《英语专业毕业论文傲慢与偏见中女性角色对比分析(英文)》.doc

盐城师范学院毕业论文 - PAGE 10 - The Comparison and Analysis of the Female Characters in Pride and Prejudice Chen Yezhi Abstract: Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen. It is Jane’s representative masterpiece. This novel mainly writes the development of the love between Darcy and Elizabeth, and depicts us four marriages. It teaches us a lesson that one should have neither pride nor prejudice in his or her relationship. The writer also reflects the feminism in this novel. The following research will analyze the main distinctive heroines one by one and then do a comparison among them, from their marriages and the angle of feminism, in order to find the different kinds of female consciousness. Key words: Pride and Prejudice; female consciousness; the comparison of the female characters 1 Introduction In the 18th century, the number of female writers increased quickly, but novels didn’t take up a rather vital part and were shortage of convention. Till the 19th century, a lot of female writers started to create novels to describe the society, the politics, and people with different fates. From these, people can see that the female literature in Britain was originated from the 18th century and developed in the 19th century. The novel Pride and Prejudice which created by Jane Austen is a symbol of the formation of the British feminist. And Jane Austen fully shows her distinctive feminist consciousness in this novel. Jane changed the women’s peeped position in the literature which was long controlled by males, so she proved to be a historic writer. 1.1 Jane Austen Jane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire in Britain in 1775, and she was the seventh daughter in her family. Rev. George Austen, her father, a clergyman in that parsonage of that village Hampshire, must have posed some special influences on Jane’s growth and literary road. Educated at home, together with her sisters, Jane began to write at an early age and passed her life very quietly. After her father’s death