理性与感性——《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 36 理性与感性——《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观 Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 General Introduction Pride and Prejudice?is Jane Austens representative work. The novel describes the attitudes of Bennet’s family towards marriage. And it shows us the attitudes and perceptions of the English to treat love and marriage in that time. For a long time, many critics are exploring the author’s own view of marriage life continuously and analyzing the view of marriage in the novel clearly. The unique charm and vivid language of Pride and Prejudice show the different attitudes of marriage. No matter how the times develop, marriage has always been a widely discussed social problem. As the years go by, people enter the information explosion society gradually, and peoples ideas are also impacted unintended. Now, post-80s and post-90s have become the main group of the society. Their marriage concepts have caused the social extensive concern. Analyzing view of marriage of the Pride and Prejudice will bring forth new ideas to the modern young people. 1.2 Research Problem Statement The view of marriage in Pride and Prejudice has been studied at home and abroad all the time. There have been many works introducing it. Dong Na thinks that Elizabeths concept of marriage in Pride and Prejudice reflects the attitude toward love and marriage that is it is wrong to choose marriage just for status, money, honor or appearance, but the marriage that based on love also needs to take the economic factors into consideration. Love and wealth are both indispensable. The French Lena thinks that the secular perspective, especially the mother’s, has a big impact on the choice of marriage. But most of them are discussing marriage from the factors that affect marriage. Little work has been written to analysis the marriage concept from the way of thinking. However, the way of thinking has a big influence on the view of marriage. So this article will discuss the view of marriage that is dominated by the two kinds of thinki