【正文】 hearing his voice, meeting his eyes, touching his hand and face. She loved him, and was loved by him, spent all her life with him.” That is Jane’ s wellremembered love for Rochester! After leaving Rochester’s home, Thornfield Hall, Jane walks and travels without any aim. She lives in hunger and cold. As she roams about whitcross, she is nearly dead because she suffers terrible hardships. St. John helps her and saves her life. St John wants to marry Jane and takes her to India with him. Although he is a little merciful and handsome, he is also very harsh and arbitrary. He considers little of Jane’ s benefit. He does not respect her or give her selfless love. Jane says if she joins St John, she will abandon half herself and if she goes to India, she will go to premature death. Jane insists that true love should be based on equality, mutual understanding and respect. She knows that to marry such a stonehearted person is to bee a tool of him to serve God, so she refuses John’ s proposal. She hears the voice of Rochester in her mind, then she es back to look for Rochester. She learns that Thornfield hall has been burnt down, and that Rochester, attempting vainly to save his mad wife from the fire, loses one of his hands, is blind in both eyes, and bees a crippled man. Now Mr. Rochester is not as rich as he used to, and he is disabled. But Jane loves him more 簡愛英語論文 than ever. Jane decides to stay with him and look after him for all of her life. This pair of lovers es together in the end. But in that society such a marriage is considered unmon and untraditional. People may think it’ s strange that Jane makes her strong will to be Rochester’ s bride. Nobody would like to marry him because he has lost most of his wealth and is blind. As to Jane, she can marry a man who is much better than Mr .Rochester. Actually, not only in those days but also today, in a pair of lovers or a couple if one of them bees disabled, maybe the other will leave him or her. But Jane is different, she considers that love is a kind of life。 just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’ s feet － equal,－ as we are！”Here,“ equal” is the word, she loves Rochester just because he regards her as a human being, or more importantly, as an equal. Equality is what she strives for, and in him she finds what 簡愛英語論文 she strives for. Evidently, Charlotte claims equality between men and women through Jane’ s relations with Rochester, However, is it really equal between them? Although Jane is independent on economy as a family tutor, she is dependent on Rochester in spirit. It shows that Jane is not very mature in mind. Without Rochester, her material life can’ t be affected, but she can’ t part from Rochester in spirit and emotion. She is his intellectual, but not his social, equal. Rochester wins Jane’ s heart, because she feels they are kindred spirits, and because he is the first person in the novel to offer Jane lasting love and a real home. Rochester is Jane’ s social and economic superior and men were widely considered to be naturally superior to women in the Victorian period. When Jane knows Rochester has a mad wife, she decides to leave him because living with Rochester as his mistress would mean the loss of her dignity. Ultimately, she would e back and depend upon Rochester for love. There are no obstacles between them. Even if Rochester has not a mad wife, Jane will only get into marriage with Rochester after she has gained a fortune and a family. She waits until she is not influenced by her own poverty, loneliness, psychological vulnerability, or passion. The most important is that because Rochester has been blinded by the fire and has lost his manor house at the end of the novel, he has bee weaker while Jane has grown in strength. Jane claims that they are equals, but in fact the marriage dynamic has tripped in her favor. The social gap has narrowed. Then they are really equal and get married. The equality between men and women Jane struggles continually to achieve equality and to overe oppression. In addition to class hierarchy, she must fight against those who believe women to be inferior to men. Three central male figures threaten her desire for equality and dignity: Mr. Brocklehurst, Edward Rochester, and St John Rivers, Each tries to keep Jane in a submissive position, where she is unable to express her own thoughts and feelings. In her quest for independence and self－ knowledge, she must escape Brocklehurst, reject St, John and e to Rochester only after ensuring that they may marry as equals. The last condition is met once Jane proves herself able to function, through the time shespends at Moor House, in a munity and in a family. She will not depend solely on Rochester for love and she can be financially independent. Furthermore, Rochester is bind at the novel’s end and dependent on Jane to be his wife. In Chapter 12, Jane articulates what was for her time a radically feminist philosophy: women are supposed to be very calm generally but women feel just as men feel。 they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would su