LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK—PRIDE AND PREJUDICE论简奥斯汀作品《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻.docxVIP

LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK—PRIDE AND PREJUDICE论简奥斯汀作品《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻ABSTRACT Jane Austen is one of the most remarkable women novelists in the world. As an authoress in the eighteenth century in England,she had a sensible idea on love and marriage. On her whole life, she wrote six novels: Northerner Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, which describes various kinds of characters and their everyday life. Pride and Prejudice, one of the well-known novels in the history of the English literature, was published in 1813. The story talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. Through the description of the daily talks and doings of young men and women, Austen pointed their characteristics. All of the characters had different experiences, and acted in different ways. However, they had a common pursuit, that’s ‘good marriage’. This paper is to make an analysis of four marriages in Pride and Prejudice and discuss the deep outlook for their marriage in the light of social background at the time. In describing the characters’ everyday life and one marriage after another, Austen expressed her sensible view on it clearly. In her opinion, money was essential to a marriage while the equality in social status would increase the possibility of the marriage, but what affected the marriage most were manners. According to her, it was the good manners that united the heroes and heroines. Compared with the social scene on marriage nowadays, maybe her view was so restricted. But during her time, her view was so advanced that it was not accepted widely. On summary, we can find the author’s idea about marriage from the analysis: marriage, property and social status interconnected, but not absolutely.Key Words: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, analysis, marriage摘 要简奥斯丁是有史以来世界上最杰出的女性小说家之一。在18世纪的英国，作为女作家的她对爱情和婚姻有着敏锐的见解。她一生创作了六部小说：《诺桑觉寺》,《理