--------《简爱》读后感
在文学史上，，有许多的经典名著将要永不垂朽，但《简爱》这样深深的进入人们的灵魂，它以一种不可抗拒的美感吸引了成千上万的读者，影响着人们的精神世界，甚至对某些人来讲，影响了他们一生的作品并不多。
19世纪英国文坛“勃朗特三姐妹”之一的夏洛蒂·勃朗特的小说《简·爱》，以19世纪早期英国偏远乡村为背景，用女主人公简·爱的视角以自叙方式讲述了一个受尽摧毁、凌辱的孤儿，如何在犹如儿童的人间地狱的孤儿院顽强地生存下去，成为一个独立、坚强、自尊、自信的女性的成长故事。
简·爱是个孤儿，从小寄养在舅母家中，受尽百般欺凌。后来进了慈善学校洛伍德孤儿院，灵魂和肉体都经受了苦痛的折磨。也许正是这样才换回了简·爱无限的信心和坚强不屈的精神，她以顽强的意志以成绩优秀完成了学业。为了追求独立生活，她受聘在桑菲尔德庄园任家庭教师。故事的重点是身份低下的家庭教师简·爱与男主人罗切斯特之间历经磨难的爱情。这段爱情因男女主人公悬殊的社会地位和个性的差异而充满了激烈碰撞，也因两人志趣相同、真诚相爱而迸发出灿烂的火花。作者以简·爱鲜明独特的女性视角和叙事风格娓娓道来，真实而有艺术感染力。特别是简·爱的独特个性和思想，爱是一个不美的，矮小的女人，但她有顽强的自尊心。在打动身为贵族的男主人公的同时，也紧紧抓住了我们读者的心。
简·爱作为爱情小说的女主人公是以前所未有的女性形象出现在这部十九世纪的文学作品中的。以往爱情故事的女主人公都是些美丽温柔、高贵贤淑的女子形象。而简·爱，她“贫穷，低微，不美，矮小”，但她拥有的一颗智慧、坚强、勇敢的心灵，使那些外在的美在这内在美面前黯然失色。更为可贵的是简·爱并不因为自己的贫穷和外貌而自卑，相反，她勇敢坚定：“我和你的灵魂是平等的。”“我跟你一样有灵魂，——也完全一样有一颗心！”“我现在不是凭习俗、常规，甚至也不是凭着血肉之躯跟你讲话——这是我的心灵在跟你的心灵说话，就仿佛我们都已离开了人世，两人一同站立在上帝的跟前，彼此平等——就像我们本来就是的那样！”
也正因为此，简·爱敢于去爱一个社会阶层远远高于自己的男人，更敢于主动向对方表白自己的爱情——这在当时的社会是极其大胆的。幸福不再是某个人、某个阶层的专利，她属于芸芸众生的每一个人。只有两个相互对等的灵魂才能组成一份完整的爱情，所以简·爱坚持，自身的独立与追求爱情的完整是不能分离的。后来，简·爱含着悲痛离开了罗切斯特，也是基于同样的理由，她决不能允许自己和一个有妇之夫结合在一起。那会是一份不完整的爱。如果她继续留在罗切斯特的身边，那她也就不会还是原来那个独立、平等的简·爱了。如果说简·爱的这次离去是由于无法改变的现实而不得不做出的一次理性选择的话，那么她最后的归来则是她出于坚持感情的追求的又一次理性选择。
在这里，我们看到的不仅仅是一个如何赢得了男贵族爱情的平民女子的苍白的灰姑娘的故事。而是简·爱勇敢果决的走出了灰姑娘的童话，迈向一个有着新女性、真女性的文学道路的起步。简·爱藐视财富、社会地位和宗教的威仪，她认为，“真正的幸福，在于美好的精神世界和高尚纯洁的心灵。”她的信念和行动展现出来的力量,，深打动了一代又一代读者的心，使生活在金钱万能的社会中的人们的灵魂得到净化。简·爱是，一个对自己的思想和人格有着理性认识的女性，一个对自己的幸福和情感有着坚定追求的女性，一个不再只是盲从于男人和世俗要求的女性，一个对自己的价值和情感做出了独立判断的女性，一个坚强独立的女性。夏洛蒂·勃朗特创造了一个前所未有的女性形象；简·爱发出了一个属于女性自己的声音——对于平等、独立、完整、自由的坚持和追求。

夏洛蒂·勃朗特的《简爱》这部现实主义长篇小说自1847年出版以来，以不同语言在全世界不同种族的人们中广为流传，经久不衰。简·爱已作为独立女性的经典，我希望阳光下，鲜花里有更多的简爱走出来，不管是贫穷，还是富有；不管是美貌，还是相貌平庸，都有美好的心灵和充实的心胸，都能以独立的人格和坚强的个性生活。

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　　Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul

Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.

We remember her pursuit of justice. It’s like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.

We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God’s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.

We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…

When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.

Actually, she wasn’t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn’t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than ‘the plain and ugly governess’. But as the little governess had said: ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!’ This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre’s mind. God hadn’t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.

In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn’t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person’s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that ‘Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted’. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.

Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty.