简爱英语读书笔记

Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room, the room in which Jane’s Uncle Reed died. While locked in, Jane, believing that she sees her uncle’s ghost, screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindly apothecary Mr. Lloyd, who suggests to Mrs. Reed that Jane be sent away to school. To Jane’s delight, Mrs. Reed concurs.Once at the Lowood School, Jane finds that her life is far from idyllic. The school’s headmaster is Mr. Brocklehurst, a cruel, hypocritical, and abusive man. Brocklehurst preaches a doctrine of poverty and privation to his students while using the school’s funds to provide a wealthy and opulent lifestyle for his own family. At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, whose strong, martyrlike attitude toward the school’s miseries is both helpful and displeasing to Jane. A massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood, and Helen dies of consumption. The epidemic also results in the departure of Mr. Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. After a group of more sympathetic gentlemen takes Brocklehurst’s place, Jane’s life improves dramatically. She spends eight more years at Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher.After teaching for two years, Jane yearns for new experiences. She accepts a governess position at a manor called Thornfield, where she teaches a lively French girl named Adèle. The distinguished housekeeper Mrs. Fairfax presides over the estate. Jane’s employer at Thornfield is a dark, impassioned man named Rochester, with whom Jane finds herself falling secretly in love. She saves Rochester from a fire one night, which he claims was started by a drunken servant named Grace Poole. But because Grace Poole continues to work at Thornfield, Jane concludes that she has not been told the entire story. Jane sinks into despondency when Rochester brings home a beautiful but vicious woman named Blanche Ingram. Jane expects Rochester to propose to Blanche. But Rochester instead proposes to Jane, who accepts almost disbelievingly.The wedding day arrives, and as Jane and Mr. Rochester prepare to exchange their vows, the voice of Mr. Mason cries out that Rochester already has a wife. Mason introduces himself as the brother of that wife—a woman named Bertha. Mr. Mason testifies that Bertha, whom Rochester married when he was a young man in Jamaica, is still alive. Rochester does not deny Mason’s claims, but he explains that Bertha has gone mad. He takes the wedding party back to Thornfield, where they witness the insane Bertha Mason scurrying around on all fours and growling like an animal. Rochester keeps Bertha hidden on the third story of Thornfield and pays Grace Poole to keep his wife under control. Bertha was the real cause of the mysterious fire earlier in the story. Knowing that it is impossible for her to be with Rochester, Jane flees Thornfield.Penniless and hungry, Jane is forced to sleep outdoors and beg for food. At last, three siblings who live in a manor alternatively called Marsh End and Moor House take her in. Their names are Mary, Diana, and St. John （pronounced “Sinjin”） Rivers, and Jane quickly becomes friends with them. St. John is a clergyman, and he finds Jane a job teaching at a charity school in Morton. He surprises her one day by declaring that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her a large fortune: 20,000 pounds. When Jane asks how he received this news, he shocks her further by declaring that her uncle was also his uncle: Jane and the Riverses are cousins. Jane immediately decides to share her inheritance equally with her three newfound relatives.St. John decides to travel to India as a missionary, and he urges Jane to accompany him—as his wife. Jane agrees to go to India but refuses to marry her cousin because she does not love him. St. John pressures her to reconsider, and she nearly gives in. However, she realizes that she cannot abandon forever the man she truly loves when one night she hears Rochester’s voice calling her name over the moors. Jane immediately hurries back to Thornfield and finds that it has been burned to the ground by Bertha Mason, who lost her life in the fire. Rochester saved the servants but lost his eyesight and one of his hands. Jane travels on to Rochester’s new residence, Ferndean, where he lives with two servants named John and Mary.At Ferndean, Rochester and Jane rebuild their relationship and soon marry. At the end of her story, Jane writes that she has been married for ten blissful years and that she and Rochester enjoy perfect equality in their life together. She says that after two years of blindness, Rochester regained sight in one eye and was able to behold their first son at his birth.

Jane EyreAs we know, Jane Eyre is a famous novel in the world, written by Charlotte Bronte, an outstanding and being—liked author. Charlotte Bronte had 3 sisters and two of them are also well—known writers.Unfortunately,all of them died very young. As Jane Eyre was published, almost each reader was moved by the novel. Last week I saw the movie Jane Eyre in the class. The film Jane Eyre impressed me deeply.The main character of the movie is an independent girl called Jane Eyre. Jane was an orphan, living with her aunt,Mrs Reed.Mrs Reed treated Jane with extreme cruelty. When Jane was ten—year—old, she was sent to a charity school named Lowood.In the school the headmaster punished Jane all the time because Mrs. Reed told him Jane was a liar.Luckily,Jane made friends with Miss Temple and Helen Burns. They enjoyed a good time until Helen Burns died. After the graduation, Jane applied for a job on the newspaper and got a position of governess at Thornfield,where Jane fell in love with her master Mr. Rochester.However,at the wedding ceremony, an unexpected visitor—Mr. Rochester’s wife who had been crazy made the wedding stop. Jane left Thornfield with immense sadness.Later,Jane became a millionaire due to her uncle John’s will.However,she couldn’t forget Mr. Rochester and decided to go back Thornfield.Upon arriving at Thornfield,Jane found everything had changed. The house was in ruins. What’s worse,Mr Rochester lost his one arm and eyes. Jane was told that one night Mrs. Rochester set the house on fire. Delighted her coming back Thornfield,Mr. Rochester asked Jane to marry him and Jane agreed to it happily. Then they had a baby and Mr. Rochester recovered the sight of one eye.In the movie, there are three scenes impressing me the most. The first impressing scene was that when the headmaster of Lowood,Mr Brocklehurst discovered that Helen Burns had curly hair,Mr. Brockhurst was so angry that he demanded his servants to cut her hair at once. Why did Mr. Brocklehurst do that just for God didn’t admit a girl with curly hair by nature? I raged what Mr. Brocklehurst had done for his students. As an educator, he should be kind and take good care of his students. What’s more, he should forgive the students who have made mistakes and guide them to do right things, not through punishments. At the very beginning of Jane’s school life,Mr. Brocklehurst didn’t allow his students to speak to Jane and gave no food to her. The reason was that Mrs. Reed told Mr. Brocklehurst Jane was a liar, which caused Jane to suffer a long period of hardtime.Here I have to say children’s heart are very fragile and everyone is equal. No one would like to be treated unfairly. I think that a successful educator is considered merciful and sinece.We should make sure that children would grow up happily under the circumstances where the educators and teachers are concerned about their students and understand their feelings. Today in our society, a teacher’s words or behaviors have an important effect on students. So please pay more attention on the relationship between teachers and students.The second impressing scene was that Helen Burns lay in the bed and Jane came to see her. Helen said “Don’t leave me alone, Jane.”Then they slept together on that night and the next morning Helen was dead. Helen’s death touched me very much and I couldn’t help crying. I know it is too hard to find such a good friend in our life. When Jane was isolated by other students, Helen was willing to become her friend and they had a wonderful time. In my opinion, when you are in trouble, a real friend will help you out immediately, even if his help doesn’t work, but it will make you stronger and more confidence. Jane and Helen are this example, so are Lily and me. We are good friends when we were a little child. We share all the happiness and sadness to each other. Facing the difficulties, we make our effort to solve these problems together. In a word, friendship is a key to keep our life warm and energetic. Maybe you will ask what friendship means. There are several reasons as follow. Friendship means when it is raining, a real friend will give you an umbrella right away. It means when you feel miserable, she will offer wise suggestions to you. It also means when you are tired of your life, she will support you and bring hope to you. So having a real friend like Helen Burns benefits you a lot. The third impressing scene was that Jane considered Mr. Rochester would marry Miss Blanche Ingram, to her surprise, Mr. Rochester asked Jane to be his wife and promised he would love her forever. Then they kissed in a nice atmosphere. What a romantic experience we are eager to. As an ordinary governess, Jane had enough courage to purse her love. At that time, that a poor woman matched a rich man wasn’t allowed by all the people, but Jane believed that every one should have the right to love or to be loved. At Thornfield,Jane never felt ashamed at her low status job and worked very hard. Jane loved Mr. Rochester, not because he was a wealthy man, but because he was the person named Mr. Rochester. As for love, Jane only asked to be given equal status with men. For Mr. Rochester, what attracted him was Jane’s honesty, noble and innocent. Jane’s coming helped Mr. Rochester walk through the shadow of his mad wife. Their love is true love.Nowadays,we are busy making money and ignore the existence of love. We should try our best to look for true love, which will add warmth and color to our life. I think Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre for showing some of her own meaningful ideas, ideas of the bourgeois system of education, ideas of women’s freedom and independence, ideas of true love. Jane Eyre’s spirit drives us to have a positive attitude on life, especially the women