简爱作者的简介 英文版。
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The orphaned protagonist of the story. When the novel begins, she is an isolated, powerless ten-year-old living with an aunt and cousins who dislike her. As the novel progresses, she grows in strength. She distinguishes herself at Lowood School because of her hard work and strong intellectual abilities. As a governess at Thornfield, she learns of the pleasures and pains of love through her relationship with Edward Rochester. After being deceived by him, she goes to Marsh End, where she regains her spiritual focus and discovers her own strength when she rejects St. John River’s marriage proposal. By novel’s end she has become a powerful, independent woman, blissfully married to the man she loves, Rochester.
Edward Fairfax Rochester
Jane’s lover; a dark, passionate, brooding man. A traditional romantic hero, Rochester has lived a troubled wife. Married to an insane Creole woman, Bertha Mason, Rochester sought solace for several years in the arms of mistresses. Finally, he seeks to purify his life and wants Jane Eyre, the innocent governess he has hired to teach his foster daughter, Adèle Varens, to become his wife. The wedding falls through when she learns of the existence of his wife. As penance for his transgressions, he is punished by the loss of an eye and a hand when Bertha sets fire to Thornfield. He finally gains happiness at the novel’s end when he is reunited with Jane.
Sarah Reed
Jane’s unpleasant aunt, who raises her until she is ten years old. Despite Jane’s attempts at reconciliation before her aunt’s death, her aunt refuses to relent. She dies unloved by her children and unrepentant of her mistreatment of Jane.
John Reed
Jane’s nasty and spoiled cousin, responsible for Jane’s banishment to the red-room. Addicted to drinking and gambling, John supposedly commits suicide at the age of twenty-three when his mother is no longer willing or able to pay his debts.
Eliza Reed
Another one of Jane’s spoiled cousins, Eliza is insanely jealous of the beauty of her sister, Georgiana. She nastily breaks up Georgiana’s elopement with Lord Edwin Vere, and then becomes a devout Christian. But her brand of Christianity is devoid of all compassion or humanity; she shows no sympathy for her dying mother and vows to break off all contact with Georgiana after their mother’s death. Usefulness is her mantra. She enters a convent in Lisle, France, eventually becoming the Mother Superior and leaving her money to the church.
Georgiana Reed
Eliza’s and John’s sister, Georgiana is the beauty of the family. She’s also shallow and self-centered, interested primarily in her own pleasure. She accuses her sister, Eliza, of sabotaging her plans to marry Lord Edwin Vere. Like Eliza, she shows no emotion following their mother’s death. Eventually, Georgiana marries a wealthy, but worn-out society man.
Bessie Lee
The maid at Gateshead who sometimes consoles Jane by telling her entertaining stories and singing her songs. Bessie visits Jane at Lowood, impressed by Jane’s intellectual attainments and ladylike behavior. Bessie marries the coachman, Robert Leaven, and has three children.
Mr. Lloyd
The kind apothecary who suggests that Jane be sent to school following her horrifying experience in the red-room. His letter to Miss Temple clears Jane of the accusations Mrs. Reed has made against her.
Mr. Brocklehurst
The stingy, mean-hearted manager of Lowood. He hypocritically feeds the girls at the school starvation-level rations, while his wife and daughters live luxuriously. The minister of Brocklebridge Church, he represents a negative brand of Christianity, one that lacks all compassion or kindness.
Helen Burns
Jane’s spiritual and intellectual friend at Lowood. Although she is unfairly punished by Miss Scatcherd at Lowood, Helen maintains her poise, partially through her loving friendship with Miss Temple. From Helen, Jane learns tolerance and peace, but Jane can’t accept Helen’s rejection of the material world. Helen’s impressive intellectual attainments inspire Jane to work hard at school. Dying in Jane’s arms, Helen looks forward to peace in heaven and eventual reunion with Jane.
Maria Temple
The warm-hearted superintendent at Lowood who generously offers the girls bread and cheese when their breakfasts are inedible. An impressive scholar, a model of ladylike behavior and a compassionate person, Miss Temple is a positive role model for Jane. She cares for Jane and Helen, offering them seedcake in her room and providing Helen with a warm, private bed when she is dying.
Miss Miller
Teacher for the youngest students at Lowood who greets Jane on her first night at the school
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charlotte brontë (21 april 1816 – 31 march 1855) was the oldest of the brontë sisters, who lived in haworth, yorkshire in the victorian period. her sister, emily, wrote poetry and the novel wuthering heights (1847), whilst anne wrote the tenant of wildfell hall (1848). charlotte also had a brother, branwell brontë, also a lover of literature, who tragically became an alcoholic.charlotte did not have an easy life. she experienced many tragedies throughout her young years. when charlotte was just 5 years old, her mother died of cancer. at the age of 8, she was sent to the clergy daughter's school at cowan bridge in lancashire. her grim experiences later influenced her novel, jane eyre. her sisters maria and elizabeth died of tuberculosis whilst at the school.charlotte wrote her masterpiece jane eyre under the pseudonym currer bell. the reason she wrote as a man, and encouraged her sisters to do the same, was, she said, because she ‘had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.’
charlotte could be seen as an early feminist. she wrote despite the prejudice she perceived against women in literature. when the poet robert southey wrote to her suggesting that literature ‘was not a woman’s business’ she replied: i read for the same reason that i ate or drank; because it was a real craving of nature. i wrote on the same principle as i spoke - out of the impulse and feelings of the mind…i am arrived at an age wherein i must do something for myself, the powers i possess must be exercised to a definite end.
jane eyre (1847) is charlotte’s most famous novel. it follows the life of the eponymous hero, jane eyre. she is oppressed due to her social class and her gender, and, from childhood, has to battle against the prejudices of victorian society. on her way she meets a sadistic schoolmaster, a dishy and mysterious mr. rochester and a madwoman in an attic.
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