The main content of Jane Eyre

Introduction: Jane Eyre is a novel with strong autobiographical elements. Although the story in the book is fictional, the life, environment and even many details of the heroine and many other characters are taken from the real experience of the author and the people around her. Look at the main content of Jane Eyre with me, I hope it helps!

The main information of Jane Eyre (1):

Jane Eyre is a realistic novel with strong romanticism. Jane Eyre, the protagonist, is a pure-hearted and thoughtful woman who lives at the bottom of society and suffers a lot. But she has a stubborn personality and the spirit of pursuing equality and happiness. With rich lyrical brushwork and profound and delicate psychological description, the novel has a powerful artistic power that shocks the soul. Its most successful place is to create a female image that dares to resist and strive for freedom and equal status.

The main information of Jane Eyre (2):

Jane Eyre is an autobiographical novel, which explains such a theme: human value = dignity+love. Jane Eyre's pursuit of life has two basic melodies: passion, fantasy, resistance and persistence; Longing for freedom and happiness in the world and pursuing a higher spiritual realm. The theme of this novel is to successfully create a female image who is uneasy about the status quo, unwilling to be humiliated and dare to fight through the rough life experience of an orphan girl, reflecting the call sign and censure of an ordinary soul and the desire of a lowercase person to become a capitalized person.

The main information of each chapter in the appendix Jane Eyre

Main information of each chapter:

Chapter one: Jane Eyre's father is a poor priest. When she was a child, both her parents died of illness. Jane Eyre was sent to the house of Mrs. Reed, the aunt of Gateshead Manor.

Chapter two: After my uncle Mr. Reed died in the red house, Jane Eyre lived a life of discrimination and neglect for 10 years. Once, Jane was put in the red house for resisting her cousin's beating. Physical pain and mental humiliation and fear made her seriously ill.

Chapter Three: menstruation regards her as a thorn in her side, separates her from her own children and decides to send her to Darowood Orphanage.

Chapter Four: Because the confrontation with menstruation is more open and resolute, Mrs. Reed quickens the pace of sending Jane Eyre to an orphanage. In order to get rid of Jane Eyre, she slandered Jane Eyre everywhere in front of Mr. Brocklehurst and destroyed her reputation.

Chapter five: The orphanage has strict rules and a hard life, and the dean is a cold hypocrite. He destroyed orphans mentally and physically in various ways. Jane Eyre did not eat enough and wear warm clothes, and continued to suffer inhuman torture.

Chapter six: Jane Eyre and the orphan Helen become friends, and Miss Temple, the teacher, is also very concerned about her.

Chapter seven: Jane Eyre accidentally broke the slate, was punished and stood on a stool, and was humiliated in public. It is Helen's smile that gives Jane Eyre strength.

Chapter 8: Sad Jane Eyre didn't get off the stool until after school. She was very angry, and Helen brought her coffee and bread, and kept enlightening her. Miss Tambo also came to visit her and talked with Helen about the past and present, which made Jane Eyre admire.

Chapter 9: An infectious typhus in an orphanage took the lives of many orphans, and Helen also died of this typhus, which was a great blow to Jane Eyre.

Chapter 10: Typhus has greatly improved orphanages. Jane understood six years' education in the new environment and taught in this school for two years. Because of Miss Temple's departure, Jane got tired of life in an orphanage and advertised for a governess.

Chapter 11: The housekeeper of Thornfield Manor hired her. There is only one girl under the age of 10 in such a big mansion, Aadilah Valen. Mr rochester is her protector, and she is Jane Eyre's student. Jane Eyre came to Thornfield Manor, where everything was solemn and spectacular.

Chapter 12: One evening, Jane Eyre went out for a walk and met her host who had just returned from abroad. This is the first time they have met. Rochester suddenly fell from shock, and Jane hurried to help him. When she got home, Jane realized that he was Rochester, the owner of the manor.

Chapter 13: Adele is not easy to teach, she doesn't care, and she makes excuses to look for Mr. Roberts everywhere. Mr Roberts and Jane Eyre should communicate face to face, understand Jane Eyre's past and evaluate Jane Eyre's paintings.

Chapter 14: She finds that her master is a melancholy and moody person, and his attitude towards her is sometimes good and sometimes bad. The whole house is gloomy and empty.

Chapter 15: At night, Jane Eyre was awakened by a strange laugh and found Rochester's room. The door was open and the bed was on fire. She woke Rochester and put out the fire. Rochester told Jane Eyre that there lived a woman named Grace Poole on the third floor. She is insane and often gives out creepy laughter, asking her to keep a secret.

Chapter 16: Jane thinks hard, can't think of a clue, guesses the reason at random, and wants to see Mr. Roberts, but she can't get it. Chapter 17: After Rochester came back, family dinners were often held, and Thornfield Manor began to get busy up and down. At a family dinner, he courted a beautiful lady named Ingram. Jane was called into the living room, but was snubbed by Blanche and her daughter. She endured humiliation and left the living room.

Chapter 18: At the banquet, Rochester insisted that Jane Eyre also go to the living room. The guests were very arrogant about Jane Eyre, but Rochester invited Jane Eyre to dance. At this time, Rochester fell in love with Jane, and Jane felt that she had feelings for Rochester.

Chapter 19: Rochester went out and a gypsy with a veil came to his house. When it is Jane Eyre's turn to tell fortune, Jane Eyre discovers that this mysterious gypsy is Rochester, and he wants to test Jane Eyre's feelings for him.

Chapter 20: A stranger named Mei Sen came to the manor. He was bitten by a mysterious woman on the third floor that night. Jane helped Rochester send him away secretly.

Chapter 2 1: Soon, Mrs. Reed sent for Jane, saying that she was dying and wanted to see Jane. When she returned to menstruation's home, Mrs. Reed gave her a letter, which was sent by Jane's uncle three years ago, asking about her niece and giving Jane Eyre an inheritance. Mrs. Reed lied that Jane died in an orphanage, and it was not until her deathbed that her conscience discovered the truth and told Jane.

Chapter 22: Jane Eyre's return to Thornfield Manor feels like home. It is speculated that Rochester will propose to Miss Blanche.

Chapter 23: Rochester proposes to Jane Eyre, and Jane Eyre agrees, and her heart is full of happiness.

Chapter 24: Rochester and Jane Eyre prepare for the wedding. Robert likes Jane Eyre very much. Jane Eyre regards Robert as her whole world. He is the idol of Jane Eyre.

Chapter 25: On the eve of the wedding, Jane Eyre wakes up from her dream and sees a tall and disgusting woman wearing her wedding dress, and then tears the mask of the wedding dress to pieces. Rochester told her that it was just a dream. When Jane woke up the next day, she found that the veil of the wedding dress was really in pieces.

Chapter 26: The wedding was held as scheduled. An unexpected guest broke into the church and claimed that the wedding could not be held. He said, 15 years ago, Rochester married Bertha Mei Sen, Mr. Mei Sen's sister. Rochester admitted this fact and showed people the crazy woman who was locked up on the third floor. That's his lawful wife. She has a history of hereditary mental illness, that is, she set fire to Rochester's room and tore up the mask of Jane's wedding dress.

Chapter 27: Jane Eyre has undergone a severe test, and the law has hindered their feelings and caused them to fall into deep pain.

Chapter 28: On a stormy night, Jane Eyre sadly left Thornfield Manor. Spent all her savings, she slept in the wind, begging along the way, and went through hardships. Finally, she fainted in front of Father St. John's house and was saved by St. John and his two sisters.

Chapter 29: Jane Eyre slept for three days and nights, finally woke up and gradually recovered her strength under the care of St. John's family. Jane Eyre was taken in by St. John and found a job as a country teacher for her.

Chapter 30: Jane Eyre gradually became familiar with everything there. Soon, Jane learned that her uncle had passed away and left her a legacy. At the same time, she found that St. John was her cousin. Jane decided to divide the property equally.

Chapter 3 1: A farmhouse in a mountain village became Jane's home. She has twenty students, of whom only three can read and none can write and calculate. Jane's duty is to cultivate this bud. At dusk, Jane looked at the sunset and comforted herself. At this moment, St. John Rivers came over and asked Jane how she felt on her first day at work.

Chapter 32: Jane Eyre devoted herself wholeheartedly to the work of rural female teachers and gradually became the darling of the villagers in that area. During that time, Jane Eyre was calm on the surface, but she often met Mr. Roberts in her dreams and was very upset.

Chapter 33: St. John, a fanatic, is going to India to preach. Before he left, he proposed to Jane Eyre, but he told her frankly that he wanted to marry her not because he loved her, but because he needed a well-educated assistant.

Chapter 34: Jane Eyre thinks she should repay his kindness, but she refuses to promise him. That night, St. John waited for Jane Eyre's reply in the wasteland. Just as Jane Eyre was preparing to make a decision, she seemed to hear Rochester calling her name in the distance. ...

Chapter 35: St. John firmly believes that Jane Eyre will follow him and constantly tries his best to help Jane Eyre make up her mind to marry him as soon as possible. Inspired by the sage, Jane Eyre almost lost the courage to fight. At that moment, Jane Eyre felt a voice calling her constantly, which made Jane Eyre irresistible. Jane knows how to choose herself.

Chapter 36: Jane Eyre felt something in her heart and hurried back to Thornfield Manor, which was in ruins. She learned that the crazy woman set fire to the building and died. Rochester was also injured and disabled, living alone on a farm a few miles away.

Chapter 37: Jane Eyre finally found Mr. Roberts and was greatly shocked. She married him and got her ideal happy life.

Chapter 38: Two years later, Rochester cured one eye and saw Jane Eyre's first child.

Creation background

When the author wrote Jane Eyre, Britain was already the largest industrial country in the world, but the status of British women has not changed, and they are still in a subordinate and dependent position. Women's survival goal is to marry into a rich family, even if they can't be born into a rich family, they should strive to gain wealth and status through marriage. The only choice for women's career is to be a good wife and mother. As a writer, women will be regarded as violating their due femininity and will be violently attacked by men. From the beginning of Charlotte sisters' works using masculine pseudonyms, we can imagine the dilemma faced by female writers at that time. Jane Eyre was written under this passive background.

Theme of the work

This novel is a realistic novel with strong romanticism. Jane Eyre is a well-known work, an autobiographical novel. Jane Eyre's pursuit of life has two basic melodies: passion, fantasy, resistance and persistence; Longing for freedom and happiness in the world and pursuing a higher spiritual realm. The theme of this novel is to successfully create a female image who is uneasy about the status quo, unwilling to be humiliated and dare to fight through the rough life experience of an orphan girl, reflecting the call sign and censure of an ordinary soul and the desire of a lowercase person to become a capitalized person.

This novel mainly describes the love between Jane Eyre and Rochester. Jane Eyre's view of love deepened her personality. She believes that love should be based on spiritual equality, not on social status, wealth and appearance. Only when men and women really love each other can they get real happiness. In the pursuit of personal happiness, Jane Eyre showed unusual innocence, simple thoughts and feelings and indomitable courage. She didn't give up the pursuit of happiness because of her servant status. Her love is pure and noble. She despises Rochester's wealth. She loves him because he can treat others equally, treat her as a friend and be honest with her. For Rochester, Jane Eyre is like a fresh wind, which makes him feel refreshed. Rochester was used to the cold hypocrisy of the upper class, and Jane Eyre's simplicity, kindness and independence rekindled his pursuit and yearning for life. Therefore, he can sincerely express his good wishes and determination to reform in front of Jane. Jane Eyre sympathizes with Rochester's unfortunate fate and thinks that his mistakes are caused by objective circumstances. Although he was ugly and later went bankrupt and became disabled, she saw his inner beauty and poor unfortunate fate, so she finally married him. Through Rochester's two completely different love experiences, the novel criticizes the concept of love and marriage based on money, and always describes Jane Eyre's love with Rochester as a complete tacit understanding of thought, talent, quality and spirit. This novel shows that the best life of human beings is human dignity and love, and the ending of the novel arranges such a life for the heroine. Although this ending is too perfect, even this perfection itself marks superficiality. Although Rochester's manor was destroyed, Rochester himself became a disabled person. Jane Eyre is such a state, no longer in the contradiction between dignity and love, but also satisfied. When she married Rochester, she had dignity and, of course, love.

Jane Eyre is a woman who is unwilling to endure social oppression and dares to pursue personal happiness. Her poor and low social status and wandering life experience were a true portrayal of the lower class life in England at that time. In the novel, the author can put an awakened new woman from the lower class in the leading role, enthusiastically praising the protagonist's tenacious struggle against oppression and social prejudice, striving for independent personality and dignity, and pursuing a happy life, which is commendable in literary works at that time. Jane Eyre, who has dignity and pursues equality, is a seemingly weak woman with a strong and tenacious heart, because this work has become a model in the hearts of countless women. The novel shows the ups and downs of the hero and heroine's love experience in a fascinating way, and praises getting rid of all old customs and prejudices. Deep love rooted in mutual understanding and respect has a powerful artistic power that shocks the soul. Its most successful place is to create a female image that dares to resist and strive for freedom and equal status.

Artistic feature

The extensive use of psychological description is a major feature of this novel. The book is exquisitely conceived and the plot is ups and downs, which creates a gloomy atmosphere for readers without leaving the middle-class family background. The author also describes the sincere love and natural scenery between the protagonists in a quoted style, with rich and strong feelings. In landscape description, the author appreciates it from the painter's aesthetic point of view, and grasps the harmony of light and shadow with the painter's interest. The colorful scenery is meticulous and vivid, and the words are precise.

Jane Eyre has the following characteristics in content structure:

The cover of Jane Eyre by China Book Publishing House 1. The structure of Jane Eyre is an artistic framework in the form of divine comedy. Jane Eyre experienced the scorching of hell (Gateshead and Loward), the purification of purgatory (Thornfield and swamp), and finally reached the ideal state of heaven (combining with Rochester, giving birth to the next generation symbolizing rebirth).

Secondly, the author uses the atmosphere of rendering, nightmares, hallucinations and premonitions to create the atmosphere of hell and build an allegorical environment. In Gateshead, Jane Eyre felt the "gloomy commemorative atmosphere" from her life, and saw the "ghost" that appeared and disappeared from time to time, while the "red house" that suppressed terror and made people feel creepy almost became the embodiment of hell. In lowood, "death has become a frequent visitor here", "gloom and terror are shrouded in the wall", and it exudes "the stench of death" For Jane Eyre, there is no doubt that she just jumped out of the fire pit and was thrown into a more terrible hell. In Thornfield, crazy women appear frequently like ghosts, and storms keep hitting mulberry houses.

Thirdly, in order to endow an ordinary love novel with classic meaning and mythical connotation, the author repeatedly quotes the Bible, myths, epics, classic works, historical allusions and Shakespeare's works.

Fourthly, a major feature of this novel is its passion and poetry. Rochester, the hero of the novel, and Jane Eyre, the heroine, both express their feelings in poetic language.

The influence of the work

Jane Eyre is an influential book. For more than a hundred years, the image of Jane Eyre is immortal, and this novel has been welcomed by people all over the world and praised by experts.

The poetic dialogue between the hero and heroine in the novel has a certain influence on later literature, and its language features are an important reason why readers, especially young readers, like it, and its social practical significance, especially women's liberation, is worth pondering.