【正文】 which he will not reveal to her.“ What alienates him from the house? Will he leave it again soon? Mrs. Farfax said he seldom stayed longer than a fortnight at a time ” . Not long after this, Jane is awake in the middleof the night by a “ chronic laugh” outside her room. Someone has set fire to the heavy curtains around Rochester’ s bed. Jane is naturally suspicious about the mysterious surroundings of Thornfield and Rochester. He dismisses her concerns and asks her not to reveal her suspicion to anyone. In order to keep his reputation, he doesn’ t want Jane to know his mad wife. We know that Mr. Rochester is intelligent, proud, and cynical. He hopes that Jane will understand his true feelings about her and even goes to the extreme of dressing up as a gypsy in order to find out if Jane really loves him. However, Jane does not see through the deeper meaning of this deception and tells him very little of her feelings. Why is honesty important to a meaningful relationship? Honesty is the base on which trust is formed. Communication is very important in personal relationships, especially in love. If two people fall in love with each other, they should municate almost most of the things and not keep secret. Then they can have a perfect love. I think Jane and Rochester have to municate frankly. They must share their past experiences with one another. By doing this, they can get true love. Jane Eyre’ s pursuit of liberty and equality The equality of social classes between Jane and Rochester In order to lead a life of independence, Jane works as a governess at Thornfield Hall. She is looked down upon by the rich ladies of the fashionable society, but she never despises herself, she never feels herself inferior. She is satisfied with, and even proud of her honest, independent work. Rochester is attracted to her qualify of mind, courage, independence, and strong personality, and falls in love with her. But it is Jane Eyre who declares her love to Rochester before he makes his sentiment clear to her ,“ Do you think ,because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?” she cries,“ 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 through the medium of custom, conversation, nor even of mortal flesh:－ it is my spirit that addresses your spirit。 現(xiàn)實(shí)主義作家1043 簡愛英語論文 1 .The Author and Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (18161855) was born in the family of a poor country clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire, in northern England. In this period of tense class struggle appeared a new literary trendcritical realism. English critical realism of the 19 th 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 English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. She and three of her sisters were sent to a charity school where they were cruelly treated, and where her two elder sisters died. In 18351838 she worked as a school teacher, and later as governess. In 1842 she went with her sister Emily to study languages at a school in Brussels, where during 1843 she was employed as a teacher. In the next year she was back at Haworth, and in 1846 appeared a volume of verse entitled poems by Curer, Ellis, and Action Bell, the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne respectively. The Professor, Charlotte’ s first novel, was rejected by different publishers, and it was not published till after her death. She went to write another novel, Jane Eyre, which was published in 1847 and achieved immediate success. The greatest English realist of the time was Charles Dickens. With striking force and truthfulness, he creates pictures of bourgeois civilization, describing the misery and sufferings of the mon people. The method of critical realism was further adopted by such writers as Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell. In writing Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte chiefly resorts to the realistic approach, but her realism is heightened by her sparkle of romantic imagination. The novel is marked throughout by intensity, intensity of vision is the descriptive passages, intensity of feeling in the emotional scenes. The passionate involvement of the heroine Jane Eyre in every situation endows the novel, like Emily’ s Wuthering Heights, with the quality of poetry, even in the medium of prose. In 1848, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey by her sisters Emily and Anne respectively were also published. But sorrows came to Charlotte for in that year her only brother and Emily died, and Anne died the following year. Charlotte, the only surviving child of the family, outlived her sisters and brother by some years, with restless energy, she wrote two other novels, “ Shirley” (1849), her second novel, dealing with the life of workers at the time of the Luddites’ movement. The last novel by Charlotte Bronte, “ Villette” , came out in 1853. In Villette, the author aga