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【摘 要】 《简·爱》，英国文学史上最重要的文学作品之一，自一问世就吸引了许多学者的关注。许多年来，这部作品也因其展现的女权主义思想而备受批评家们钟爱。近来，许多学者尝试从不同的角度对其进行研究并取得了一些新发现。本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供本文主要从后殖民主义和精神分析这两个不同的视角对这部作品进行分析。

     Jane Eyre has been regarded as one of the greatest literary works in the history of English literature since its first appearance. Jane Eyre, the heroine, an ordinary girl, has already been identified as a sign of courageous woman fighting for her own dream, while the author, Charlotte Bronte has become an outstanding and revolutionary figure, and was together with Dickenson and Thackeray considered by Marx as one of the most excellent British writers . For years this novel belongs to the favorite texts among the critics for its lofty theme of feminism.Recently, many scholars have employed some other approaches and have got many new discoveries.This article attempts to analyze Jane Eyre from two different perspectives:post-colonist studies and Freudian psychoanalytical criticism.
　　In the 19th century, Britain underwent a number 本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供of changes and grew to be the Great British Empire. In 1832, the social order of bourgeoisie was set after the reform of parliament. Five years later, Queen Victoria came to the throne and dedicated her life to establishing a powerful Britain. Industrial Revolution also took place in this period and U.K. from then on, was remembered as the first industrial country in the world. All of these contributed to the strengthening of this country and colonial expansion as well.
　　The never-sun-set empire was founded not only on the basis of military and economic power, but also on that of text. The colonizers needed to, by means of diversified texts, get some knowledge of the colonies, set rules for them, reproduce the process of colonization and introduce the outside world to their own people.However, in these imperial texts, the places such as India, West Indies and Africa always appeared to be primitive and people there unenlightened, barbarian, dissolute, indulging in sexual pleasures, short of reason. “Some Victorian writers and thinkers…in their articles, reports and long novels described the development of the empire. Most of them adopted a taking-it-for-granted attitude when participating in the reproduction of their empire in letters” (Boehmer 26). This reflects the national superiority and confidence of the British people and at the same time, the imperial hegemony.
　　In Jane Eyre, Bertha Mason, a minor figure from West Indies, 本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供suffers from the imperial hegemony. She is depicted as a devil and beast and does not get a voice from her first appearance to her last one. As a Creole from a Spanish Town of West Indies—the colony of the U.K., she is in the marginal position in the British Empire—the suzerain. In the world of colonial discourses, Mason becomes a silent Other. All the knowledge we know about her comes from Rochester, her British husband. In this case, “she is in the margin of a marginal position”(Gu). She is a female from the colony. In the suzerain country, a society of patriarchy, she is under double oppression. Rochester, as a male, feels superior to Mason; as a citizen of the empire, he has the control over the colonized Creole. Bronte, while creating Jane, must have ignored the situation of Bertha, and put her into the attic prison. Jane Eyre does not pay any sympathy to Bertha and only stands on Rochester’s si本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。