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1、毕 业 论 文论文题目 A Study of the Heroine of Jane Eyre -from a perspective of Feminism学 院 专 业 英语语言文学年 级 06级姓 名 指导教师 职 称 教授（2010 年 6月）CONTENTI.IntroductionII.A Brief Introduction of FeminismIII. Jane Eyres Rebelliousness as a Woman 3.1 Jane Eyres Rebelliousness as a Woman3.2 Jane Eyres Desire for Equality a
2、nd LibertyIV. ConclusionBibliographyAcknowledgement内 容 摘 要夏洛蒂勃朗特作为十九世纪英国杰出的女作家之一，她的代表作简爱自出版以来受到读者和文学评论者的广泛关注和欢迎。作者从女权主义的角度分析了作品中的女主人公 -简爱，从而发现了女权主义在当时社会的发展情况。本文共分为四部分。第一部分介绍了作者夏洛蒂勃朗特的生平以及她的代表作简爱，第二部分简要地介绍了女权主义及其发展。第三部分主要从女权主义角度分析了简爱。这也是整篇论文的主体部分。简爱是一位充满感情和激情的女性，在她生活的那个时代是不合时宜的。她渴望得到自由和平等，同时她的反叛精神贯穿了
3、整部小说。更为可贵的是，她不仅争取自己在社会中的平等地位，她还关注所有女性的命运。简爱从孩提时就具有反抗精神，她认为她的舅妈和表弟对她是不公正地，并加以反抗，她希望与表兄妹处于平等的地位。后来她在罗伍德慈善学校时，她又希望与其他同学处于平等的地位；进入桑菲尔德庄园当一名家庭教师后，她还是努力地想获得尊严和平等，即使当她和罗彻斯特先生恋爱之后，罗彻斯特想给她很多奢侈品，但是她都一一拒绝了。当她在婚礼上得知罗切斯特先生有一位精神失常的妻子，毅然决然地拒绝成为他的情妇而离开了他。这些都能看出一位伟大的女权主义者的本色。第四部分是本文的结论。简爱在一定程度上反映了她的创作者所处时代的社会现实、女性地位
4、和女性意识。本文认为随着时代的发展，女性地位和女性意识都得到了不同程度的提高。关键词：女权主义 平等 独立 爱情 婚姻ABSTRACTCharlotte Bronte is one of the most remarkable women writers in the 19th-century English literature. Her representative work-Jane Eyre - has been enjoying enormous popularity since its publication.By analyzing the heroine-Jane Eyre f
5、rom feminism, we can find the development of feminism. It can be clearly seen that Jane Eyre is rebellious and desires for equality and liberty, she is financially and spiritually independent in her relationship with her lover, Mr. Rochester, and appears to be a new woman. In short, Jane Eyre reflec
6、ts the social realities, womens position and womens female consciousness in the certain period its creator was in .The thesis presents the improvement of womens position and womens female consciousness with the passage of time.KEY WORDS: feminism equality independence I.IntroductionJane Eyre is one
7、of the most famous novels written by women in England in the 19th century and its among my favorite novels. Jane Eyre tells the story of an orphan girl. Jane Eyre, the daughter of a poor parson, loses both of her parents shortly after birth. She lives at the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed, an unfe
8、eling woman, who is rude and unjust to the poor orphan. Mrs. Reeds children also find pleasure in teasing and mocking Jane. One day, unable to bear the ill-treatment any longer, Jane tells straight to her aunts face what she thinks of her. Mrs. Reed is furious and gets rid of Jane by sending her to
9、a charity school for poor girls in Lowood. Maltreated by the authorities and leading a half-starved existence, Jane stays here for 8 long years, spent in studies, and the remaining in the capacity of a teacher. Then Jane gets a position of governess in the family of Mr. Rochester, a rich squire. Roc
10、hester falls in love with Jane, and she with him. They are about to be married when Jane breaks the engagement on the wedding day, learning that Mr. Rochester has a wife, a raving lunatic who is secretly kept under lock and key in the house. Shocked by the news, Jane flees from the house. She goes t
11、hrough a lot of hardships. After nearly perishing on the moors, she is taken in and cared for by a parson, Rev. Rivers. He helps her to get the job of a teacher in a village school. Meanwhile, a great misfortune befalls Mr. Rochester: he loses his sight during a fire in the house, set by his mad wif
12、e who dies a tragic death by jumping off the roof in spite of his attempt to save her. Hearing that Mr. Rochester is penniless and disabled, Jane Eyre hurries to him and becomes his wife.Since its publication, it has attracted a lot of attention from critics and common readers. In 1847, George Henry
13、 Lewes, one of the soundest of Victorian critics, reviewed Jane Eyre in Frasers magazine that “reality - deep, significant reality - is the greatest characteristics of the book” (Blackburn, 2002:99). Then, some critics began to focus on its character drawing, its treatment of love, its plot, etc. At
14、 the end of the twentieth century, discussions moved to Bertha Mason. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, in The Madwoman in the Attic in 1979, took the figures of Bertha Mason “as representative of the 19th century female imagination, forced to divide itself between a compromising heroine like Jane Eyr
15、e, and an outrageous figure like Bertha Mason who, by her very presence in the text, register the anger which is also experienced by the heroine.” From the literature review, the author of the thesis has learned that feminist criticism appeared after World War II as a literary branch of the womens liberation, which is a comparatively new kind of criticism and is still popular today. In the later part of the twentieth century, it becomes common for literary critics to pay attention to the feminist ele
