《傲慢与偏见》《傲与偏见》.docVIP

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. A major theme in much of Austens work is the importance of environment and upbringing on the development of young peoples character and morality.[6] (Pinion, F B (1973). A Jane Austen. Companion. Macmillan.) Social standing and wealth are not necessarily advantages in her world, and a further theme common to Jane Austens work is ineffectual parents. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. After Darcys haughty rejection of her at the dance, Elizabeth resolves to match his coldness and pride with her own prideful anger—in biting wit and sometimes sarcastic remarks—directed towards him. Wickham tells her he has been seriously mistreated by the proud man; Elizabeth seizes on this news as further reason to dislike Darcy. Ironically, Darcy begins to find himself drawn to Elizabe th, unbeknownst to her. Mr Collins he is employed as parish rector by the wealthy and patronising Lady Catherine de Bourgh of Kent. Mr Bennet and Elizabeth are amused by his self-important and pedantic behaviour. Rosings Park—the grand manor of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr Darcys aunt—where Elizabeth and her hosts are frequently invited to socialize. during a northern tour, Elizabeth and her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner visit Pemberley, Darcys estate, he makes an obvious effort to be gracious and welcoming, and treats the Gardiners—whom before he would have dismissed as socially inferior—with remarkable politeness. Elizabeth Bennet is intelligent, lively, attractive, and witty, but with a tendency to judge on first impressions and perhaps to be a little selective of the evidence upon which she bases her judgments. Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy Handsome, tall, and intelligent, but not convivial, his aloof decorum and moral