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1 Introduction Jane Austen is an earliest and most important woman novelist in English Literature.Different from the style of Walter Scott’s fictions.She kept her eyes steadily upon the people and incident ahout her, and write about the small world she lived in.”She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle-class people and of which there are many fine examples in later English fiction.”(Wu 123)”She herself compared her work to a fine engraving made upon a little piece of ivory only two inches square.”(Liu 371)Her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice is just one of this kind of novels.”It is very thin plot, but around it the authoress has woven vivid pictures of the everyday life of simple country society.”(Liu 372)English novels describe marriage and family in that society too much all long.But different from the common novels ,it reflects the life of middle-class in capitalist society through the description of marriage problem.”The British Critic said that Pride and Prejudice was ‘far superior to almost all the publication of the kind which have come before us.”(Lefory 107)The authoress Jane Austen describes four couple’s marriages mainly in it.Their attitudes towards marriage are completely different .Through the life of middle-class in the middle of 18th century, the four couples’ joys and sorrows affect me, especially Elizabeth and Darcy, Lydia and Wickham.They are more representative than the others. So I choose two couples to compare. The heroin Elizabeth is intelligent, lively and humor.She has strong human dignity.She refuses the proposal of Collins who is rich but she don’t love,refuses steadily rich young noble Darcy’s proposal because Elizabeth thinks Darcy is condescend and pride, she can’t bear.When domineering Lady Catherine wants to interfere with the freedom of her marriage,she doesn’t compromise and give the impression weakness.At last Darcy’s false Pride is humbled and he helps her family in secret.Elizabeth’s prejudice is disso