2012/08/04

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane is a orphan who lives in her mother's sister-in-law, Mrs. Reed's house. Gateshead is a nice, rich place to live but the people living there-aunt Reed and her children-has no warm soul. Jane is treated unfairly but unlike other girls of her age, she defenses herself with spirit and courage, in belief that she will be able to escape this house in someday. And on that day, Jane is sent to a girl charity school owned by Mr. Broklehust. She spends her time learning for 10 years, and ultimately secures a humble status as a governess in the household of Mr. Rochester. Jane's shrp wit and defiant nature impresses both his heart and mind. Jane also begins to love him. The two becomes connected;into a deep bond. Unfortunately, Jane learns the fact that Mr. Rochester had a wife before, and that she became a lunatic, so Mr. Rochester locked her up in a small room. 
  Learning this, Jane decides to leave him and make new experiences. Time passes by and Jane starts finding Mr. Rochester. She first goes back to Thronfield, but a butler who had worked for Mr. Rochester's father, told her a terrible story that the lunatic woman-Mr. Rochester's first wife-had died in a fire she had made and Mr. Rochester became stone-blinded. Jane eventually finds Mr. Rochester and the story ends as Jane marrying Mr. Rochester.


 Even though the novel 'Jane Eyre' seems to be only complexed love stories, there is a significant amount of deeper social commentary on another level. Charlotte bronte, the author, used a fictional stroyline to explore class relations and the possibility of love out of marriage. I think she tried to show her thoughts that love can be made unrelated to class and criticize the Victorian culture.
  I think it was thoughtful but also somewhat cold-hearted of Jane. She loved Mr. Rochester, but she ran away from him because of his first wife.
  Well, I have read many phrases and had an impression that Jane was too high-spritual that she is cold-hearted.
 After reading this book, I came to think about the meaning of love. As I'm in middle school, I could see many girls and boys hanging out and exchanging love letters. Watching this, I always kept a question in my mind: Do they mean real 'love'? Can they sacrifice themselves for each other? What does love mean?
 I got the answer to my quesiton after reading Jane Eyre. Love is a deep feeling, lovers could sacrifice each other and love them though they change their outside features: property, clothes, face etc. What's important is their inside.
  

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