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ChapterⅠ Introduction Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a distinguished British writer, who wrote novels on the life of English Middle Class people of her time. In her lifelong career, she created altogether six complete works, which can be divided into two distinct periods. She wrote her first three works in the period of 1795 to 1798. They are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey and all her last novels are Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion. In Austen’s point of view, her main literary concern is about human beings in their relationships. As for her interest in the study of human beings in their relationships with other people in daily life. Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love. Especially the novel Pride and Prejudice has been made her to become one of the greatest of all novelists by many critics. Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as “First Impression” in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s works. The structure of the novel is exquisitely deft, the characterization in the highest degree memorable, while the irony has a radiant shrewdness unmatched elsewhere. The main raw materials came from the daily life, and she wrote it in a tone, which only women possessed, that is acute, delicate, humorous and witty to depict a series of the imagery of women and men characters in a vivid way. Particularly, the successful heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, of the novel Jane Austen created, which embodied her for orientation on marriage issues. In the present-day, Pride and Prejudice has remained a very important role in literature because Jane Austen’s most remarkable traits were her observation of human character and nature. According to Tian Yuxia, Jane Austen writes Pride and Prejudice to fight against social injustice to women. She wants to set a model woman--independent and unconventional, brave who breaks the conventional fallacy which man is noble and woman is humble. Next chapter is to fu