傲慢与偏见英文毕业论文.doc

1、黑龙江东方学院本 科 生 毕 业 论 文（设 计）论文题目：Analysis on Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice姓 名 学 号 专 业 英语 班 级 08级5班 指导教师 学 部 外国语学部 答辩日期 2012年5月24日 黑龙江东方学院本科毕业论文（设计）AbstractPride and prejudice is Austins great work. The most messages we can get from the story are love and marriages. Through the discussion of

2、the different marriages and love, the writer demonstrates her concept about love and marriage: love and marriage is closely associated with property and society; however, love and marriage can not only be decided by the property and social status. An ideal marriage should be based on mutual affectio

3、n and respect. She rejects the marriage based on wealth and stresses the element of emotion in a marriage.This paper examines the marriages as presented in Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, and analyze the importance of their marriages. The paper defines four different kinds of marriages. The marria

4、ges based on the same interest, the vanity and carelessness, money or benefit and the true love. These marriages fit into the picture Austen paints of middle class social life in England at the beginning of the 19th century. The paper further suggests that people that the happy marriage is built upo

5、n mutual understanding, respect and love. Key Words: Love; marriage; property; social status中文摘要傲慢与偏见是奥斯汀的伟大著作，在小说中我们能够获知的最多的就是爱情与婚姻。小说中的四段婚姻基本完全概括了当时社会中爱情和婚姻的状况.小说通过对四种不同婚姻和爱情的描写，解析和探讨，充分体现了作者的爱情和婚姻观。这篇论文就是通过对这四段婚姻的详细的分析，来探讨傲慢与偏见中的爱情观和婚姻观。那就是：恋爱婚姻与财产和社会地位相互关联，但恋爱婚姻不能仅取决于财产和社会地位,正确的婚姻应当建立在相互爱慕、相互尊重的

6、基础上。她既反对为钱而结婚，也反对轻率结婚，强调婚姻中感情因素的重要性。这篇文章描述了傲慢与偏见中的婚姻。并简单分析了婚姻的重要性。文章描述了四种不同的婚姻，分别是基于共同兴趣的婚姻；自大和漠不关心的婚姻；金钱与利益的婚姻和真爱的婚姻。这些婚姻正是奥斯丁对于19世纪初期英国中等社会生活的写照。文章最后告诫人们，真正的婚姻是建立在思维融洽、尊重和真爱上的。关键词：爱情; 婚姻; 金钱; 社会地位;Outline Abstract .i中文摘要.iiI Introduction . 1 A. The Background of Jane Austin. . 1B. The Background o

7、f Pride and Prejudice. . . .2II The Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice, and their Importance. . 3A. Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice. . . .31. Collins and Charlottes Marriage. . 32. Lydia and Charlottes Marriage. . . 43. Jane and Mr. Bingleys Marriage. . . . 54. Darcy and Elizabeths Marriage

8、. . . 5 B. The Importance of Marriage. . 6III The Different Understanding about Love in Pride and Prejudice. . 7A. The Marriage Based on Same Interests. . . . . . 7B. The Marriage Based on Vanity and Carelessness. . . . . . . . 7C. The Marriage Based on Money or Benefit. . . 8D. The Marriage Based o

9、n True Love. . . . . . . . . 9IV The Concept about Love and Marriage. . . 12A. Jane Austins Concept about Love and Marriage. . . 12B. The Conventional Concept about Love and Marriage. . . 12C. My View of Love and Marriage. . . . 13Conclusion. . . . .17Bibliography. . . . . 1818Analysis on Love and M

10、arriage in Pride and PrejudicePride and prejudice the book about commonplace things and ordinary people, is one of Jane Austens famous book, being the representative of realistic literature. It portrays, with special sensitive characteristic of female writers, the life and ideas of middle class who

11、live in countryside. This novel makes an analysis of human nature and then stick up readers to think over social relations. This novel takes young peoples marriage as the thread and it covers the inheritance of fortune, womens social status, ethics and customs. Being the masterpiece of Jane Austen,

12、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 deep outlook for their love and marriage in the light of social back ground at the time.I. Introduction. A. A. The Background of Ja

13、ne Austin. “Jane Austen (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. She was an English novelist whose works of rom

14、antic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics. Her six novelsSense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger A

15、bbey, Manshifeierde Manor, Emma, Persuasion all describe more than marriage.”. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The st

16、eadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer.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 through the sweet and bi

17、tter feeling which helps her to write the great work pride and prejudice.B. B. The Background of Pride and PrejudiceIn this great book, the author amply demonstrates her point about love and marriage. Therefore, in order to analyze these points of views, we should firstly start from her great work.“

18、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 society. In the 19th century, women were not well respected compared with the ones in the presen

19、t 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 be staying at home, their roles were to deal with the family affairs, such as taking care of the children and serving for

20、 the husband.” 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 men, so they must restrict their abilities without conditions. Although the status of women was slow, few of th

21、em 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 female teachers. The income of family female teacher was very low, and the status was low as well. It was very

22、 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 married was the only way for them to gain respect, stability and social status. Austin fully critiqued some b

23、ad phenomenon in her work pride and prejudice, taking some perfect points about marriage and love to demonstrate her own view on love and marriage.II. The Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice, and their Importance.A. A. Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice.1. Collins and Charlottes Marriage.In pri

24、de and prejudice, the first marriage presented before us is the marriage of Collins and Charlotte. Collins was a conceited and foolish young man. He would inherit the estate of Longbourn, the property of Mr. Bennet upon his death, which amounts to depriving five daughters of Mr. Bennet of everything

25、. Therefore, the five daughters would have not enough money to support their life unless they are lucky enough to marry well-to-do husbands. Collins was vulgar and servile, seldom opens his mouth without mentioning his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Her affability and condescension is so impre

26、ssive upon him that he felt greatly flattered only by her visit in his humble parsonage. Collins was pompous and narrow-minded man who never possess his own conception of love, he intends to get married merely because it was the particular advice and recommendation of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. To be

27、gin with, he made up his mind to marry one of the daughters of Mr. Bennet as a way of reconciliation with the Longbourn family. The beautiful Jane, undoubtedly, is his first choice. But when he was informed that Jane had been privately engaged, he swiftly change Jane to Elizabeth, who is equally nex

28、t to Jane in birth and beauty. No mutual acquaintance and love between each other. Marriage to Collins was only a right thing for every clergyman in easy circumstances and advice from Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Jane Austen gave us a full statement of his background and character. Mr. Collins was not

29、a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society. The greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father, and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, withou

30、t forming at it any useful acquaintance. The subjection in which his father had brought him up, had given him originally great humility of manner, but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feeling of early and unexpected p

31、rosperity. And the respect which he felt for her high rank, and his veneration for her as his patroness, mingling with a very good option of himself, of his authority as a clergyman, and his rights as a rector made him altogether a mixture of pride and obsequiousness, self-importance and humility. 2

32、. Lydia and Charlottes Marriage.The 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 mo

33、ney and become rich and change his social status through marriage, marriage is also 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 he

34、r love easily, because 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 aimgetting wealth by love and exalts her beauty hypocritically, she forgets who

35、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. When Elizabeth hears the news, she believes that their love is false, Wickham would not marry Lydia, because she is no charming and has nothing to

36、attract him, He does not love her but the wealth of her family. The marriage is admitted on the condition of Darcys help. 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

37、reacts to the marriage to revenge his early failure of proposal to her. This marriage is one without love. They dont 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. Such couple

38、 only seek having had the experience but not everlasting and unchanging. Of course, such kind of marriage is doomed to be a tragedy.3. Jane and Mr. Bingleys Marriage.The third marriage is of the eldest daughter Jane and Mr. Bingley. Bingley is a friend of Darcy. Bingleys sister loves Darcy very much

39、. She wants Bingley to get married with Darcys sister Georgiana, because she wants to get love from Darcy by this way, which also reflects the selfishness the sister. The marriage of the able man- Bingley and the beautiful girl-Jane is ideal in most peoples eyes. Of course, the couple meets many set

40、backs, such as the misunderstanding of Darcy and Bingleys selfish sister. At last, the lovers get married as the misunderstanding between Elizabeth and Darcy has been solved.4. Darcy and Elizabeths Marriage.The fourth marriage is the main theme of the works. That is Darcy and Elizabeths marriage. At

41、 the beginning, Elizabeth rejects the pursuer-Darcy, because she does not like him, even looks down upon him though Darcy loves her very much. In Elizabeths eyes, he is arrogant and unreasonable because he is rich and has high social status. Realizing that, Darcy begins to get rid of those bad habit

42、s quietly to crate her taste and get good impression and love of her. Because of Darcys perfect behavior and good education, Elizabeth gradually eliminates the bias on Darcy. Then they spontaneously fall in love. So when Darcys second suitor is sent to Elizabeth, Elizabeth readily agree with, and th

43、ey get married and have happy family lives.B. B. The Importance of Marriage.Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen with the purpose of positioning us, as the readers, to share her attitudes on the importance of marriage. Austen had extremely radical views for her time. She believed that marri

44、age should not occur on the grounds of superficial feelings, pressures to marry, or wealth and social status. The author believed that one should only marry for love. Austen uses characters as literary devices to show the readers the juxtaposition between relationships who have married for love and

45、relationships which have married for alternative reasons. By influencing the readers to believe that marriage should only be for love we begin to realize that it is this, and only this, which can enable the characters of the novel to be happy. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single ma

46、n in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. The first sentence of the novel Pride and Prejudice highlights the importance of marriage within the world of the novel. The sentence suggests that the sole purpose for marriage was to increase the characters social and financial ranking.

47、 The quote mentions nothing of love yet it provokes the feeling in the minds of the readers that the purpose of marriage is to merely create security. Finding a suitable marriage for the female characters who lived in a patriarchal society often became the solace of their lives. The character of Elizabeth Bennet does not fit this gene