paradoxical equality

Ward 2022-03-30 09:01:11

I probably read the novel "Jane Eyre" when I was in junior high school. After many years, I don't know the specific plot. I only vaguely remember the words that Jane Eyre complained to Rochester in the Garden of Thorns: "If God gives me wealth and beauty, I will let it be. It's as hard for you to leave me as it is for me to leave you now. But God didn't arrange it that way. But our spirits are equal. Just as you and I walked through the grave and stood before God equally." There must be this passage in "Jane Eyre", and it is said that this shows the equality and dignity of love, and it is the true love of independent women.
At that time, I was ignorant and did not understand, but blindly believed in this conclusion. After watching the movie, I thought of this again. Thinking about it, I feel a little under scrutiny. Since Jane Eyre was in love with Rochester, why did she say this? To highlight the gap between them? This kind of cry is more like an unfounded insistence, comfort, and comfort that the two of them are equal, and nothing can stop true love. But it felt even more disbelief and self-confidence in Jane Eyre's heart. I don't believe in the freedom of love between different classes, and I don't believe in equal love, so I say it.
Regardless of whether the remarks here really illustrate "equality", the author hopes to further eulogize people's desire and pursuit for an equal and respectful love through the love between an ordinary girl and a rich man. But this realization is also based on the fact that at the end of the story, the male protagonist is blind and lame, and the female protagonist has inherited a considerable amount of wealth to be together. They are true souls of mutual respect, understanding and love. But at the end, they are still together after they match up on the outside, which is a kind of paradoxical equality.

There is another feeling, Rochester in the movie is inferior and shrewd. In fact, he is very smart. Every time he advances further, he does not know that he needs Jane Eyre to pierce the window paper. Maybe this is another form of his inferiority complex, afraid that his own initiative will scare away Jane Eyre's heart? Even when Jane Eyre knew the truth, the night he kept Jane Eyre, he said "You can't leave me", not "I can't leave you".

But in general, a classic is a classic, and every word is worth savoring carefully~ This is

the first time I write a film review, and I feel that I don't know how to start. Personal level is limited, you need to practice a lot.

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  • Jeff 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    Imaginary love - self-esteem, feminism, true love,,, hehe, no wonder the original author didn't get married

  • Haley 2022-03-31 09:01:09

    Love the scene with Jane Eyre, vast, quiet.

Jane Eyre quotes

  • Edward Fairfax Rochester: Give me back nine. Jane, I have need of it!

  • Edward Fairfax Rochester: She saves me from an inferno and she's glad she happened to be awake.