Abstract:Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece of British novelist Jane Austen. The daily life in the novel reflected the state of England township life and the state of the human friendship under blocking and occlusion in the early eighteenth century to nineteenth century.
This paper analyzes the development process of the marriages as the thread, based on discussion the formation process of four different marriages. The novel introduces the four different marriages-- happy marriage, sex-oriented marriage, moral marriage and perfect marriage. This paper explores the concept of an ideal marriage of Jane Austen’s, and discuss the author’s progressiveness and limitation.
Key words: Pride and Prejudice, view of marriage, value system, person opinion.
摘要:英国小说家简·奥斯丁的(Jane. Austen)《傲慢与偏见》(Pride and Prejudice)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,通过论述小说中四种不同的婚姻形成过程,介绍了四种婚姻——幸福婚姻,情欲婚姻,道德婚姻和完满婚姻,探究了简·奥斯丁理想的婚姻观,并讨论了作者观念的进步和落后。
关键词:《傲慢与偏见》,婚姻观,价值取向,个人观点
If women can not get economic independence, they will become the subordination of their husbands and can not get their own human dignity. Therefore, women should have their own careers to live on themselves no matter how wealthy their husbands are. Only in this way, women can gain real respect from men and their marriages will become happier and last long.
Pride and prejudice, obstacles of the love in this book, but also social barriers to inter-communication between person and person in reality. As to achieve a lifetime career, whether the knowledge, education or love, career, all women need to struggle with their own, through the process of all kinds of misunderstandings, overcome their weaknesses and flaws slowly, and move towards to openness and freedom.