简爱的主要人物的英文介绍

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.
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Jane
Eyre
The
orphaned
protagonist
of
the
story.
When
the
novel
begins,
she
is
an
isolated,
powerless
ten-year-old
living
with
an
aunt
and
cousins
who
dislike
her.
As
the
novel
progresses,
she
grows
in
strength.
She
distinguishes
herself
at
Lowood
School
because
of
her
hard
work
and
strong
intellectual
abilities.
As
a
governess
at
Thornfield,
she
learns
of
the
pleasures
and
pains
of
love
through
her
relationship
with
Edward
Rochester.
After
being
deceived
by
him,
she
goes
to
Marsh
End,
where
she
regains
her
spiritual
focus
and
discovers
her
own
strength
when
she
rejects
St.
John
River’s
marriage
proposal.
By
novel’s
end
she
has
become
a
powerful,
independent
woman,
blissfully
married
to
the
man
she
loves,
Rochester.
Edward
Fairfax
Rochester
Jane’s
lover;
a
dark,
passionate,
brooding
man.
A
traditional
romantic
hero,
Rochester
has
lived
a
troubled
wife.
Married
to
an
insane
Creole
woman,
Bertha
Mason,
Rochester
sought
solace
for
several
years
in
the
arms
of
mistresses.
Finally,
he
seeks
to
purify
his
life
and
wants
Jane
Eyre,
the
innocent
governess
he
has
hired
to
teach
his
foster
daughter,
Adèle
Varens,
to
become
his
wife.
The
wedding
falls
through
when
she
learns
of
the
existence
of
his
wife.
As
penance
for
his
transgressions,
he
is
punished
by
the
loss
of
an
eye
and
a
hand
when
Bertha
sets
fire
to
Thornfield.
He
finally
gains
happiness
at
the
novel’s
end
when
he
is
reunited
with
Jane.
Sarah
Reed
Jane’s
unpleasant
aunt,
who
raises
her
until
she
is
ten
years
old.
Despite
Jane’s
attempts
at
reconciliation
before
her
aunt’s
death,
her
aunt
refuses
to
relent.
She
dies
unloved
by
her
children
and
unrepentant
of
her
mistreatment
of
Jane.
John
Reed
Jane’s
nasty
and
spoiled
cousin,
responsible
for
Jane’s
banishment
to
the
red-room.
Addicted
to
drinking
and
gambling,
John
supposedly
commits
suicide
at
the
age
of
twenty-three
when
his
mother
is
no
longer
willing
or
able
to
pay
his
debts.
Eliza
Reed
Another
one
of
Jane’s
spoiled
cousins,
Eliza
is
insanely
jealous
of
the
beauty
of
her
sister,
Georgiana.
She
nastily
breaks
up
Georgiana’s
elopement
with
Lord
Edwin
Vere,
and
then
becomes
a
devout
Christian.
But
her
brand
of
Christianity
is
devoid
of
all
compassion
or
humanity;
she
shows
no
sympathy
for
her
dying
mother
and
vows
to
break
off
all
contact
with
Georgiana
after
their
mother’s
death.
Usefulness
is
her
mantra.
She
enters
a
convent
in
Lisle,
France,
eventually
becoming
the
Mother
Superior
and
leaving
her
money
to
the
church.
Georgiana
Reed
Eliza’s
and
John’s
sister,
Georgiana
is
the
beauty
of
the
family.
She’s
also
shallow
and
self-centered,
interested
primarily
in
her
own
pleasure.
She
accuses
her
sister,
Eliza,
of
sabotaging
her
plans
to
marry
Lord
Edwin
Vere.
Like
Eliza,
she
shows
no
emotion
following
their
mother’s
death.
Eventually,
Georgiana
marries
a
wealthy,
but
worn-out
society
man.
Bessie
Lee
The
maid
at
Gateshead
who
sometimes
consoles
Jane
by
telling
her
entertaining
stories
and
singing
her
songs.
Bessie
visits
Jane
at
Lowood,
impressed
by
Jane’s
intellectual
attainments
and
ladylike
behavior.
Bessie
marries
the
coachman,
Robert
Leaven,
and
has
three
children.
Mr.
Lloyd
The
kind
apothecary
who
suggests
that
Jane
be
sent
to
school
following
her
horrifying
experience
in
the
red-room.
His
letter
to
Miss
Temple
clears
Jane
of
the
accusations
Mrs.
Reed
has
made
against
her.
Mr.
Brocklehurst
The
stingy,
mean-hearted
manager
of
Lowood.
He
hypocritically
feeds
the
girls
at
the
school
starvation-level
rations,
while
his
wife
and
daughters
live
luxuriously.
The
minister
of
Brocklebridge
Church,
he
represents
a
negative
brand
of
Christianity,
one
that
lacks
all
compassion
or
kindness.
Helen
Burns
Jane’s
spiritual
and
intellectual
friend
at
Lowood.
Although
she
is
unfairly
punished
by
Miss
Scatcherd
at
Lowood,
Helen
maintains
her
poise,
partially
through
her
loving
friendship
with
Miss
Temple.
From
Helen,
Jane
learns
tolerance
and
peace,
but
Jane
can’t
accept
Helen’s
rejection
of
the
material
world.
Helen’s
impressive
intellectual
attainments
inspire
Jane
to
work
hard
at
school.
Dying
in
Jane’s
arms,
Helen
looks
forward
to
peace
in
heaven
and
eventual
reunion
with
Jane.
Maria
Temple
The
warm-hearted
superintendent
at
Lowood
who
generously
offers
the
girls
bread
and
cheese
when
their
breakfasts
are
inedible.
An
impressive
scholar,
a
model
of
ladylike
behavior
and
a
compassionate
person,
Miss
Temple
is
a
positive
role
model
for
Jane.
She
cares
for
Jane
and
Helen,
offering
them
seedcake
in
her
room
and
providing
Helen
with
a
warm,
private
bed
when
she
is
dying.
Miss
Miller
Teacher
for
the
youngest
students
at
Lowood
who
greets
Jane
on
her
first
night
at
the
school.

Jane is a person with a very strong personality.A soon as she was born her parents were both died.she was