从《简爱》看维多利亚时期的女性教育论文.docx

1、从简爱看维多利亚时期的女性教育论文从简爱看维多利亚时期的女性教育-论文标题不要乱改，你的原始标题是A Study on the Female Education in Victorian Period based on Jane Eyre(Education for Victorian Girls-Based on Jane Eyre)Student: Liu Xia Class: 200711010106Supervisors: Prof. Duan Chen; Ms. Chen XingjunAbstractJane Eyre was published in 1847, over a c

2、entury and a half ago. It became popular immediately and has continued to find appreciative audiences throughout every decade since its initial release. A great number of scholars at home and abroad, have made a great deal of study of Jane Eyre, and some of them make detail analysis (of) on educatio

3、n Jane received in Lowood, on the basis of which they also have discussed the education for Victorian girls in the aspects of educational forms, purposes, contents, and so on. On the basis of Janes life experiences, by analyzing the terrible educational environment and condition, general educational

4、 contents of Lowood, this thesis briefly discusses the female education in charitable boarding school like Lowood in Victorian period. It also presents that female(s) of the lower classes, who have opportunities to receive education, could attend charity schools which (targeted) aimed to train(ing)

5、their students to be good workers in factories, small businesses, and household servant staff, just as the village school established by St. John in Morton. In addition, for females from wealthy genteel families like Miss Ingram, two types of education were available. One was to attend fashionable b

6、oarding schools, which are targeted to train their students to be “accomplished” to attract men. The second type was to hire a governess, who was usually put into an embarrassing position between the employer and servants. Key words: female；education；Victorian；Jane Eyre从简爱看维多利亚时期的女性教育学生： 班级： 导师： 教授；

7、 摘 要简爱出版于1874年,一个世纪半以前。自从这本书首次出版，它就立刻收到了大众的欢迎，而且一直以来都不断收到各个时代的人的欣赏。许多国内外学者都对简爱作了大量研究，其中有些学者对简在洛伍所受的教育作了详细的分析，并在此基础上在教育方式，教育目标，教育内容等多方面做了很多关于维多利亚时期女性教育的研究，这篇论文根据简的生活的经历，通过对洛伍糟糕的教育条件和基本的教育内容的分析，简单地讨论了维多利亚时期女性在像洛伍一样的慈善寄宿学校所受的教育情况，本文还描述了有机会接受教育的来自下层阶级的女性受教育的情况，她们一般参加慈善学校，这些学校的目标是把它们的学生培养成工厂和小型企业里称职的工人，以

8、及佣人，约翰在莫顿建立的乡村学校就属于这类学校。而像英格兰曼小姐一样出身于富裕的家庭的女性，她们一般可以通过两种方式接受教育。第一种是参加时兴的寄宿学校，这些学校的教育目的是把她们培养成“有修养”的人以便吸引男性。第二种方式是聘请家庭教师，这些家庭教师通常处于比佣人们高一等而却不能与雇主同等阶层的尴尬境地。关键词：女性；教育；维多利亚；简爱ContentsIntroduction 1Education for Victorian Girls-Based on Jane Eyre英文标题同上修改从简爱看维多利亚时期的女性教育IntroductionJane Eyre is an importan

9、t works in the history of British literature. Jane Eyre is such a great novel that it holds an important position in the history of British literature. It has been translated into various languages and adapted for movie, dazzling generations of readers all through the world. This novel begins with l

10、ittle Jane as a despised orphan in the house of her uncles widow. Being rebellious, she is packed off to a charitable boarding school, which administers harsh discipline with especial vigor. Jane sets herself to learn, qualifies herself as a teacher, advertises for a post, and is employed as governe

11、ss of the illegitimate French daughter of Rochester in his country mansion, Thornfield. A love relationship develops between Jane and Rochester. Janes resolute free spirit, her soul of fire, brings from the dominant Rochester a proposal of marriage. But at the very moment, the wedding ceremony was i

12、nterrupted, for Rochester is discovered to have a mad wife who is hidden in that house. Jane doesnt want to be Rochesters mistress and subsequently leaves Thornfield, wandering far away. She is rescued by the Rivers family and urged to marry John Rivers in order to undertake missionary work at his s

13、ide. Almost she consents, but as she ponders, Rochesters voice crying her name resounds in her ears. Then Jane gains a large amount of inheritance from her uncle whom she has never known before. She returns to Thornfield, but the mansion has been destroyed by a fire set by the mad wife. In a schedul

14、ed country house nearby, she finds Rochester, blind and alone; they marry and find happiness together.The author of Jane Eyre,Charlotte Bronte was born in a Priests family in York shire in 1816. She had two elder sisters, two younger sisters and one younger brother. Her mother died when she was five

15、 years old, leaving six children. Fortunately, her father was an intellect, so he often taught his children to read books and magazines and told stories to them. It influenced Charlotte in developing her interest in literature. When she was very young, she was sent to a boarding school with her thre

16、e sisters. In 1825, her two elder sisters died of infectious disease in that school. Then, her younger sister Emily and she were forced to go back home and compile a journal named “Youth”, which laid a solid foundation for their later creation of literature. When she was 15, she went to another scho

17、ol to study. And in order to support her family, she became a teacher in this school after her graduation. After she left this school, she went to a rich family to be a tutor for twice, during which she (declined to)? men who wanted to marry her. In order to teach French, Charlotte and Emily went to

18、 a French school to learn French. In that school, Charlotte fell in love with her French teacher deeply, yet she didnt tell him. 1847, under the name of Currer Bell, she published the novel Jane Eyre which was a great shock at that time and made her successful. Her two younger sisters also published

19、 their novels and succeeded at that time. The great success of the Bronte sisters brought great happiness to their family. But in the following years, Charlotte suffered from great sorrow: her younger brother and two younger sisters died one by one in two years. But she persisted in writing and publ

20、ished another three fictions. She got married with a priest when she was 38 years old. After she enjoyed happiness for six months, she died in the next year.In the twenty-first century, girls are rarely educated differently from boys, unlike girls in the same era with Jane who received education in

21、a single-sex environment. In fact, most formal education throughout the world at the present time is in the mixed-gender settings. Boys and girls are generally believed to need to learn the same basic information from elementary through high school, and are expected to have the same educational oppo

22、rtunities in college and other postsecondary educational environments. However, in Victorian era, people generally believed that men were superior to women in intelligence, and women were not worthy of any cultivation and taking up advanced studies. They also held the view that womens inborn duty wa

23、s to be understanding wives and loving mother. Even if women in that era received education, they were mainly taught to prepare for their future family life. Girls from low class generally taught labor skills and values to be punctual, hard-working, and obey their employers, which was more beneficia

24、l to employers than themselves. However, girls from wealthy families also received insufficient education. No matter attending schools or hiring governesses to receive education, they were taught a litter basic knowledge. Instead, they were taught to be “accomplished” which was targeted to attract g

25、enteel men, try to please them, and marry to them. Such education blotted out womens qualities of innocence, honesty, sincerity, and so on. Those women perhaps couldnt survive without men and they were just furnish(es)ed and decorated of men. The education system in Victorian period is totally diffe

26、rent from that in modern society. Jane Eyre, by the story of the heroine Janes life of school, as student and teacher, and of governess work, demonstrates the fundamental situation of female education in Victorian era, which may help us deal with the concern of how to educate girls best in modern so

27、ciety.The body of this paper is divided into three parts. In the first part, it talks about the society of the Victorian Era, which was an extraordinary age, and sometimes been called the Second English Renaissance. The second part primarily tells the fundamental situation of main schools in Victori

28、an era based on Jane Eyre (-)the severe conditions in Lowood such as inadequate food, clothes, and so on; the educational purposes of becoming good workers and servants, or becoming females like Miss Ingram who is graceful superficially but empty mentally in order to find a good husband respectively

29、 in terms of girls from poor family and girls from high class; and the educational contents of some skills such as sewing and weaving, household work, a little basic knowledge, of the like. The third part is about education given by a governess as Jane, whose family background, educational degree, a

30、nd manners should be good and appropriate. 1. The Victorian Erathe Pioneer of Modern EraVictoria who ruled over the Britain Empire for 60 years was a well-known queen in English history. The Victorian era is generally agreed to stretch through the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). It was a tremen

31、dously exciting period when many artistic styles, literary schools, as well as social, political and religious movements flourished. It was a time of prosperity, broad imperial expansion, and great political reform. Undoubtedly, it was an extraordinarily complex age, which has sometimes been called

32、“the Second English Renaissance”1. It was, indeed, the forerunner of the modern era.Victorias time was full of tremendous changes in almost every aspect. The Industrial Revolution continued to develop in spite of the social evils that accompanied it. The emergence of locomotives threw Britain into a frenzy of railway building. Agriculture was further mechanized. Trade and commerce grew tremendously, driving more peasants, hand spinners and weavers to the crowded factories of the smoky cities. England was almost arriving at the age of machinery.Development of productivity enlarged mens vi