Jane Eyre is one of the hottest novels that have been research and analyzed from different perspective . There are many studies and researches at home and aboard focus on this novel. Some critics began to concerto on its plot, its character drawing and so on. At the end of the 20th century, with the emergence of feminist, some discussion on Jane Eyre as the representative of feminism in 1989. Pat Macpherson asserted that Jane Eyre as a story of Jane’s pilgrimage from a bad girl who demolished the Victorian verities, to a good woman. Among Chinese scholars, Zhu Hong analyzed Jane Eyre’s accusation against the patriarchal system and brave description of women’s feeling about love and marriage and point out her strong feminist consciousness in the male-oriented word. The theme of studies on Jane Eyre is an unavoidable topic to be explored. Most critics regard it as a feminist novel. They insist that the theme of the novel is the awaking of female consciousness and the liberty of female. For example, in Wang Pei’s paper feminism interpretation in Jane Eyre . There are many studies analyzing the heroine Jane Eyre’s feminism consciousness from her psychology, behaviors and discourse. For example, Wu Yunyun in her paper named the study of Feminist Discourse of Jane Eyre from the perspective of Foucault’s theories of discourse power and the theories of feminism. This paper analyzes Jane’s power of speech and the aphasia of Berth Mason. 

In this chapter ,I review the critical essays aboard and at home. That is always appealing to me. During the 19th century, female status was lower than male in Britain. However, Jane is not give up. On the contrary, she is so strong and capable of standing up for herself and her beliefs that she becomes a strong woman. Jane is self--respectful in society. Jane is independent in life and autonomous in love and marriage.

3. Consciousness of Feminism by Charlotte Brontë 

3.1 Personal Experience of the Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë was a British novelist. She was the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels were very famous at that time. It is rare to find three sisters in one family equally talented in writing, yet all suffering untimely death. Charlotte had a difficult life. The Brontë sisters were born to a clergyman’s family at Haworth. Their mother died for cancer, leaving six children to care of their aunt. Charlotte Brontë had an unusual experience in her childhood. They went to Clergy Daughter's school at Cowan Bridge. The school made a horrifying impression which Charlotte believed to have hasted the death of her two elder sisters in 1825 and to have permanently impaired her own health. Her childhood provided the raw material for her novel, Jane Eyre. The reason she wrote as a man, and encouraged her sisters to write some stories. The practice eventually led Brontë sisters to their careers as novelists. 来~自^优尔论+文.网www.youerw.com/

Charlotte was one of the earliest feminist. Though Charlotte only left us four complete novels, she has had great influence in the history of English literature. In literature, though women's literature was ignored by literary critics. Sao Cypriot reply bluntly told her ‘Literature is not a woman’s business, you do not write poetry talent’. Charlotte still insisted on writing when she was refused . One of the poet wrote to his suggesting that it was not a woman’s business in this area. She answered that she could do it. She wrote the same principles when she spoke of impulse and feelings of the mind. I arrived at an age when I have to do something for myself. Charlotte never gave up in this field. Charlotte had not accept the convention of the beautiful heroine. Charlotte would like to told them that she would show you a heroine as plain and small as herself. Maybe it was one of the earliest Girl power movement. So she wrote the novel of Jane Eyre.