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Female Consciousness of Jane Eyre and Villette
1.Introduction 1
2.The author’s ideas and her works 3
2.1 Development of Charlotte Bronte’s female consciousness 3
2.2 A brief introduction of Jane Eyre and Villette 6
3. Female consciousness of Jane Eyre and Lucy snow 8
3.1 Female consciousness of Jane Eyre 8
3.1.2 Jane Eyre’s self-respect 9
3.1.3 Jane Eyre’s bravery 11
3.1.4 Jane Eyre’s attitude to love and marriage 11
3.2 Female consciousness of Lucy Snow 13
3.2.1 Lucy Snow’s character and mentality 13
3.2.2 Lucy Snow’s independence 14
3.2.3 Lucy Snow’s attitude to career 15
3.2.4 Lucy Snow’s attitude to life 16
4. Conclusion 17
References 19

1.Introduction
Charlotte•Bronte is one of the female writers in 19th century. Jane Eyre is her representative work, but many foreign scholars praised Villette is more mature than Jane Eyre. One of the Bronte researchers Margerate Laine said that Villette is the only novel to manifest Charlotte’s best creative period. Scholar in ShanDong ShiFan University Huai Baozhen wrote that: “every heroine in Charlotte’s works has a striking personality with strong self-consciousness, which is alien to ‘family angels’ at that time, it also represented writer’s strong female consciousness. Charlotte is a special woman who lived in her lonesome moor all the time. Her life was accompanied with sadness and loneliness, her female consciousness is an inspiration to her life.” （怀宝珍，2004）. Jane and Lucy are poor without beautiful appearances, but they both have a strong female consciousness, the spirits in them seems still precious for us today.
    Female consciousness is woman’s self-consciousness of status, influence and value as the subject in the objective world (Net. 3). It is a personal motive to stimulate women’s pursuit for independence, freedom, initiative, creativity. Concretely speaking, female consciousness means women wake up and fulfill her historical mission, social responsibility, personal obligation, meanwhile they know their self-feature well and take part in social activities in their own ways.
    The establishment and development of female consciousness is a process of changing and enrichment with the change and development of the society. The standards of female consciousness’ status are still in research. Peking University scholars Fu Xin and Wang Sufang claimed that the wakening and improvement of female consciousness’s manifest in four main aspects: Women realize themselves as the subjects in the society, this realization is one of the universal attributes of human beings, according to human beings’ overall necessities to establish their lives spontaneously; they realize women’s special qualities and portray a real female quality in harmony with their physiology and psychology; they understand and play a variety of roles in balance; they regards man properly and can work with man in harmony (Net. 4). I think the standards of wakening should include the sex consciousness, which requires women to be self-respective、self-confident but not self-abased、self-flabby; they can take a correct judgment on the two sexes, insisting on sexual equality, but not male superiority nor female inferiority or woman supremacists; the female groups consciousness’ awakening begin with self-respect, self-confidence, independence, and towards to female groups’ self-reliance.
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