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Daniel Defoe 代表作：The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe 时代背景：He lived inthe Enlightenment ,and the Enlightenment’s purpose is to use reason and knowledge to enlighten or educate people out of superstition and ignorance. Against feudalism of inequality, advocating freedom , equality and democracy. Advocating universal education. Advocating reason rather than authority. 写作特点：Smooth, easy, colloquial, vernacular. (common English spoken by ordinary people). 身份特征：a jack-of-all-trades as well as a writer a journalist and a pamphleteer Father of the English novel The first great realistic novelist in English fiction 主题：Crusoe’s adventures show the progress of being an individual laborer to a colonizer. First an individual laborer, then a master, and then an exploiter, and finally a colonizer. 代表阶级：a typical representative of the rising middle class with inexhaustible energy, great courage, patience, Self-independent persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile nature and human fate. Jane Austen 写作特点：family life of England’s local middle-class countryside which she was very familiar with. “Three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on”. 地位：a morning star of 19th century. Pride and Pre judice 傲慢与偏见 About the title: Pride and Prejudice “pride”: Mr. Darcy’s arrogant manner. “prejudice”: the misunderstanding from both Elizabeth and Darcy. 人物分析：Elizabeth Bennet - The novel’s protagonist. The second daughter of Mr. Bennet. Elizabeth is the most intelligent and sensible of the five Bennet sisters. quick-witted, lovely, clever, independent. Her realization of Darcy’s essential goodness eventually made her get rid of the initial prejudice against him. Fitzwilliam Darcy - A wealthy gentleman. Though Darcy is intelligent and honest, he is haughty/ arrogant to look down on his social inferiors. Over the course of the novel, he tempers his class-consciousness and learns to admire and love Eliza