Can unequal status love each other?
In the relationship between men and women, the "maintenance" of a man to a woman is not only that he is willing to let you spend the money at will. But he is more thoughtful than you, in the communication, can subtly enhance your inner, let you naturally open the heart; his physique is hot, but you are warm as water, you nourish each other, to achieve a win-win situation, can also be interpreted as energy integration and equality. The world-class literary masterpiece "Jane Eyre" answers this question.
Written in 1847, Jane Eyre is hailed as the first feminist novel in the history of English literature and a popular classic in the history of world literature. The novel's winning point lies in the portrayal of a female figure with a very special personality - Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre lost her parents at an early age, fostered her aunt's house, was beaten and abused, and finally driven into a poor man's adoption. She did not have a remarkable appearance, not a gentle and beautiful lady, but a short, modest tutor with no noble status. Although she fell in love with her employer, Mr. Rochester, and accepted Rochester's marriage proposal, she actively sought financial autonomy and independence, resolutely refused his gifts, and only wanted to continue to be a tutor with peace of mind.
The extraordinary temperament and rich personal emotions embodied in Jane Eyre have conquered the hearts of thousands of readers. It is precisely because of this that "Jane Eyre" breaks through the content of ordinary works in the history of The British novel, making Jane Eyre one of the most brilliant female figures in the history of British literature. Today, let's explore the true story behind those novels.
In 1847, as soon as Jane Eyre was published, it immediately caused a sensation around the world. In the novel, Jane Eyre, an orphan girl who has been tortured, stubborn and independent, has been tortured since childhood, and works as a tutor at Thornfield Manor. She falls in love with Rochester, the man of the manor, but the two are unable to be together because of Rochester's crazy wife, who is locked up in the manor. Later, the mad woman set fire to the manor, fell to her death, and Rochester was injured and maimed. Jane Eyre eventually returned to Rochester, and the two married and got their ideal happy life.
For more than a hundred years, loyal readers have been trying to find the hometown of the protagonist of the novel, Jane Eyre, and the realistic blueprint of the story. Thirty years ago, someone finally discovered the Thornfield Manor in the novel in reality according to Tu Suoji.
The real-life Thornfield Manor
The British newspaper The Times earlier reported that the old British home that once inspired Charlotte Brontë to create Jane Eyre was called Norton Keas, located in North Yorkshire. In the 14th century, Richard Norton, president of the Throne court of King Henry IV, was the owner of this late medieval dwelling. It was not until 1624 that the Graham family took over the house.
In 1839, Charlotte Brontë came to Nordenqueyas for a tour and heard a true story. In the 17th century, a mad woman was locked up in an attic in this house. The woman, known locally as "Mad Mary," was first documented in the 1880s.
This story led Charlotte Brontë to create the crazy woman in Jane Eyre 8 years later, Bertha Mason, who is imprisoned in a gloomy attic.
Now, a large number of avid supporters of Brontë's novels come to visit this ancient building every year. But it wasn't until more than a decade ago that the owners of the old house, Sir James and Mrs. Graham, discovered a mysterious staircase that had been hidden that led to an attic in the house. This coincides with the situation described in the novel Jane Eyre.
However, due to its disrepair, this mysterious staircase can no longer be climbed, and can only be seen upwards at the lower end of the staircase. Pass through the paneled hidden doors at the top of the stairs to reach the place where Mr. Rochester's mad wife, Bertha Mason, is imprisoned in the novel.
Authentic loft
In the novel, Jane Eyre is inferior, and this inferiority is first reflected in her lack of confidence in her appearance, whether it is facing her two sisters in her aunt's family, or miss Ingram, this sense of inferiority in her bones has always affected her. Because she decided that she was "short, pale, and so bad-looking" that she was not worthy of the handsome, powerful rochester in any case.
In fact, Charlotte created Jane Eyre based on herself.
Charlotte Brontë
When Charlotte was 4 years old, her father, Mr. Brontë, a graduate of St John's College, Cambridge, was hired as a parish priest at Haworth. Haworth is a small, remote village surrounded by desert and mountains, and the nearest town is 4 miles away.
The year after moving to Haworth, Mrs. Brontë died of cancer. Despite the care of an aunt, the absence of the mother made the children independent early. When Charlotte was 8 years old, along with her two older sisters and a younger sister, she was sent by her father to a girls' boarding school, but this became a decision that made her father regret for the rest of his life.
Boarding school conditions are extremely harsh, and what is even more unbearable is the harsh school rules. The girls' work and rest time, dress and hat, and speech and demeanor are all limited to extremely strict boxes, and the slightest difference will receive corporal punishment and even no food. This nightmarish experience, which Charlotte later wrote about in Jane Eyre, is the creepy Rowwood School, in which almost every character, from the principal to the teacher, has a real archetype.
Unfortunately, her sisters Maria and Elizabeth contracted typhoid fever the year after coming to the school and died not long after, and the father had to take Charlotte and sister Emily home.
In 1842, Charlotte was 25 years old and her sister Emily was 23 years old. They crossed the English Channel for the first time and arrived at the Hegel Boarding School in Brussels on a cold morning. This private school, founded and run by mr. and Mrs. Hegel, is mainly for female secondary school students. That year, the learned Mr. Hegel was 33 years old and, in addition to teaching girls, he was lecturing at one of the top boys' schools in Brussels.
Hegel's personality is elusive, always provoked by carelessness, and then tender again. Before each lesson, Charlotte judged his mood for the day based on the sound of his footsteps coming from afar.
He couldn't see his sisters making a bunch of grammatical mistakes, and the reprimands were like a storm, but he couldn't see Charlotte being scolded to tears, and she always apologized in a blink of an eye. In order to correct their stubborn language problems, he came up with a way to recommend beautiful passages from French literature every week, so that they could write an original article in a similar style. It was in this training that he discovered Charlotte's literary talent and carefully revised and guided it.
In this way, Charlotte fell in love with her teacher Hegel. Based on him, he created Mr. Rochester in "Jane Eyre". However, Hegel, who already had three children, did not respond to Charlotte's love, and Charlotte eventually returned to her hometown with the disillusionment of her first love, and after rejecting the marriage proposals of four people in a row, she married her father's assistant, Associate Priest Nichols, in 1854, but died of illness at the age of 39 after only 8 months of marriage.
Jane loves stills
Charlotte Brontë lives in the small town of Howards in Yorkshire, England, a small town in Bradford, the main city in the west of Yorkshire, with its vast fields and quiet forests, which are very characteristic of the English countryside.
Charlotte spent her life in seclusion in this remote rural town, with little contact with the outside world. In a simple room of less than ten square meters, she created four novels, "Jane Eyre", "Shirley", "The Teacher", and "Villette". She broke through the creative atmosphere at that time, washed the fat powder of famous ladies and ladies, and reversed the delicate tenderness of everyone's bridesmaids, and created a new female image that thought that she had washed away the lead, was reborn, and dared to resist hypocrisy, cunning, inequality and unreasonable phenomena.
Both Jane Eyre and Charlotte entered welfare-based charity schools because of poverty, grew up in harsh environments, and became governesses, a profession that was not noble and discriminated against in society at that time. However, this did not affect their pursuit of a better life. Jane Eyre eventually became Rochester's wife, with a good social status, and Charlotte Brontë became a literary master, writing immortal masterpieces.
In Jane Eyre, Charlotte expresses her rebellion against the traditional view of love: I am not beautiful, I have no money, I am just an orphan, but I can still win the love of a gentleman. Charlotte found a new cornerstone of love for Jane Eyre, because it is not wealth, not beautiful appearance, nor prominent origin, so this cornerstone can only exist in the depths of people's hearts.
To this day, the image of Jane Eyre bravely fighting against social discrimination and patriarchy and facing the difficulties of life strongly still inspires many female compatriots and affects people's spiritual world and even the depths of their souls.