《傲慢与偏见》中的人物刻画--毕业论文.doc

【标题】《傲慢与偏见》中的人物刻画 【作者】周勤丹 【关键词】?人物刻画??傲慢与偏见??简.奥斯丁 【指导老师】张亚军 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1. IntroductionJane Austen is a distinguished female novelist at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is indeed so fine an artist. She is credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Austen’s strength lies in her realism, concrete society. This pretty young lady has charmed us for more than one and a half centuries—charmed away dull hours, created vivid and lively characters, bestowing happiness and harmless mirth upon generations to come.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen manages to give us such a vivid account of her aim to create the most characteristics of the characters. This thesis means to make a tentative study of her characterization and writing techniques employed in the novel.?1.1 Jane Austen’s life and EducationJane Austen was born on December 16. 1775. Jane Austin had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a country clergyman, the rector of Steventon in the country of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After her father’s death in 1805, she moved around with her mother, and finally in 1809 they settled in Clawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visit to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 18171.Though she was away from home many years for company of her eldest sister Cassandra in two boarding schools, returning home at the age of nine only, she had the advantage of growing up and studying in an educated family. Some time was probably devoted to the utility of?“improving conversation”. In addition, the Austen was a novel—reading family. Though she was completely isolated from literary friendship, and never in touch with professional writer or critics, Jane Austen’s compensations we