《简爱》英文读后感
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《简爱》英文读后感 篇1
I first read "Jane Eyre" in eighth grade and have read it every few years since. It is one of my favorite novels,and so much more than a gothic romance to me,although that's how I probably would have defined it at age 13. I have always been struck,haunted in a way,by the characters - Jane and Mr. Rochester. They take on new depth every time I meet them...and their's is a love story for the ages.
Charlotte Bronte's first published novel,and her most noted work,is a semi-autobiographical ing-of-age story. Jane is plain,poor,alone and unprotected,but due to her fierce independence and strong will she grows and is able to defy society's expectations of her. This is definitely feminist literature,published in 1847,way before the beginning of any feminist movement. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the novel has had such a wide following since it first came on the market. It is also one of the first gothic romances published and defines the genre.
Jane Eyre,who is our narrator,was born into a poor family. Her parents died when she was a small child and the little girl was sent to live with her Uncle and Aunt Reed at Gateshead. Jane's Uncle truly cared for her and showed his affection openly,but Mrs. Reed seemed to hate the orphan,and neglected her while she pampered and spoiled her own children. This unfair treatment emphasized Jane's status as an unwanted outsider. She was often punished harshly. On one occasion her nasty cousin Jack picked a fight with her. Jane tried to defend herself and was locked in the terrifying "Red Room" as a result. Jane's Uncle Reed had died in this room a little while before,and Mrs. Reed knew how frightened she was of the chamber. Since Jane is the narrator,the reader is given a first-hand impression of the child's feelings,her heightened emotional state at being imprisoned. Indeed,she seems almost like an hysterical child,filled with terror and rage. She repeatedly calls her condition in life "unjust" and is filled with bitterness. Looking into the mirror Jane sees a distorted image of herself. She views her reflection and sees a "strange little figure," or "tiny phantom." Jane has not learned yet to subordinate her passions to her reason. Her passions still erupt unchecked. Her isolation in the Red Room is a presentiment of her later isolation from almost every society and munity. This powerful,beautifully written scene never fails to move me.
Mrs. Reed decided to send Jane away to the Lowood School,a poor institution run by Mr. Brocklehurst,who believed that suffering made grand people. All the children there were neglected,except to receive harsh punishment when any mistake was made. At Lowood,Jane met Helen Burns,a young woman a little older than Jane,who guided her with vision,light and love for the rest of her life. Jane's need for love was so great. It really bees obvious in this first friendship. Helen later died from fever,in Jane's arms. Her illness and death could have been avoided if more attention had been paid to the youths. Jane stayed at Lowood for ten years,eight as a student and two as a teacher. Tired and depressed by her surroundings,Jane applied for the position of governess and found employment at Thornfield. The mansion is owned by a gentleman named Edward Fairfax Rochester. Her job there was to teach his ward,an adorable little French girl,Adele. Over a long period the moody,inscrutable
Rochester confides in Jane and she in him. The two form an unlikely friendship and eventually fall in love. Again,Jane's need for love es to the fore,as does her passionate nature. She blooms. A dark,gothic figure,Rochester also has a heart filled with the hope of true love and future happiness with Jane. Ironically,he has brought all his misery,past and future,on himself.
All is not as it seems at Thornfield. There is a strange,ominous woman servant,Grace Poole,who lives and works in an attic room. She keeps to herself and is rarely seen. From the first,however,Jane has sensed bizarre happenings at night,when everyone is asleep .There are wild cries along with violent attempts on Rochester's life by a seemingly unknown person. Jane wonders why no one investigates Mrs. Poole. Then a strange man visits Thornfield and mysteriously disappears with Mr. Rochester. Late that night Jane is asked to sit with the man while the lord of the house seeks a doctor's help. The man has been seriously wounded and is weak from loss of blood. He leaves by coach,in a sorry state,first thing in the morning. Jane's questions are not answered directly. This visit will have dire consequences on all involved. An explosive secret revealed will destroy all the joyful plans that Jane and Rochester have made. Jane,once more will face poverty and isolation.
Charlotte Bronte's heroine Jane Eyre,may not have been graced with beauty or money,but she had a spirit of fire and was filled with integrity and a sense of independence - character traits that never waned in spite of all the oppression she encountered in life. Ms. Bronte brings to the fore in "Jane Eyre" such issues as: the relations between men and women in the mid-19 century,women's equality,the treatment of children and of women,religious faith and hypocrisy (and the difference between the two),the realization of selfhood,and the nature of love and passion. This is a powerhouse of a novel filled with romance,mystery and passions. It is at once startlingly fresh and a portrait of the times. Ms. Bronte will make your heart beat faster,your pulse race and your eyes fill with tears.
《简爱》英文读后感 篇2
Recently, I have reading the book "Jane Eyre". Although I forgot some details in the book, Jane gave me deeply impression, I admire her very much.
After that the teacher also told us to put the play in to a movie, and then we all can touch each hero's soul in the book. The play it mainly tell us how Jane is growing up when suffering from great difficulties and painless. what's more, it is impressed me that she still love her master even if he is blind at last due to rescue his mad wife. And I like the Classic lines what Jane said to Mr. Rochester："Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?
Do you think I am an automaton?--a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, 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 weh, 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 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 God's feet, equal,--as we are!" its so beautiful, Jane is a girl who will never lose confidence in life and always sensible when handling with some motional problems.
Jane was huge in my heart. She can control her life and fate. She knew how to continue her life and she got it!
Maybe after what she told me I have known that what love is and how to love and to be loved! The book is a book worth of reading, so all in all let's enjoy it!
《简爱》英文读后感 篇3
This is a strong romantic colour realistic novel, mainly describes the novels of Jane love and the love of rochester. Jane eyre is a hero a pure, good at thinking of women, she lives in the bottom, and intermittently hardships.
But she has a stubborn character and to the spirit of happiness for equality. The technique of lyric novel by rich and profound psychological description is exquisite, the resort shows the hero and heroine twists and turns of the ups and downs, sing praises love experience the cast off all the old customs and prejudice. Rooted in mutual understanding, mutual respect on the basis of the deep love, has strong shock of the mind force.
Art The most successful in the shape of a dare to resist, dare to fight for freedom and equal status of women image.
《简爱》英文读后感 篇4
Oliver Twist one of the most famous works of Charles Dickens’ is a novel reflecting the tragic fact of the life in Britain in 18th century.
The author who himself was born in a poor family wrote this novel in his twenties with a view to reveal the ugly masks of those cruel criminals and to expose the horror and violence hidden underneath the narrow and dirty streets in London.
The hero of this novel was Oliver Twist an orphan who was thrown into a world full of poverty and crime. He suffered enormous pain such as hunger thirst beating and abuse. While reading the tragic experiences of the little Oliver I was shocked by his sufferings. I felt for the poor boy but at the same time I detested the evil Fagin and the brutal Bill. To my relief as was written in all the best stories the goodneeventually conquered devil and Oliver lived a happy life in the end. One of the plots that attracted me most is that after the theft little Oliver was allowed to recover in the kind care of Mrs. Maylie and Rose and began a new life. He went for walks with them or Rose read to him and he worked hard at his lessons. He felt as if he had left behind forever the world of crime and hardship and poverty.
How can such a little boy who had already suffered oppressive affliction remain pure in body and mind? The reason is the nature of goodness. I think it is the most important information implied in the novel by Dickens-he believed that goodnecould conquer every difficulty. Although I don’t think goodneis omnipotent yet I do believe that those who are kind-hearted live more happily than those who are evil-minded.
For me the nature of goodneis one of the most necessary character for a person. Goodneis to humans what water is to fish. He who is without goodneis an utterly worthleperson. On the contrary as the famous saying goes ‘The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose’ he who is with goodneundoubtedly is a happy and useful person. People receiving his help are grateful to him and he also gets gratified from what he has done and thus he can do good to both the people he has helped and himself.
《简爱》英文读后感 篇5
This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.
It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyer. I am of no exception. As we refer to the movie “Jane Eyer”,it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way,but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person,both physically and mentally.
Jane Eyer was a born resister,whose parents went off when she was very young,and her aunt,the only relative she had,treated her as badly as a ragtag. Since Jane’s education in Lowwood Orphanage began,she didn’t get what she had been expecting——simply being regarded as a mon person,just the same as any other girl around. The suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else.As a reward of revolting the ruthleoppression,Jane got a chance to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden.
There she made the acquaintance of lovely Adele and that garden’s owner,Rochester,a man with warm heart despite a cold face outside. Jane expected to change the life from then on,but fate had decided otherwise: After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry,she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal wife,who seemed to be the shadow following Rochester and led to his moodineall the time ----Rochester was also a despairing person in need of salvation. Jane did want to give him a hand,however,she made up her mind to leave,because she didn’t want to betray her own principles,because she was Jane Eyer. The film has finally got a symbolist end: Jane inherited a large number of legacies and finally returned. After finding Rochester’s misfortune brought by his original mad wife,Jane chose to stay with him forever.
I don’t know what others feel,but frankly speaking,I would rather regard the section that Jane began her teaching job in Thornfield as the film’s end----especially when I heard Jane’s words “Never in my life have I been awaken so happily.” For one thing,this ideal and brand-new beginning of life was what Jane had been imagining for long as a suffering person; for another,this should be what the audiences with my views hoped her to get. But the professional judgment of producing films reminded me to wait for a totally different result: There must be something wrong ing with the excellence----perhaps not only should another section be added to enrich the story,but also we may see from the next transition of Jane’s life that “Life is like a box of chocolates,you never know what you would get.” (By Forrest Gump’s mother,in the film “Forrest Gump”)
What’s more,this film didn’t end when Jane left Thornfield. For Jane Eyer herself,there should always be somewhere to realize her great ideal of being independent considering her fortitude,but for Rochester,how he can get salvation? The film gives the answer tentatively: Jane eventually got back to Rochester. In fact,when Jane met Rochester for the first time,she scared his horse and made his heel strained,to a certain extent,which meant Rochester would get retrieval because of Jane. We can consider Rochester’s experiences as that of religion meaning.
The fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life. After it,Rochester got the mercy of the God and the love of the woman whom he loved. Here we can say: human nature and divinity get united perfectly in order to let such a story accord with the requirements of both two sides. The value of this film may be due to its efforts to explore a new way for the development of humanism under the faith of religion.
《简爱》英文读后感 篇6
"Love" in the history of English literature is handed down as a classic,it has successfully shaped the history of English literature first on love,life,society and religion,have taken a stand on one's own initiative and dare to struggle,dare to fight for freedom and equality of female image.
Almost all women love foreign literature,like D Charlotte's "in love".If we think that Charlotte is only just to write this section of tangled up love to write "love".I think,sorry,that's not correct.The author also is a female,living in turbulent England in the middle of the nineteenth Century,when the thoughts have a brand new start.And in "Jane love" in infiltration is the largest such thoughts -- women's sense of independence.Let us imagine,if Jane love independent,has been killed in his childhood; if she did not share the independent,she already and wife Rochester to live together,began to have money,a new life; if she is not that the purity,we are now in the hands of "Jane love" is no longer a touching tears classic.So,I began to think,why "Jane love" let us be moved,fondle admiringly -- she is independent personality,beckoning personality charm.
However,we can't help wanting to ask,only this step can be independent?I think I won't.After all,women's independence is a long-term process,not acplish at one stroke.It needs a thorough courage,love was like Jane decided to leave Rochester,need "wind rustling Xi the Yi River is so cold,strong earth to did not return" heroic and courage.I think,this should be the most crucial one step,also should be the decisive step towards independence.And Charlotte's Jane love but her stubborn disposition,independent personality left us a moved.So she is successful,happy women.
Jane love has as an independent women's classic,I hope the sun,the flowers more Jane love out,whether poor or rich,; whether beauty,or homely,have good heart and enrich the mind,can the independent personality and strong character life.