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傲慢与偏见中 的婚姻观论文

傲慢与偏见中 的婚姻观论文
傲慢与偏见中 的婚姻观论文

浅析《傲慢与偏见》中简?奥斯汀的婚姻观

An Analysis of Jane Austen's Views on Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

I. Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice

1.1 Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775-1817), a most well-known female writer in the history of English literature, was born in Steventon on December 16 1775. And she lived peacefully in a small social circle all her life. She was the youngest of seven children in her family. She received most of her education at home. Her family are all fond of reading books, which influenced her very much. Her reading extended little beyond the literature of the eighteenth century, and within that period she admired Dr. Johnson particularly. Later she was delighted with both the poetry and prose of Scott,. she died on July 18 1817 and she never married. Austen was buried in the cathedral in Winchester.

Jane Austen wrote only six complete novels, two of which were published after her death. Her best-known books include Sense and Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice(1813),and Emma(1816). Each is perfect, and there is no choosing between them for one who enjoys her quiet irony and her simple delicate analysis of character. There are no heroic passions nor astounding adventures. Northanger Abbey is a gentle satire on the mystery tale of haunted castles. And in all her novels the love-making of her young people, though serious and sympathetic, is subduced by humor to the ordinary plane of emotion on which most of us live. She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middleclass people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction.

Her style is easy and effortless. In these novels the life of the gentry, land-owners and clergy at the end of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth centuries is shown in detail. All Jane Austen's work shows a recognizable standard of values .Her father was a country vicar, so Jane took for granted that a person should be sincere, unselfish, disinterested and unworldly, and that virtue should be judged by good sense and good taste. These beliefs are fundamental to her work. Throughout her life Jane Austen had been guided by Christian principles, and she accepted the Church's teaching without question. Her faith is implicit in all her writing: the virtues of a disciplined life, a caring relationship between husband and loving upbringing, are reflected in her letters and in her novels. At her death she expected to appear before God and be judged. Jane Austen's interest revolved around people-their eccentricities, appearance and dialogue. From them she created the characters which give her novels universal and lasting appeal.

1.2 Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the most enduringly popular novel written by Jane Austen. It is Jane Austen's second novel. Written between October 1796 and August 1799.The original name of the story is “ First Impression”, because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel. The novel shows the foolishness of trusting frist impressions which are corrected by understanding and reflection. The author fully expresses her views on marriage that an ieal marriage should be based on mutual affection and mutrul understanding, and the successful marriage must be also based on true love and financial stability. In Pride and Prejudice the business of Mrs Bennet's whole life was to get her five daughters married, for on the death of her husband the family's house would devolve by entail on to a cousin and she and the girls

would be homeless. Consequently she heard with elation that Netherfield Park, one of the great houses of the neighborhood, had been let to a London gentleman named Mr. Bingley. Gossip such as Mr. Bennet loved reported him a rich and altogether eligible young bachelor. Mr. Bennet heard the news with his usual dry calmness, suggesting in his mild way that perhaps Bingley was not moving into the country for the single purpose of marrying one of the Bennet daughters.

In Pride and Prejudice,the four young couples' marriage can be categorized into two groups according to their different marriage foundation. Simply one just like Charlotte — Collins and Lydia — Wickham is called unhappy marriage based not on ture love. The other one like Elizabeth — Darcy and Jane — Bingley is the opposite. It is their marriages that come to a real happy end. By analyzing the four marriage in this novel, we can see Jane Austen's views on marriage.

Ⅱ . Four Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

The stories show the ordinary lives, feelings of the ordinary people. They were linked up in a harmonious order under the author's meticulous concepts. The work mainly describes four marriages. Two are the main and assisted by the other two assistant mar riages. “Darcy and Elizabeth’s love and marriage is the main theme of this work. After undergoing many setbacks, Darcy’s arrogance and Elizabeth’s prejudice eventually eliminates, the lovers finally get married. The marriage of Elizabeth’s sister Jane and Darcy’s friend Bingley is another clue. They deeply love each other, but they are multi—blocked, after their departure, Jane misses Bingley very much. The two marriages reflects the another point of view in positive way that marriage should be based on tru e love, which is the ideal marry in the author’s opinion. The stories seem to be the ordinary lives, feelings and persons linked up in a harmonious order under the others meticulous concepts. However, the marriage between Charlotte and Collins is a negative example with the marriage between Lydia and Wickham, which help to make the plots more tortuous and richer.”

2.1 Collins and Charlotte

In Pride and Prejudice, when the homely and plain Charlotte decided to marry Collins, Her reflections were in general satifactory, without thinking highy either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object, it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune. In fact what Charlotte asks is only a comfortable shatter, a

hig her social position and a better wealth. which she explains to Elizabeth, “I am not romantic, you know. I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins character, connections, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair, as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.” (Austen, 113) For Collins, he is a man who does not know what love is at all. When Mr. Collins first proposed to Elizabeth, much to her mother's displeasure and her father's joy she firmly and promptly rejected him. He almost immediately transferred his affections to Elizabeth's best friend, Charlotte Lucas, who, twenty-seven and somewhat homely, accepted at once his offer of marriage. Collins’ decision to marry Charlot te is only because of Elizabeth’s refusal to him. What he needs is just a wife who helps him not to be a single man any more.

2.2 Lydia and Wickham

In the novel, we known Lydia, Mr.Bennet's third daughter, she was spoilt by her mother, so she was very conceited and arrogant, and behave frivolously. Wickham, he has no other advantage except for his attractive physical appearance. In his opinion, love is lonly recreation. Due to he was trouble with a large debt, so he entices Lydia and get her love easily. When their love does not get the permission from the parents, then they elope. When

Elizabeth hears the news, she believes that their love does not have happy end. Really, Wickham would not marry Lydia, because she was no charming and has nothing to attract him. He does not love her but the wealth of her family. The marriage was admitted on the condition of Darcy's help.

2.3 Jane and Bingley

Jane was the oldest of Mr.Bennet daughter, a pretty girl of sweet and gentle disposition. Bingley was an immediate success in local society. At the first ball, Jane has a good impression of Bingley, and it is the same to Bingley. They were attracted to each other at once. After the ball,“When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much She admired

him.”(Austen, 11) For Bingley, he had an easily-led temper. He was so modest and pliable that he had no opinion about his own marriage. No matter how obvious his attachment to Jane was, he believed Darcy’s representation of Jane’s indifference was true. Because Mr. Bingley’s two sisters didn’t like Jane, they thought Mr. Bingley should choose Georgiana,she is Darcy’s sister as his wife. So they also disagree with Bingley about his marriage with Jane. Under the influences of his sisters and Mr. Darcy, Bingley began to doubt Jane’s affection to him. Finally, he thought Jane didn’t love him, so he left her without saying good-bye. Later, when all the misunderstandings clarifi ed, he came back to Jane at Darcy’s assistance. Bingley’s indecisive character determines his happiness and results that his life was controlled by others. Later on a visit to Bingleys, Jane’s love affair with Bingley is advanced. Even Bingley is apparently on the point of proposing to Jane. Actually Bingly is attracted by Jane’s tenderness and beautiful appearance, while Jane is attracted by his gentle manner. They loved with each other.

2.4 Darcy and Elizabeth

The heroine of this novel, Elizabeth's love is very important. At the beginning, Elizabeth refused to accept Darcy pursue. Because in Elizabeth's eyes, Darcy is very cold and extremely proud, he is rich and has high social status, and he look down upon the middle-classe girls. In particular, he insulted Elizabeth Bennet, a girl of spirit and intelligence and her father's favorite. He refused to dance with her when she was sitting down for lack of a partner, and said in her hearing that he was in no to prefer young ladies slighted by other men. But on future occasions, however, Darcy began to admire Elizabeth in spite of himself. At a later ball Elizabeth had the satisfaction of refusing him a dance. Bingley's sister Caroline, who was eager to marry Darcy and shrewdly aware of his growing admiration for Elizabeth, was especially loud in her ridicule of the Bennet https://www.wendangku.net/doc/987872044.html,ter, Elizabeth herself became Caroline's particular target. Darcy admitted to himself that he would be in some danger from the charm of Elizabeth, if it were not for her interior family connections. When Wickham said about Darcy down, making Elizabeth more of his misunderstanding of the deep. However, by the fact that Darcy is a good man. When Lydia and Wickham eloped, Darcy find them and help them. When Lydia came home as heedless as ever, she told Elizabeth that Darcy had attended her wedding. Elizabeth, suspecting the truth, learned from Mr. Gardiner that it was indeed Darcy who brought about the marriage by giving Wickham money. Finally, Elizabeth changed her impression of Darcy, she was more favorably inclined to him than ever before, hoped his coming meant that he still loved her, but he gave no sign. Soon afterward Lady Catherine paid the Bennets an unexpected call. Hoping her own daughter to Darcy, she had charged down with characteristic bad manners to order Elizabeth not to accept his proposal. Unluckily for her own purpose, repeated to Darcy the substance of her conversation with Elizabeth, and he knew Elizabeth well enough to surmise that her feelings to ward him had greatly changed. He returned to Netherfield Park, they fell in love with each other and became engaged.They have an happy life.

Ⅲ.Jane Austen's Views on Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

This thesis focuses on marriage in British women writer Jane Aus ten’s novel, Pride and Prejudice. The topic is elicited out by the first sentence of this novel, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” (Jane Austen, 2003: 1) Firstly, state what does a marriage mean to a woman with analyzing on what was the social status of women at Jane Austen’s time. Secondly, give a detailed introductions about four marriages in this novel and finally analyze these marriages and reach the conclusion that a marriage should be based on true love, financial stability, mutual attraction, and happiness.

3.1 On the Basis of Mutual Attraction and Mutual Understanding

Mutual attraction is the most important in the authoress's views. One who betrays his or her heart will never own ture love that is beyond money and social position. This element is what Austen puts a great deal of emphasis on. The heroine in the fiction, Elizabeth, is a loyal follower of her own affection. She encourages Jane to pursue true love with Bingley, and has a disgust for Caroline's overflowing flattery of Darcy for the purpose of marrying the latter whose fortune and position are a great appeal to herself, regardless of the young gentleman's affection. In face of Mr. Collins's proposal, Elizabeth refuses him without hesitation, for her cousin wants to marry her just because he thinks Elizabeth is fit to be his wife and this union is his bestowment to the Bennets. Elizabeth is committed to her ture feelings, because there is no mutual atrraction between them. She believes happiness marriage is grounded upon mutual attraction. That's why she is so surprised at Charlotte's engagement to Collins whose character is an odd combination of servility and self-conceit, let alone lacking self-independence, while Charlotte is wise and quick. Though, afterwards, Elizabeth is informed of the reason why her best friend makes such as a decision, she feels intolerable to learn to ignore the existence of someone who may live with her all life long with no affection for the sake of a modest living. So we know that the mutual attraction is very important in marriage. The marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy typically shows that we should not simply judge a person from the first sight of appearance and impression. It takes time to understand each other completely. Elizabeth and Darcy both show their prejudice on the first sight without further communication. But Darcy cannot risist his affection to Elizabeth. And a sequence of events that connected with them provide them chances to know each other, so that the misunderstanding between them was got rid of and their relationships grew sounder. The marriage between Lydia and Wickham is the counter example of the first-sight love. They were attracted by the appearance and impulsive sex desires. Lydia didn’t know Wickham at all that he was immoral and owe debt to his neck. Their marriage was proved unhappy at last. Love should base on mutual understanding, and understanding takes time. Hasty marriage results in unhappy marriage.

3.2 The Importance of Ture Love

Elizabeth is the ideal image for women as well as the most charismatic person in the novel. She is Bonnet’s second daughter, an active, intelligent and smart girl. She has a middle-class family background and has not been affected by the formal education belonging to those aristocratic young girls, so she isn't good at music and painting, but she has read many books which make her knowledgeable and perceptive. The most important aspect is that she is a lady with dignity and upbringing. Darcy is a man with tall figure and good manner. He is handsome, rich and powerful. So he is the ideal husband of most girls. But he has grown up in the surroundings with strong sense of power, so he always is selfish and arrogant, and he has a critical look at each individual, except the family members., he is not concerned about

anyone else, and looks down upon anyone else. Therefore, when he first arrives in the village, he finds all the persons are far away from those imagined .Although every girl there is young and lovely, he has no interest to anyone except Elizabeth. At first he doesn’t put an eye on Elizabeth. Gradually, he has to admit that Elizabeth is beautiful, distinct and popular, although he insists that Elizabeth hasn't the same social status as him. Darcy is rational because he has a strong sense of power, which agrees on the reality at that time. Although he expresses his love to Elizabeth, he couldn't help showing his arrogance, which makes Elizabeth have misconception and prejudice on Darcy. Darcy loves Elizabeth, but looks down upon her social status. He considers that he has been lowing himself and doing something against his will, personalities and even moral standard. He thinks that his marriage would certainly succeed and Elizabeth is waiting for him to propose marriage. Therefore, even he is irresistible to the flooding feelings, and condescends to Elizabeth, he still remembers the gap between them. Clearly, the rational aspe ct of Darcy’s personality performs on the realities of society.When Darcy talks about his feelings of love, he also expresses the arrogance of these feelings in details, which results in the arousing resentment of Elizabeth; she rejects his marriage proposal, and angrily accuses his insolence.

The rational aspect of the heroine Elizabeth shows her clear, calm and actually stressful personality. Compared with her stupid mother, the smooth and lazy father, the shallow-minded, self-willed sister with feather head, Elizabeth is one with ideal mind. She is elegant like her sister Jane, but more intellectually superior unlike her sister being easy to be favorable. She also advises her sister to see through the stupidity and nonsense of those camouflage honest persons. Elizabeth is unique, because she has a deep understanding of all the things around her. In fact both she and Darcy are extremely sensitive to the social status. Different from Darcy, Elizabeth doesn’t have superiority about her family background and status. Instead, she feels deeply ashamed for her sister’s being lack of fairly education and her mother's rudeness and stupidity. Compared with her moderate and generous sister Jane, she is smarter and even more profound. She has a clean understanding about her own social status, which is due to the psychotically sedimentary deposits because she is in a inferior position for long time. Because of this, she resists extremely against the arrogance of Darcy, and she tries her best to protect herself from being hurtled by Darcy's commanding attitude. She believes that she must make him understand that she is not woozy, which reflects her belief to deal with the emotional entanglements with Darcy, as well as her constant patter with Darcy and the prejudice on Darcy. It superficially seems to be shared by the traditional psychological requirement that everyone needs to be respected mutually. Mutually speaking, this is another form of expression about the awareness of status. Perhaps, to some extent, Darcy has more romantic temperament than Elizabeth, it is because he is better positioned than her. Elizabeth refuses the stupid priest Collins and challenges wealthy Darcy, all of this is actually the resistance of the prevailing marriage at that time. The ultimate failure makes Darcy wake up. He is aware of his own short-comings. He accepts Elizabeth’s criticism, and faithfully corrects the shortcomings and mistakes. He is no longer arrogant and has a real love with Elizabeth. With the revealing of the truth, Elizabeth’s prejudice on Darcy becomes deeper. Until when Elizabeth refuses Darcy’s long love letter, she experiences the fierce shock. After undergoing a period of painful and profound thought, she could not help but to shout how despicable she is, she believes she is the excellent one in the family, she is skillful and always despises her sister’s dress. In order to satisfy her own vanity, she always treats people with an irrelevant suspicion and confusion. How shameful it is! But this shame serves her right. Even if she really falls in love with someone, she should not be so blind to meet this flunking stage. She is stupid not only in love, but in the vanity. When she first knows them two, one loves her and makes her feel happy, and the other treats her in a cold manner, which makes her angry. All these cause her prejudice and ignorance, when she encounters their affairs. She would not be able to distinguish the right and the wrong. She could be considered to be knowledgeable at last. When we see the blame from heart, we find her shortcomings and the courage that she could face herself directly. It is her bringing that plays a role; she starts to give up the bias

caused by self-esteem, truly and seriously understand Darcy. Elizabeth wouldn't believe the shameless lies about Darcy said by Han and eliminate the misunderstanding and prejudice. She finally falls in love with Darcy. When the sister asks 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 property of Darcy. Therefore, Jane doesn't want the sisters to be kidding. In addition to referring to the specific manor, she also refers the new Darcy seen

in the garden. In other words, Darcy changes the attitude of being arrogant and rudest, and this is the reason why Darcy wins Elizabeth’s heart and love. We can imagine that if Darcy doesn't change his mind, even if other misunderstandings have been resolved, they would not fall in love forever.

3.3 The Importance of Financial Foundation

Although Mrs. Bennet has been described as a comedy character in the work gaining a lot of sarcasm and derision, her universally acknowledged truth-all the wealthy bachelors want to marry a lady, has been proved to be truth which proves another fact that it's the wealth and the number of the wealth that decides the fate of life and marriage. Charlotte knows that the marriage without property would eventually move toward disappointment and suffering. Even if the couple loves each other deeply at first, when Collins, known as a social climber, is rejected by Elizabeth, he immediately turns to fall in love with Miss Charlotte. Although Collins is an inborn fool, his love could not move the heart of a woman, Charlotte accepts him, because her purpose is to get married. Almost all the girls born in a poor family without good education always regard marriage as the only decent way, although marriage might not necessarily bring happiness to them. She manages to arrange one of the most reliable way by marriage, thus she would not be exposed to the cold temperatures and suffer hunger in the future. She now gets a storage room. Charlotte is like a rodman catching a fairly plump fish-Collins. But if he doesn’t meet a setback from Elizabet h, and the encouragement of Charlotte, I am afraid that he would not be so willing to propose marriage to Charlotte. The man like Bentley who has fairly numerable money need a beautiful wife, the poor man needs a wife with a huge wealth, like Wickham; It was lucky for Charlotte that she could gain the marriage with Collins although their marriage is not happy at all.

In these marriages, it was quite interesting that the women without property really get married with those rich bachelors. However, the happiness brought by marriage to them has not accompanied the husband. In marriage, money is very important. Austin objects such marriage simply based on money. Collins is the heir of Bonnet family; he doesn’t know what love is. He would state some of the inappropriate remarks at any time. Charlotte gets married for money. Eventually she gets nothing more than a rich man, though she has economic security. She doesn’t care about her husband's accompanying and love. She encourages him to clean up the garden more. She sets his living-room in the small house absent of even a small number of sunshine. When her husband makes gaffe in front of their friends, she ignores and turns a deaf ear. Such arrangement for the story is a perfect irony for” the truth universall y acknowledged” at the beginning of the novel. The author expresses great sympathy to the tragic fate of the women at that time and those who had to marry because of economic restraints by the description of the marriage of charlotte. Austen understands completely that the social environment makes man obey not only in material but in psychology, which improved that Austin is a rational author that she prefers true love to survival. Miss Bingley also extremely objects the marriage between her brother and Ben net’s eldest daughter Jane. She hopes her brother to marry Darcy’s sister Miss Geovgiana in order to make herself to have the same status.

Ⅳ. The Causes of Jane Austen's View on Marriage

4.1 Jane Austen's Living Enviroment

Women’ position in the first half of the 19th century was very low. Jane Austen was born

at that time, feminism was not paid attention to by common people. Practically, everyone believed that men were superior sex. Women were considered not only lower than men, but also were very different. The purpose of their lives was marriage, their only proper sphere was the home, while men had all the rest of the world to show their talents. British women had few rights, few opportunities to change their life. At that time, meekness and sacrifice, were the key points for an excellent woman. According to Ilannah More, “to a woman moral excellence is the grand object of education; and of moral excellence, domestic life is to woman the appropriate sphere.” For gisborn, too, a woman’ role mu st be centered on the home, and according to him her main resposibilities involve “contributing daily and hourly to the comfort of husband, of parents, of brothers, and sisters…in the intercourse of domestic life.” Before marriage, a woman must sacrifice f or her family. People believed that an virtuous woman was never seperated from her family. Girls in the upper middle-class or in the better-off families, needn’t do housework and had been left with a great deal of time. They may stay at home , study unstematically, for example singing songs, drawing pictures and taking care of the family issues. And they have time to take parties, play cards, and chat with friends. While the situation in poor families is completely different. Girles around 12 or 13 had to leave home to work as servants in order to surport the family, for at that

time,parents often have a lot of children and they have ability to surport all the children. Marriage is the only choice for girls to relieve from the old family and change their fate. So mothers’ duties was to get their daughters married to high-class. While the marriage market was not always good for them. Sometimes, they got married just because the want the establishment of marriage but not love. Such things was clearly reflected in Pride and Prejudice. As the first sentence of Pride and Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”, Jane has cleverly told us: that the main subject of the novel will be courtship and marriage, she has established the humorous tone of the novel by taking a simple subject to elaborate and to speak intelligently of, and she has prepared the reader for a chase in the novel of either a husband in search of a wife, or a women in pursuit of a husband. Jane Austen was born into a supremely happy and resourceful family. Jane and her family lived in Steventon. Steveton Rectory stood at the foot of the lane which leads up to the simple medieval church of St Nicholas. Steventon is still a samll rural village, surrounded by fields and woods, in a valley between two main roads. Because away from the cities, Jane's life has been clame. Her parents were never wealthy, but they family atmosphere of harmony and friendliness. Jane and her elder sister Cassandra were inseparable friends from childhood. Their sisterly affection for each other could hardly be exceeded, so Jane is a very heavy emotional person.

4.2 Jane Austen's Emotional Life

Jane Austen, a lively and popoular young women, never settle down with a husband. She never married, but it does not mean that she refused the marriage. She always on the look-out for a husband, assessing each young man who came her way. But she known, as a parson's daughter with no hope of a dowry, she knew that however attractive she may have been to the opposite sex, she had only a slender chance of finding a husband in fairly restricted circle of acquaintances in Hampshire. Jane had grown into attractive and lively young woman and was popular guests at private parties, Assembly Room dances and country house balls. There she would meet her friends and the usual string of dancing partners. At Christmas 1795 a good-looking man appeared. His name is Tom Lefroy, was the nineteen-year-old nephew of the Revd George Lefroy, of the rectory at Ashe, a few miles north of Steventon. They flirted, enjoyed meeting at different parties over Christmas and may indeed have felt the strength of sexual attraction. Once, Jane was very attracted to Tom Lefroy, as Jane implies in a letter to her sister, their interest in each other was noticed and remarked on. But finaly, he jilted Jane, because Jane did not have a dowry. When Tom Lefroy came to Hampshire he was in no

position to get entangled with Jane. In 1797 Tom Lefroy went back to Ireland to be called to the Irish Bar; he took the opportunity to become engaged to Mary Paul. Therefore, Jane missed her marriage. Another young man she came to know in Kent is Edward Bridges, the brother of her sister-in-law Elizabeth. Edward Bridges was believed to have proposed and been turned down by Jane Austen. Jane Austen once promised to married with Harris Bigg Wither, but during the night- Jane changed her mind. Because Jane and Harris had known each other since childhood. Jane may have been tempted by the prospect of settling down in a fine house with a well-to-do husband. After she discovered it was wrong to marry for money. When Jane saw that far too many women were burdened with child-bearing, and lost their heath, their looks and sometimes their lives. So she dicide that writing was far more important to her than the security of a home.

Ⅴ. Conclusion

Through the description of the four marriage in Pride and Prejudice, we can see Jane Austen’s views on marriage. Successful marriage should be based on mutual attraction and mutual understanding, even the importance of true love and the necessity of financial foundation. From the novel, we know about the women’s life in the 19th century. Although Jane Austen wrote the novel in 19th century, but her views are also suitable for the mordern marriage. Nowdays, people show various attitudes toward marriage, for example, some young ladies who are very attractive like to marry a rich men, regardless of his quality personality;

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目录 前言 (3) Abstract (5) 摘要 (6) 关键词 (7) 文献综述 (7) 1、《傲慢与偏见》爱情观与婚姻观研究 .. 7 1.1《傲慢与偏见》的爱情观 (7) 1.1.1奢华与享乐的爱情观 (7) 1.1.2与现实相结合的感情 (8) 1.1.3充满理智与浓厚感情的爱情 (8) 1.2《傲慢与偏见》的婚姻观 (9) 2、结论 (15) 随笔 (16) 参考文献 (19) 作者简介 (22)

前言 《傲慢与偏见》是英国小说家简奥斯汀的一部早期作品。 简?奥斯丁是英国小说史上最著名的女小说家之一,她的作品再现了18—19世纪之交的社会关系和风貌。她以女性特有的细腻和敏锐的洞察力,展现和描绘了小村镇里的人情世态,以及她周围小天地里中产阶级的绅士、淑女间的婚姻爱情风波。她的作品格调诙谐轻松,富于喜剧色彩。英国著名作家斯哥特称她为“英国摄政时期最明锐的观察家”。 简?奥斯丁擅长描写青年男女的感情纠葛和婚姻嫁娶,并着力刻画男人和女人感情和理智的冲突。其中最具代表性的作品就属《傲慢与偏见》。《傲慢与偏见》叙述了四桩不同的婚姻,并以这四条婚姻为主线,情节错综复杂地交织在一起。故事时而扑朔迷离,山穷水尽;时而又峰回路转,柳暗花明,误会百出,冲突迭起。在这部作品中,奥斯丁通过贝纳特太太对待五个女儿的终身大事的不同处理,展现出乡镇中产阶层家庭出身的少女对婚姻爱情问题的不同态度和取向,进而反映了作者本人的婚姻观,即为金钱、财产和地位因素而结婚是错误的,而结婚不考虑上述因素也是愚蠢的。奥斯丁用理性又刻薄的语言讽刺了那些只靠金钱来维护婚姻的人。小说男女主人公最后美好的结合,透露出奥斯丁对婚姻观念理想化的追求和诠释:她反对为金钱而结婚,反对把婚姻当儿戏;她强调理想婚姻的重要性,把男女双方真正的感情因素作为缔结理想婚姻的基石。

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On Jane Austen's View of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice written by Zhu Mengxian Abstract: Jane Austen's masterpiece Pride and Prejudice fully embodies her view of marriage. In the following, a brief review is given about her views on marriage by analysing several related articles. Key words: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice views of marriage Introduction: Jane Austen humorously described different kinds of marriage relations in Pride and Prejudice. Until today, this novel is still very popular among many readers and arouses people's observation and unlimited thinking of marriage. Review: It has been pointed out that Jane holds the view that love and marriage are associated with but not totally lie on the property and social status, the marriage which is based on the love is a true happy marriage. There are many articles to support this view. For example, one of researchers thought marriage and property and social status are interconnected, but marriage could not only depend on the property and the social status based on researching the four young couples' marriages in this novel which can be categorized into two groups according to their different marriage foundation, Simply one just like Charlotte — Collins and Lydia — Wickham is called unhappy marriage. The other one like Elizabeth —Darcy and Jane —Bingley is the opposite. “ She believed that marriage just for money was wrong, but marriage of no money was stupid.” On the other hand, some papers have reported that Jane attaches great importance to ideal marriage and regards the feelings between men and women as the cornerstone of the ideal marriage. Austen fully expresses her views on love and marriage only by appreciating the marriage founded on the basis of mutual admiration, understanding and mutual respect. In Tang Chunhua’s paper, she considered that “ She believed that a husband not only need have certain number of family property but also must respect women, and at the same time there must be mutual understanding between them.” It happens that there is a similar case, Yu Hongen pointed out that Jane stresses that character is important than appearance in a marriage. “Austen believes that the person’s character is more important than appearance in the matter of a happy marriage.”“They have common in character and mutual appreciation, it is the most solid foundation that they can go into the marriage hall and toward a rational happiness.” At the same time, it emphasizes the independence and dignity of women on the marital problems. Conclusion: During her time, Jane's view was so advanced that it was not accepted widely. Until today, it still has important influence. Austen’s views on marriage and love are also suitable for our real social. We youth should make right marriage and love views to orient our lives. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people’s eyes. In a word, we can find her idea about marriage from the analysis, marriage, property and social status interconnected, but not absolutely. References [1] 王歆.论简-奥斯汀在《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观【M】.2005.5

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浅析傲慢与偏见中的婚姻观

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浅谈《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻价值观

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浅谈《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻价值观摘要:英国小说家简·奥斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》是以日常生活为素材,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。本文以小说中人物婚姻的发展过程为主线,通过班纳特五个女儿对婚姻爱情问题的不同态度,探究了简·奥斯丁理想的婚姻观,并指出了小说的现实意义。 关键词:简·奥斯丁婚姻观启示 引言:从18世纪末到19世纪初,庸俗无聊的“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥着英国文坛,而奥斯丁创作的小说则是一反常规地展现当时尚未受到资本主义冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光。她“是第一个现实地描绘日常平凡生活中平凡人物的小说家,她的作品反映了当时英国中产阶级生活的喜剧,显示了家庭文学的可能性,她多次探索青年女主角从恋爱到结婚中的自我发现过程,这种着力分析人物性格以及女主角和社会之间紧张关系的做法,使她的小说摆脱十八世纪的传统而接近于现代的生活。正是这种现代性,加上她的机智和风趣,她的小说能长期吸引读者。”① 1. 作品背景 简·奥斯丁一生都是居住在乡村小镇,接触的人物以中小地主、牧师为主,观察的环境也以他们恬静、舒适的生活为主,在她的作品中,我们看不到有对重大社会矛盾的反映。有趣的是,尽管奥斯丁终身未嫁,但在她的作品中最为人津津乐道的,却是有关婚姻与爱情的描写。她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力和对细腻情感的把握,生动真实地描绘了简.奥斯丁周围世界的小天地,特别是绅士淑女之间的婚姻和爱情风波。 简·奥斯丁的六部作品可以说都是以婚姻为主题的婚姻小说,虽然她的婚姻观不可避免得要打上时代的烙印,但也不是完全正统的。而比较清晰得展现作家婚姻爱情观念的作品,无疑要算《傲慢与偏见》了,这部反映婚姻问题的小说是作者最喜欢的作品,同时也是她最受欢迎的一部作品。在2007年3月1日的“世界书日”上,《傲慢与偏见》被英国读者评选为“十大不可或缺的书”之首。整部作品通过贝内特几个女儿的婚姻经历为基点,以伊丽莎白与达西的感情经历为情节主线,展示了18世纪中后期英国社会贵族阶层的婚姻状况。从某中程度上,也探讨了婚姻的内涵,因此此书也具有一定的社会意义和现实意义。文学批评家马克肖尔这样评价《傲慢与偏见》:“《傲慢与偏见》及奥斯丁后期的小说会令愚顿者震撼。如她的见解能被认同,这个由愚顿者构成的社会必将脱胎换骨。”② 2.作品中不同的三种婚姻观 班纳特家有5个女儿均未出嫁,而班纳特太太是一个神经质虚荣心十足的女人,将每个

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浅析《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观

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1. 前言 简.奥斯汀是19世纪英国著名的现实主义小说家,被誉为“英国女性莎士比亚”。奥斯汀常年生活在英国的乡村,乡村生活是她小说的主要题材。她的小说主要是关于“乡村里三四户人家”青年们的婚恋故事;往往通过一对对绅士淑女在通往婚姻之路上的曲折恋爱,勾画出一幅幅英国乡村婚恋时态图,从一个重要的侧面反映了19实际初英国的社会生活。奥斯汀所处的时代,男性是家庭和社会的中心,妇女的地位十分低下,妇女的责任是把没一个小时和每一天都贡献给丈夫、双亲,否则就是颠倒了自然秩序,违背了天意。女性难有自立的机会,只能把结婚当作最重要的归宿,选择什么样的婚姻,对当时的女性非常重要。这是婚姻问题成为奥斯汀最关注、最熟悉并成为她终身创作主题的重要原因。 奥斯汀的每一部小说都机智风趣,被评论家称之为社会风俗喜剧。她以女性特有的敏锐和细腻描绘她的小天地。她的小说虽不涉及可怕的灾祸和重大的矛盾,只有日常生活中的风波和人物之间的喜剧性冲突,格调轻松诙谐,但这一部部描写世态人情的喜剧作品犹如生活中的一面面镜子,世人可以从中感到生活的意义,这就是她小说经久不衰的原因。 《傲慢与偏见》是一部甜美、温婉的作品。故事以18世纪末到19世纪初的英国乡村为背景,以男女主人公的感情经历为线索,描写了几对年轻男女的感情和婚姻问题,包括简和宾利融洽的幸福婚姻、伊丽莎白和达西相互爱慕的完美婚姻、夏洛特和柯林斯依附式的现实婚姻、丽迪亚和韦翰情欲式婚姻,反映出当时英国的风土人情、社会关系、阶级观念、婚姻家庭等一系列的问题。 2. 研究背景及理论和实践意义 奥斯汀的作品以18世纪末和19世纪初的应该乡村社会为背景,以她自身的经历为蓝本,尤其关注来乡下三五家邻居之间的家庭琐事和年轻男女的婚恋故事。处在男权社会的英国,女性地位低下,她们享受着和男性不平等的待遇;限定继承法规定家族财产只能由家族中的男性继承,因此女性将婚姻作为她们一生最重要的归宿。19世纪初的英国已经是资本主义社会,工业革命正在火热进行,加上圈地运动,先前稳定的乡村社会结构正在逐步解体,城市化加速,提供了更多的工作机会,女性意识开始觉醒,女性的婚姻观念逐步变化,她们希望和男性一样平等地追求婚姻幸福。

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