Author | Su Hun Er
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Xia Han
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Meet · Meet your unknown self in the book.
Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Today, I would like to share with you the masterpiece of British female writer Charlotte Brontë - "Jane Eyre".
Life is fleeting, what kind of soul should we have?
In the era of classical love, the heroine Jane Loves to use her charming self to make the work span hundreds of years and still touch countless readers.
If you want to choose the books that women must read in their lifetime, Jane Eyre will definitely be on the list.
"Jane Eyre" tells the story of a lonely woman who has lost her parents since childhood, and on the road of life full of various tribulations, she relies on her tenacity and integrity to break through many obstacles and finally harvest a happy life.
More than 170 years later, Jane Eyre is still popular, she has been living among people and loved by countless readers.
The British writer Thackeray called it "the masterpiece of a great genius".
The story of the whole book is not complicated, telling only the joys and sorrows of personal emotional life, but it can resonate with many people.
When you understand "Jane Eyre", you will understand that the root of a person's happiness is to have these four wisdoms of life.
Choosing to read is to cultivate a tenacity in suffering
Jane Ai's parents died when she was young, and she was fostered in her aunt's house, and her cousin John was very difficult to Jane Ai, and beat her all over the body at every turn.
In the 10 years of tormented solitary life, the viciousness of her aunt, the prejudice of her servants, the arbitrariness of her cousin, the contempt of her cousin, and all kinds of harms, instead of making Jane Ai yield, she became more and more tenacious.
Jane Eyre's happiest moment was climbing onto the windowsill and hiding behind the red curtains to read quietly.
Only reading can make her temporarily forget the pain around her.
Reading is also a way to make yourself grow.
And once life starts to grow, the whole world will make way for you.
Because of the inner strength gained by reading, Jane Ai always followed her heart and did not lose the courage to live life in the slightest.
At the age of 10, Jane Ai was locked in a "terrible" red house by her aunt because of a conflict with her cousin.
After Jane's tenacious resistance, her aunt sent the rebellious her to Rowwood Boarding School.
The school rules are strict, the living environment is harsh, and starvation and freezing are the norm.
Worst of all, typhus went on a rampage and killed many children.
During her eight years at Rowwood, Jane Eyre was devastated both mentally and physically.
However, this purgatory-like living environment did not intimidate her, but made her grow more tenaciously.
She immersed herself in a lot of reading, learned French, piano, painting, constantly surpassed herself, stayed in school with excellent grades to become a teacher, and gradually learned the ability to survive independently as she grew up.
She has experienced the solitude of self-cultivation and constantly explored in the spiritual field, thus completing the journey of self-spiritual growth.
Kazuo Inamori once said:
"The pressures and setbacks you encounter are the best opportunities for self-cultivation."
No matter what kind of situation you are in, what kind of people and things you encounter, you are honing your heart, strengthening your ability, and achieving your life.
In the long road of life, who does not encounter setbacks? Who doesn't suffer?
In the grinding, do not stop learning, turn despair into hope, and only then will we discover a deeper wisdom in life.
In the midst of suffering, do not give up growth, the shackles as wings, in order to reach a new height in life.
Ethical self-discipline is a kind of upbringing rooted in the heart
At the age of 18, Jane Eyre decided to leave school to try a new life, and she successfully applied to Thornfield Manor to become a governess.
Jane Eyre's quiet and compassionate, straightforward and honest, independent and stubborn personality charm soon attracted the man of the manor, Mr. Rochester.
Rochester has an eccentric temperament, sometimes arrogant and indifferent, sometimes warm and kind.
Although he is rich in wealth, he is depressed and depressed in his heart, and his confusion has a strong attraction to Jane Eyre.
They have a lot in common, and Jane Eyre's presence has allowed Rochester, who has gone through vicissitudes, to find what his soul has wanted for many years.
They fell in love.
At the moment of the church's wedding, the secret hidden in Thornfield Manor was revealed.
It turned out that Rochester had long been married, and his wife was Bertha, a mad woman imprisoned in the attic.
Rochester, desperate for his life because of the failure of his marriage, has escaped to other countries countless times to have fun, until he meets Jane Eyre.
After the fact of being married was exposed, Jane Ai could not stand the emotional deception and fell into deep pain.
Rochester decided to take Jane Eyre to the south of France, live in a luxury villa on the shores of the Mediterranean, forget the past, and start a new life in an unfamiliar environment.
Jane Eyre refused, and she would never allow herself to marry a husband with a wife, which was immoral and contrary to her own beliefs and principles.
Jane loves to face her heart honestly, she does not want to be ambiguous and entangled, she will never stay and let her conscience be tortured and flogged, otherwise, the soul will never be at peace.
She resolutely left Rochester and left Thornfield Manor.
See a sentence like this:
The train of life must go forward unceasingly, and the most important driving force is not wealth, not love, but morality.
Without morality, all the wealth and emotions that man receives will only hinder the progress of the train of life.
In feelings, there is no right or wrong, but there is courtesy, righteousness, and shame.
Some emotions must know how to let go; some choices must follow the supremacy of morality.
In the face of temptation, women should have an unambiguous moral boundary, abide by the prudence in their hearts, and treat this earthly firework with a dust-free heart.
Financial independence is a kind of confidence for women's happiness
In Charlotte's Britain, most women's only goal was to marry into the rich and gain wealth and status through marriage.
However, Jane Eyre is different.
She has the ability to work on her own, she has her own insistence on not attaching herself to anyone, and she has the confidence to keep leaving at any time.
When Jane Eyre was proposed, the man Rochester could not wait to take Jane Eyre to the satin shop and jewelry store, and tried to make Jane Eyre immediately give up the hard job of a governess.
But Jane Eyre said firmly: "I'm sorry, sir, I will never give up, I will continue to work as usual." ”
She wants to continue to be Adele's tutor, earning a salary from work, spending her own clothes, and settling her own room and board, and she does not need to be completely dependent on each other financially.
When Rochester's marriage is revealed, he begs to leave the land of right and wrong with Jane Eyre.
But Jane Eyre is not bound by wealth and feelings.
After some twists and turns, she escaped and, with the help of the priest St. John, came to work as a teacher in a village in central England.
Women with an independent consciousness have a strong ability to survive at all times, both the courage to reject others and the courage to start again.
She listened to her inner voice, rejected pastor St. John's marriage proposal, and gave her cousin the huge inheritance inherited from her uncle.
When she returned to Thornfield House to visit Rochester, the man she had been thinking about, she found that the manor had been burned to rubble, Bertha had jumped off a building and died, and the man was blinded to save his crazy wife.
Jane Eyre did not abandon it, and firmly chose Rochester, who had nothing, as her lifelong partner.
She had enough confidence to take good care of her lover.
Because of her financial independence, she had the confidence to pursue freedom and happiness, and eventually harvested a happy love and a happy marriage.
Carnegie said in the book "Women's Pattern Determines the Ending":
Financially independent women, with their own ability to create happiness, do not need to please and depend on men.
Marriage is just the icing on the cake for them.
Economically independent women, not attached to or dependent, no matter where they go, is a beautiful landscape.
They are not afraid of external distractions, their hearts are full and determined, and they live their lives according to their own wishes without compromise.
Inner abundance is a kind of indifference to the growth of life.
When Jane Eyre was a child, the servants talked about her privately:
If she had been a beautiful well-behaved child, a beauty like Miss Georgina, people might have sympathized with her misery. But she was as ugly as a little toad, and no one would pity her.
Yes, Jane's appearance is so ugly that everyone can't really like her, although everyone knows that she is poor, but no one really sympathizes with her.
Growing up, Jane Ai began to bear the malicious eyes and ridicule from those around her from an early age because of her ugly appearance.
The self-confidence of the past was destroyed, the heart was tightly surrounded by inferiority, and even when facing feelings and work, the soul could never bloom.
However, as Jane Ai matured, when she faced the sincere feelings in front of her, she righteously told the other party:
Do you think that because I am poor, low, unbeautiful, and short, I have no soul, no heart? You're mistaken, I have a soul like you, and the two of us are equal before God.
Jane Eyre is not humble.
The ugly duckling also has spring, Cinderella can also meet the prince, and the inconspicuous weeds in the stone knots will also emit a unique fragrance.
The inner richness of the soul can transcend all outward beauty.
The kind of calmness and cultivation forged by Jane Ai because of reading has become a unique scenery in the crowd.
Make her completely different from those worldly women who indulge in vanity and pursue glitz.
Perhaps, it is precisely because of this inner temperament in her that is not polluted by the world, which has always attracted Rochester, who has always been cold and eccentric, and let him have a different affection for her.
Romantic love stories are not all handsome men and beautiful women, but more in this world, although the appearance is plain, but the soul is compatible with the gods and goddesses.
Jane Eyre's noble and abundant soul can rival any beautiful girl portrayed in any work of art of any era.
Cai Chongda mentioned in the book "Skin Bag":
Appearance, in fact, is nothing, just a skin bag.
In time, the skin bag will eventually grow old, and finally all the brilliance will be swallowed up by folds, and the soul will not.
This soul includes the path you have traveled, the things you have experienced, and the thoughts of your whole life.
A woman with a truly abundant soul will not have an empty skin bag, will not be inferior to appearance, but has the ability to think independently and has a maverick personality.
She can place her heart and enjoy the tranquility of being alone in the moment, not only can find poetry and painting in the flowers and asakusa, but also feel the romance and happiness in a pot of tea.
She knows how to nourish herself, and the fragrance of her soul is always emitted.
Ding Limei said in "Let Every Day See Joy":
The biggest capital in life is still yourself.
Only by trying to make yourself full, so that your life, emitting the fragrance it deserves, will attract butterflies to flutter.
Jane Eyre, an orphan girl who never understood the world, transformed and grew up all the way, she told us many life truths, and taught us many life wisdom:
The quality of fate lies not in the abundance of material things, but in the attitude of the heart.
As long as you work hard to grow, you will certainly be able to get out of the predicament;
As long as the moral self-discipline, must not be lost in the feelings;
As long as you don't have a skin bag and are not swayed by others, life will be full of more possibilities.
Click "watching", may you be like Jane Eyre, the heart is more beautiful and abundant, life is more open-minded and blooming, life is more happy and complete.
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