论《简爱》中的女性意识

安阳师范学院人文管理学院本科毕业论文

An Analysis of the Feminist Consciousness of Jane Eyre

论《简爱》中的女性意识

摘要

《简爱》是英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂.勃朗特的代表作品，由于她成功地塑造了一个典型的人物—简爱，她也因此被认为是一位卓越的女作家。这部作品一经出版，简爱这个人物就引起了人们极大的关注，她表现出早期女权主义者的某些特征，主要表现在她敢于反抗压迫和社会偏见，努力争取独立，自由，平等和真爱，为追求幸福生活而顽强斗争，宣告了女性自我意识的觉醒。本文首先通过事例分析对简爱的女性意识的表现进行介绍，着重描写她的人格平等意识；维护女性尊严，追求独立人格的意识；强烈的爱情和婚姻自主意识；追求经济上的独立意识。然后从个人和社会因素分析简爱这种意识形成的原因。最后简要分析简爱的这种女性意识对当今女性的启迪意义，从中挖掘现代女性所应具备的个性品质。

关键词：女性意识；尊严；真爱；独立

Abstract

Jane Eyre is the most famous work written by Charlotte Bronte in England. By creating successfully the typical figure, Jane Eyre, is also considered as an extraordinary woman novelist. When the book is published, the character of Jane Eyre has caught people’s broad attention. She showed some of the characteristics of early feminists, such as the persistence to rebel and fight bravely against the social oppression and discrimination, her unremitting efforts of pursuing freedom, equality, independence and true love and she always tries her best to seek for a happy life. That declared the awakening of female self-consciousness. At first, this essay attempts to introduce Jane’ female consciousness through an analysis of some cases happened to her, and a plenty of works will be done to describe her personal equality consciousness, her maintaining the dignity of woman and the pursuing of her independence both in marriage and economy. Then next part analyzes the causes of the formation of Jane Eyre’s female consciousness from the aspects of individuality and society. In the end, an analysis of revealing will be made about the female consciousness of Jane Eyre for women today, from which it can be seen obviously that the modern female have their own personal traits.

Key Words: female consciousness, self-respect, true love, independence

Contents

摘要............................................................................................................................................... I Abstract........................................................................................................................................ I II

1. Introduction (1)

2. The Performance of Female Consciousness of Jane Eyre (2)

2.1 Personal Equality Awareness (2)

2.2 The Pursuit of Dignity and Independence (4)

2.3 The Pursuit of Love and Marriage (5)

2.4 Independent Awareness in Economy (6)

3. T he Causes of the Formation of Jane Eyre’s Female Consciousness (7)

3.1 The Individual Factors (7)

3.2 Family Factors (8)

3.3 The Social Factors (8)

4. The Revealing of Jane’s Female Consciousness for Modern Female (9)

4.1The Influence of Jane Eyre (9)

4.2 The Significance for Modern Female (10)

5. Conclusion (10)

Bibliography (12)

Acknowledgements (13)