ABSTRACT:Pride and prejudice is a novel which describes love and marriage. Elizabeth has her own mind and she is an individualizing woman while she is good at independent thinking. She is bright, beautiful, witty and humorous. She believes love and she has courage to pursue the true love. For marriage, Elizabeth does not agree to the view that marriage is just for benefit; she pursues independent and equal marriage. She thinks that marriage should base on love. It is an ideal marriage view. Lucas is a wise woman with individuality. For love, she has unique understanding, her marriage succumbed to reality. Lucas’s pursues a reality marriage. This thesis analyzes Elizabeth and Lucas’s marriage view. From the thesis, it also presents one aspect of Austen’s happy marriage view: the marriage basing on love and money is a happy marriage.
Key words: Love；Marriage；Property；Social status
摘要:《傲慢与偏见》是一部描述爱情与婚姻的小说。在《傲慢与偏见》这部小说中伊丽莎白是一位善于独立思考、很有主见的女性，她聪明、漂亮、机智、诙谐，她相信爱情并勇于追求真爱。对待婚姻她不赞成纯粹的利益的结合而是拥有爱情和独立、平等的婚姻，它是一种理想主义的婚姻观。富有个性、睿智的卢卡斯对于爱情有独特的理解，但她的婚姻却屈从于现实，从自身实际与当时的社会现状出发，她追求的是一种现实主义婚姻。本文通过对伊丽莎白和卢卡斯婚姻观的分析来说明简奥斯丁对于幸福婚姻的一种观点：拥有爱情和金钱的婚姻是幸福的婚姻。
关键词：爱情；婚姻；财产；社会地位
In Pride and Prejudice, Austen expresses her different marriage views. This novel reflects the country society life in nineteen century. There are five marriages in this novel. From this novel we can know the women were in low social status and the marriage’s importance for the women. Women could not have equal status. Marriage was the only way to change present state at that time. Women’s marriage was influenced by the social status and property. This thesis analyses the marriages of Elizabeth and Lucas. The two marriages are under the two different views of marriage.
Elizabeth is a woman who believes true love. She thinks that marriage should base on love. So she refuses Collins and Darcy’s proposal. She can not accept the marriage without love. In this novel, Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage is based on love; their marriage is an ideal marriage. Darcy has high social status and property. At first, Darcy looks down upon Elizabeth’s family. He finds that he falls in love with Elizabeth but his love is proud. Darcy changes his idea about classes after Elizabeth refuses his proposal. He learns to judge people from their character. At last, he wins Elizabeth’ love and married her.
