Pride-and-Prejudice傲慢与偏见英文.ppt

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen 苏州大学外国语学院 英语一班姜曼曼 Main Characters Plot Summary Themes Evaluations 目 录 CONTENTS Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet is the core of the family. Elizabeth is the second of Mr. and Mrs. Bennets five daughters. She is twenty years old and is intelligent, lively, attractive, and witty—but with a tendency to judge on first impression (the prejudice of the title) and to be a little selective of the evidence on which she bases her judgments. Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam Darcy is the male protagonist of the novel. He is the wealthy owner of the renowned family estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire. He is an intelligent, wealthy, extremely handsome and reserved man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers but possesses an honest and kind nature underneath. Mr. Darcy Mr. Bennet is the father of Elizabeth Bennet and head of the Bennet family. Mr. Bennet is shrewd, witty, learned and detached. He has a bitingly sarcastic humour and can only derive amusement from his nervous wife and three silly daughters--Mary, Kitty and Lydia. He is closest to his daughter, Elizabeth, and is also attached to his eldest daughter, Jane. Mr. Bennet Mrs. Bennet is overbearing, obnoxious and narrow-minded. Her public manners and social climbing are embarrassing to Jane and Elizabeth. Her favourite daughter is the youngest, Lydia and she values the beauty of the eldest, Jane. Her main ambition in life is to marry her daughters to wealthy men; whether or not any such matches will give her daughters happiness is of little concern to her. Mrs. Bennet Jane Bennet is the eldest Bennet sister. She is generally considered to be the most beautiful of her sisters. Her character is contrasted with Elizabeths as sweeter, shyer, and equally sensible, but not as clever; her most notable trait is a desire to see only the good in others. Jane Bennet Charles Bingley is a handsome, good-natured, and wealthy young gentleman, who rents Netherfield Park near Longbourn. He is contrasted