Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: As we all know, Jane Eyre is a semi-autobiographic novel of the English writer, Charlotte Bronte. The story of Jane Eyre is narrated in the first-person point of view. The relation between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre finds expression in every detail in this novel. Their experiences and mentality are inevitably similar. Mary Sue is a suitable word to describe the relation between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre. This thesis tends to reveal the exterior and interior connections between Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre by analyzing the similarities of the two women (that is, their similarities in their life experiences, their view of love and marriage, inferiority complex because of appearance), and then draws a conclusion that Jane Eyre is a successful Mary sue-character.

Key words: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Mary Sue

摘要：《简•爱》是英国女作家夏洛蒂•勃朗特的一部带有自传色彩的小说。小说采用了第一人称叙事手法。女主角简•爱与作者夏洛蒂•勃朗特之间的联系渗透在小说的各个角落：二者无论是生活经历还是心理历程都有相似之处。玛丽•苏这一名字用在简•爱与夏洛蒂•勃朗特身上是十分贴切的。本文将从夏洛蒂与简•爱的相似之处着手，分析夏洛蒂•勃朗特与简•爱外在与内在的联系（经历的相似、爱情婚姻观、外表自卑心理等），从而证明简•爱是个成功的玛丽•苏形象。

关键词：夏洛蒂•勃朗特，简•爱，玛丽•苏

1.    Introduction
1.1    Introduction to Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte is one of the distinguished English novelists of the 19th century, whose great contribution to the world lies in her outstanding work Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is famous especially for the heroine’s female consciousness and her rebellious character. Jane Eyre fights all her life to pursue independence, liberty, equality, and human value. She is brave, enthusiastic enough to change her tragic fate through her own strong unyielding rebellious character from the beginning to the end in the novel, which just embodies her female consciousness.
Jane Eyre is a representative of petty bourgeoisie intellectuals with strong individual rebellious spirit. The character of Jane Eyre did not appear accidentally. Most British female writers (mostly novelists) in 19th century came from bourgeois families which could provide their children with proper environment, qualification and social communication for literature creation. The basic reason of British female novelists’ engagement in literature creation is that they thought that was a method of expressing themselves as well as a way of revealing their talent. In works, they could wreak all their melancholy, pain and acerbity entirely, state all their understanding of life to their hearts’ content, and exert all their sagacity, intellect and poetry incisively and vividly.