On Nature Imagery

An example of recent Chinese Brontë scholars:

On Nature Imagery and the Heroine’s Growth in Jane Eyre 

Qizhen Cai, Jingdong Zhong

Zhejiang Yuexiu University, Shaoxing, China. 

Scientific Journal Of Humanities and Social Sciences   

Volume 5 Issue 6, 2023 

Corresponding Author Abstract Jane Eyre is a masterpiece written by Charlotte Bronte. It is an autobiographical work. The novel takes the life of the orphan Jane Eyre as the main line, shows the rough life experience of the heroine Jane Eyre, and successfully portrays brave female imagery who dares to fight, love and hate. It expresses the dissatisfaction and struggle of the author as a woman against the social phenomenon that women have always been in a subordinate position in society at that time. When the author created Jane Eyre, the wave of the Industrial Revolution made Britain one of the world’s leading industrial powers. With the development of heavy industry, the natural environment has been destroyed. At the same time, women could do fewer and fewer jobs, and they had to rely on men economically. This paper tries to explain the critical role played by natural imagery in Jane Eyre in the process of the heroine’s growth. This paper is composed of four sections: the first section introduces the writing intention of the thesis, the background of Jane Eyre and the significance of the research; The second section expounds on the research achievements of the novel at home and abroad; The third section discusses the natural imagery in the novel, and discusses the influence of Nature imagery on the growth of the heroine Jane Eyre; The forthsection is the conclusion, which summarizes the previous chapters and emphasizes the practical significance of this article again, especially the importance of correctly establishin