英语专业论文：论《傲慢与偏见》的婚姻观.doc

1、河南农业大学本科生毕业论文（设计）任务书论文（设计）题目Marriages in Pride and Prejudice ContentsAbstract.1I. Introduction.1II. Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice.21. Collins and Charlottes Marriage-marriage based on money or benefit.22. Lydia and Wickhams Marriage-marriage based on vanity and carelessness.33. Jane and Mr.

2、Bingleys Marriage-marriage based on same interests.44. Darcy and Elizabeths Marriage-marriage based on true love.4III. Influence of Austins Marriage Concept on Marriage Today.61. Womans social status in Austins age and Austins marriage concept.62. Womans social status and the marriage concept today.

3、9IV. Conclusion.10Bibliography.11Acknowledgments.11指导教师评语（主要评价论文的工作量、试验数据的可靠性、论文的主要内容与特点、写作水平等）：论文的工作量：试验数据的可靠性：论文的主要内容与特点、写作水平： 签 名： 年 月 日答辩委员会评语及论文成绩（主要评价论文的性质、难度、质量、综合训练、答辩情况、不足等。评定论文成绩）：论文的性质、难度、质量：学生的综合训练、答辩情况、不足等：论文成绩：主任委员签名： 年 月 日Marriages in Pride and PrejudiceLi Lina Business Class 2 Grade

4、2006 0615102038 Tutor: Yu Hongwei Lecturer XXX 商务英语2班 2006级 0615102038 指导老师 XXX 讲师Abstract: Pride and Prejudice is Austins great work. Through the discussion of the different marriages, she perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid

5、 characters. Moreover, she portrayed some reasons for the different marriage concept held by people at that time, in which the low social status of women is the most striking one. Austin thinks that marriage merely for property, money and status is absolutely wrong, but marriage without economic fac

6、tors is silly. In a word, she is against the marriage for money. She regards love between two people as the basis of an ideal marriage, which breaks the traditional marriage concept and influences peoples idea of marriage nowadays. Key words: Pride and Prejudice; marriage; loveI. Introduction“Jane A

7、usten (1775-1817) was born in Hampshire, a country priest family located in Hants, the village of Kingston, Sidemen in north England. She was a beautiful, talented middle class woman with extraordinary temperament and good cultivation. Her six novels-Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, North

8、anger Abbey, Manshifeierde Manor, Emma, Persuasion all describe more than marriage.” (Wang Shouren, 2005, 64) However, her marriage is like a blank paper in her 42 years real lifetime. Going through the finest time, but eventually without meeting a comfortable partner, she gives up her love. Going t

9、hrough the sweet and bitter feeling which helps her to write the great work Pride and Prejudice.“At that time, according to the social conditions in Britain, a good marriage for a young woman was critical. This phenomenon was closely associated with the British society and the status of women in the

10、 society. In the 19th century, women were not well respected compared with the ones in the present society. There was no equality between woman and man. Women were considered to be inferior to men in terms of intelligence and capacity. The central life of women was forced to stay at home, their role

11、s were to deal with the family affairs, such as taking care of the children and serving for the husband.” (Zhu Hong, 1997, 34)People naturally thought that women should be submissive to their husbands. The virtues of women were patient and deferent. They must recognize their inherent inferiority to

12、men, so they must restrict their abilities without conditions. Although the status of women was low, few of them expressed dissatisfaction about their own destiny. At that time, many middle-class young women had three solutions: getting married; staying at home as old maids or working as the family

13、female teachers. The income of family female teacher was very low, and the status was low as well. It was very difficult for them to change or swap out of this status, no one would like to be a maid forever, therefore, in terms of young women, especially those who dont have enough properties, to get

14、 married was the only way for them to gain respect, stability and social status. This idea forms the basis of womens marriage concept at that time.This novel takes young peoples marriage as the thread and it covers the inheritance of fortune, womens social status, ethics and customs. Being the maste

15、rpiece of Jane Austen, it comes to the extensive favor of literary lovers and experts at the same time. This paper makes an analysis of four marriages in Pride and Prejudice and discusses the influence of Austins marriage concept on present marriage.II. Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice1. Collin

16、s and Charlottes marriage-marriage based on money or benefitThe first part of Pride and Prejudice tells the marriage of Charlotte and Collins, which is lucky and natural. They get married without any expectation. Charlotte is William Lucass daughter, who is the neighbor of Lizzy Bennett. She was bor

17、n of humble parentage and very mediocre in every aspect. So she has not got married even until she is 26 years old. She may be a typical questionable girl. However, there are 5 daughters in the Bennetts, the five daughters are gradually growing up to the age for marriage. So both of the two families

18、 rival mutually, especially in the eyes of the vulgar women, such rivalry was particularly tedious. Bennetts wife was especially typical; she does not give birth to a boy but five girls. The familys property couldnt be given to a daughter according to the custom at that time, and the family without

19、a son can grant the wealth to the nephew. Thus, one of Bennett nephew-Collins can inherit the family wealth. Therefore, Mrs. Bennett has great expectations on her nephew. Though the family is not very rich, he is the final owner of Bonnet familys wealth. Mrs. Bennett felt at ease about this, and she

20、 has great hope on Collins and likes him. Catherine Collins, with the help of one of his relatives, becomes a priest. And then he goes to the home of his uncle, wanting to be home complement of Bennett. Because he has heard a lot about the arrangement of the five golden flowers of his uncles family,

21、 he is coming to try his luck here. In his mind, if he could be one son-in-low of his uncles, then he could get the property of the family. He stays at home for a long time to repay his uncles heritage and gets sympathy by the family. Informed that the eldest daughter Jane has a boyfriend, he aims a

22、t the second daughter Elizabeth Bennett in spite for his aunts interesting sake, Elizabeth has been tired of him. Eventually, she refuses him with sharp tongue. But Collins quickly finds comfort from Charlotte who desires to get love from a male and believes marriage is the elegant way for a girl wi

23、th some education. 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 Char

24、lotte. 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 necessar

25、ily 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. Then they get married as quickly as the lightening. Charlotte is like a rodman catching a

26、 fairly plump fish-Collins. But if he doesnt meet a setback from Elizabeth, and the encouragement of Charlotte, I am afraid that he would not be so willing to propose marriage to Charlotte. The man like Bingley who has fairly numerable money need a beautiful wife, the poor man needs a wife with a hu

27、ge wealth, like Wickham; It was lucky for Charlotte that she could gain the marriage with Collins although their marriage is not happy at all. A mediocre love, a dull marriage has been established effortlessly. Such marriage without love is too practical, so it is a kind of superficial marriage with

28、out happiness.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

29、 on money. Collins is the heir of Bonnet family; he doesnt 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 doesnt care about her husbands accompa

30、nying 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

31、truth universally 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.2. Lydia and Wickhams marriage-marriage based on v

32、anity and carelessnessThe second marriage is between Bennetts third daughter Lydia and Wickham, the son of the housekeeper. Originally he is well-treated by the family and the friends. However, he comes down in the world because of his misbehavior. He gets into debt. So he wants to get money and bec

33、ome rich and change his social status through marriage, which is a way to approach the talents. He is a man without any responsibility. He does nothing except assailing a woman with obscenities. In his opinion, love is only recreation. For his purpose, he entices Lydia and gets her love easily, beca

34、use she is young, innocent and vainglorious, and loves to go ease and hates to work hard, and is spoilt by her mother. Getting love and praise of a boy is her dream. So when Wickham wants to reach his aim-getting wealth by love, he exalts her beauty hypocritically. Lydia, impulsive, credulous and bl

35、indly following, she forgets who she is and feels she is the most beautiful and happiest girl in the world. Their love does not get the permission from the parents, and then they elope. They spend money without restraint, and they are unable to make ends meet. When Elizabeth hears the news, she beli

36、eves that their love is false, Wickham would not marry Lydia, because she is no charming and has nothing to attract him, He does not love her but the wealth of her family. The marriage is admitted on the condition of Darcys help. For sake of Elizabeth, Darcy gave them a sum of money to let them get

37、out of difficulties. At the same time, this swindler prepares to climb another woman for a sum of money. Their marriage is considered to be a scandal in Bennetts family. But Mrs. Bennet is not disgraceful to this marriage. When Collins gets the news, of course, he is very angry and reacts to the mar

38、riage to revenge his early failure of proposal to her. This marriage is one without love. They dont know the real meaning of marriage. They only want to satisfy their aspiration. So we can say this is a kind of impromptu love and marriage without true love and responsibility which is doomed to be a

39、tragedy.3. Jane and Mr. Bingleys marriage-marriage based on same interestsThe third marriage is one of the eldest daughter Jane and Mr. Bingley. Bingley is a friend of Darcy. His sister loves Darcy very much and she expects Bingley to get married with Darcys sister Georgiana, because she wants to ge

40、t love from Darcy in this way, which also reflects her selfishness. The marriage of the able man-Bingley and the beautiful girl-Jane is ideal in most peoples eyes. Bolobbyist, a politician, at the end of the 18th century, said that upbringing was more important than law, because it could promote mor

41、al, help to realize moral or ruin moral. Thus it could be concluded that upbringing played very important role in life at that time. On the first ball organized by Mr. Bingley in the Niger Park, Jane-the eldest daughter of the Bonnets is favored by the host. But the reserved personality and the stan

42、dardized qualities make her conceal her true feelings, so she almost loses Bingley, which is also caused by her nest-of-kins lap sad conducts. For example, Mrs. Bennet often gives comments on the marriage in public, especially the benefits of the marriage, which almost frightens Bingley away. This g

43、ood marriage based on a favorite of mutual good impression and true love. Fortunately with the misunderstandings between Elizabeth and Darcy solved, the lovers get married after so many setbacks.4. Darcy and Elizabeths marriage-marriage based on true loveThe fourth marriage is the main theme of the

44、works. That is Darcy and Elizabeths marriage. Elizabeth is the ideal image for women as well as the most charismatic person in the novel. She is Bonnets 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 isnt good at music and painting, but she has read many books which make her knowledgeable and perceptive. The most important aspect is tha