《简爱》读后感
——Reactionto Jane Eyre
响水县东鸣湖实验学校 岳帅
Jane Eyre is a representative work ofCharlotte Bronte, a famous British writer. This tough and talented femalewriter shaped the image of Jane Eyre with her own soul to call for women’sindependent self-esteem, and thus has touched the heart of countless readers duringthe more than one hundred years.
British philosopher David Hume once said, “The ultimate goal oflife is to gain happiness.” This can almost serve as the best explanatory noteto Jane Eyre, the leading character in this book. The book tells a story aboutJane Eyre, a British woman orphaned in her childhood, who struggles and adheresto her own belief in various kinds of setbacks for the constant pursuit offreedom and dignity, and finally gains happiness. By showing the tortuous andtwisting love experience of the hero and heroine, the novel succeeds in shapinga female image who dares to revolt and to fight for freedom and equal status.
The book is conceived ingeniously and elaborately, and the storylines with one climax following another, so that readers should feel anatmosphere of paradox and a taste of mediaeval times peculiar to the VictorianEra. The linguistic description is charming and attractive throughout the book,making the scene sensation full, natural and strongly infectious. Due toCharlotte Bronte’s great emphasis on the architecture of scene sensation,readers feel as if personally on the scenes when reading the book. And theauthor, by means of her ability to control the plots, guides readers toexperience the character and life changes displayed in the book.
What impresses me most is the dialogue between Jane Eyre andRochester, “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I amsoulless and heartless? You think wrong! …ust as if both had passed through thegrave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, - as we are!” This dialogue, shockingand powerful, presents the sublime and loftiness of independent personality. Whenpursuing her personal happiness, Jane Eyre shows extraordinary innocence,unadorned minds and sentiments and indomitable courage. She does not give upher pursuit of happiness in spite of her character as a housemaid, and her loveis pure and noble. She regards Rochester’s wealth as not worthy of seriousconsideration, and the reason why she is deeply in love with him is that he cantreat others as equal, consider her to be a friend and get along with her heartto heart. In the background of thattime, it was really so rare and commendable to call for women’s independence,equality and freedom.
The author is good at using the technique of rendering. Shecreates the atmosphere of hell by means of nightmares, illusions andpresentiments, to set up an allegoric environment. Those elements added by Charlotte Bronte make the whole novelpresent a different atmosphere to attract readers more effectively. In Gateshead, Jane Eyre feels “a gloomy atmosphere of sacrificial ceremony” in thedaily life and sees flickering “ghosts” from time to time, so she feelsdepressed and scared. In particular, the hair-raising “red house” has almostbecome the embodiment of hell. In Lowood, “death is a frequent visitor here”,and “the walled courtyard is shrouded with gloominess and horror” and exudes“the stench of death”. For Jane Eyre, beyond all doubt, hardly had she leaped fromthe fiery pit when she was thrown into a more terrible hell. In the gloomy andhorrific atmosphere, the story is unfolded, and the conflicts between theleading characters are also revealed incisively and vividly.
Many people consider it to be a love novel, but the implicationof Jane Eyre is not confined to love.The novel Jane Eyre is on the background of theearly Victorian Age, a period in which the western registration system wasstrictest, and the people’s thoughts were imprisoned like grim death by thehierarchy. In this general background, Jane Eyre, as a small potato, has hermental strength more dazzling by the contrast of the age: in spite of being avery poor orphan and abused by others, she still shows her determinationresolutely: I will never lead a life in a poor household at the bottom of thesociety, and I hate to be a lowlife. Just in this way, blood lineage isimprinted in her, strictly and irreversibly. In the later days, although shedoes not have a single penny left on and almost starves to death on the streetafter leaving the residence, she still refuses to beg for food as a lowerscrounger does. The economic poverty is in stark contrast with the middleclass’ identify to which she always sticks in her heart.
A lot of people are fond of the image of Jane Eyre, for thereason that too many shadows of reality can be found in her. She isaverage-looking and impecunious. The only commendable thing is her heart thatsuccumbs to no troubles. However, the reality is not so desperate, for Charlotteendows Jane Eyre with a touch of fairytale experience from a woman’sperspective. Finally, “Cinderella” Jane Eyre, by breaking open a way throughbrambles and thorns, stands in front of “Prince” Rochester. Being strugglingbut uncompromising, being persistent but relaxed and being strong-minded buthumble are the life creeds as common as chicken soup, but they are implanted inthe novel imperceptibly and accepted by people by the light of nature.
As a classic novel for independent women, Jane Eyreis also full of practical significance. When faced withthe blows and failures that come one after another, we must cherish hope in ourheart, and must face the future with inexhaustible physical strength, exuberantenergy and strong willpower, to walk the road to the future in a down-to-earthway. In the meantime, she also makes clear to us that no matter how sufferingand unpleasant the life is, we cannot forget the fullness of our soul and theprofusion of our inward world. Only in this way can we really gain love offreedom and belief.
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