"Do you think that because I am poor, low, small, and not beautiful, I have no soul and no heart? You are wrong—I My soul is the same as yours, and my heart is exactly the same as yours... We stand at the feet of God and are equal—because we are equal!"
This kind of questioning is a hurricane, a revolt against the excesses of life , and even become a morbid extreme.
As an original party, I have never seen any film and television works. If I read this passage when I was a child, it is indeed as Woolf said, the emotions are very intense, so it is probably only by shouting. I shouted this sentence silently in my heart, and I also felt that this kind of dialogue seemed inappropriate for a modern person. It's like if a person finds a boyfriend who is better than her, they can't wait to use this method to prove that they are not greedy for money and status. Therefore, the only explanation seems to be that the world is declining, and people have long been unable to feel the pure feelings of Jane Eyre at that time. This inevitably puts us at a great distance from the work, and makes us involuntarily willing to believe Woolf's comments and not so much to argue for Jane.
So, when Jane Eyre, who plays Ruth in this film, said this, I almost jumped out of my chair and thought, look Woolf! If you haven't seen this passage, we don't need to look for wording from different eras, but we can tell you frankly that this is the answer. This passage is not a storm, nor is it extreme, nor is it hypocritical, it should be read like this , so you're actually using your own world to force annotations without really knowing it! Who is more extreme?
What did Jane Eyre say? Not a sonorous declaration, but choked, soft, fragile, like a pearl mussel suddenly opening its soft inner wall to you. The cold life once made Jane restrained and strict with love, making her almost think that she is a guy who overemphasizes herself, and when she said this, she let love swept her, and for the first time no longer needed Reason, though she thinks it may be one of her few strengths.
Woolf believes that Jane has become sensitive because of her own life experience and is habitually refuting all the inequality of status, but this resistance is actually useless and naive. If there is any answer in this short play, it is clear that we have all misunderstood. On the contrary, this was the first time Jane had blurted out an answer without habitually using rational thinking. Facing what Rochester said made her forget herself, she was telling Rochester that she cherished this relationship and would never forget it. If Jane's past life experiences made Jane overly sensitive, this was the first time she forgot the shadows cast by her life. I think this can be called Woolf's fiery clear state of transcendence.
For those marriages that are not in the right households in life, if you want to know the feelings of the other party, it is probably just to see if he (she) has forgotten everything at this moment.
This short play by the BBC is the most perfect response thrown to Woolf in modern society.
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