Love&Equality

When Jane Eyre was published, the United Kingdom has already become the biggest industrial country in the world. However, the status of British women has not changed, they were still in a subordinate, dependent position. The goal of almost all of the women was to marry a wealthy man and then gain status and money. Being a wife and a mother seemed to be the only job they could do. From the fact that all the Brontë sisters used a masculine pseudonym in their works, we could know how the female writers suffered at that time. Jane Eyre was considered as Charlotte Brontë’s autobiography, it tells the story that a poor British orphan girl chases for her freedom and dignity in hardships and finally gains her happiness in Thornfield manor.

The love stories between Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester are the main thread of the book. Their conversations with deep feelings do touched all of the readers including me. Our spirit is equal. As you I walk through the grave and stood equal before god. You have no idea to come up with a system to make you in addition to yourself, to all efforts, all will maintain independent? In Jane’s view, a vulnerable girl’s view, lovers are equal. And love is not about the wealth, the power and the fame, it is all about the attraction between Mr. Rochester and herself. Through these sentences, Charlotte Brontë showed her idea that woman should fight against the decayed tradition and encouraged all women to chase their true love and happiness.

Lots of things like Religious dogma, traditional notions, family constraints limited the creativity and possibility of women’s lives. At that time, most of the women chose to obey the routines, they followed those ridiculous rules and surrendered to the unfairness. But Jane Eyre wouldn’t do this. She understood that she had to fight back. She fought against her auntie, she fought against her teacher, she fought against the missionary. Of course she was not a woman who only had feelings of hate, she knew how to love and always be grateful for everything she had ever had. When her best friend Helen was scolded just for her naturally curly hair, she stepped forward and took the responsibility for it. At the night before Helen’s death, she hugged her and spent the whole night with her in the bed at the risk of being affected by tuberculosis virus. When Adele was treated rudely by Mr. Rochester, she dared to point out her master’s mistake and asked him not to do this to Adele anymore. This is Jane Eyre, a woman knew love and hate, a woman who was really independent and courageous.      

The thoughts shown in Jane Eyre were greatly advanced and the spirits of feminism still make a great influence to modern life, becoming a mainstream opinion and an important part of social values. It is no doubt that Jane Eyre is a brilliant work, but due to the historical limitations, I think it still has some unavoidable defects. Jane Eyre still married a wealthy man who was regarded belonging to the upper class. We can see that Charlotte Brontë still consider that marrying such a decent man is the best ending of a woman. And the real happiness of a woman only come from a man, women were still in a passive position in the world.

However, the merits of her book outweigh such flaws. Charlotte Brontë has given courage to all the women around the world to fight back against the unfairness and pursue equality between man and woman through Jane Eyre’s stories.

2019-12-28

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