pride and prejudice英美文学讲解.ppt

第一页，编辑于星期三：四点 五十一分。 Story Summary 第二页，编辑于星期三：四点 五十一分。 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. In this statement, Austen has cleverly done three things: She has declared that the main subject of the novel will be courtship and marriage, She has established the humorous tone of the novel by taking a simple subject to elaborate and to speak intelligently She has prepared the reader for a chase in the novel of either a husband in search of a wife, or a women in pursuit of a husband.  第三页，编辑于星期三：四点 五十一分。 Jane?Austen?(1775-1817)? English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen the most perfect artist among women. 第四页，编辑于星期三：四点 五十一分。 List of works Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey (1818) Persuasion (1818) Short fiction 第五页，编辑于星期三：四点 五十一分。 Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn near London. Because they have no son, their property will have to pass, according to the law at that time, to a cousin, William Collins. Hoping to secure their daughters’ position in society, they both want to marry them to some wealthy gentlemen. It so happens that Charles Bingley, a single man in possession of a good fortune, comes to settle in the neighborhood with his two sisters and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is also rich and unmarried. Bingley and Jane fall in love with each other almost at first sight. And Darcy is attracted to Jane’s sister Elizabeth, but he offends her by his insolent behavior and rude remarks at a ball. The disli