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1、The Bront Sisters,The Bront sisters,Charlotte Bront (18161855) Emily Bront (18181848) Anne Bront (18201849) They were all talented writers and all of them died young.,Charlotte Bront (18161855 ),Emily Bront (18181848),Anne Bront (18201849),Their Life Story,a poor clergyman family of Celtic blood,182
2、0, move to Haworth of Yorkshire,untouched moorland wildness with its strong winds,unhappy childhood,mothers death; stern and dominant father; strict aunt; lack of suitable society,Life Story,Charlotte, took care of sisters and brother, Branwell,charity school,very poor condition,lovers of literature
3、,read a lot,poems and stories together,The three sisters,Life Story,Charllote, Emily Brussels in 1842,French 1849, Anne died of the same illness; Father lost his eyesight,Charlotte decided not to be married to look after Father; Later married to Fathers curate /kjureit/(副牧师),Charlotte died less than
4、 a year after her marriage.,Representative works,Emily: Wuthering Heights,呼啸山庄 Anne: Agnes Grey,安格尼斯格雷 The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall 王尔德费尔庄园的佃户,Charlottes Representative works,1) The Professor,教授 (based on her Brussels experience; not published until her death) 2) Jane Eyre,简爱 (masterpiece) p.295
5、(1) the criticism of the bourgeois system of education; the Lowood school; (2) the description of the English country squire; (3) position of woman in society: equality,Charlottes Representative works,3) Shirley,舍丽 (p. 294. Para. 2.) dealing with the life of workers at the time of the Luddites movem
6、ent (卢德运动, 17 c. machines, deprived, work, destroy) 4) Villette,维莱特, (p. 294. Para. 2.) a realistic description of her sad experiences at a boarding school in Brussels.,III. Jane Eyre by charlotte Bronte,Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. Partly autobiographical, the novel
7、 abounds with social criticim ,gothicism and romanticism to create a distinctive Victorian novel.,Themes,Morality God and Religion Social class Gender relations Love and Passion Independence Atonement and Forgiveness Search for home and family,Famous Sentences,Do you think, because I am poor, obscur
8、e, 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
9、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 Gods feet, equal,-as we are!,Jane Eyre,The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is not
10、ed for its sharp criticism of the existing society, especially the bourgeois system of education. At the same time , it is an intense moral fable. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve his final happiness.,1. Analyze the work,2. Jane Eyres character：,J
11、ane Eyre， an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved， a poor， plain， little governess who dares to love her master， a man superior to her in many ways， and even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him， cuts a completely new woman image. In this novel Charlo
12、tte characterizes Jane Eyre as a naive， kind-hearted， noble-minded woman who pursues a genuine kind of love.,Jane Eyre represents those middle-class workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and
13、her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.,Charlotte Bronte is a writer of Realism combined with Romanticism. Why is Jane Eyre by her a successful novel?,The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan. This novel sharply criticizes the existi
14、ng society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained, the social discrimination Jane experiences and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage 3. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English n
15、ovel the first governess heroine Jane Eyre. 4 It is an intense moral fable at the same time. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.,Jane Eyre: A Ground Breaking Novel,The heroine is small, plain, & poor The heroine is
16、 the first female character to claim the right to feel strongly about her emotions and act on her convictions This romantic ground had previously been reserved for males Such a psychologically complex heroine had never been created before,Social Class,Jane often feels inadequate compared to many of the other main characters in the novel. Jane feels that her love for Rochester is wrong because she isnt from the same class. Class segregates Jane from her cousins on both sides,
