Bình luận tác phẩm jane eyre của charlotte bronte

INTRODUCTION
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece, is a masterwork of literature.
Jane Eyre, a rebellious woman who is plain-looking but full of emotion and
fights for freedom and equal social status with men, has been successfully
developed by the author. The author gives all readers a new perspective on
women by writing this novel. The fictional story leaves a lasting impression on
everyone who reads it, and some critics praise the plots and characters.
However, compared to the fields, this novel's writing abilities are more
impressive. The various writing skills are thought to make it an excellent work
for a long time. As a result, this essay will focus on some aspects of this genre's
writing techniques.

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Review of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
From the Elizabethan period to the nineteenth century, the novel genre in
England has developed into a distinct art form and achieved many brilliant
achievements associated with a large and powerful creative team. Living and
writing during the reign of Queen Victoria, Charlotte Bronte made many
contributions to this literary genre. Although Charlotte Bronte's career path was
not very smooth, she overcame society's prejudices and the unhappy family
situation and persevered with the pen to confirm her talent. The birth of Jane
Eyre marked an important milestone in the female writer's career. When the two
works were released, they created a strong wave in public opinion, and readers
were excited to find out who Currer Bell (Charlotte's pen name at that time) was,
male or female, how old, ugly and beautiful.
Although she does not write much, what Charlotte writes is with all her
talent and love for literature and life, so they have a solid attraction for readers.
Born up to now, it has been nearly two hundred years, but readers still love Jane
Eyre with great affection. Not only that but this work has also been made into

movies by movie directors many times. Also, because of the admiration for the
talent and will of the girls with the surname Bronte, the West Yorkshire
countryside in the North of England, the countryside is always considered "dark,
lonely," and the small village of Haworth - the birthplace of Charlotte Bronte's
life has long become a destination for many visitors, including readers who are
passionate about Charlotte Bronte's works.
In Vietnam, Jane Eyre's work is widely known by readers and gives them
much sympathy.
One of the reasons why the work of Jane Eyre was so stunning in the
English literature of the nineteenth century was that the author Charlotte Bronte
let her tutor - the main character Jane Eyre tell her story in the first person,
telling her own story. Subjective personal identity does not hide. Because
society considered tutoring a job without status, people did not know which
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class to place tutoring in. By narrating from the point of view of a woman, a
tutor, Charlotte broke the notion of "respecting men and despised women" in
literature. The author has built the image of a woman who dares to stand up to
protest against all injustices of society and speak out for equal rights but does
not give up her life to fate: "If people always die, Being kind and obedient will
only let the wicked go free. They will have no qualms about it, and as such, they
will never change; otherwise, they will become more overwhelming. When we
are beaten unreasonably, we need to fight back boldly. I promise to do it resisting so hard that it makes a fool of our beaters." With this thought, Charlotte
is considered a woman writer ahead of her time, and Jane Eyre is considered the
work that sparked the gender equality movement in literature.
A work told in the first person through the main character's narration with
the ego telling about himself, telling about others from his point of view has
helped the character freely express his comments and judgments. Objective
reality can both reveal the innermost nooks and crannies of his soul. Jane Eyre

recounts the bitterness of her life from childhood to adulthood with passion,
honesty, earnestness, and directness. The narrator opens his heart honestly and
profoundly without any other intermediary as if he is confiding and in dialogue
with the Reader, which is also a new thing in the literature of that time. Even in
the climax, the narrator cannot help but exclaim: "Dear reader!". This way of
telling helps the Reader go straight into the character's emotional world. Thus,
the narrator does not stand to observe the outside but also reveals his inner and
personality.
Starting from the woman's point of view, the narrator strongly condemns
social prejudices and highlights the issue of liberating women from oppression
and harsh prejudices. The narrator boldly speaks out for women in all aspects of
love, family life, and social work. Because for generations, society has assumed
that women are used to a quiet life, just hanging around the corner of the
kitchen, content with jobs such as "cooking cakes, knitting socks, playing the
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piano and embroidering bags." However, the narrator in work realizes that
women have to endure the harsh conditions of life no less than men; women also
have souls, emotions, intellect, and self-esteem. Like men, women also aspire to
have an independent and self-reliant life and live fully with their passions:
"Women are often seen as quiet acquaintances, but they also feel differently.
Women show their gifts, and there must be scope for their endeavors, as does
the male soul. They suffer because they are brutally controlled and have to live
in strict restraint, just as men suffer because of it. Moreover, those who enjoy
their privilege, saying that women are all about baking, knitting stockings,
playing the piano, and embroidering bags, are narrow-minded conservatives. It
is unthinkable to condemn or ridicule women if you see them trying to learn
more to rise above the common notion of women".
In defense of women, the narrator does not forget another equally pitiful

subject, which is children. Children are the most sensitive and vulnerable souls,
every child should be able to live in joy, love, and care, but the life of little Jane
Eyre is not like that. . The subjective narrative style has helped the narrator not
be afraid to reveal all the love and hate emotions in the narrator's soul.
Childhood memories are too scary, so Jane is constantly haunted by Mrs. Reed's
discriminatory attitude: "It is right that I fear and hate Mrs. Reed because her
nature is to love to humiliate me badly. I was never happy in her presence, and
though I carefully obeyed her and tried to please her, all my efforts were in vain,
and she responded with harsh words. say just now. Now she insults me in front
of a stranger, causing me great pain. I felt dim that Mrs. Reed had dashed all
hope in the life she would take me to. Though my feelings are indescribable, I
feel that she has sown hatred and hatred in my future path." Since childhood, she
was isolated, not cared for by others, so she desperately needed someone's love,
needed a friend to share, so when she entered Lowood School, she met a friend
in the same situation as her. The narrator recounted his happiness: "Reader I
know and feel it too; and though I was just an ordinary girl, with many vices and
few good points to make up for, I never got tired of Helen Burn, nor did I ever
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let go of my attachment to her; Never before had my heart been aflame with
such a strong, loving and respectful affection. How could it be otherwise that
Helen showed a quiet, faithful friendship for me at any time, in any case, a
friendship that did not become bitter when upset, no cloudy when angry".
While telling her own story and telling about others, the narrator - Jane
Eyre - comments on the other object but at the same time becomes aware of
herself. Jane Eyre will always describe and comment on that character when
facing anyone. Through the eyes of Jane Eyre, the characters appear with
complete lines and souls, such as the passage Jane tells about the character
Ingram Blanche: "She is flashy, but has no real value. She is a very talented

beautiful young woman, but her soul is so poor that her heart is born arid; on
that land, nothing could spontaneously sprout, just as nothing could bear fruit
with that aridity. She's not good, and there is nothing unique about her; she just
repeats the proud lines in the book; She never had an opinion of her own, and
never had. She tried to sound sentimental, but she did not know what
compassion was for love; Her tenderness and sincerity are not found in her
person".
In work, the narrator is very good at internal monologue; after each event,
the narrator often reveals his feelings; the character explains why he has such
thoughts or actions or expresses their concerns and thoughts. This showed the
depth of the narrator's soul. : "You have no other relation to the lord of
Thornerfiln than to receive Aden's teaching salary and to express gratitude for
his dignified treatment, which you are entitled to if you do. Duty enough. Be
assured that this is the only bond that the master can recognize between you and
him, so do not make him the object of your sweet affections, passions, pains,
and so on…He's not of the same class as you. keep your part; Be self-respecting,
and don't squander the love of your heart, your soul, and your strength where
people might even despise it." Thus, Jane Eyre is a work told in the first person
from an inside point of view.
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In work, the main narrator is also the main character of the work - Jane
Eyre, but besides that, some other narrators are telling the story to Jane, such as
the Bessi couple telling Jane about the situation. Mrs. Reed's family, Mrs. Fefax,
told Jane about Rochester's background, Rochester told of his plight, and the
owner of the inn told Rochester's situation after Jane left. However, covering the
work is still the narration and voice of Jane Eyre, so the narrator in work is still
mainly a single point of view. All events, events, and other characters in the
work are shown through the eyes and from the point of view of the character

Jane Eyre. The point of view of the work is limited by the point of view of the
character Jane Eyre. At this point, Jane Eyre's work meets Charles Dickens'
David Copperfield. Both works depict events from the point of view of a
narrator who remembers the past. In David Copperfield, the character David
Copperfill also stood up to tell his own story.
Charlotte let the character Jane Eyre - an orphan girl with a soul rich in
love and love of life, stand in charge of telling everything because the author
wanted to lead a good life and express the author's belief in the future for people
with noble souls. Despite the pain in her heart, even though she was very angry
with Mrs. Reed for treating her poorly before she died, Jane proactively forgave
all the old enmity and forgave the bitter actions. Her harshness caused her: "I'm
not as bad as you think, I'm hot-tempered, but I don't have a grudge. When I was
a child, many times, I wanted to love you very much if you would allow it. And
now I really want to make up with you, auntie, kiss me." Jane had to go through
many misfortunes, but she did not bow down to those hardships and challenges;
her energy and bravery helped her live a good, beautiful life. Thereby, the author
wants to send a message to everyone that if you strive to rise, life will welcome
you with open arms; Living responsibly with ourselves, in any situation, must
not lose self-respect and forgive, we will be happy. With Jane Eyre, does
Charlotte want to affirm that people living in this world need much love?

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In Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Charlotte and Emily successfully
built opposing character pairs. Depicting the character in a contrasting
relationship helps the character's image to be displayed, and through which the
author also reflects the conflicts of society.

In Jane Eyre, the first pair of opposing characters can be mentioned, the

pair of Jane Eyre characters and her aunt - Mrs. Reed. Her parents died early,
Jane Eyre was brought in by her uncle, but she was mistreated by her aunt and
cousins when her uncle died. In the luxurious Gateshead castle, Jane does not
have the warmth of love, and she cannot get along with the people living here
because she is not like them in class. In the eyes of those people, Jane is a
parasite, worse than a servant, because she "cannot get anything to put in her
mouth". She did not have the slightest freedom, not even the right to read a
book. Every day, Jane Eyre has to live in the estrangement of her aunt and the
abuse of her cousins: "At Gateshead Castle I disagree with everyone: I am
different from everyone there; I have nothing to do with Mrs. Reed, or her
children, or her favorite snobs. They were not obliged to be affectionate towards
someone who could not sympathize with any of them; someone who differs
from them in temperament, ability, inclination; a useless person who serves
nothing to their interests or makes them happy; a harmful person, harboring in
his heart the seeds of hatred for their behavior, contempt for their opinions".
Mrs. Reed is Jane's aunt, but she is no different from the evil stepmother in the
fairy tales. Living in that cold atmosphere, Jane always feels miserable; her
nerves are often stressed. When she could not stand it anymore, Jane rebelled
and fought back to protect herself. When she reacted to the callous actions of
those people, she was punished by her aunt and uncle by locking her in a dark
room, leaving her to starve, and then she threw her out of the house by sending
her away to study. The Lowood school that Jane was sent to was known as a
charity school under the management of Mr. Brocklehurst, but it was like a
prison that slowly smothered girls with unfortunate circumstances like Jane.
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Jane Eyre's situation reminds readers of the image of a boy named David
Copperfield in the work of the same name by writer Charles Dickens. David
Copperfield is also an orphan boy, and his father died when he was only a few

months old; seven years later, his mother left again. His stepfather did not
sympathize with him, and to spare his eyes, he also sent him to the Salem House
hospice - under the ruthless Principal Creakle. Taking the motif of the orphan
character, the authors showed the brutality of society at that time. Of course, one
could not stand the "rebellion" of Jane Eyre. Furthermore, if it is not enough to
put a child in a dark room to punish him, people will think of more organized
prisons, where children are free to die pious, i.e., camps slowly. Hospices,
orphanages, and "worker's houses" abound throughout England after the
reactionary act of 1834.
In the eyes of others, Mrs. Reed was Jane's benefactor, but Jane did not
hesitate to expose her hypocrisy: "She thought I was emotionless and that I
could live without it. love does not need to be treated with kindness, but I cannot
live like that, and she is a heartless person… People think she is a kind person,
but she is horrid and cruel in reality. It is she who a liar is!" .
The most apparent opposing pair in Jane Eyre is Jane Eyre and Lady
Blanche Ingram. Jane Eyre is not fortunate to have a position of good
background and beautiful appearance like Lady Ingram. Jane Eyre is just a tutor
who teaches children in terms of social status. Her status is no different from a
servant in the master's family. At the same time, she does not have a beautiful
appearance like the great lady of the Ingram family. A beautiful, noble soul,
knowing how to love and care for others, a will to rise up, and rich in selfesteem. Moreover, inside the noble appearance of Miss Ingram is a selfish, selfseeking, frivolous calculation and a heart that is arid with humanity. Unlike Jane
Eyre's concept, love is a union of two like-minded souls; for Ingram, marriage is
based only on money and status, so Rochester has penetrated the heart by a
simple test. Her pragmatism: she showed attachment to him only because of his
position and fortune. If Blanche Ingram flirted with Rochester to become a
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luxurious lady, Jane Eyre loved Rochester out of admiration and respect for him.
She is Very much in love with Rochester, but Jane does not want to become

dependent. Jane always demands equality and respect; she refuses all precious
gifts from Rochester because she does not allow herself to be easy. ,
superficially, not allowing anyone to trample on his dignity and honor. Thus,
although Jane Eyre's initial starting point was not as smooth and lucky as Miss
Ingram, Jane overcame all difficulties and finally got her place because of her
beautiful soul and extraordinary energy, a happy life with loved ones.
Through the pair of opposing characters, Jane Eyre - Mrs. Reed and Jane
Eyre - Blanche Ingram, Charlotte helped readers see the great distinction in
terms of class in society at that time, and the author also pointed out the
insensitivity, coldness, selfishness, and frivolity in the character of upper-class
people.
Two men with a close relationship with Jane Eyre, Rochester, and St John
River, are also two people with two complex personalities portrayed by the
author in contrast. In terms of appearance, Rochester is not the ideal type of man
to look at and is old, while St John is young and handsome with a tall body,
blond hair, and blue eyes. In terms of personality, Rochester is a gentleman of
the upper class, but his private life is not very happy. Having been a victim of
selfish calculations, Rochester constantly contradicts himself: living liberally,
carelessly, but hates vanity and falsehood; proud, arrogant but weak, vulnerable;
The soul is thorny, cruel but very loving, profound and delicate. Although he
encountered losses in life, he always desired to live true to himself, constantly
hoping to find true love, a true half of his life. Unlike Rochester, the pastor of St
John is an ambitious man. It was ambition that prevented this young missionary
from having peace of mind. St John accepts an austere life to achieve his goal,
willing to sacrifice everything, including personal happiness. The pastor asked
Jane Eyre to marry him without love. He did not need a proper wife but just an
assistant to accompany him on the missionary path. This is entirely against the

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concept of the life of a sentimental girl like Jane, so Jane left because she knew
that if she married John River, she could not live her life's passion.
Rochester and St John River are images of two opposing views of life. St
John River's stoic, ambitious lifestyle could not get along with Jane Eyre. The
image of Rochester with the desire for earthly happiness in ordinary life is the
dream of author Charlotte conveyed through her writings.

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CONCLUSION
Jane Eyre is regarded as a classic Victorian novel. It has everything
typical of the period, but it has elements in one story, unlike other books. The
sentiment between Rochester and Jane is at the heart of the story, which is
elevated by gothic elements like the counterpart's canniness and Bertha's
specter-like qualities. It is also a tutor novel; this was an incredibly well-known
type of narrating at the time. The fact that it's associated with gothic elements,
which are intertwined with a dualistic association between realism and
sentiment, is unique. The correct term for this is frequently a crossbreed, in
which no single class voice dominates; they coexist to create one or possibly an
excellent book.
It is also unusual, which makes it a fantastic piece of literature. Jane's
journey is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. She faces genuine adversity
throughout her life, which would cause a lesser person to give up. She, too, finds
simple companionship, which only comes around once in a lifetime. However,
most importantly, she finds true love and gains autonomy in order to put an end
to his claim.

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