篇一：《简爱》读后感-中英对照
不屈的灵魂更美丽
Unyielding Soul is More
Beautiful
——读《简爱》有感
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——Reaction to Jane Eyre
不屈的灵魂更美丽
Unyielding Soul is More Beautiful
——读《简爱》有感
——Reaction to Jane Eyre
《简爱》是英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作，这位性格刚强、才华出众的女作家，用她的灵魂塑造了简·爱，发出了女性独立自尊的呼声，百年来感动了无数读者的心。
Jane Eyre is a representative work of Charlotte Bronte, a famous British writer. This tough and talented female writer shaped the image of Jane Eyre with her own soul to call for women’s independent self-esteem, and thus has touched the heart of countless readers during the more than one hundred years.
英国哲学家休谟说：“人生的终极目的就是为了获取幸福。”这几乎可以成为对本书主人公简爱的最佳注解。书中讲述了一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子简爱在各种挫折中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。小说通过展示男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历，成功塑造了一个敢于反抗，敢于争取自由和平等地位的女性形象。
British philosopher David Hume once said, “The ultimate goal of life is to gain happiness.” This can almost serve as the best explanatory note to Jane Eyre, the leading character in this book. The book tells a story about Jane Eyre, a British woman orphaned in her childhood, who struggles and adheres to her own belief in various kinds of setbacks for the constant pursuit of freedom and dignity, and finally gains happiness. By showing the tortuous and twisting love experience of the hero and heroine, the novel succeeds in shaping a female image who dares to revolt and to fight for freedom and equal status.
全书构思精巧，情节波澜起伏，给读者制造出一种吊诡的气氛，充满维多利亚时期的中古味道。全书的语言描述张力十足，呈现出的场景感丰满自然，有着强大的感染力。夏洛蒂.勃朗特的手法非常注重场景感的架构，读起来的时候仿佛置身于这种场景之中，作者就用这种情节把控力，引导着读者体验其中的人
物变幻和世间百态。
The book is conceived ingeniously and elaborately, the story lines with one climax following another, so that readers should feel an atmosphere of paradox and a taste of mediaeval times peculiar to the Victorian Era. The linguistic description is charming and attractive throughout the book, making the scene sensation full, natural and strongly infectious. Due to Charlotte Bronte’s great emphasis on the architecture of scene sensation, readers feel as if personally on the scenes when reading the book. And the author, by means of her ability to control the plots, guides readers to experience the character and life changes displayed in the book.
最令我深刻难忘的就是简爱和罗切斯特的对白，“你以为，因为贫穷、低微、不美丽，我就没有灵魂没有心么？当我们的灵魂穿过坟墓站到上帝面前时，我们是平等的！”。这句对白震撼有力，闪现着一种独立人格的壮美与崇高。追求个人幸福时，简·爱表现出异乎寻常的纯真、朴实的思想感情和一往无前的勇气，她并没有因为自己的仆人地位而放弃对幸福的追求，她的爱情是纯洁高尚的，她对罗切斯特的财富不屑一顾，她之所以钟情于他，就是因为他能平等待人，把她视作朋友，与她坦诚相见。在那样的时代背景下，喊出女性独立平等自由的精神是多么的难能可贵。
What impresses me most is the dialogue between Jane Eyre and Rochester, “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! …ust as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, - as we are!” This dialogue, shocking and powerful, presents the sublime and loftiness of independent personality. When pursuing her personal happiness, Jane Eyre shows extraordinary innocence, unadorned minds and sentiments and indomitable courage. She does not give up her pursuit of happiness is spite of her character as a housemaid, and her love is pure and noble. She regards Rochester’s wealth as not worthy of serious consideration, and the reason why she is deeply in love with him is that he can treat others as equals, consider her to be a friend and get along with her heart to heart. In the background of that time, it was really so rare and commendable to call for women’s independence, equality and freedom.
作者擅长运用渲染的手法。通过噩梦、幻觉、预感来营造地狱的气氛，建构一个寓言式的环境。夏洛蒂·勃朗特加入的这些元素使整部小说呈现出不一样的气氛，更吸引读者。在盖茨赫德，简爱从生活中感觉到了“阴森森的祭奠气氛”，看到时隐时现的“幽灵”，而压抑恐怖，令人毛骨悚然的“红房子”则几乎成了地狱的化身。在罗沃德，“死亡成了这里的常客”，“围墙之内笼罩着阴郁和恐怖”，散发着“死亡的恶臭”，对简爱来说，无疑是刚跳出火坑，却又被投进了一个更为可怕的地狱。阴森恐怖的氛围下，故事开展起来，主人公之间的冲突又淋漓尽致的展现出来。
The author is good at using the technique of rendering. She creates the atmosphere of hell by means of nightmares, illusions and presentiments, to set up an allegoric environment. Those elements added by Charlotte Bronte make the whole novel present a different atmosphere, to attract readers more effectively. In Gateshead, Jane Eyre feels “a gloomy atmosphere of sacrificial ceremony” in the daily life and sees flickering “ghosts” from time to time, so she feels depressed and scared. In particular, the hair-raising “red house” has almost become the embodiment of hell. In Lowood, “death is a frequent visitor here”, and “the walled courtyard is shrouded with gloominess and horror” and exudes “the stench of death”. For Jane Eyre, beyond all doubt, hardly had she leaped from the fiery pit when she was thrown into a more terrible hell. In the gloomy and horrific atmosphere, the story is unfolded, and the conflicts between the leading characters are also revealed incisively and vividly.
很多人把它当做一本爱情读本，可是《简爱》的意涵并非只有爱情那么简单。《简爱》这本书的历史背景设置在维多利亚早期，西方登记制度最为森严的时期，人们的思想也被层级牢牢的束缚住了。在这样的大背景下，简爱作为一个小人物，她所迸发出来的精神力量在时代的反衬下显得更为耀眼：尽管无父无母，十分贫困，过着被人虐待的生活，但她仍毅然表示：我绝不会去下层的穷人家生活，我不愿成为下层人民。血统就是这样严格地烙印在她身上的，不可忤逆。就算在后期她出走后身无分文，几乎饿死街头，也不愿成为下层的乞讨者去讨要食物。经济上的穷困潦倒与内心坚持的中产阶级身份标识形成鲜明对比。
Many people consider it to be a love novel, but the implication of Jane Eyre is not confined to love. The novel Jane Eyre is on the background of the early Victorian
Age, a period in which the western registration system was strictest, and the people’s thoughts were imprisoned like grim death by the hierarchy. In this general background, Jane Eyre, as a small potato, has her mental strength more dazzling by the contrast of the age: in spite of being a very poor orphan and abused by others, she still shows her determination resolutely: I will never lead a life in a poor household at the bottom of the society, and I hate to be a lowlife. Just in this way, blood lineage is imprinted in her, strictly and irreversibly. In the later days, although she does not have a single penny left on and almost starves to death on the street after leaving the residence, she still refuses to beg for food as a lower scrounger does. The economic poverty is in stark contrast with the middle class’ identify to which she always sticks in her heart.
很多人喜欢简爱这个形象，是因为她身上带着太多的现实影子，她长相普通、家境潦倒，唯一值得称道的就是不屈从于任何困境的心。然而这种现实却不那样绝望，夏洛蒂从女性的视角赋予了简爱一丝童话的意味，最终，“灰姑娘”简爱还是披荆斩棘，站在了“王子”罗切斯特的面前。努力不妥协、坚持不松懈、坚强不低头，这些类似鸡汤一样平凡的道理，被潜移默化的移植到小说中，被人们理所当然的接受。
A lot of people are fond of the image of Jane Eyre, for the reason that too many shadows of reality can be found in her. She is average-looking and impecunious. The only commendable thing is her heart that succumbs to no troubles. However, the reality is not so desperate, for Charlotte endows Jane Eyre with a touch of fairytale experience from a woman’s perspective. Finally, “Cinderella” Jane Eyre, by breaking open a way through brambles and thorns, stands in front of “Prince” Rochester. Being struggling but uncompromising, being persistent but relaxed and being strong-minded but humble are the life creeds as common as chicken soup, but they are implanted in the novel imperceptibly and accepted by people by the light of nature.
《简爱》作为独立女性的经典读物，也是极其充满着现实意义，在一次次的打击和失败面前，我们必须要满怀希望，必须要以充沛的体力、旺盛的精力、坚定的意志力去面向未来，走好未来的路。同时她也向我们昭示着，无论生活有多少的磨难和不愉快，我们都不能忘记灵魂的丰满和内心世界的丰盈，只有这样，
篇二：简爱英文章节概括及读后感
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Chapter1
Summary: Jane Eyre was always ill-treated at Gateshead Hall where her aunt, Mrs. Reed and her cousins-Eliza, John and Georgiana lived. Once, she was reading on the window-seat behind a curtain. John came and drove her away. To her anger, she defended herself, but her aunt came and commanded to lock her in the red-room.
Feelings: I feel really bad for Jane as a child at her age. Imagine if I were her at that time, I may give myself up and die early. Even if facing such bad situation, she still loved reading. I admire her very much.
Chapter2
Summary: Jane was dragged away by two servants, Bessie and Miss Abbot, and locked in the red-room. It was the place where her Uncle Reed died. Thus, the whole atmosphere reminded her of ghosts. She couldn’t stand it anymore and passed out.
Feelings: I can’t help feeling that Jane was suffering some kind of mental disease because her aunt and cousins’ attitude towards her. Poor little child! I hope some time in the future it can be healed.
Chapter3
Summary: The doctor Mr. Lloyd came to see if Jane was OK. He asked her whether she would like to go to school or not and that was all. Meanwhile, Miss Abbot told Bessie about Jane. Her mother was Mr. Reed’s sister. She married a nearly penniless clergyman, and her father was furious and had nothing more to do with her. They went away to work among poor people, caught typhoid, and died when Miss Jane was a baby, so she was sent to Gateshead Hall. Bessie felt sorry after hearing these.
Feelings: Jane was sure unfortunate, but to some extent, she was really lucky. She had someone like Bessie who cared about her. I think Jane will start a new life at school.
Chapter4
Summary: Jane was introduced to a school’s headmaster Mr. Brocklehurst. Her aunt talked bad about her to that tall, grim man, which means her school life didn’t have a good beginning.
Feelings: I just feel sick for Mrs. Reed’s behavior. One cannot judge others no matter what, let alone she was Jane’s aunt. What she had done could probably destroy Jane’s whole life!
Chapter5
Summary: Jane arrived at a school at Lowood. The living condition there was really poor. Girls there only had a little food to eat and some of it couldn’t be called as “food”. But there was a teacher called Miss Miller who cared about the girls, ordering extra bread and cheese for them.
Feelings: I wonder why on earth there was a school like that in the past. What kind of parents would send their children to hell on earth? I am worried about Jane right now.
Chapter6
Summary: Helen was a friend of Jane when she was at school. There was a teacher called Miss Scatcherd who was always directed against Helen. She scolded Helen whenever she had a chance. But Helen was pretty positive towards these. She believed that since life was short, we should be happy.
Feelings: Helen had a strong character as a kid. I think that must due to her early experience as an orphan. She could face anything peacefully. Many adults can’t do that in my opinion.
Chapter7
Summary: Mr. Brocklehurst announced to all the girls in the school that Jane was a liar and he warned them against her. But Helen trusted her and gave her courage.
Feelings: It’s rude to say bad things about others no matter in front of them or behind their backs. Mr. Brocklehurst’s behavior can be really hurtful.
Chapter8
Summary: Miss Temple was another person who chose to believe Jane. She asked Mr. Lloyd whether Jane’s side of story was true. As Mr. Lloyd convinced Jane’s word, Miss Temple announced to the school that Jane was innocent of Mr. Brocklehurst’s charges against her.
Feelings: Miss Temple is that kind of person who gives you a light of hope when you are truly down. It’s a great luck to have such a person be your side and support you. I think Miss Temple will influence Jane throughout her lifetime.
Chapter9
Summary: Typhoid fever struck Lowood when spring came. Thus, many of the students were kept apart. Helen was also ill, not typhoid but with consumption. Knowing Helen might die soon, Jane couldn’t help tiptoeing to the room Helen
stayed in to be with her as her last company. They spent a night together and Helen died in Jane’s arm during her dream.
Feelings: Helen’s death was a great loss for Jane in my opinion. But anyhow, Helen’s spirit leaves a deep impression on me, and I believe, on everyone who has ever read this book.
Chapter10
Summary: Soon after the typhoid, there was an inquiry, which brought to light the truth about Lowood with its wretched clothing, poor food, and bad conditions. Lowood was put into the care of kind and sensible trustees, and both diet and clothing improved. After six years of study there, Jane became a teacher. After her tutor both in study and in life, Miss Temple, get married and left, Jane decided to leave as well. On her last night at Lowood, Bessie visited her with her son Bobby. She brought the news about Gateshead to Jane.
Feelings: It’s time for Jane to find a new place to go. She had been at Lowood for so many years and she should search for some new opportunity and start a new life at Thornfield Hall.
Chapter11
Summary: On arriving at Thornfield Hall, Jane met the house keeper Mrs. Fairfax and her student Adele whose guardian was Mr. Edward Fairfax Rochester, who was also the owner of the house. She also met a solidly built servant called Grace Poole.
Feelings: I guess Jane can live an at least comfortable life here at Thornfield Hall since nobody is after her. Jane’s bright new life starts right now.
Chapter12
Summary: Jane met Mr. Rochester on her way to post a letter. Mr. Rochester sprained his ankle in the lane.
Feelings: It’s a pretty strange way to meet your employer the first time like that. I bet there would be interesting stories between them.
Chapter13
Summary: Adele was having a lot of trouble concentrating when she knows Mr. Rochester was downstairs—she kept trying to sneak downstairs to see him or to guess what presented he might have brought her. Mr. Rochester and Jane talked about Jane’s early experiences and Mr. Rochester called Jane as elf. Thus, Jane considered Mr. Rochester changeful and abrupt.
Feelings: I kind of feel the same as Jane did. How could an almost stranger say such rude thing during our first chat? If I were Jane, I might be really angry.
Chapter14
Summary: One evening, Rochester sent for Jane and Adele after dinner. Suddenly, because she was staring at him, Rochester asked Jane if she thought he’s handsome. Without thinking, she gave an honest answer: no. Rochester told her that he’s feeling chatty tonight, and ordered Jane to chat with him about something. While Jane and Rochester had been talking, Adele had run out to try on one of the dresses that were among her new presents from Rochester. When she comes back and frolics around in the dress, she looks just like her mother.
Feelings: I don’t know why but I just feel that the whole conversation between them is super intense and kind of awkward to me...
Chapter15
Summary: One day when Mr. Rochester and Jane were wandering in the garden, Mr. Rochester talked about Adele’s mother, Celine Varens. That evening, Jane finds Rochester asleep in his bed with the curtains and his bedclothes on fire, and she puts out the flames and rescues him.
Feelings: I feel like the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester is changing-I see something about love.
Chapter16
Summary: Mrs. Fairfax told Jane that Mr. Rochester was taking a trip to Mr. Eshton’s house which was filled with girls who were fond of Mr. Rochester, especially Blanche Ingram, Lord Ingram’s daughter. After hearing this, Jane was pretty sure that Mr. Rochester would not be with her no matter what, so she became really sad.
Feelings: I don’t think Mr. Rochester is that kind of guy who only cares about money and beauty to be honest. And if he has feelings for Jane, he may marry her.
Chapter17
Summary: Everyone spends the three days making frantic preparations for all the guests. When they rode up, some in carriages and some on horses, a beautiful woman in a purple dress was riding beside Rochester. It’s Blanche Ingram! The visitors enter, and Jane sat with Adele, half-listening to their noise and trying to keep Adele from running down and bothering them. Blanche and Rochester sang a song, and Jane wanted to leave, but she’s mesmerized by Rochester’s voice. As soon as he finished, she slipped out into the hallway. Rochester came out after Jane and asked why she didn’t come and talk to him in the drawing room. He wanted her to come back, but he could tell she’s about to cry, so he let her go.
Feelings: Now I am more than sure that Jane was in love with Mr. Rochester
completely. It’s obvious that Miss Blanche’s heart is not as beautiful as her appearance, so basically Mr. Rochester won’t choose her over Jane.
Chapter18
Summary: With Rochester absent, a stranger arrived at Thornfield. The stranger, whose name was Mason, claimed to be an old friend of Mr. Rochester’s. Later that day, a strange gypsy woman arrived, offering to tell their fortunes. Blanche Ingram went first. Everyone waited excitedly for her to come back and tell them what the woman said, but when she did come back she said the woman was obviously a fraud. The servant, Sam, told Jane that the gypsy woman said she knew there’s another single woman in the group, and that she thought that must mean her. Jane’s curious about the woman, so she went to see her and had her own fortune told.
Feelings: Though I wonder who Mason was, I’m more excited about the story between Jane and that “gypsy woman”. It could be really interesting!
Chapter19
Summary: Jane entered the library and saw the old gypsy woman reading a prayer-book by the fire. Her hat and handkerchief threw shadows over her face. The gypsy asked Jane about Mr. Rochester, and when she didn’t say much in response, the gypsy suggested that Mr. Rochester was in love with Blanche Ingram. Jane admitted that the rumor was that Rochester and Blanche were engaged, but corrected the woman on one thing—they were not in love. In a moment, the woman’s voice changed—the old gypsy woman was Mr. Rochester in disguise, and he’s just been messing with everyone. She told him about Mason’s arrival, and he’s so horrified that he couldn’t even stand up anymore. Then, Jane called Mason to meet Mr. Rochester in the room.
Feelings: From this chapter, I’m happy to see that Mr. Rochester loved Jane too and he wanted to see if Jane had the same feelings as he did. From our point of view, they both love each other more than anything. However, Mr. Rochester’s behavior shows that Mason’s presenc
Chapter20
Summary: Everyone in the house is woken up by all the noise. The guests stumble around in the corridor in their robes, but nobody seems to know what’s going on. Jane gets dressed, then sits by the window waiting. Mr. Rochester knocks on her door and asks her to come with him. He sends Jane back to get a sponge and some salts. Rochester tells Jane to stay with Mason and to make sure he stays awake, but not to talk to him at all for any reason. He gives her the sponge, which is bloody now, so that she can tend to the wound a little, too. For a
篇三：简爱英文读后感
简爱英文读后感：
This is a story about a special and ueserved 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 eich 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.
Life is ceaselessly changing, but our living principles remain. Firmly persisting for the rights of being independent gives us enough confidence and courage, which is like the beacon over the capriccioso sea of life. In the world of the film, we have found the stories of ourselves, which makes us so concerned about the fate of the dramatis personae.
In this era of rapid social and technological change leading to increasing life complexity and psychological displacement, both physical and mental effects on us call for a balance. We are likely to find ourselves bogged down in the Sargasso Sea of information overload and living unconsciousness. It’s our spirit that makes the life meaningful.
Heart is the engine of body, brain is the resource of thought, and great films are the mirrors of life. In
dubitably, “Jane Eyer” is one of them.