FemaleConsciousnessofJaneEyreandVillette

毕业论文（设计）1.IntroductionCharlotte Bronte is one of the female writers in 19th century.Jane Eyre is herrepresentative work,but many foreign scholars praised Villette is more mature thanJane Eyre.One of the Bronte researchers Margerate Laine said that Villette is theonly novel to manifest Charlotte's best creative period.Scholar in ShanDong ShiFanUniversity Huai Baozhen wrote that:"every heroine in Charlotte's works has astriking personality with strong self-consciousness,which is alien to 'family angels'at that time,it also represented writer's strong female consciousness.Charlotte is aspecial woman who lived in her lonesome moor all the time.Her life wasaccompanied with sadness and loneliness,her female consciousness is an inspirationto her life.”(怀宝珍，2O04).Jane and Lucy are poor without beautiful appearances,but they both have a strong female consciousness,the spirits in them seems stillprecious for us today.Female consciousness is woman's self-consciousness of status,influence andvalue as the subject in the objective world (Net.3).It is a personal motive to stimulatewomen's pursuit for independence,freedom,initiative,creativity.Concretely speaking,female consciousness means women wake up and fulfill her historical mission,socialresponsibility,personal obligation,meanwhile they know their self-feature well andtake part in social activities in their own ways.The establishment and development of female consciousness is a process ofchanging and enrichment with the change and development of the society.Thestandards of female consciousness'status are still in research.Peking University2