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2012—2013(II)?英国文学史及选读考查问题 班级 1004?学号 姓名 张雯艳 I、About Pride and Prejudice 3、Please discuss different attitudes toward marriage in this novel. Jane Austen (1775-1817) is often hailed as the truly great British novelist in the twentieth century literary historians and literary critics, because she has perfected novel in English. So her novels are the most classic sense of the novel. The famous British writer and critic Keble (T.T.Kebble) said, Jane Austen is a comedy writer artist and that she was in a purely comic art after Shakespeare. The famous 19th century British historian, poet and political commentator Thomas ? Make Lai (Thomas Macauley) called her Prose Shakespeare. Middle-class family’s background for girls who have different attitudes to marriage love problem, and thus reflect the authors marriage: It’s wrong for marriage to have property, to have money and to have position. But it’s is stupid that girls do not take into account the above factors. All bachelors with property must want to marry a rich wife; it has become a universally acknowledged truth. This is the influence of first sentence of the book and then highlighted an important factor that affecting marriage – money. However, is really a truth? I analyze the novel, and I think the marriage in the book can be divided into three different kinds of state. Through the comparison, I will have my own judgment. Lydia and Wickham’s marriage: They seek pleasure with blind passion in pride and prejudice. If you want to choose the most bizarre and least promising marriage, it’s undoubtedly that Lydia and Wickham’s marriage. The basis of Marriage is the final results, and that decides the characteristics of the marriage. Western people pay more attention to the sexual. In their opinion, the combination of men and women is sexual satisfaction with each other. Lydia used to indulge in the chasing of men and she isn’t always specifically in love. As long as somebody else said like her, whatever she likes or di