《傲慢与偏见》里的“滑稽人物” --毕业论文.doc

【标题】《傲慢与偏见》里的“滑稽人物” 【作者】周婷婷 【关键词】滑稽人物??幽默??本质特点??快乐??教育 【指导老师】刘婷婷 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionA. The AuthorJane Austen, a most well-known female writer in the history of English literature, is a daughter of a social circle all her life and never marries. However, she has brought wonders before eyes of the world. Jane Austen was born at Steventon on December 16, 1775, the youngest of seven children. She received her education—scanty enough, by modern standards—at home. Besides the usual elementary subjects, she learned French and some Italian, sang a little, and became an expert needle-woman. Her reading extended little beyond the literature of the eighteenth century, and within that period she seemed to have cared most for the novels of Richardson and Miss Burney, and the poems of Cowper and Crabbe. Dr. Johnson, too, she admired, and later was delighted with both the poetry and prose of Scott. The first twenty-five years of her life she spent at Steventon; in 1801 she moved with her family to Bath, then a great center of fashion; after the death of her father in 1805, she lived with her mother and sister, first at Southampton and then at Chawton; finally she took lodgings at Winchester to be near a doctor, and there she died on July 18, 1817, and was buried in the cathedral. Apart from a few visits to friends in London and elsewhere, and the vague report of a love affair with a gentleman who died suddenly, there was little else to chronicle in this quiet and uneventful life. But quiet and uneventful though her life was, it yet supplied her with material for half a dozen novels as perfect of their kind as any in the language. While still a young girl she had experimented with various styles of writing, and when she completed Pride and Prejudice at the age of twenty-two, it was clear that she had found her appropriate form. This novel, which in many respects she never surpassed, was followed a year later by Northanger Abbey, a satire on the?“Gothic” romanc