My Impression of Pride and Prejudice

My Impression of Pride and Prejudice

09英教5班090205533 谢思泳Jane Austen (1775-1817), English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Austen was well connected with the middling-rich landed gentry that she portrayed in her novels. Jane Austen's novels were witty, warm and ironic portraits of the privileged classes of 18th- and 19th-century England. Her best-known works are Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, though due to the status of women authors at the time, most of her novels were published anonymously.

Pride and Prejudice described the clash between Elisabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman and an intelligent young woman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner. Their relationship starts from dislike, but Darcy becomes intrigued by her mind and spirit. At last they fall in love and are happily united. Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice is a lighthearted tale of love and marriage in eighteenth-century England. It centers on the elder sisters of the Bennet family, Jane and Elizabeth. Their personalities, misunderstandings and the roles of pride and prejudice play a lavishing story. From my perspective Jane Austen wanted to convey love wins over prejudice and to not just take in the saying of first impression but to look in the person's character deeper.

“It is a truth universally acknowledge that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” To begin with such a design, Jane Austen has her deep meaning. Marriage and money are inseparable. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is nit emotion but possession.

Mr. Darcy, the actor of the nover,a nobleman from the uper-classes in England,because of this , he has an inborn superiority that he looks down at every person from the lower-classes . He don’t like neither their life style nor their way to think. Elizabeth, the actress of the nover, an obstinate, wise young girl from the lower-classes of the country. She dosen’t like anyone who is constumelious,she hates the spurs from the pride men. By these, you know, there’er lots of conflicts between them, but at last, Darcy and Elizabeth, the two different even opposite youngsters fall love . That’s very incredible.

In fact, we are always pride and think something in our mind but not right, we assess the others only depend on their background or their color of skin, we hide our true heart and pretend, we dispise the others without any reason……

Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. I think this book is

indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.