摘 要《傲慢与偏见》发表于1813年,是英国著名小说家简奥•斯汀的代表作。小说以幽默讽刺的基调描写了四种不同的爱情观，引起了广大读者对当代爱情的无限深思。有的人认为婚姻是用来创造机会去提高自己的社会地位和获得金钱的支撑，金钱与社会地位是他们选择伴侣时考虑的最密切联系的东西。有的人却认为爱情是伟大的，可以让人摒弃傲慢与偏见去重新认识并接受一个人。本文着重分析与比较了四种不同的爱情观，并从三个方面探究造成这种分歧的根源。同时文章通过对爱情的深刻剖析,强调在这个日新月异，物欲横流的世界,树立一个正确爱情观对一个成功婚姻的必要性。关键词：《傲慢与偏见》; 简•奥斯汀; 爱情观；婚姻10452
Abstract Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, which was the masterpiece of the famous British novelist Jane Austen. The novel illustrates four kinds of love in a humorous and irony tone, which rouses readers deeply thinking of love in modern society. Some people realize that marriage can provide opportunities to improve their social status and gain financial support, money and class are closely connected in their decisions of marital partners. While some people hold the views that love is so great, which can let people cast prejudice to understand and accept a person again. This paper mainly puts emphasizes on analyzing and comparing the four kinds of views of love and the reasons that cause such differences from two aspects. Meanwhile, it lays stress on the necessity of establishing a right view of love in a fast-changing and materialistic world by analyzing the love stories deeply.
Key words: Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen; views of love; marriage
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
Ⅰ. Introduction 1
Ⅱ. Four Different Kinds of Views of Love 4
2.1 The Purest Love—Jane and Bingley 4
2.2 The Most Troublesome Romance—Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy 6
2.3 The Most Realistic Marriage—Charlotte and Collins 7
2.4 The Most Undesirable Marriage—Lydia and Wickham 8
Ⅲ. The Analysis and Comparison of Different Views of Love in Pride and Prejudice 9
3.1 The Differences and Similarities Among Their Views of Love 9
3.2 The Reasons of Such Differences and Similarities on the Views of Love 10
3.2.1 British Situation in the 18th Century 10
3.2.2 Characters and Their Family Status 11
3.2.3 Jane Austen’s View of Love 12
Ⅳ. Conclusion 13
Bibliography 16
Acknowledgments 17 The Analysis and Comparison of Different Views of Love in Pride and Prejudice
Ⅰ. Introduction
Jane Austen, a famous English novelist, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. She was also a remarkable women writer in the 19th English literature, people described her as a “quite sunny little woman”(Wu 116). She was born on 16 December 1775 at the rectory in the village of Stevenson, where her father was a pastor. Although she never went to a normal school, she received a broader education than many women of her time because of a good atmosphere of study in her family, which set bedding for her future career -to be a novelist. She showed great interest in literature while young, and she began to write at 20 years old. She was well-known for Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield (1814), Emma (1815), Northanger Abbey (1818), and Persuasion (1818). Her novels mainly focused on trivial matters about love, marriages and family life among country squires and fairy ladies in Britain from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. As a famous novelist, Jane Austen didn’t get married all her life after the failure of her puppy love. In 1796s, the 20-year-old Jane met across with Lefroy and fell in love with him at first sight. However, the parents of Jane Austen wished her son-in law to have financial strengths but Lefroy was poor at that time. Worse still, Lefroy’s parents insisted that Lefroy should be engaged to the rich and ask him to return to Ireland. Since then, they didn’t meet each other anymore. Afterwards, Lefroy married a lady from a well-bred family as his family had wished but Jane Austen didn’t marriage all her life. But to people delight, although this love didn’t make Jane Austen become Mrs. Lefroy, it encouraged her become one of the popular writers in English history. It is Lefroy who told Jane Austen she was talented and ought to be herself in her writing. 《傲慢与偏见》中爱情观的分析与比较:http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_9515.html