评论简爱中的人物(英文版)

Major Characters 所有主要人物的介绍和评论

Jane Eyre: Main character of entire novel. Young orphan who grows up, goes to school, works, marries, creates a life for herself.

Mrs. Reed: Jane's harsh and cruel aunt who takes Jane in against her will, because of a promise made to her husband, Jane's late uncle.

Eliza Reed: Mrs. Reed's second daughter who is rather more serious and quiet; she eventually becomes a noviate and then a Catholic nun.

John Reed: Mrs. Reed's arrogant and spoiled son who likes to beat Jane for punishment and amusement.

Georgiana Reed: Mrs. Reed's attractive and self-absorbed first daughter, who eventually marries well in London.

Jane's mother: Jane Reed, who married against her family's wish, was disowned, and who died when Jane was a baby.

Jane's father: John Eyre, a clergyman, who died with his wife.

Bessie: The nurse at Gateshead

Abbot: The maid at Gateshead.

Mr. Reed: Mrs. Reed's late husband, and Jane's late uncle on her mother's side.

Dr. Lloyd: The doctor who comes to see Jane after she has been ill in the Red-Room. He suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane go to school.

Mr.

Brocklehurst: The cruel, intolerant, overzealous and money-pinching master of Lowood Institution, a pastor, who humiliates Jane in public, when she comes to Lowood.

Miss Miller: One of the teachers at Lowood.

Miss Maria Temple: The superintendent of Lowood Institution, whom Jane wishes to emulate, and who cares for both Helen and Jane.

Miss Scatcherd: The history teacher at Lowood, who often punishes Helen Burns with a whipping.

Helen Burns: The overly mature, fatalistic, religious best friend of Jane while she is at Lowood; Helen dies early from tuberculosis at Lowood.

Reverend Nasmyth: The man whom Miss Temple eventually marries.

Mrs. Fairfax: The widow who initially inquires after a governess for Ad�le Varens, at Thornfield Hall.

Miss Ad�le Varens: The bastard child of C�line Varens, a mistress of Rochester's while he was in Paris; Rochester takes Ad�le back with him to England, as his ward.

Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester: The master of Thornfield Hall, traditional Gothic male hero, and eventual husband of Jane Eyre.

Sophie: The nurse or "bonne" of Ad�le Varens, who is French.

Mme Pierrot: Jane's French teacher at Lowood Institution.

Leah: The maid at Thornfield Hall, who assists Grace Poole often.

Grace Poole: The woman whom Rochester hires to watch over and care for his mad first wife, Bertha.

Pilot: Rochester's dog.

Rowland: Rochester's dead elder brother.

C�line Varens: Ad�le's mother, and Rochester old French mistress, who ran off and left her daughter.

Charge of the Vicomte: The French officer with whom C�line was cheating unknown to Rochester.

Miss Blanche Ingram: The beautiful, cold, snotty, arrogant and condescending upper-class woman whom Rochester leads to believe he wishes to marry.

Mesrour: Rochester's horse.

Mr. Mason: Bertha Mason, Rochester's first bride's, brother. He is from Jamaica, West Indies.

Sibyl: The gypsy fortune-teller character played by Rochester.

Doctor Carter: The surgeon who cares for Mr. Mason when Bertha attacks him.

Bessie's sister: She dies.

Robert Laven: Bessie's husband and the coachman of Gateshead Hall.

Uncle John Eyre: The uncle of both Jane, St. John, Diana and Mary, who dies, lived in Madeira, and leaves Jane a fortune of twenty-thousand pounds.

Mr. Briggs: The solicitor from London who handles Jane's fortune, and breaks up Rochester's attempt at a bigamous marriage.

Bertha Mason: Rochester's first wife from Jamaica, who is mad and he keeps in his attic of Thornfield Hall. It was an arranged marriage.

St. John Rivers: Jane's cold, exacting, distant and intellectual cousin who was the pastor of Morton Parish. He asks Jane to marry him and go to India to do missionary work; she refuses and he goes alone.

Diana Rivers: The beautiful, refined and caring first sister of St.John, and Jane's cousin.

Mary Rivers: The quieter, more cautious but equally intelligent second sister of St.John, and also Jane's cousin.

Hannah: The older woman/maid who lives with Mary and Diana at Moor House.

Jane Elliot: The pseudonym which Jane takes on when she arrives at Moor House.

Miss Rosamond Oliver: The beautiful and childlike heiress with whom St. John is in love. She eventually marries Mr. Granby.

Mr. Granby: Wealthy Morton resident who marries Rosamond.

Mary and John: Couple who takes care of Rochester at Ferndean Manor, when he is blind and crippled.

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.