Tell the story of an English woman who became an orphan from childhood, constantly pursued freedom and dignity, persisted in herself, and finally got happiness through various hardships. The novel shows the ups and downs of the love experience of the hero and heroine, praises getting rid of all old customs and prejudices, and successfully shapes a female image who dares to resist and strive for freedom and equal status.
1927, translator Wu Guangjian translated a part of Jane Eyre from the English version, and named it A Lonely Girl's Wandering. This should be the earliest Chinese translation of this novel, but it was not published by the Commercial Press until eight years later.
Previously, the translator Li translated the complete works of this book in 1933 and submitted it to Zhonghua Book Company for the first time, but it was rejected. It was published in Universal Library hosted by Zheng Zhenduo on 1935 and published by Shanghai Life Bookstore the following year.
Expanded material This novel is a realistic novel with strong romanticism. Jane Eyre is a well-known work, an autobiographical novel.
Jane Eyre's pursuit of life has two basic melodies: passion, fantasy, resistance and persistence; Longing for freedom and happiness in the world and pursuing a higher spiritual realm.
The theme of this novel is to successfully create a female image who is uneasy about the status quo, unwilling to be humiliated and dare to fight through the rough life experience of an orphan girl, reflecting the call sign and censure of an ordinary soul and the desire of a lowercase person to become a capitalized person.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-Jane Eyre