奥斯丁傲慢与偏见赏析论文(中英对照版本)
《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻英文毕业论文

本科毕业论文(设计)题目:论简奥斯汀作品《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK—PRIDE AND PREJUDICEA thesisSubmitted to the School of Foreign LanguageShenyang Normal UniversityIn Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree ofBachelor of ArtsBy Yang XiwenUnder the Supervision ofZhang LinApril 2009ABSTRACTJane Austen is one of the most remarkable women novelists in the world. As an authoress in the eighteenth century in England, she had a sensible idea on love and marriage. On her whole life, she wrote six novels: Northerner Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, which describes various kinds of characters and their everyday life. Pride and Prejudice, one of the well-known novels in the history of the English literature, was published in 1813. The story talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. Through the description of the daily talks and doings of young men and women, Austen pointed their characteristics. All of the characters had different experiences, and acted in different ways. However, they had a common pursuit, that‘s ‗good marriage‘. This paper is to make an analysis of four marriages in Pride and Prejudice and discuss the deep outlook for their marriage in the light of social background at the time. In describing the characters‘everyday life and one marriage after another, Austen expressed her sensible view on it clearly. In her opinion, money was essential to a marriage while the equality in social status would increase the possibility of the marriage, but what affected the marriage most were manners. According to her, it was the good manners that united the heroes and heroines. Compared with the social scene on marriage nowadays, maybe her view was so restricted. But during her time, her view was so advanced that it was not accepted widely. On summary, we can find the author‘s ideaabout marriage from the analysis: marriage, property and social status interconnected, but not absolutely.Key Words: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, analysis, marriage毕业设计(论文)原创性声明和使用授权说明原创性声明本人郑重承诺:所呈交的毕业设计(论文),是我个人在指导教师的指导下进行的研究工作及取得的成果。
简奥斯汀傲慢与偏见英文论文

简•奥斯汀(1775—1817)是英国文学史上一位非常出色的女性作家。
她在短暂的一生中虽然主要创作了六部作品,但这丝毫没影响她在文学史上的地位。
她的作品主题都是爱情与婚姻,而最能反映出她的婚姻观的就要数《傲慢与偏见》了,《傲慢与偏见》以班特家5个女儿的爱情婚姻为基点,通过对四段婚姻的分析,体现出作者的爱情婚姻观。
爱情、金钱、社会地位、性格等都是婚姻中必须要考虑的因素,爱情和相互尊重是婚姻的基础,但金钱也为婚姻稳定提供了条件,婚姻是个严肃的问题,综合考虑各种因素的爱情婚姻才是幸福的。
这种婚姻观对当时和现在的社会都有着深远的影响。
本文主要通过对人物性格及其婚姻进行分析,探索作者所倡导的正确婚姻观。
主要分为三个部分:第一部分主要分析作者所生活的时代背景以及其生活经历;第二部分着重通过对小说人物形象和他们的婚姻的分析,揭示作者的婚姻观;第三部分主要讨论作者的婚姻观以及这种婚姻观对我们的启示和影响。
通过查阅大量文献,结合作者的生活经历,总结出作者以爱情为基础的婚姻观,提出婚姻在我们每个人的一生中都占有重要的位置,它关系着我们是否能够幸福快乐的生活,选择好自己的婚姻对象自然尤为重要。
其中,爱情是基础。
简•奥斯汀的婚姻观给了我们重大启示,为我们寻找幸福的婚姻指明了方向,而且对女性独立自由意识的觉醒也有重要影响。
关键词:《傲慢与偏见》;婚姻;爱情;金钱;启示AbstractJane Austen (1775 —1817) is one of the most excellent female writers ofEnglish literature. Although in her short life, Austen only created six works,her effect in literary world has n ever cha nged. The theme of all her no velsis love and marriage, and among all, Pride and Prejudice is the work that can best reflect Jane Austen ' s views of marriage. Pride and Prejudice mainly focuses on the love and marriage of five girls from Bennet. The novel reflects the author ' s views on love marriage: love, money, status and character.Marriage should be based on love and respect, and in addition, money provides the practical foundation for the stability of the marriage. Taking all of the factors into con siderati on, we can establish a happy marriage.This thesis aims at exploring Jane Austen ' s marital views by analyzingthe personality and marriages of the characters in the novel. It can be dividedinto three parts: the first part deals with the background of the society and Jane Austen ' s life experienee; the second part deals with the analysis of the main characters and their marriage with the aim of revealing the writer ' s views on marriage; the last part focuses on the effect and inspiration fromJane Austen ' s view on marriage. Wecan get the conclusion that marriage plays an importa nt role in our lives, since it has a lot to do with our happ in ess.Choosing a suitable partner for marriage means a lot; therefore, love should be put on thefirst place. Jane Austen ' s views of marriage give us much inspiration, it can also rouse female ' s sense of independence and freedom.Key words : Pride and Prejudice ; marriage; love; inspirationContentsAbstract(Chinese) ...................................................................... .iAbstract(En glish) ............................................................. .. (ii)Conten ts ...........................................................................iiiIn troductio n2.0The backgro und of society and Jane Austen ..................... ... . (2)3.0 Four differe nt marriages in Pride andPrejudice (3)3.1 El i z a b e t h and Darcy ' sm a r r i age .................. ... ............................ ................ .. (3)4.1Perfect marriage based on true love4.2Happy marriage based on sense and similar in terest…... .... .7 4.3Pathetic marriage based on money or ben efits........ . •....• (7)4 . 4 A b s u r d m a r r i age based on lust and van ity (8)4.5 Jane Austen ' s views on marriage ............................ 8 3.2 Jane and Bin gleys marriage … ........................... .. ……..4 3 . 3C h a l o t t e and C o l l i n ' s ma r r i age .... ..5 3 . 4 L y d i a a nd W i c k h am ' smar r i age...6 4.0A nalysis and un dersta ndings of the fourmarriages (6)1.0.15.0 The inspiration from Jane Austen' s views onmarriage ........ ........... . (9)6.0Conclusion .......................................... .. (10)Acknowledgements ....................................................................... ..11 Refere nces ............................................................... ....... ...... • ••12Appe ndix: Thesis Proposal1.0 In troductio nJane Auste n was born in a middle class family in 1775, and she spe nd her whole life in the coun tryside, she was so fasc in ated with the peaceful and ease life in countryside. Although she was unmarried the whole life, the theme of her novels were love and marriage, basically, the love and marriage between a gentleman and a fairy lady. Her best-known works are Emma1815), Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Sense and Sensibility (1811).The novel talks about four different marriages: Collin and Challote ' s marriage which is based on money; Lydia and Wickham s marriage which is based on lust; Jane and Bin gley ' s marriage which is based on sen se, Elizabeth and Darcy' s marriage which is basedon love. Which weighs the most in marriage, love, possessi on, or social status? Jane Auste n has differe nt attitude and descripti on about the four marriages. The first sentence in this no vel is impressive. It says: “ It is a truth uni versally ack no wledged that a sin glemanin possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ” The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not love but possessi on, but Jane Auste n tells us a differe nt story.The main story of this no vel happe ns betwee n Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet is a 20-year-old young lady. She is her father's favourite daughter and in herits his in tellige nee and wisdom. Darcy is a pride and kind gentleman with great fortune. Although, they were not attracted by each other at the very beg inning, because they all have somecompla ints about the other, Elizabeth loathes Darcy' s arroganee, and she also has somemisunderstandings on him, Darcy thi nks Elizabeth is a very proud girl, and her families leave an awful impressi on on him. Butat last, they fall in love and have a happy marriage. What cha nges their attitude towards each other? Because the pride and prejudice betwee n them is long gone. They fin ally know each other deeply and accept each other. Their marriage is rooted in their love and respect.Comparing with other marriages in the story, Elizabeth and Darcy ' s marriageis the perfect one. The story reflects the author ' s marriage view: it is wrong to marry justfor the possessi on, I ust and positi on. She emphasizes theimportanee of the ideal marriage that we should marry for love and emotion.Elizabeth and Darcy have a happy ending not only because of their love, but to some extent, Darcy' s property provides them the material need. From this we can see the author ' s views: marriage is based on love, but property and positi on should be take n into acco un t. In moder n society, a lot of people marriage for money and social status, sometimes, it leads to a sad ending.I th ink, no matter whe n, Jane Auste n ' s views on marriage are of great valuein lead ing us to the ideal marriage.My thesis con sists of three chapters. The first chapter deals with thebackground of the society and Jane Austen ' s life experienee, and how does those factors in flue nee her writ in gs; the sec ond chapter reveal the authors views on marriage and the sta ndard of the ideal marriage advocated by Jane Auste n through an alyz ing the characters and their marriage in the story; the last chapter talks about the conditions of the modern marriage and howto found the ideal marriage from the inspiration of Jane Austen ' s view on marriage.2.0 The backgro und of the society and Jane Auste nIn 18th and 19th centuries, the England society ' s had serious social problems. One of the severest of these was the tendency to marry for mon ey.A pers on sought a part ner based on the dowry receivable and their allowa nee.In the 19 th century, women were not well respected compared with the ones inthe prese nt society. There was no equality betwee n woma n and man. Wome n wereconsidered to be inferior to men in terms of intelligence and capacity. Thecen tral life of wome n was forced to be stay ing at home. Their roles were todeal with the family affairs, such as taking care of the children and serving for the husband. This process went both ways: a beautiful womanmight be able to snag a rich husba nd, or a charri ng and han dsome man could woo a rich young girl. In these marriages, mon eywas the on ly con sideratio n. Love was left out, with the thought that it would develop as the years went by. Jane Austen(December 16, 1775--July 18, 1817), an outstanding female novelist of British, was born in the village of Steve nton, n ear Bas in gstoke, in Hampshire. Her father is the local vicar. She did not have the normal schooling, but she got good education from family's literature teaching. From the end of the 18thcen tury to the early 19th cen tury, “ the sen time nt no vel ” and “ the gothicnovel ” were the themes of English li terature, while Austen made a differentway. Most of her works were about roma ntic love. That might have someth ing to do with her failure in marriage. Jane Austen was unmarried her whole life, but she had fallen in love with a young man. Their love was pure and faithful. However, this young man had to submit to the marriage that his aunt arranged for him, because he was un der lots of burde n from family. Then Jane broke up with him, since she did not want to stand in the way of the young man s future, and also in her opinion, marriage should be based on love. She loved no one else after that. That is the reason why she was unmarried all her life. So she put all her feelings in creating romantic and happy marriages.3.0 Four differe nt marriages in Pride and Prejudice3.1Elizabeth and Darcy ' s marriageOnceMr. Qian Zhongshu has compared marriage to a castle, but I don' t think this marriage theory is suitable for Darcy and Elizabeth. The marriage is tortuous between them but deep-rooted of love based. As weall know, Elizabeth and Darcy left a quite bad impressi on on each other at the beg inning. Elizabeth thinks Darcy is in sole nt and arroga nt, and Darcy does not like Elizabeth because of Elizabeth ' s social class and her indecent relatives. But Darcy fin ally real ized Elizabeth's precious ness, and Elizabeth ' s prejudice and mis un dersta ndings towards Darcy are gone. They deeply in love and possess a won derful marriage at last. Their love and marriage are tortuous and kind of mysterious. I will analysis their marriage start with analyzing the two characters.Elizabeth Bennet is a person who is worth our imitation. She is a model because she is differe nt from the others. She does not adhere rigidly to the sta ndards set forth by society, she is self-relia nt and in depe ndent. She is wit and intelligent. Most of the girls married in pursuit of money and fame at that time, even her best friend Chalotte who married a rich manfor changing her poor conditions. However, Elizabeth is not submit to this moodof society. She would never violate her principle and her integrity. She is like the purelotus that lives in mudbut never contaminated by the dirty. That is the reason why she rejects Mr. Collin's proposal, because she would not marry without love. On the other hand, she does nottotally disregard social costumes. She has good manners; her slight breach of decorum isjustified by walking alone to Nether field Park to visit her sister who is ill with her genuine concern.Shehas good manners. WhenLady Catherine criticizes Elizabeth skill of playing pia no, she can have good manners to keep polite. Mr. Darcy is pride on the surface, but we know he is warm-hearted. He is a good frie nd, he is afraidthat Mr. Bin gley would be cheated and hurt by Jane, although he is proved wrong later. He is a good brother; he takes care of his youn ger sister very well.He is kind; he helps Wickham and Lydia with money even though he was misunderstood by Elizabeth because of Wickham ' s rumors. The two people ' s personalities are clear and sharp. At the first time, Elizabeth and her sistersgo to attend the ball held in Meryton, and she is coldly treated by Darcy, but she uses her healthy sense of humor to joke about Mr. Darcy' s rude behavior at the ball. Darcy is handsome, tall, and intelligent, but not convivial, his in differe nt manners are see n by many as an excessive pride and concern for social status. He makes a poor impressi on on stra ngers, but he is valued by those who know him well. He gradually finds out Elizabeth ' s intelligenee, wisdomand beauty. Hebegins pursuing her. However, at the beginning, Elizabeth rejects his love expressi on, because she does not like him, eve n looks dow n on him though Darcy loves her very much. In Elizabeth ' s eyes, Darcy is arrogant and un reas on able because he is rich and has high social status. Realiz ing that, Darcy beg ins to get rid of those bad habits quietly. Because of Darcy' s perfect behavior and good education, Elizabeth gradually eliminates the prejudice on Darcy. Most importantly, the misunderstanding, prejudice and pride are disappearing as they knoweach other better and better. Then they spontaneously fall in love. So Elizabeth accept Darcy ' s proposal at the second time, thenthey get married and have happy family lives.3.2Jane and Bin gley ' s marriageIn this no vel, the comb in ati on of pleasa nt Bin gley and mild Jane is oneof the most blessed and happy marriages. The couple has similar interests and they insist onpursuing their true love which leads them to a happy and perfect marriage. Mr. Bin gley was a han dsome and gen tlema n with great fortune. As a young man who is well-bred, he was cordial and simple. With this character he never appeared dissatisfied. He is easy to get along and constant in love although he is extremely rich. However he is in short of strength andin depe ndence in his marriage which is a big weak ness of him .In this story, Bingley is popular with almost everybody in everywhere. Jane is the oldest children in her family. She is an amiable and mild girl who possesses the most beautiful appearanee amongher sisters. As an introverted girl, she is faithful in love but lacks stre ngth and self-c on fide nee. She is too shy to profess herlove towards Bin gley, nor admit it, thought she has feeli ngs for Bin gley atthe time they met. Sometimes she is a little innocent. In her eyes, everybody is ni ce. She n ever see through the rotte n side of life eve n she is deceived.Her character is vividly showed in many parts of the novel. So it seems quite natural for Jane to fall in love with the pleasant and simple Bingley. Theymeet each other at the ball, they are attracted by each other at the firstsight, and they dance and talk together. As times goes by, their feelings toeach other are getting stronger. But Jane has no courage to express her love,she buries it in heart and for Bingley, he is not a strong and determined man. This is his adva ntage but also his disadva ntage. His cordial and simple character causes his quiet romanee with Jane. However, his weak and easily-led character causes his departure from Jane. He sudde nly leaves Jane whe n their roma nee goes smoothly, which n early put his pure love and marriage in end.To a great extent, Binley left Jane because of Darcy ' s misunderstandings onJane. They establish a steady and con sta nt frie ndship although they have totally different characters. Darcy wants to help his friend. In his opinion, it is impossible for Jane to love Bin gley. He thi nks Jane love Bi ngley because Bin gley is rich, but Bin gley ' s love for Jane is pure. He does n ' t want hisbest frie nd get hurt. So he persuades Bin gley to stay away from Jane and she is not a good marriage option. But they do love each other.During those days when Jane stays in London at Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner ' s in vitati on, she visits Bin gley ' s sister in pers on in or der to get somein formatio n of Mr. Bin gley. At last, they get together after themisun dersta nding betwee n Elizabeth and Darcy disappears. So the love and marriage between Jane and Bingley is pure and stable. They fall in love at first sight heartily. Their marriage is kind of tortuous just like Elizabeth and Darcy ' s, but the true love won ' t stop them from being together.3.3Chalotte and Collin ' s marriageCharlotte and Colli ns ' s marriage is the most realistic one in the story . Their marriage is based on moneyin stead of love. Charlotte is the best frie nd of Elizabeth, but they are very different in the choice of marriage. Chalotte ' s parents, like the Bennet couple, can ' t give her much fortune,and she is as sen sible and in tellige nt as Elizabeth, but her pursuit forspiritual happ in ess is not as strong as that of Elizabeth. In additi on, Chalotte is a plaingirl who is a little bit prude nt. As a woma n who is 26 years old, her choice of marriage is entirely out of realistic consideration.Whe n she first meets Colli ns, she sees his folly. Whe n he asks her to marry him, she also clearly knows that Colli ns is certa inly not a reas on able pers on.But she immediately says “yes” , because “Marriage has always been her aim, what kind of man she is going to marry as i s less important ”,marrying a rich man can shelter her from sufferi ng poverty. She thi nks money can bring her sense of security. William Colli ns, a man of 29 years old, is Mr. Benn et's dista nt relatives, since Mr. Bennet has no son; Colli ns becomes the heir toBennets' estate. Jane Austen describes him as “not a sensible man, and thedeficie ncy of n ature had bee n but little assisted by educati on or society .In formed that the eldest daughter Jane has a boyfrie nd, he switches his aim at the sec ond daughter Elizabeth, but Elizabeth has no feeli ngs for him, what' s more, Elizabeth gets tired of him. Eventually, she rejects him with sharp ton gue. However, Colli ns quickly seeks comfort fromCharlotte who is desperately in n eed of love from a male and believes marriage is the elega nt way to save a poor girl from sufferi ng, and the n they get married as quickly as the lightning. Such marriage without love is too practical and realistic, so it is a kind of superficial marriage without happ in ess.Marriage is just a task for them, but Colli ns couples get what they want from marriage: Charlotte gets the stability and prosperity of life; Colli ns also gets a warm home. This is how they un dersta nd marriage. There is no loveand same in terests betwee n them; their marriage is based on ben efits. Althoughthey get what they want, marriage without love is not happy and stable.3.4Lydia and Wickham ' s marriageLydia, Benn ett's third daughter, is a simple, frivolous, vanity girl. She is kee n on social n etwork ing at an early age, enjoying con tact ing with Merry'sofficers, and even feels proud of it. “Whenever anyone urg es, she will beput in to anyon e's arms. Her feeli ngs are always kept rolli ng, swing ” . Wickhamis a han dsome, actual moral, luxurious, and treacherous man. At first, he seduces wealthy Miss Darcy, but his con spiracy fails. After joined the regime nt, he first does everyth ing to please Elizabeth, and the n pursues wealthy MissKim, fin ally elopes with Lydia. Then, he gets into debt. So, he n eeds money and becomerich and changes his social status through marriage. For his purpose, he seduces Lydia and wins her love easily, because she is young, innocent and frivolous, and loves to go ease and hates to work hard, and she is also spoiled by her mother. Gett ing love and praise from a man is what she dreams of. So whe n Wickham wan ts to reach his aim —gett ing wealth by lovi ng and exalt ing her beauty hypocritically, she forgets who she is and feels she is the most beautiful and happiest girl in the world. Their love is forbidden by the parents, and then they elope. WhenElizabeth hears the news, she believes that he does not love her but the wealth of her family. The marriage is admitted on the con diti on of Darcy's help. Their marriage is con sidered as a sca ndal toBennett ' s fa mily. But Mrs. Bennet is not shameful of this marriage. The marriage betwee nLydia and Wickham is con diti on al. Thanks to Darcy's help, they get married and continue their lives. This kind of marriage is doomed to be unstable. After marriage, they are extravagant; just enjoy the pleasure at the moment, never considering their future. They always ask Jane or Elizabeth for help, counting on their support to pay bills. Wickham's love for Lydia soon suffer a disastrous decli ne, fin ally he is in differe nee to Lydia. They get what they want: Lydia gets erotic satisfaction; Wickham, he also getsthe wealth; but their marriage is not satisfactory. This is howthey understand marriage.4.0 An alysis and un dersta ndings of the four marriages4.1Perfect marriage based on true loveElizabeth and Darcy ' s marriage is intricate but is the ideal marriage because their love is based on love, they cherish each other, they tolerate each other, and of course after marring Darcy who has great fortune, Elizabeth ' s life and social status are improved, and their marriage gets material security, but at first, Elizabeth refuses the rich man- Mr. Colli ns ' proposal without any hesitation because she does not and will never love him,from Elizabeth ' s perspective, marriage without love wi ll never be happy. Elizabeth has a deep un dersta nding of all the things around her. She has a clear understanding about her own social status. Because of this, she resists extremely aga inst the arroga nee of Darcy, and she tries to protect herself from being hurt by Darcy's in sole nt attitude. She believes that she must make him know that she is not woozy. The ultimate failure wakes Darcy up. He is aware of his own short- comings. He accepts Elizabeth ' s criticism, and faithfully corrects the shortco mings and mistakes. He is no Ion ger arroga nt and has a faithful love with Elizabeth. I remember when the sister asksElizabeth how she would love Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth replies that she should date from the day she see the beautiful lane manor park. The statement seems to refer to the possession of Darcy. In addition to referring to the specific manor, she also refers the new Darcy seen in the garden.Elizabeth is a wise girl; she un dersta nds that marriage invo Ives many factors, such as love, personality, status, property. Among all, love is essential to marriage, which is the author ' s views on marriage that reflected in this no vel. We should take marriage seriously; impulse will destroy some one s happy marriage. Having a clear un dersta nding about the pers onyou are going to marriage is vital. Whether you can live a better life both physically and men tally is importa nt to your marriage. That is to say, allthe factors should be take n in to con siderati on carefully. Those are the reas ons why Elizabeth and Darcy ' s marriage is the perfect one in the story.4.2Happy marriage based on sense and similar in terestsJane and Bin gley ' s marriage is also rooted in pure love, and also theirconcern for each other. It seems that their characters are quite suitable for each other. It seems that only their marriage invo Ives purest love with notint of money at all. Then why is not Bin gley penn iless but a “ young man of large fortune ” ? This arrangement can also reflect author ' s views on marriage. Love is esse ntial for marriage, and money is also plays an importa nt role in marriage. Accord ing to the relati on ship betwee n Bin gley and Jane love and similar interests are also the basic factors of a successful and happy marriage. With many similarities in character people can un dersta nd each other easily.Above all, their un dersta ndings lead to helps and support ing betwee n them.They can live happily together in this way. They don' t care about the shortcomings of their partners and even they don ' t see any faults in each other. Just as the old saying going “ Birds of a feather flock together people of a mi nd fill into the same group ” .4.3Pathetic marriage based on money or ben efitsChalotte and Colli ns ' s marriage is kind of bey ond our expectati ons. Atthat time, a girl from the low class, who has no pretty appearance and goodeducation, takes marriage as the only way to change their situations. JaneAuste n objects this marriage that based on ben efits. Maybelots of people feelpity for the females who lived in that age, but in no time should we makesuch hasty decisionabout our marriage. Manydo play an important role in marriage, but a marriage without love which is just based on money won ' t be pleasant, at last, people will get hurt from the painful marriage. Once I read a storyfrom a magaz ine, a girl from a poor family married a rich man, she almost didnothing rather than shopping and seeking pleasures, she squandered her husband' s money so quickly, later, the man got tired of her, they divorced.The woma n lost the source of mon ey, but she has gotte n used to the luxurious life, she can' t live independently. At last, she tried to blackmail somerich manand ended in jail. This is a tragedy; girls should be independent and marry the person who really loves you just like you love him. So Chalotte andColli ns ' s marriage is doomedto be un happy, Chalotte once said to Elizabeth ,“ I am not romantic, you know; I never was, I ask only a comfortable home;and con sideri ng Mr. Colli ns ' character, conn ecti ons, and situati on in life,I am convin ced that my cha nee of happ in ess with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state. ” (Pride and Prejudice , 144) Therefore, Charlotte seems to have found some kind of satisfaction andhapp in ess in her marriage without any love. It is in terest ing that in sucha marriage based on mon ey-tra nsacti on, the woma n from poor family does marrya single man with a good fortune, but the husband himself has nothing to dowith the enjoyment the marriage bring to her.4.4Absurd marriage based on lust and vanityThe comb in ati on of Lydia and Wickhamis absurd. Her admiratio n to Wickham is entirely up to his “ handsomeface, comely shape and charming talk ” . Their relatio nship is en tirely built on lust and impulse without love foun dati on.Their marriage is neither practical nor romantic. Lydia and Wickham smarriage is built on sex lust and impulse. It is kind of ridiculous. They treat their marriage so carelessly, it is impossible for them to get a happy marriage. Lydia is attracted by Wickham s handsomesurf ace at first. As a flippant girl, she seeks sexual pleasure. Then they make a rashdecision to get married. This marriage is one without love. They don ' t understand the real meaning of marriage; they only want to satisfy their aspiration. So this is a kind of impromptu love and marriage without true love and responsibility.4.5Jane Austen ' s views on marriageAfter reading the novel, we can see that people ' s views on marriage inEn gla nd at that time. In the 18th ce ntury, women on ged for marrying a gen tlema n who possessed con siderable wealth and high social status. Love, seems count for nothing. This was because at that time, women were forbidden from in heriti ng the possessi on. Marring a rich man was their only way to live a decent life after their fath ers ' death. That is the reason why Mrs. Bonnetis crazy to marry her daughters off. However, Austen has her own idea. She also emphasizes love. From her perspective, happy marriage is equal to “ love + wealth + equal social status ” . Marriage should be based on love and trust. People can' t just marry someonefo r whomhe/she has no feelings at all. Austen also points that wealth and social status put great importa nee on marriage.Austen casts her criticism to the dark fact that people ' s attention is onlyon pr operty and high social status. In Austen ' s eyes, marriage without loveis con temptuous. Weknow Elizabeth and Darcy, also Jane and Bin gley, both have a happy marriage. From these two cases, we can find out what kind of marriage Jane Auste n prefers--- love is basic; eno ugh wealth, good behaviors and equalsocial status are all n ecessary. These two examples are exactly the right explanation of Austen' s outlook on marriage. T o draw a conclusion, in thenovel Pride and Prejudice , Austen casts her criticism to people who take wealth and high social states as the only factors in marriage, with neglecting love. She expresses her views on marriage that marriage should be built on love but at the same time should take wealth, characters and social status intocon side ratio n. I thi nk Auste n' s outlooks on marriage are well worth our deepcon siderati on eve n today.。
傲慢与偏见-中英文影评

《傲慢与偏见》影评影片通过班纳特五个女儿对待终身大事的不同处理方式,表现出乡镇中产阶级家庭出身的少女对婚姻爱情问题的不同态度;以伊丽莎白与达西的感情经历为情节主线,展示了十八世纪中后期英国社会贵族阶层的婚姻状况。
虽然班纳特的家境并不是非常富有,也无任何显赫的社会地位,但班耐特太太却处心积虑想替五个女儿寻找到和上流社会的贵族联婚的机会。
女主人公伊丽莎白虽然出身于小地主家庭,她聪敏机智,有胆识,有远见,有很强的自尊心,并善于思考问题。
正是由于这些品质,才使她在爱情问题上有独立的主见。
伊丽莎白对达西的求爱先拒绝后答应,更是展现了她对无爱婚姻的蔑视。
达西傲慢的态度让伊丽莎白对他的误会和偏见。
达西认识到这一点,改变了过去那种骄傲自负的神态,消除了伊丽莎白对他的偏见。
他们逐渐相互了解,解除偏见,抛弃毫无意义的所谓体面,最终认识到并且爱慕上对方的美德,从而与他缔结了美满姻缘。
温柔体贴的姐姐简与有权有势的宾利,他们的婚姻虽然也不排除相貌与家世的考虑,但主要是建立在爱情的基础上。
相反,伊丽莎白的朋友,夏洛特,她认为自己既不美,又没有钱,出于经济方面的考虑,选择了与愚蠢而又肤浅的柯林斯结合。
夏绿蒂和柯林斯尽管婚后过着舒适的物质生活,但他们之间没有爱情,这种婚姻实际上是掩盖在华丽外衣下的社会悲剧。
影片反映了作者奥斯汀本人的婚姻观:为了财产、金钱和地位而结婚是错误的;而结婚不考虑上述因素也是愚蠢的。
其中,班奈特太太就是当时社会大多数人的缩影,爱情对她们来说是不可靠的奢侈品,她们只看重物质,看重权势。
伊丽莎白的妹妹以及父亲的婚姻也是不幸的,他们在美貌的皮相面前昏了头,忽略了对方的品德,导致终生遗憾。
因此,作者既反对为金钱而结婚,也反对把婚姻当儿戏;她强调理想婚姻的重要性,并把男女双方感情作为缔结理想婚姻的基石。
通过这部影片我们了解到了婚姻的真谛:爱情。
爱情与婚姻是人类恒久不变的话题,婚姻应建立在爱情的基础上,而以金钱或者外貌、情欲为目的的婚姻是难以幸福的。
傲慢与偏见英语论文

Contents Abstract (1)Ⅰ.Introduction (1)Ⅱ.The analysis of Elizabeth’s character (2)Ⅲ.The analysis of five marriage patterns (2)3.1 Mr.and Mrs.Bennet (2)3.2 Jane and Bingley (3)3.3 Elizabeth and Darcy (3)3.4 Lydia and Wickham (4)3.5Charlotte and Collins (4)Ⅳ.Austen’s views on marriage in Pride and Prejudice (4)Ⅴ.Conclusion (4)Ⅵ.Bibliography (4)AbstractJane Austen was one of the distinguished realistic novelists in the nineteenth century English literature.Pride and Prejudice is one of her famous representative works.At thattime ,marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition.The author will analyze the five marriage patterns in a critical way to explore the important role that marriage and love plays in a marriage.It analyzes that one’s character reflects one’s marriage and attitudes towards love and social morals .Austen’s view on the marriage expresses that property,social status and love are absolutely necessary elements in a marriage.She emphasize love and economic condition,but love plays a more significant role.It can let people cast pride and prejudice,andre-know and accept a person.The thesis will analyze several marriage through Elizabeth’view on marriage.Key words:love;property;view on marriage;pride and prejudiceStudy of Pride and prejudice(Personal information:吴黎明,class 1106,college of Foreign Studies Hubei Normal University,Huangshi,435000)1.Introduction:Jean Austen’s novels were witty,warm,and ironic portraits of the privileged classes of eighteenth and nineteenth century England.Her representative works are Emma,Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. The first sentence in the novel is impressive andwell-known.It reads:“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife.” The reason is very clear:that foundation of the marriage at that time is not love but possession.The main story of the novel happens between Elizabeth and Darcy.We all know that at the first ball,Darcy refused Lizzy’invitation for dancing,because he didn’t think that anyone at the village can deserve him.After this,Lizzy promised not to pay attention to him any more because of his pride.Other than this,there are other two things that make Lizzy leave a worse impression to him.One is that she thinks it was he that had separated her sister and her lover.The second is that she heard of something bad from Wickham who has antinomies with Darcy.It is these misunderstanding that make her feeling of prejudice stronger and stronger.At last,she found she had misunderstood him and made her very regret.And Darcy had although changed.He made an offer of marriage to her again and was accepted.finally,no pride and prejudice are between them.Instead they have a happy ending.The novel also reflected the author’s marriage view:It is wrong to marry for the property,money and position.She emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage.So,it’s natural for me to associate her works with modern society,a lot of parents try to interfere their children’s cation background or job condition may influence one’s marriage.Money is still a big problem for marriage.But money isn’t everything,true love is mostimportant one .After I read the novel,I have a profound thinking about marriage.We can comprehend the essence of Jean,and Bingley’s marriage.Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage,Lydia and Wickham’s marriage and Charlotte and Collins’s marriage through Elizabeth’s eyes.That is,to marry for wealth and beauty is wrong.For this kind of marriage cannot maintain last and long-term happiness,and truly happy marriage is based on love and sense.2.The analysis of Elizabeth’s characterElizabeth Bennet is a person worthy of our imitation.She is a model because she is different from all the other persons,except Darcy,and because she does not adhere rigid to the standards set forth by society,she is a self-reliant and independent girl.When Mr.Collins make a proposal to Elizabeth arrogantly,she politely refused him.Unlike Charlotte,Elizabeth would never violate her principle and her integrity and throw away her talents by marrying Mr.Collins,a conceited,narrow-minded,and pompous fool man.She puts trust in her own perceptions and impressions.However,that isn’t say she is rebel against society.She has good manners,for example,She walking alone to Nether field Park just cause her genuine concern for her sister who is ill;She can have good manners to keep polite when Catherine criticize her skill of playing piano. Her self-reliant attitude causes her to think of herself as to be independent,but her view are distorted because she also regards above as normal social relationship.Elizabeth is unconscious that she suffers from pride.She does not realize the inherent dangers of her error.Elizabeth’s defects are her willful tendency to misunderstand others.She embrace stubbornly her own quick perception about people are revealed by her prejudice.Elizabeth’s initial prejudice against Darcy are rooted in the pride of her own quick perception,and her distorted perception of reality.Her prejudice renders her incapable of judging the merits of Darcy.Elizabeth is just ordinary on the surface.She is attractive but not beautiful;She is endowed with certain graces and talents but not excellent.In the end,she will find happiness because she learns to recognize her faults.Elizabeth’s blindness of her faults was opened by Darcy’s letter.She learns to judge others more accurately and not to be blinded by first impressions.Elizabeth’s confession that she was guilty of prejudices based on her own judgment tells us that she is superior to the other characters.And she also realizes that people cannot be judged based solely by their appearance,and that character evaluations must also take the substance account behind a person’s appearance.Elizabeth becomes a rational woman speaking the truth from her heart.Without neither family wealth nor wisdom to help her,Elizabeth’s success is a attribute to her inner strength.3.Analysis of the five marriage patterns3.1The marriage of Mr. and Mrs.BennetTheir marriage is a typical instance of the traditional marriage in the eighteenth century.Their marriage shows that the two have never experienced much mutual love and is done mostly for financial benefit.It is a tragedy to Mr.Bennet.Mrs. Bennet as a simple-minded pretty woman who frequently complaints about her nerve shows that her mind was less difficult to develop,and shewas a woman of mean understanding,little information,and uncertain temper.When she was discontented she imagined herself nervous.The business of her life was to get her daughters married.Mr.Bennet is an intelligent and witty man.He“was so odd a mixture of quick parts,sarcastic humor,reserve and caprice,that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.”It shows that there is no marital happiness of emotional and intellectual understanding between the couple.Mr.Bennet married for money and beauty.After marriage,he realized Mrs.Bennet would not make her an ideal wife due to her intellectual weakness and narrow vision.To the couple,their marriage is a social responsibility,so when love disappears,the marriage still can be continuing.The novel reflects that the women’s social status is very low at that time.And the author criticizes this unequal society,She thinks that both men and women should enjoy equal treatment.3.2 Jane and BingleyJane,the eldest daughter of Bennet family,is a good-natured and gentle woman.Bingley is a wealthy,handsome,kind and simple young man who is easy to approach in love.They fall in love at first sight.“He is just what a young man should be,”“…sensible,good-humored,lively;and I have never saw such happy manners!…so much ease,with such perfect good breeding”Jane’s impression to Bingley.Jane is“the most beautiful creature I ever beheld”in the eyes of Bingley.Their marriage is based on mutual love.They have so many virtues in common.For example,good -tempered and modest,share a mutual understanding and think best of others.However they also have weakness.To hide her emotion to Bingley shows that Jane lacks of strength and self-confidence.And Bingley cannot to be a strong and determined man though pleasant and modest as he is.Also his indecisive character determines that he lacks independence in his marriage.Both of them are weak in judgment and easy to be influenced by others so they need considerate and beneficial advice from Elizabeth and Darcy sometimes.3.3 Elizabeth and DarcyElizabeth,a second daughter of Bennet,is the heroine of the novel.She is an intelligent and quick-witted young lady.She is Jane Austen’s most favorite character.Austen’s dream could not realized in the reality have been realized in the novel.Elizabeth is certainly a striking and satisfactory self-portrait of Austen.Darcy is a“fine,tall person,with handsome features,…”.His proud is over emphasized in the Elizabeth’s eyes,and his haughty proposal insulted Elizabeth’s self-esteem,so she feels that she is not treated equally with Darcy.Thus,she is by no means to accept his offer.The temptation of money and social status can not make her disregard.Elizabeth’s refusal makes him recognize his faults of pride and prejudice.She visit to Darcy’s home makes Elizabeth’s judgment of Darcy radically change and makes her re-accept a more prefect Darcy.The marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy is an ideal one.It is based on affection,esteem and emotion.Economic condition and social status still played a important role in marriage at that time and they also have a great influence on their ter,she feels regretful for her refusal of Darcy’s offer,and her feeling towards Darcy changes.Through their marriage,Austen show that the power of love can overcome social status and prejudice and further implied that such prejudice isfutile.3.4 Lydia and WickhamLydia,the youngest daughter of the Bennet family.She is a foolish,empty-minded person.She never stop seeking fun and excitement and there seems no purpose in her life.Just like her mother,marriage is the business in her life.She never regards love as a serious matter.She lacks any sense of virtue and judgment.She is fascinated by the attention of Wickham,a young soldier.Ironically,under the gentlemanlike appearance,Wickham turns to be a corruption in moral.The marriage between Lydia and wickham is based on fun and excitement,not base on affection.Strong passion is the main reason for their marriage.To marry a man like Wickham can never bring true happiness to a woman.Shortly after their marriage,“his affection to her soon sunk into indifferent;her lasted a little longer;…”.When passion fades away,them seem to feel miserable with their married life and constantly try to avoid meeting each other.3.5 Charlotte and CollinsCharlotte is one of several children of a former tradesman.She is Elizabeth’s good friend.Other than Mr.Bennet,Charlotte is the person in Elizabeth’s world who is closest to her in temperament and intelligence.She has her own ideas and is fair and objective on issues.Being such a “sensible,intelligent young woman”,her marriage proves her sense and wisdom.Mr.Collins is a stupid clergyman.He is a narrow-minded man possessing no conception of love. He plans to get married only because Lady Catherine strongly advices him to do so.Like Mrs.Bennet,he treats marriage as a business.It is obviously it just as a deal in the marriage market.Charlotte knows very well of Collins,but she still accepts he as her husband.She wants to marry for the sake of security and status,but considering her ordinary and lack of fortune,also her age,she does not expect to have much choice to select a husband.The attitude towards Charlotte’s marriage indicates that true love is more important than material in a marriage.4.Austen’s view on marriageMarriage can not only depend on property and social status,while without considering these two factors is not wise,either;Marriage without love is immoral; Marriage without property is unstable. Happy marriage should based on love and solid financial foundation. Besides love,there are other factors which is very important in marriage,such as mutual respect,mutual understanding,common virtues,passion,and reason.5.ConclusionElizabeth and Darcy’s love is the most ideal one,just like a shining pearl in the history of literary.Austen emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage,and regard men and women’s emotion as the foundation and firm stone of the ideal marriage.And marriage doesn’t equal to love,and this ideal are far away from us.Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage id the happiest,with deep-rooted of love,and a necessary condition of Darcy’s strongly wealth.And if marriage is such kind of castle,I would like to be trapped by this kind of love and happiness.6.Bibliography1.英奥斯丁著,李长译:《傲慢与偏见》北京外语教学与研究出版社,1997。
傲慢与偏见英语论文

傲慢与偏见英语论⽂Thesis:Marriage does not mean the act of uncontrolled passion but a complex engagement between the marrying couple and society.I. IntroductionII. The analysis of Elizabeth?s characterIII. Elizabeth?s views about marriageA. The most realistic marriage—Charlotte?s marriageB. The most ridiculous marriage—Lydia?s marriageC. The most happy marriage—Jane?s marriageD. The most admirable marriage—Elizabeth?s marriag eIV. ConclusionPride and Prejudice is a very popular novel by Jane Austen and it was read widely all over the world. This novel is written in 1813. We main agronomic characters of the marriage as a typical cases in books, how to influence their marriage value orientation of money. Some people may realize that marriage can provide opportunities of class mobility and financial support; money and class are thus closely connected in their decision of marital partners.If marriage is a castle, but the hero and heroine is like Darcy and Elizabeth such person, so, even a not pleasing to begin their mutual see each other bias, and ultimately willing to be trapped in such a city. The power of love is great, it can let a hate in human love change, can let you cast prejudice, and re-know and accept a person.Key words: Pride and Prejudice money value orientation marriage view内容提要《傲慢与偏见》是简奥斯丁⼀本在全世界都被⼴泛传颂的⼩说,写于1813年,我们可以通过这本⼩说将婚姻分为⼏种典型并且分析这⼏种婚姻观的价值取向。
傲慢与偏见英文论文

傲慢与偏见英文论文Love is the soul of moneyI learned two words from Pride and Prejudice, wealth and status. Now it’s difficult for me to remember the exact plots of this book, however, I will think of these two words once someone refers to Pride and Prejudice. And compared with status, money has a bigger influence on me. Nearly all the people around me pay unimaginable attention to money and i think this phenomenon has existed so long a time that maybe it can be dated back to the first form of society, my heart tell me that i really don’t like this kind of phenomenon, however, i do agree with the title of this essay, as a Chinese proverb goes, “A full belly counsels well.”and the founder of New Oriental Yu Minhong ever said, “Love is a luxury.” moreover, i was touched by a sentence which was written like this, “ I need to own a lot of money, for i don’t want you to be seduced by the money of others.” in my opinion, the relationship between love and money is just like that of our physical body and mental world, in general, most of us won’t have a good mood if we are experiencing the torment of illness, and if we don’t have a healthy body, maybe our lifetime won’t be very long, we won’t have the ability of thinking once we step into so-called paradise or hell, in a word, we should regard money as the most effective tool to promote the quality of love, at the same time, it’s good for us to believe that there won’t be the sinful shadow of money whenever love appears. It’s necessary to have a study on this book.I. Brief IntroductionJane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the distinguishedrealistic novelists in the nineteenth century. During the forty-two years of her short life time, Austen completed six novels. Pride and prejudice is Austin's great work. In this novel, money acts as the cause of each plot and the clue of its development. At that time, marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition. So money is the leading motive for women to marry in the book. Through the description of five different kinds of marriages, Austen fully expressed her original views on marriage: It is wrong to marry for money, but it is unwise to marry without money; marriage is not determined by property and social status, but it is foolish not to considering them; marriage with love is ideal and happy.II. Analysis on four different marriages1. The most happy marriage—Jane’s marriageAmong all the marriages in this novel, the combination of gentleman Bingley and mild Jane is the most blessed one. They have many similarities in their characters, which leads them to a successful marriage. At a dancing party in Meryton, Jane and Bingley fell in love with each other at first sight. Lacking courage, the couples experienced hardships on the road of marriage. However, firmly love finally triumphed over everything. Their marriage is based on mutual love. Both of them possess so many common virtues. They are good-tempered and modest. They share a mutual understanding and always think best of others. However, their happy marriage still has some problem. Bingley is not a man with strong and determined disposition. Both of them are weak in judgement and easy to be influenced by others. So Mr.Bennet joked that they may be mistreated by their servants. But it is fortunate enough that Jane and Bingley can always receive beneficial advice from Elizabeth and Darcy.2. The most absurd marriage —Lydia’s marriageThe marriage of Lydia and Wickham seems to be ridiculous. Lydia, the youngest daughter of the Bennet family. She is idle and foolish. She never ceases seeking her own fun and sexual excitement. Unlike her two eldest sisters, she lacks any sense of virtue and is fascinated by the uniforms. Wickham has a "most gentlemanlike" appearance, however, he has little responsibility. Austen didn't describe how they be together. Their marriage, elopement actually, is a scandal to the whole society and an injury to entire Bennet family. Their sex-oriented marriage purely bases on superficial attraction. Money is a decisive role in their relationship. Without Darcy's help, Wickham won't marry Lydia. I think their marriage is a tragedy and will not last long.3. The most realistic marriage —Charlotte’s marriageCollins and Charlotte's Marriage is regarded to be the most realistic one in the book. Their marriage seems both beyond expectation and reasonable. Charlotte is already 27, having no money and no prospects. She is the burden of her family. So she needs a marriage to acquire social status and economic stability, as well as Collins. "Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance." Charlotte is so rational that she never expect love and romance in her marriage. She a clever girl who clearly knows what she is and what she want. Their marriage is based on economic security. The lack of love makes it to be a business transaction. But no one can say they are unhappy. Because they own what they want through their marriage. Even without love, it can also be a marriage.4. The most admirable marriage —Elizabeth’s marriageThe marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth is the most ideal one. There is no doubt that Elizabeth is Austen's favouritecharacter. She is an intelligent and quick-witted young lady. She is brave to choose her love and marriage. She doesn't attracted by big fortune even though women married for money at that time. Real love and equal personal relation is what Elizabeth pursues in marriage. As a progressive young lady, She also dares to be against what she thinks of inequality. Facing Lady Catherine's arrogance and humiliation, Elizabeth never feel inferior and boldly spoke out what she thought. At the beginning, in Elizabeth's eyes, Darcy was arrogant and unreasonable because he was rich and had high social status. After refused by Elizabeth, Darcy begun to get rid of those bad habits. Because of Darcy's perfect behaviour and good education, Elizabeth gradually eliminated the bias on Darcy. Then they spontaneously fell in love. Their marriage is the most ideal one, the combination of love and property. Through the marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy, Austen indicates that love, mutual understanding are the base of their relationship, and in addition, solid economic foundation is also an indispensable element in a happy marriage.III. ConclusionMaybe all of us should keep this sentence in our mind or crave it on our heart, we will benefit a lot from it, the pain that love brings to us will be lighter if we know the true meaning of this sentence. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."[1] We must know that your love will be a true love if the purpose of your love is not possession but let your beloved live happily, even you can’t finish the way of your life with the company of him or her, maybe your beloved can own a more happy life with others, in other words, you should fell happy, for your beloved is happy. In my opinion, maybe we will be morehappy that your beloved is more happy with others but not you, and then you will have more easy and light time to do more things to let your beloved happy with your own ability, so your beloved will have more ability to enjoy a joyful life."Although Charlotte is a well-educated girl but she doesn't have much property. She isn't as beautiful as other girls. She realize that marriage isn't equal with happiness, but it is inherently like a safe to a woman" [1] These words remind me of another sentence, "Youth only belongs to people who have a good looking." "To get financial guarantees of security, opportunity really rare, we must cache it quickly, it is almost irrelevant about what kind of person the man was."[2] It’s true that this sentence indicates the vivid reality of our social environment, love is a holy thing and not everyone has the charm to attract it, in my opinion, where there is a better love, there is a better person, this is the fact, so maybe the first thing you should do is to change ourselves before we want to change love."There is no doubt that Elizabeth and Darcy's love is the shining pearl in the history of literary, and their love is the ideal mode which has been esteem by Austen"[3] Good things are always hard to get, we should face challenges bravely if we want to get them, all of us should form a family with wealth and love.[1]孙致礼,译,简·奥斯丁.《傲慢与偏见》南京:译林出版社,2000年:83Sun Zhili, Pride and Prejudice,2000:83[2]朱虹,《奥斯丁研究》.北京:中国文联出版公司,1985年:178Zhu Hong, The Research of Austen,1985:178[3]郑晓园.文化深层的激荡.阅读与欣赏,1998年:79Zheng Xiaoyuan, The Deeping Evoking of Culture,1988:79本文版权归曼界森英书下载网及英文电子书下载网共同所有。
傲慢与偏见 赏析 英文

The Appreciation of Pride and PrejudiceAfter see the movie of Pride and Prejudice, I have thought deeply more about the figures. Everyone was special even unique and they were differed in many ways. Each person was stood for one character and all above of them were added some charm to the movie in some degree.I think Mr. Bennet was a negative figure and an ironic person. And he was also very sharp and clever. But to associate the author’s point of Mr. Bennet, however, was to ignore his ultimate failure as a father and husband. He was very clever but he always kept away from the matters that occured around him. And that made him became an ineffective parent and husband. He made no advice to his wife and little daughters to away from bad manners, so that his wife and his little daughters always behaved ridiculously and even badly. After Lydia eloped with Wickham, Mr. Bennet was proved that he was unable to handle the situation. Thanks to Darcy and Gardiners, the elopement has been solved . He was a likable, entertaining character, but he never managed to earn the respect of the viewers who ever watched the movie.In this movie, Jane Austin portrayed many characters with distinguishing features. There were two typical women that viewers may no t fo rget--- Lady Cather ine de B o urgh and Mrs. B ennet.Maybe the Lady Catherine de Bourgh who caused Anne's invalid state. Because Anne were to attempt things and did them badly, then her mother’s blame would be shown up as hollow. Lady Catherine de Bourgh prevented much shortcomings from appearing by keeping he from all exertion. And as a result, Anne had became thin but sickly. Besides, Anne seemed very selfish. She kept Charlotte outside in very cold weather; she did not talk to her mother's guests but only to the housekeeper. Maybe that’s because of her mother’s improper teaching.Compared with Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mrs. Bennet was quite different from her, except that they were mercenary, overbearing, Compared with the attitudes that Lady Catherine de Bourgh showed towards Anne, Mrs. Bennet was the directly reason of Jane's and Lydia's misfortunes, and she also brought about Elizabeth's sufferings.She was a poor judge of character, and failed to understandanyone. We saw this in her enthusiasm for Collins and Wickham and her disapproval about to Darcy, especially stressed when Elizabeth has just accepted Darcy's proposal about their marriage. Jane Austen also described that Mrs. Bennet's had an uncertain temper to her supposed “nerves”.That’s a little funny. And Mrs. Bennet was one example among many in the movie of ill-breeding and bad manners: She lacked consideration for others .She was overbearing and domineering. She had no restraint and no sense of propriety - she would discuss her family affairs with anyone. She lacked intelligent conversation.Furthermore, she was vulgar, not only in her loud, unintelligent chatter, but in the absence of decency in matters such as Lydia's wedding or the whereabouts of Lydia and Wickham when they were married. What’s more, she also had no moral shame, because she flaunted Lydia and Wickham when they came to visit her family. She bullied people and was a snob - as we see in her reception of the news of Elizabeth's engagement to Darcy and in her servile attitude to Lady Catherine. To sum up, Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Mrs. Bennet has something incommon--- mercenary, overbearing, selfish and bullying. But they were different from each other-the attitudes to daughters, manners, temper...Jane and Bingley's relationship proved that too much prudent judgement can damaged, most severely, the possibility of lasting happiness. The two characters were immediately charmed by each other at the Meryton assembly. Jane's prudent judgement and utmost caution were apparent from the beginning of their relationship, and it was this factor which proved most damaging to any blissful future prospects, whilst Elizabeth was pleased that Jane displayed caution. Charlotte Lucas was surprised in her declaration that less judgement was required.Bingley, on the other hand, was not hampered by excessive prudent judgement in his following inclinations and courting Jane, and i t was his ac tiv i l y appro ach ing i n wo o ing Jane w hich eventually precipitated as a joyous and beautiful marriage. In her portrayal of Jane and Bingley's relationship, Austen provided a counterpoint to Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship by showing that an excessive amount of prudent judgement and caution can so muchtemper inclinations, such that with so little encouragement offered, prospects of lasting happiness can be endangered and lost. Through these two contrasting relationships, Jane Austen had skillfully drawn the fine line between too much of prudent judgement, because a rash, prejudiced approach towards inclinations, showing that a delicate balance of objective neutrality and strength of feeling under the appropriate circumstances must be demonstrated, in order to nurture to save any relationship, and to ensure its success.。
英语论文(傲慢与偏见)

On Jane Austen’s Point of View of Marriage inPride and PrejudiceAcknowledgementsThis thesis has finally come into being to meet critical eyes through two months of hard work. From the very beginning when I chose the topic till the completion of the thesis, I have benefited from many people .First of all I would like to show my sincere gratitude to my tutor, Shen Guozheng. Without his sincere and trustworthy guidance,valuable suggestions and critical comments,it would be difficult for me to accomplish this thesis.His loyalty to teaching and punctilious work style has profoundly impressed me.Moreover, I heartily thank all the teachers who have helped me in the past four years, who have provided me with incentives and direction for my study. Thanks are also due to my classmates and friends for their constant encouragement and their ways of assistance in the course of writing.Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my family members, for their selfless support,thoughtfulness and encouragement.AbstractJane Austen was one of the distinguished realistic novelists in the nineteenth- century-English literature.Pride and Prejudice is a world wide popular novel published in 1813.Austen set the story in the first decade of the nineteenth century.At that time,marriage was the only way for women to gain social status and recognition. The author of the present thesis will analyze the five marriage patterns from the perspective of sociohistorical literary criticism to explore the important role that money and love plays in marriage. It can be seen clearly that Austen fully expresses her original views on marriage:property, social status and love are three indispensable elements in a marriage.It is wrong to marry for money,but it is unwise to marry without money. Austen‟s views on marriage emphasize love and economic condition, but love plays the significant role,which is the predominant aspect at Austen‟s time. The thesis tries to draw some inspiration from Austen and provide some hints for modern women in their view of marriage, and add something new into the literary criticism of the great work of Jane Austen.Key Words:Pride and Prejudice; views on marriage; love; property; realistic significance内容摘要简·奥斯汀是十九世纪英国文学史上最伟大的现实主义小说家之一。
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傲慢与偏见读后感----婚姻与爱情的平衡作者个人简介:奥斯丁(1775-1817)英国著名女性女小说家。
出生于英国的小乡镇史蒂文顿。
父亲是乡村牧师。
她没有讲过正规学校,在家由父母指导学习,所受教育大多是阅读古典文学作品和流行小说。
她终身未婚,家境小康,长期居住乡村,生活圈子较狭窄。
她20岁左右开始写作,共发表6部长篇小说:《理智和情感》(1811)、《傲慢与偏见》(1813)、《曼斯非尔德花园》(1814)、《爱玛》(1815)、《诺桑学寺》(1818)和《劝导》(1818)。
奥斯丁的小说以女性的细腻和敏锐描绘了她所熟悉的狭小世界;有资产阶级恬静舒适的田园生活,绅士淑女的爱情和婚姻。
她的代小说中没有可怕的祸和重大的矛盾;只有日常生活中的风波和人物之间的喜剧冲突,格调轻松诙谐。
她的作品主要是关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活。
以女女性特有的细致入微的观察力和活泼风趣的文字真实的描述了她周围世界的小天地。
她的代表作是《傲慢与偏见》和《爱玛》,其中尢以《傲慢与偏见》影响最大。
这部小说表达了她的婚姻观,既反对为金钱而结婚,也反对把结婚当儿戏,小说情节曲折,富有喜剧性,语言流畅,机智幽默,深受读者喜受。
背景介绍:18世纪70年代以后,英国文学中有40年左右没有出现过第一流的小说作家和作品,社会上充斥着庸俗无聊的“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”。
奥斯丁的小说破旧立新,一反常规的展现了当时尚无受到资本主义革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光,她的作品往往通过戏剧性的场面嘲讽人们的愚蠢,自私,势力和盲目自信等可笑的缺点。
奥斯丁的小说出现在19世纪初期。
一扫风行一时的假浪漫主义潮流,继承和发展了英国18世纪优秀的现实主义传统。
为19世纪现实主义的高潮做了准备。
虽然其作品反应的广度和深度有限。
但她的作品从一个小窗口窥探到整个社会形态和人情世故。
对改变当时小说创作中的庸俗风气起了很好的作用。
在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义。
被誉为“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。
傲慢与偏见赏析在高中的时候,我就已经阅读了中文版的《傲慢与偏见》。
当时只是当做一个故事来读,并没有了解其中的深刻意义与影响。
而上了大学,学习了英美文学赏析,我再次将英文版的傲慢与偏见阅读了一遍,也看过了电影版本。
才开始从文学的角度来赏析这篇文章。
《傲慢与偏见》是简.奥斯丁的代表作。
这部作品以日常生活为素材,一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法,生动地反映了18世纪末到19世纪初处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情。
书中的女主人公伊丽莎白出身于小地主家庭,富豪子弟达西非常爱慕伊莉莎白。
达西不顾门第和财富的差距,向她求婚,却遭到拒绝。
因为伊丽莎白听信谗言对他产生了误会和偏见,而且达西也表现出了富豪子弟的傲慢态度。
使伊莉莎白非常讨厌达西。
但是在后来,达西无私的帮助伊莉莎白的家庭摆脱了困境,伊莉莎白知也道了以前关于达西的坏话只是谣传。
伊莉莎白开始对达西的态度改变了。
而达西也改变了傲慢的态度。
他们终于消除误会,相互信任和接受了。
文中还提到了伊丽莎白的好朋友夏绿蒂和柯林斯,柯斯林有富足的生活,他一开始认为自己生活富足,想找一位美丽的太太。
向伊莉莎白求婚,但是遭到了伊莉莎白的拒绝。
而伊莉莎白的好友夏绿蒂被金钱吸引,嫁给了柯斯林。
她们直接没有爱情基础,只有富足的生活。
而伊莉莎白的妈妈也一直期待着把女儿们嫁到有钱的人家。
这种婚姻实际上是掩盖在华丽外衣下的社会悲剧。
而伊莉莎白的姐姐也跟伊莉莎白一样,持有正确的爱情观念。
终于等到了心爱的人。
这个故事也反映了了作者本人的婚姻观:为了财产、金钱和地位而结婚是错误的。
同时,她也强调理想婚姻的重要性,并把男女双方感情作为缔结理想婚姻的基石。
从小说看,伊丽莎白聪敏机智,有胆识,有远见,有很强的自尊心,并善于思考问题。
就当时一个待字闺中的小姐来讲,这是难能可贵的。
正是由于这种品质,才使她在爱情问题上有独立的主见,并导致她与达西组成美满的家庭。
因此,作者既反对为金钱而结婚。
也反对把婚姻当儿戏。
傲慢与偏见被评为对女性影响最大的文学作品之一。
起初达西的傲慢实际上是地位差异的反映,只要存在这种傲慢,他与伊丽莎白之间就不可能有共同的思想感情,也不可能有理想的婚姻。
以后伊丽莎白亲眼观察了达西的为人处世和一系列所作所为,特别是看到他改变了过去那种骄傲自负的神态,消除了对他的误会和偏见,从而与他缔结了美满姻缘。
伊丽莎白对达西先后几次求婚的不同态度,实际上反映了女性对人格独立和平等权利的追求,歌颂了摆脱一切旧的习俗和偏见、扎根于相互理解、相互尊重的基础上的真挚爱情。
这是伊丽莎白这一人物形象的进步意义。
这部小说非常有特色,不仅在于剧情,作者的写作手法也丰富多彩。
使文字具有个性。
特别是讽刺手法的运用和对话的运用显得非常的独树一帜。
奥斯丁的讽刺艺术,不仅表现在某些人物的喜剧性格上,也不仅表现在众多情节的戏剧性处理上,而且还融汇在整个故事的反讽构思中。
让现实对人们的主观臆想进行嘲讽。
男主角达西最初断定,贝内特家有那么多不利因素,几个女儿很难找到有地位的男人。
可后来恰恰是他娶了伊莉莎白。
而伊莉莎白,曾经发誓绝对不嫁给达西,可最后她还是做了达西夫人。
再看看那个不可一世的凯瑟琳.德布尔夫人,为了阻止伊莉莎白与她外甥达西攀亲,她不辞辛劳,亲自出马,先是跑来吓走伊莉莎白,继而跑去训诫达西。
殊不知,正是她这次奔走,为两位默默相恋的青年通了信息。
促成了他们的美满结合。
而更令人啼笑皆非的是,就在这几位“智者”收到现实嘲弄的同时,书中那位最可笑的“愚人”贝内特太太,最后却被证明是最正确的。
她认为:“有钱的单身汉总是要娶一位太太。
这是一条举世公认的真理。
”。
这种荒谬与真实的滑稽转换,尽管超越了一般意义上的是非观念,但确体现了作者对生活的深刻思索。
对话是文学创作塑造人物形象的基本材料和基本手段。
奥斯丁在创造人物形象时,一方面注意运用对话来刻画人物形象,另一方面又善于利用说话人、听话人、读者在动机和理解上的差异,制造多层次语调。
致使她的对话具有鲜明生动、富有个性,又含义丰富、耐人寻味两大特色。
例如第一卷第十章,达西趁宾利小姐弹起一支苏格兰小曲的当儿,邀请伊莉莎白跳舞,:“贝内特小姐,你是不是很想抓住这个机会跳一曲里尔舞?”达西说这话虽然有些傲慢(“很想抓住”四个字足以证明这点),但是他主观上还是想讨好伊莉莎白,可是伊莉莎白听起来却不以为然,她认为里尔舞是一种乡土舞,达西请她跳这种舞,是想蔑视她的“低级趣味”,于是正颜厉色的说道:“我压根儿不想跳里尔舞——现在,你是好样的就蔑视我吧!”达西回答了一声:“实在不敢。
”这句话可能做出多层解释:伊莉莎白仅仅看做对方是在献殷勤,宾利小姐可能理解成想结良缘的表示,而读者只要多读几段便会发现,达西心里可能在想:“这位迷人的小姐着实厉害,我这次只得认输,以后还要谨慎从事。
”类似这种微妙的对话,在小说里还有很多。
奥斯丁在《诺桑觉寺》第五章,曾用饱含热情的语言赞扬了新小说:“…总而言之,只是这样一些作品,在这些作品中,智慧的伟力得到了最充分的施展,因而,对人性最透彻的理解,对其千姿百态的恰如其分的描述,四处洋溢的机智幽默,所有这一切都是用最精湛的语言展现出来”。
Pride and Prejudice Appreciation -- the balance of love andmarriageAbout the author: Austin (1775-1817) famous British female novelist. She was born in a British small town Steventon.Her father was a village priest. She has not entered regular school but studied at home guided by her parents. The education she received was mostly reading classical literature and popular fiction. She has never got married.Her family was well-off and long-term living in village with a narrow surroundings of life. She began writing novels at about 20 years old.She has published 6 novels in total: 《reason and emotion》(1811)、《Pride and Prejudice》(1813)、《Mansfield Garden》(1814)、《Emma》(1815 )、《Northumberland School Temple》(1818) and 《Persuasion》(1818). Austen's novels represented the small world of her familiar with women's careful and sensitive and vivacious words. Theres not only the quiet and comfort of the leisure rural life of the capitalist class.But also ladies and gentlemens' love and marriage. There has no terrible disaster and majorcontradictions in her novels but only daily life’s comed y turmoil and conflict between characters.The style is easy with a sense of humor. Her novels are mainly concerned about the gentry women's marriage andfamily life.With Female -specific nuanced observation and lively wit of the text she descriped the real view around her small world. Her representative work is 《Pride and Prejudice》and《Emma》. Especially 《Pride and Prejudice》has the greatest impact. This novel expresses her views on marriage:not only opposes marriage for money. But also opposes marriage as a trifling matter.The novel plot twists and turns. full of comedy. wit and full of humor.is widely loved by the readers.Background imformations: after the 18th 70s.There have been nofirst-class works of fiction writers in English literature for 40 years and the society is filled with vulgar and boring "sentimental novel" and "Gothic Novel." Austen's novels was a new style.Unconventional showed English country middle calss’daily life and rural scenery of the time when there has no impact by the capitalist revolution.Her works often sneer at Human’ ridiculous Shortcomings such a sfolly.selfishness.snobbish.blindness and so on. Austen's novel appeared in the early 19th century. Swept the popular trend at that time --False romanticism. Inherited and developed the excellent18th-century British realist tradition. Made preparations for the climax of the 19th century. Although the breadth and depth of its work her novels reflects is limited. But her works glimped into the social patterns and ways of the worldfrom a small window and have a very good impacts on changing the vulgar writing atmosphere. It’s a connecting link between the preceding and thefollowing on the History of the development of English novel.She washonoured as "a writer equal footing with Shakespeare."Pride and Prejudice Appreciatioit was In high school that I first read the book 《Pride and Prejudice》in chinese version. But I just read it as a story without understanding its significance and impact. When entered college and learned English and American literature appreciation. I read the English version of 《Pride and Prejudice》once again and also have seen the film version.I began to appreciat this novel From the literary point of view. 《Pride and Prejudice》is Jane. Austen's representative work. This work is diffirent with the popular anti-sentimental novel writingatmosphere and the artificial methods. Vividly reflected anoccasion of a village life in the conservative and seal off British town during the late 18th and early 19th century .The book's female leading role Elizabeth was born in family ofsmall landowners. T he rich’s children Darcy loves Elizabeth very much . Darcyproposed to elizabeth regardless of family status and wealth gapbut onlyended up with rejection. Elizabeth hols a misunderstanding and prejudiceattitude towards him because she trusted the rumour against him.And Darcyalso showed the arrogance of rich which made Elizabeth much more annoying to Darcy. But later on. Darcy helped elizabeth’s fam ily out of trouble selfishless. Elizabeth also known the bad things about Darcy previously was only rumors. Elizabeth's attitude towards Darcy began to change and Darcy also changed his arrogantive attitude. They finally eliminate misunderstanding and trust and accept each other.The article also mentioned Elizabeth’s good friend Charlotte and Collins. Collins lives a prosperous life and he is looking forward to a beautiful wife so he proposed to Elizabeth.Elizabeth rejected him.But Elizabeth's friend Charlotte was attracted by money and married Collins. They do not love other.But only got married on the base of the economy. Elizabeth's mother has been looking forward to marry her daughters to rich families.This kind of marrige is actually a tragedy covered up in the gorgeous outfit. Elizabeth’big sister hold the same right concept of love with elizabeth and finally married a loved one. This story also reflects the author's views on marriage: it is wrong of people to get marrid just because of money and status. She also stressed the importance of an ideal marriage. And insisted the feelings of both men and women as the foundation of an ideal marriage. In the novel.Elizabeth is intelligent 、witty、courage、vision、strong self-esteem and good at thinking.It is esteemable for an unmarried young lady to be so wisedom. It was just this quality that allows her to have her own judgement towars love and led her toform a happy family with Darcy. Therefore.The auther not only opposes marriage for money but Also opposed the marriage lightly.Pride and Prejudice was honoured as one of the greatest novels which have great impact on women's life. At first. Darcy's arrogance is actually a reflection of the differences in status.As long as the existence of such arrogance. He and Elizabeth can not have common thoughts and feelings and can not have the ideal marriage. Elizabeth sees darcy’s changes on interaction with others and a series of other things with her own eyes. Especially he changed his arrogant Attitude at last. And finally eliminating the misunderstanding and prejudice against him.So they can have a happy marriage. Elizabeth’ diffirent reaction to darcy’s asking for marriage in diffirent time in fact shows women’s pursuit on personal independence and equal rights. Eulogized the true love which has get rid of the old customs and prejudices and was rooted in mutual understanding and respect. This is the image of the character Elizabeth’ progressive. This novel is very unique not only because the plot.The author's writing style is also colorful So that the text was distinctive .It was the use of the sarcasm and the dialogue made this novel develop a school of her's own.Austen's satirical art. Not only represented on the comedy character of some peoples and the handling of a number of dramatic plots. But also mixed together With the irony conception of the whole story. Let the reality laugh at people’s subjective imaginethe. The hero Darcy initially concluded that the Bennett family has so many negative factors thatthe daughers are hard to marry to honourable men. But it was just him that married Elizabeth at last. And Elizabeth has once sweared not to marry Darcy but she become Mrs. Darcy at last. Look at the mighty mrs Catherine DeBoer. In order to prevent elibeth to claim kinship with her nephew Darcy. She tirelessly and personally first came to frighten Elizabeth and then went to reprimand Darcy. As everyone knows. It wasjust her that give the two young people who have fall in love silently informations and Contribu ted to their happy combination. But what’s more ironic is that at the same time when several "wise" was mocked by the reality. The most ridiculous "foolish" Mrs. Bennett. Finally has proved to be the most correct. She thinks: "rich bachelors always wantto marry a wife. This is one of the universally acknowledged truth." Although This kind of transition between ridiculous and real funny is beyond the general sense of right and wrong. But it does reflect th auther’s profound thought of the life. Dialogue is the basic materials and basic tools on shaping literary characters. When Austin is in the creation of characters on one hand she pays attention to the use of dialogue to describe the characters. On the other hand she is good at using the speaker.、The listener、reader’s motivation and understanding differences to create multi-level tone.So that her conversation is vivid. Full of personality. And also afford for thought . For example. Volume I Chapter 10. When Miss Bingley is playing a Scottish ballad.Darcy aseked Elizabeth to dance: "Miss Bennett. You really want to seize this opportunity to dance a Lille Dance.Aren't you? "Darcy said this withsome arrogant (" you really want to seize " sufficiently provedthis point). But subjectively he still want to please Elizabeth.But Elizabeth thinks it's a kind of provoke.She thinks tha lille dance is a kind of country dance. Darcy asked her to dance lille is to despise her "bad taste". So she said seriously : "I simply did not want to dance dance Lille - now you are good to show contempt for me! "Darcy answered loudly:" dare not to . "This sentence may make multiple explanation: Elizabeth just regard it as darcy was play up to her. Miss Bingley could understood it to a expression of asking for happy conbinenation.But as long as the reader read more they can find that Darcy may be thinking:"This charming young lady is really sharp. I had to give up thistime.And I should be careful later on ." There’s many subtle dialogue similar to this one. Austen once praised the new novel with the language full of enthusiasm in 《Northanger Abbey》Chapter 5: ". All in all. Only these works. The wisdom of great power has been most fully displayed . So the most thorough understanding of human nature. Its rightdescription to its mixture. Witty humor everywhere all of which are show up by the most exquisite language. "。