The story of Charlotte Bronte

Beauty and mourning - a true Charlotte Bronte

She is a persistent woman, and her wholehearted contribution is not for fame and fortune, but because of her love;

She is a woman who is accompanied by loneliness. The desolation of the wilderness and the departure of her loved ones make her suffer in loneliness;

She is a woman with no beauty, like a tiny heather growing on the wasteland.

She was powerless to resist in reality, and had to entrust her hero to resist in her works: to resolve the weaknesses in reality with the struggles in the works, to resolve the tragic reality in reality with the happiness in the works, and to resolve the reality in reality with the equality in the works. Inequality... Until the unique biography of Jane Eyre was favored by many readers, people remembered this ordinary and great name, Charlotte Bronte.

She is from the wild

Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816 in a pastor's family in Sandton, England. She is the third child in this family. Two older sisters, Maria Bronte and Elizabeth Bronte, were born in January 1814 and February 1815, respectively. Then Branwell, the only boy at the Bronte family, was born, followed by two sisters Emily and Annie. Charlotte and her two sisters were the Bronte sisters who were later mentioned in the literary world.

Charlotte's father, Patrick Bronte, was born in a poor rural family. He learned to fight iron, worked as a weaver and cloth dealer, and with his own ingenuity and chance, he was born in the cold. Ke had the opportunity to study in Cambridge and received his bachelor's degree in 1806. He was named a parish priest after graduation. Charlotte's mother, Maria Branwell, is a small, fun, and well-educated woman. It was a happy family before the Bronte priest moved to Haworth with his family for work reasons.

In 1820, the Bronte family moved to the pastor's residence in Haworth, when Charlotte was only four years old. No one thought that it was in Haworth that the poor living environment and a series of unfortunate blows caused her to lose her mother and five brothers and sisters in less than 30 years; also there, she The Irish eloquent nature is almost exhausted, replaced by silence and shame; it is also there, the openness and desolation of the wasteland keep her away from the worldly shackles, away from beautiful dresses, lively dances, luxury The temptation of the substance of the hall, the style of the carriage. Only thinking, thinking and meditation on oneself, on loved ones, on nature, on religion and on society became her lifelong companion.

There are no cute toys, no beautiful clothes, no warm and happy family atmosphere, no parental care and care. In short, the happy childhood in general sense has nothing to do with Charlotte. The serious and responsible Bronte cleric obviously does not have much time to take care of the children. After the death of the wife, Pastor Bronte is more willing to stay alone in the study to do his own thing. The unique family atmosphere makes the children of the Bronte family much quieter than the children of ordinary families. The children's usual noisy is not common in the pastor's house. The children find their own fun, that is, everyone is sitting together. Read aloud. This kind of reading training that began in childhood has had a subtle influence on their later writing, especially the creation of the Bronte sisters.

Haworth is not a very livable place, it is often rainy or covered with fog, and it is cold and humid for most of the year. Especially in the long winter, the continuous snow covered the town, and the whole Haworth seemed to enter the ancient hibernation. The scenery of the wasteland is not as picturesque as it is. The strong Atlantic sea breeze sweeps all the year round, making the sky there and the sun shining, sometimes the clouds are rolling, dark and damp. The Yorkshire people who lived there for a long time were unconsciously affected by it, and their moods always fluctuated. The feelings brought by this environment are obviously also integrated into the blood of Charlotte. Whether it is from her own life or from a series of her works, it is not difficult to find this kind of environmental change for her. Deep influence, a lingering sense of the wilderness, flowing or infiltrating in her words.

The life of the detached people has created the unique character of the Yorkshire people. As one of them, Charlotte also obviously infects the personality temperament of the local people: independence, straightforwardness, indifference to the world, and deep feelings buried in the heart. Of course, there is inevitably a certain degree of conservativeness. People living in small towns have a hard time realizing that they have been separated from the society to some extent. Perhaps some of their lifestyles and individual ideas have become the same as the stone houses there, and have gone through too long years. Out of date.

At the beginning of the fame, Charlotte suffered this kind of embarrassment. However, it is precisely because of this unobtrusive, inelastic, and unobtrusive personality that makes people remember the unknown. When Charlotte, with an Irish accent, first entered the metropolis of London, when she became an indispensable member of the British literary world, she was told about the unique temperament in her own and her work. - She is from the wild.

Pain and happiness

There are too many frustrations and misfortunes in Charlotte's life. Her life is a sad story. From childhood to motherhood and loss of brothers and sisters, she experienced the most thorough heartbreak in the world. The pursuit of perfect love, but can not escape the fate of "passionate but ruthless"; eager to have enough time to ride in the world of creation, but because of life forced to have to do the family teachers that they hate. The wings of her heart are always separated from the reality of being an ordinary pastor's daughter, flying to the ideal heaven, and when she is awakened, she still sees the bleak wilderness. People will go, dreams will wake up, only loneliness, like a lingering ghost, always follow Charlotte. The vagaries of the gloomy and sometimes unpredictable clouds on the wilderness also witnessed her loneliness. An ordinary person would never observe them like she did, but she looked at her close friends and interpreted. A book that fascinates her. No writer can better describe the painful struggle of a lonely soul than Charlotte, because no one feels the feeling of loneliness more deeply than her.

People who have always lived in happiness are always easy to ignore those small pleasures. For a person who has experienced too many disappointments, an occasional piece of happiness can make her feel happy. Although Charlotte's grief is like an endless desert, there are always a few small oasis dotted around it, supporting her to walk on the rough road.

Friends are the most important source of happiness for Charlotte. She is not a person who is easy to open up to others. She can't be like many people, there are countless friends wherever they go. But once she was identified as a confidant, she was destined to get her lifelong friendship, which was well proven by her friends Mary Taylor and Alan Naxi. In her more than 400 letters to Allen, she was filled with sincere concern, true thoughts, little joy, faint sorrow, and some helpless complaints and troubles that could not be undone. The letter itself is already a pleasure for her, especially when she thinks that her feelings of being poured out will be shared by another person who really cares about her, and there will be a hint of sunshine in her life full of hardships and rains.

The long-term wasteland life has made Charlotte a keen eye for nature and deep love. It is not necessary to say that the wilderness of the hometown has caused her attention and delusion in the flowers and grasses that grew there, even the blackstone rocks scattered in the wilderness. Every scene of nature is a miracle for her, especially the arrogant, sometimes calm sea at that time, apparently giving her an unforgettable experience of life. Charlotte likes to feel the beauty and wonder of nature alone. In nature, she can always enter a realm of selflessness. The mysterious experience brings her joy into a common way to get rid of her mental dilemma.

Wonderful literary world

It should be said that the outstanding creative talents of the Bronte sisters and their broader perspectives than their peers benefit from their father's strong creative desires and extensive reading hobbies. Pastor Bronte has published two poems, two prose stories, and some current affairs pamphlets and sermons. In addition, he has published several articles and several poems in local newspapers. In fact, it is not an excellent work, but the creation of Bronte’s pastor has had a great impact on the children, as Charlotte said: “Since then, we have been the biggest The motivation and fun of life is to try literary creation."

The initial writing may be just to write down your emotions, show your imagination, and fight against loneliness and emptiness in reality. But with the increase of age, this love for words is growing stronger, and it is no longer a simple, dispensable preference. At the age of thirteen or four, Charlotte completed a total of 22 volumes of "The Islander Life Story", "Twelve Adventurers", "Irish Adventures", and "Poetry Collection" in 15 months. In these early "graffiti", Charlotte used the real, simple and interesting strokes to explore the people and things she is familiar with. But that slightly occluded Haworth apparently could not make her thoughts show a hearty performance, Charlotte's mind is full of weird, bizarre and very interesting imagination. In reality, she sometimes has to take orders from Aunt Branwell, clean the house, run errands, do some simple cooking, or learn to sew and make up her role as a big sister to her younger siblings. Once in the writing space that belongs to her, the colorful and bizarre changes of life began to become the master. The imagination is different from the warm and beautiful fantasy that the average person desires, but a wonderful, grotesque and magnificent imagination.

At the age of 30, Charlotte felt that she had to withdraw from the world she imagined and relied on. She began to realistically describe the reality. She wanted to restore the things in her pen to their original appearance, and to eliminate the imagination. The illusory color that adds to them.

In the summer of 1846, the new uneasiness began to hold on to Charlotte, whose father’s vision was almost blind due to cataracts. At the end of August, Charlotte accompanied her father to Manchester for surgery. "Dad has been lying in the room, with bandages on his eyes. There is no inflammation after the operation, but it needs to be very careful, completely quiet and avoid all the light to ensure good surgical results."

It was in this kind of care for the patient and a small house in this strange city that Charlotte began to brew and write his second novel, Jane Eyre. Charlotte seems to have developed an ability to write in a noisy environment from an early age. She can stop immediately when her brain is running the most agile, to meet the requirements of her father. After properly managing her father, she Can quickly enter the world of creation.

In the month of Manchester, Charlotte felt that her thoughts were so hot, so she worked hard to make the most of her own time. At the end of September, when Charlotte and her father returned to Haworth, she had a pack of heavy manuscripts in her hand.

When her two sisters heard that she decided to write the heroine short, ordinary and unattractive, they all felt that the idea was somewhat risky, but Charlotte insisted on his own opinion: "I want to prove to you that you Wrong; I will show you a mundane, short heroine like me, she will be as attractive as your heroine." In this way, Charlotte created according to his own ideas, after many ideas And the night of creation, "Jane Love" was finally completed.

Charlotte sent the manuscript to Smith Edel Publishing Company, which published Jane Eyre just six weeks after receiving the manuscript.

The company's reviewer, Mr. W. S. Williams, was completely impressed by the characters and plots in the book, and he unreservedly affirmed the value of the book. Mr. George Smith is a bit unbelievable: "You look so excited, it makes me unbelievable." However, when he personally read this work, he was also deeply attracted by Jane Eyre. So that he canceled his plan to go horse riding in the country with his friends.

In 1848, Jane Eyre, a seemingly shocking work by the people at the time, caused a wave of frustration among readers. The obsession of tens of thousands of readers proved the great success of Jane Eyre. People are impressed by the tensionful plots, unique and distinct characters, and plain but shocking language in the book. They change with the plot, the fate of the characters, or joy or sorrow, or excitement, or angrily.

Those discerning literary veterans have unreservedly pointed out the value of this work. The contemporary writer Sacray, who is deeply admired by Charlotte, said that this is the best English novel he has read for the first time in years. The famous critic G·H·Lewis commented: “I haven’t seen such a book that made me shine for a long time.”

It is undeniable that Jane Eyre is a singularly glorious page in the British and even the world's literary corridor. Today, more than a hundred years later, it has been translated into the language of more than 20 countries and nations, and has been adapted several times with other works by Charlotte into a movie or TV series that is popular with the audience. It has traveled through time, across national borders, and has become a spiritual wealth shared by the people of the world. Charlotte Bronte has also been included in the history book with this book, becoming a name that people will never forget.

Suddenly hurting the total relationship

Charlotte knows that she does not possess the unique charm of women, and God has not given her a beautiful face. According to her classmates, Charlotte is a little girl, as she said, "not long enough size." Her childhood's enormous amount of writing and minimal writing habits made her have to wear thick glasses, and her slightly curved mouth and big nose were not very popular. The small to large living environment is not likely to give her a beautiful and temperament. Charlotte once said inferiority that "a stranger once he looks at my face, he carefully ignores the part of the room I am in." In fact, her self-esteem and wisdom have earned her the respect and love of others.

At the age of 23, Charlotte had two priests to propose to her, but based on her fundamental attitude towards marriage, she had to have love. Charlotte did not hesitate to reject the two suitors. In her view, marriage is not a combination of two people who are strangers to each other in the heart. Love is not a momentary impulse decision. Charlotte has a near-perfect expectation for this feeling, so that she sometimes does not believe that it really exists, or that even if it does exist, will it be so lucky to come to her head. So even in the Victorian era, choosing to be an old virgin means not only going through a long life alone, but even more frightening is that sometimes she will be publicly insulted, but Charlotte is giving more than once The friend’s letter stated that he intended to never marry. And this is just a reluctant excuse for a perfectionist of love to be unconfident in reality.

"I think it is extremely stupid for a woman who has no property and no beauty to regard marriage as the main content of her wish. I will never do this and I will look down on it." I believe that Charlotte is making this determination. I haven't met the object that really made her fall in love, because when she thinks that her true life is there, she doesn't have much more waking than a woman who is usually in love. Love easily breaks through the sly embankment. What's more, her love was destined to be a tragedy from the beginning. She fell in love with a married woman who loves her wife. Love, when it can't get the other's response, when the wholehearted effort is not accepted by the other party as love, it seems so powerless and sad, and then the love for its payer is so heartfelt Broken bitterness can completely submerge the occasional sweetness. "When I look forward to the letter day after day, and every day is disappointing to throw me back into irresistible pain, when I look forward to seeing your handwriting and reading your advice, the sweetness brought to me. When the joy became a bubble, I had a high fever - I was not willing to eat, I was restless - I was paralyzed!"

The person who met the wrong time at the right time was a sigh, and the person who met the right person at the wrong time was destined to be a heartache. After many struggles, Charlotte has got rid of this erroneous feeling, just like other women who have experienced this pain.

Charlotte's ultimate emotional affiliation is Arthur Bell Nichols, the pastor of Mr. Bronte, an Irishman who has worked hard in the northern region and has been trained by Scottish ancestors. It is very secure and reasonable. But not very interesting people. After the marriage, Nichols protects Charlotte in every possible way. She said, "May God make me grateful. I have a kind, kind, and loving husband, and my love for him is increasing."

However, this mundane and happy marriage life is only nine months. When I realized the true love sweetness that Nichols brought to her, on the morning of March 31, 1955, Charlotte was sick forever. Leaving, there are still three weeks from her 39th birthday.

Although happiness is so short, it has existed after all. After all, Charlotte experienced real happiness at the end of her life. She left with deep love, and she will no longer be alone in heaven.

Beauty and Mourning - A True Charlotte Bronte