My point is that its central consciousness—its profound understanding of class and gender as shaping influences on people's lives—owes much to that earlier literary heritage.

我认为它的关键意识——它将阶级和性作为人们生活的决定性影响而作出的深邃理解——很大程度上归功于文化遗产。

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We see that she was indeed transgressive in terms of class and gender, so inevitably the film makes her heroic.

我们知道她确实超越了阶级和性别，因此，电影将她塑造成英雄形象是必然的。

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The story explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers clashes with her growing attraction to John Thornton.

玛格丽特对小镇棉纺厂里的工人的同情与她对约翰·桑顿日渐增长的情愫相冲突，这个故事借此探索了阶级和性别的话题。

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That is,this kind of pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, that with enough determination and hard work that you can transcend limitations of money or class or gender.

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Jane Eyre was a forceful and resource character who, when beginning life at the wrong end of the gender and class relations of 19th century England, did the best with what she had and prevailed.

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She accepted the class and gender relations of the times and merely brokered them to best of her considerable ability for her individual success.

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