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre (1847). After the death of the elder sisters, Charlotte amp。 Emily were brought home to be educated by their father. For some time, they worked in a boarding school amp。 were subsequently governesses in rich families.Charlotte amp。 her two younger sisters had a great fondness for literature. In 1845 appeared a volume of poetry entitled Poems by Carrer, Ellis amp。 Acton Bell (the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily amp。 Anne), but received little attention. Then the three sisters turned to novel writing. Charlotte39。s first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher. But her second one, Jane Eyre, won immediate success when it appeared in 1847. In the same year, Emily39。s single amp。 unique work Wuthering Heights amp。 Anne39。s Agnes Grey were also published. Soon they were followed by Anne39。s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).　　After the death of Emily amp。 Anne, Charlotte continued writing. Her next important novel Shirley, a work about the industrial troubles between the millowners amp。 machinebreakers in Yorkshire in 18111812 came out in 1849. Another novel Villette appeared in 1853. This is her most autobiographical work, largely based on her experience in Brussels. In 1854, charlotte married her father39。s curate. She died a few months later in pregnancy. The Professor, her first written work, was published posthumously in 1857.　2. 識(shí)記 Charlotte39。s Literary Creation　　Charlotte Bronte39。s works are all about the struggle of an individual towards selfrealization, about some lonely amp。 neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, amp。 understanding amp。 a full, happy life. All her heroines39。 highest joy es from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overe. Besides, she is a writer of realism bined with romanticism. On the one hand, she presents a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy amp。 other evils of the upper classes amp。 by showing the misery amp。 suffering of the poor. Her works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middleclass workingwomen, particularly governesses. On the other hand, her writings are marked throughout by intensity of vision amp。 of passion. By writing from an individual point of view, by creating characters who are possessed of strong feelings, fiery passions amp。 some extraordinary personalities, by using some elements of horror, mystery amp。 prophesy, she is able to recreate life in a very romantic way. The vividness of her subjective narration, the intensely achieved characterization, especially those heroines who are totally contrary to the public expectations amp。 the most truthful presentation of the economical, moral, social life of the time all this earns her works a never dying popularity.　3. 應(yīng)用 Selected Readings 　　Excerpt One: from Chapter XXIII of Jane Eyre by charlotte Bronte The work is one of the most popular amp。 important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, . the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination amp。 the false social convention as concerning love amp。 marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical amp。 moral tests to grow up amp。 achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. Jane Eyre is a pletely new woman image. She represents those middleclass workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their rights amp。 equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings amp。 her thought amp。 inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.Jane Eyre39。s character:　　Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit amp。 a longing to love amp。 be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, amp。 even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a pletely new woman image. In this novel Charlotte characterizes Jane Eyre as a naive, kindhearted, nobleminded woman who pursues a genuine kind of love. Jane Eyre represents those middleclass workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights amp。 equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings amp。 her thought amp。 inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.　　The selected part is taken from Chapter XXIII, not long after Jane is back from her aunt39。s funeral. Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. So, when forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately amp。 openly declared her equality with him amp。 her love for him. The passion described here is intense amp。 genuine. 　　Excerpt Two: from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte　1) Emily39。s subject matter 　　As far as Emily39。s literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all, a poet Her 193 poems, mostly devoted to the matter of nature with its mysterious workings amp。 its unaccountable influence upon people39。s life, are works of strange sublimity amp。 beauty. They are ample proof for the poetic genius of this young, reclusive woman. But, to the mon readers, she is better known today as the author of that most fascinating novel, Wuthering Heights.　2) The theme of the novel 　　The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people. From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused, betrayed amp。 distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody. As a love sto