西方文学史上,女性形象不外乎“淑女、家庭天使”、“红颜祸水”或“悍妇、女巫”。这三类传统女性角色特征均来自现实生活中男权中心社会对女性的控制,反映了父权文化对女性的期待。而十九世纪英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的小说《简·爱》以第一人称视角,讲述了女主人公简从贫穷的孤女成长为具有独立意识女性的故事,成功塑造了一位生而不幸却敢于抗争的“女斗士”式的人物。正因为这一点,本书突破了英国同时期其它 The history of Western literature, the female image is nothing more than “lady, family angel ”, “troubles ” or “scorching, witch ”. These three types of traditional female role characteristics come from the patriarchal society in the real life, which controls women and reflects the patriarchal culture’s expectation to women. The 19th century British writer Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre” from the first person perspective, tells the story of the heroine Jane grew from a poor orphan to an independent-minded woman, successfully created a Born and unlucky but dare to fight the “woman fighter ” type of character. Because of this, the book broke through the rest of Britain during the same period