你以为我穷，不漂亮，就没有感情吗?
如果上帝赐给我美貌和财富，我也会让你难于离开我的!
就象我现在难于离开你一样!
可上帝没有这样做，
但我的灵魂能够同您的灵魂说话，
仿佛我们都经过了坟墓，
平等地站在上帝面前。
在文学史上，有许多的经典名著永垂不朽，但能够像《简爱》这样深深地进入人们内心的，为数不多。它以一种不可抗拒的美感吸引了成千上万的读者，影响着人们的精神世界。读过一遍《简爱》后的我，有幸在文学鉴赏的兴趣课上，欣赏到了电影版的《简爱》。
喜欢看这些老片子的另一个原因是，能从这些片子中感受到很original的老欧洲贵族文化气氛,这种气氛在现在的影片中，是感受不到的。即使是反映同一主题的.一个时代的电影，文化老片子中无处不在的original让你深深的着迷。
那个时代贵族的清闲和优雅,即使是社会最底层的贫民,也是服装整洁,知书达礼这就能反映当时的社会文化,这些都是现在的电影怎么刻意也刻意不出来的.优雅,
来自于文化的沉淀,不是一代两代的文化能够沉淀下来的,这种气质和财富无关,是纯粹的文化沉积，一个有这样
文化沉淀的人即使沦落成乞丐,他也会优雅地去乞讨,这就是曾经的贵族.
简.爱生存在一个父母双亡，寄人篱下的环境，从小就承受着与同龄人不一样的待遇，姨妈的嫌弃，表姐的蔑视，表哥的侮辱和毒打......这是对一个孩子的
尊严的无情践踏,但也许正是因为这一切,换回了简.爱无限的信心和坚强不屈的精神,一种可战胜的内在人格力量.
在罗切斯特先生的面前,她从不因为自己是一个地位低贱的家庭教师而感到自卑,反而认为他们是平等的。不应该认为她是仆人,而不能受到别人的尊重，也正因为她的正直,高尚，纯洁，和那颗没有受到世俗社会的污染心灵，使得罗切斯特
为之震撼,并把她看作了一个可以和自己在精神上平等交流的人，并且慢慢地深深爱上了她。他的真心,让她感动,她接受了他，而当他们结婚的那一天，简.爱知道了罗切斯特已有妻子时,她觉得自己必须要离开，她这样讲，“我要遵从上帝颁发世人认可的法律，我要坚守住我在清醒时而不是像现在这样疯狂时所接受的原则”，“我要牢牢守住这个立场”。这是简爱告诉罗切斯特她必须离开的理由，但是从内心讲，更深一层的东西是简爱意识到自己受到了欺骗，她的自尊心受到了戏弄，因为她深爱着罗切斯特。哪个女人能够承受得住，被自己最信任,最亲密的人所欺骗呢?简爱承受住了,而且还做出了一个非常理性的决定。在这样一种非常强大的爱情力量包围之下，在美好，富裕的生活诱惑之下，她依然要坚持自己作为个人的尊严，这是简爱最具有精神魅力的地方。
虽然我觉得小说最后的结局过于完美，甚至这种圆满本身标志着肤浅，但是我依然尊重作者对这种美好生活的理想--就是尊严+爱，毕竟在当今社会，人们都疯狂地似乎为了金钱和地位而淹没爱情。在穷与富之间
选择富，在爱与不爱之间选择不爱。很少有人会像简爱这样为爱情为人格抛弃所有，而且义无反顾。《简爱》所展现给我是一种返朴归真，是一种追求全心付出的感觉，它犹如一杯冰水，净化每一个读者的心灵，同时引起读者的共鸣。
《简爱》就是这么一部带有自转色彩的长篇小说，它阐释了这样一个主题:人的价值=尊严+爱

Jane Eyre — A Beautiful Soul
Jane Eyre, is a poor but aspiring, small in body but huge in soul, obscure but self-respecting girl. After we close the covers of the book, after having a long journey of the spirit, Jane Eyre, a marvelous figure, has left us so much to recall and to think:
We remember her goodness: for someone who lost arms and blinded in eyes, for someone who despised her for her ordinariness, and even for someone who had hurt her deeply in the past.
We remember her pursuit of justice. It’s like a companion with the goodness. But still, a virtuous person should promote the goodness on one side and must check the badness on the other side.
We remember her self-respect and the clear situation on equality. In her opinion, everyone is the same at the God’s feet. Though there are differences in status、in property and also in appearance, but all the human being are equal in personality.
We also remember her striving for life, her toughness and her confidence…
When we think of this girl, what she gave us was not a pretty face or a transcendent temperament that make us admire deeply, but a huge charm of her personality.
Actually, she wasn’t pretty, and of course, the ordinary appearance didn’t make others feel good of her, even her own aunt felt disgusted with it. And some others even thought that she was easy to look down on and to tease, so when Miss Ingram met Jane Eyre, she seemed quite contemptuous, for that she was obviously much more prettier than ‘the plain and ugly governess’. But as the little governess had said: ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!’ This is the idea of equality in Jane Eyre’s mind. God hadn’t given her beauty and wealth, but instead, God gave her a kind mind and a thinking brain. Her idea of equality and self-respect impress us so much and let us feel the power inside her body.
In my mind, though a person’s beauty on the face can make others once feel that one is attractive and charming, if his or her mind isn’t the same beautiful as the appearance, such as beauty cannot last for, when others find that the beauty which had charmed them was only a falsity, it’s not true, they will like the person no more. For a long time, only a person’s great virtue, a noble soul, a beautiful heart can be called as AN EVERLASTING BEAUTY, just as Kahill Gibran has said, that ‘Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted’. I can feel that how beauty really is, as we are all fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but fleshly men, so we can’t distinguish whether a man is of nobleness or humbleness, but as there are great differences in our souls, and from that, we can know that whether a man is noble or ordinary, and even obscure, that is, whether he is beautiful or not.
Her story makes us thinking about life and we learn much from her experience, at least, that is a fresh new recognition of the real beauty.