She still can't get rid of her low self-esteem

Delia 2022-04-20 09:01:44

Jane Eyre was the first novel I read, probably still in elementary school. At that time, it was already obvious that it was partial to mathematics. Mom always thinks that girls who are good in science and engineering must have a good humanistic influence, otherwise they are too rational and not cute. So I picked this one out of a lot of world famous books in my father's study and let me finish it. So I still have a lot of love for this novel.

When I was young, my outlook on life and values ​​were not formed, and I always felt that the public's evaluation was correct. Jane Eyre is a person with a plain appearance but a strong heart, her inner feminist spirit, her sense of independence and equality, blablablah.... Her thoughts are what we should follow (totally).

When I watched this movie more than ten years later, I felt that there was always that lingering inferiority complex in her character. When Jane Eyre said "Do you think that because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, that I am souless and heartless?" When a person speculates on what others think of him, he is also showing low self-esteem. She felt that R must be soulless and heartless when she saw her, but she actually felt shame for her own poor, obscure, plain and little. Perhaps for most women in those days, her thinking was already a big improvement, but it wasn't so good that we all admire her today.

As for Jane's estate, I don't know, if she didn't inherit that inheritance, when Mr. River asked Jane to marry him, she would suddenly think of Rochester and still go back to find him.

The ending of the film is a little too rushed, especially for those who have read the novel, who were expecting a lot of trivial details to add to the icing on the cake, but suddenly found that it came to an abrupt end.

The scene of the film made me look forward to my future career and travel to Europe. The Rochester estate reminds me of the mansions on Lake Geneva when I went to Wisconsin to see the maple leaves last week, but more luxurious and more airy. The long history always endows European nobility, and after watching the free style of the United States for a long time, I will always want to change my appetite.

Since I just watched "Billy Elliot", I was super happy to see Mr. River played by Jamie Bell at the beginning of the film, but I don't understand why the British people at that time would like to shave their beards like that, like a monkey, or like him when they were young. Billy.

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Jane Eyre quotes

  • Jane Eyre: I have lived a full life here. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been excluded from every glimpse of what is bright. I have known you, Mr. Rochester, and it strikes me with anguish to be torn from you.

    Rochester: Then why must you leave?

    Jane Eyre: Because of your wife.

    Rochester: I have no wife.

    Jane Eyre: But you are to be married.

    Rochester: Jane, you must stay.

    Jane Eyre: I'm become nothing to you?...

    [near tears]

    Jane Eyre: Am I a machine with out feelings? Do you think that because I am poor, plain, obscure, and little that I am souless and heartless? I have as much soul as you and full as much heart. And if God had possessed me with beauty and wealth, I could make it as hard for you to leave me as it is for I to leave you... I'm not speaking to you through mortal flesh. It is my spirit that addresses your spirit, as if we'd have passed through the grave and stood at God's feet equal. As we are.

    Rochester: [taking her arms] As we are.

    Jane Eyre: [trying to pull away] I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

    Rochester: Than let you will decide your destiny. I offer you my hand, my heart. Jane, I ask you to pass through life at my side. You are my equal and my likeness... Will you marry me?

    Jane Eyre: Are you mocking me?

    Rochester: Do you doubt me?

    Jane Eyre: Entirely.

  • Rochester: [sitting on the steps] This spring, I came home heart sore and soul withered. Then I met a gentle stranger whose society revives me. With her, I feel like I could live again in a higher, purer way.

    [looking at Jane]

    Rochester: Tell me... Am I justified in over leaping an obstacle of custom to obtain her?

    Jane Eyre: There's an obstacle?

    Rochester: A mere conventional impediment.

    Jane Eyre: But what can it be? If you cherish an affection, sir than fortune alone cannot impede you.

    Rochester: Yes.

    Jane Eyre: And if the lady is of noble stock and has indicated that she may reciprocate.

    Rochester: [bewildered] Jane, of whom do you think I speak?

    Jane Eyre: Of Ms. Ingram.

    Rochester: [rising to his feet] I am asking what Jane Eyre would do yo secure my happiness.

    Jane Eyre: I would do anything for you, sir. Anything that was right.

    Rochester: ...You transfix me quite. I feel I can speak to you now of my lovely one. If you've met her and know her. She's a rare one, isn't she? Fresh and healthy, without soil or taint. I'm sure she'd regenerate me with a vengeance.