英语毕业论文-文学类--简奥斯汀的婚姻观.docVIP

PAGE PAGE PAGE 1 Abstract Pride and prejudice is Jane Austin’s great work, discussing the different marriages and love. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen comments that marriage in her time is a financial contract, where love is strictly a matter of chance. This is clearly evident from the very first line of the novel: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” To Regency-era writer Jane Austen, a perfect marriage meant having it all - love and money. She rejects the marriage based on wealth and stresses the eleme