Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.
We remember her pursuit of justice. It’s like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.
We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God’s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.
We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…
When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
Actually, she wasn’t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn’t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than ‘the plain and ugly governess’. But as the little governess had said: ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!’ This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre’s mind. God hadn’t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.
In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn’t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person’s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that ‘Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted’. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.
Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty.
翻譯：
簡愛-壹個美麗的靈魂
簡愛，是壹個貧窮但有抱負，身體小，但在靈魂，晦澀，而自尊的女孩，巨大的。之後，我們關閉了書的封面後，有精神，簡愛，壹個了不起的數字，漫長的旅途中，已經離開了我們這麽多的回顧和思考：
我們還記得她的長處：有人誰失去了武器和眼睛失明的人誰瞧不起她，她的平凡，甚至有人把她深深誰在過去的傷害。
我們還記得她的正義追求。它像壹個善良與伴侶。即便如此，壹個善良的人應該促進壹方的善良和必須檢查的另壹邊badness。
我們還記得她的自我尊重和平等明確的情況。她認為，每個人都在神的腳壹樣。雖然有不同的地位，財產以及在外觀，但所有的人都是平等的人格。
我們還記得她對生命的奮鬥，她的韌性和她的信心...
當我們認為這個女孩，她給我們的不是壹個漂亮的臉蛋或超越的氣質，令我們深感欽佩，但對她個性的巨大魅力。
其實，她不漂亮，當然，普通的外觀並沒有讓別人覺得她的好，甚至連她的姑姑感到厭惡它。還有壹些人甚至認為她很容易被瞧不起和梳理下來，所以當英格拉姆小姐會見了簡愛，她似乎相當不屑，因為她更漂亮，顯然比'平原和醜陋女教師'。但由於小姆曾說過：'妳想，因為我差，模糊，平原和小，我沒有靈魂和良心？妳想錯了！'這是在簡愛的精神平等的觀念。上帝沒有給她的美貌和財富，而是，上帝給了她壹種博大的胸懷和大腦思維。她的想法平等和自尊給人的印象那麽多，讓我們感受到她的身體內的權力。
在我看來，雖然壹個人的面部美容可以使別人壹旦覺得有是有吸引力的迷人，如果他或她的心是不壹樣的美，如美麗的外觀，不能持續，當別人發現美曾征服了大家只是壹個虛假的，這不是真的，他們將像人而已。長期以來，只有壹個人最大的優點，壹個高尚的靈魂，壹個美麗的心可以作為永恒的美容要求，正如Kahill紀伯倫所說，'美是想象激怒的心臟和靈魂迷惑'。我感覺到真的是如何美麗，因為我們都是肉欲男人，所以我們不能辨別壹個人的高貴或謙遜的，但肉欲男人，所以我們不能區分壹個人是否高貴或謙遜的是，但是，還有在我們的靈魂的巨大差異，以及，我們可以知道壹個人是否高尚或普通，甚至模糊，也就是說，他是否美麗與否。
她的故事使我們思考我們的生活和學習她的經驗，更至少，這是壹個新的真正的美新的認識。
2.
The Independent Spirit——about“ Jane Eyer”
This is a story about a special and unreserved woman who has been exposed to a hostile environment but continuously and fearlessly struggling for her ideal life. The story can be interpreted as a symbol of the independent spirit.
It seems to me that many readers’ English reading experience starts with Jane Eyer. I am of no exception. As we refer to the movie “Jane Eyer”, it is not surprising to find some differences because of its being filmized and retold in a new way, but the spirit of the novel remains----to be an independent person, both physically and mentally.
Jane Eyer was a born resister, whose parents went off when she was very young, and her aunt，the only relative she had，treated her as badly as a ragtag. Since Jane’s education in Lowwood Orphanage began, she didn’t get what she had been expecting——simply being regarded as a common person, just the same as any other girl around. The suffers from being humiliated and devastated teach Jane to be persevering and prize dignity over anything else.As a reward of revolting the ruthless oppression, Jane got a chance to be a tutor in Thornfield Garden. There she made the acquaintance of lovely Adele and that garden’s owner, Rochester, a man with warm heart despite a cold face outside. Jane expected to change the life from then on, but fate had decided otherwise: After Jane and Rochester fell in love with each other and got down to get marry, she unfortunately came to know in fact Rochester had got a legal wife, who seemed to be the shadow following Rochester and led to his moodiness all the time ----Rochester was also a despairing person in need of salvation. Jane did want to give him a hand, however, she made up her mind to leave, because she didn’t want to betray her own principles, because she was Jane Eyer. The film has finally got a symbolist end: Jane inherited a large number of legacies and finally returned. After finding Rochester’s misfortune brought by his original mad wife, Jane chose to stay with him forever.
I don’t know what others feel, but frankly speaking, I would rather regard the section that Jane began her teaching job in Thornfield as the film’s end----especially when I heard Jane’s words “Never in my life have I been awaken so happily.” For one thing, this ideal and brand-new beginning of life was what Jane had been imagining for long as a suffering person; for another, this should be what the audiences with my views hoped her to get. But the professional judgment of producing films reminded me to wait for a totally different result: There must be something wrong coming with the excellence----perhaps not only should another section be added to enrich the story, but also we may see from the next transition of Jane’s life that “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you would get.” (By Forrest Gump’s mother, in the film “Forrest Gump”)
What’s more, this film didn’t end when Jane left Thornfield. For Jane Eyer herself, there should always be somewhere to realize her great ideal of being independent considering her fortitude, but for Rochester, how he can get salvation? The film gives the answer tentatively: Jane eventually got back to Rochester. In fact, when Jane met Rochester for the first time, she scared his horse and made his heel strained, to a certain extent, which meant Rochester would get retrieval because of Jane. We can consider Rochester’s experiences as that of religion meaning. The fire by his frantic wife was the punishment for the cynicism early in his life. After it, Rochester got the mercy of the God and the love of the woman whom he loved. Here we can say: human nature and divinity get united perfectly in order to let such a story accord with the requirements of both two sides. The value of this film may be due to its efforts to explore a new way for the development of humanism under the faith of religion.
Life is ceaselessly changing, but our living principles remain. Firmly persisting for the rights of being independent gives us enough confidence and courage, which is like the beacon over the capriccioso sea of life. In the world of the film, we have found the stories of ourselves, which makes us so concerned about the fate of the dramatis personae.
In this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasing life complexity and psychological displacement, both physical and mental effects on us call for a balance. We are likely to find ourselves bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of information overload and living unconsciousness. It’s our spirit that makes the life meaningful.
Heart is the engine of body, brain is the resource of thought, and great films are the mirrors of life. Indubitably, “Jane Eyer” is one of them.
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