Love ReflectedIndividual Characterview of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

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1、Love Reflected by Individual Character-view of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice ContentsAbstracti【摘要】iiIntroduction11 The Brief Introduction21.1 The Background of the Author21.2 The Introduction to Pride and Prejudice22 The Different Views of Marriage in the Novel32.1 The Marriage between Elizabeth a

2、nd Darcy32.2 Collins and Charlottes Marriage52.3 Wickham and Lydias Marriage62.4 The Conclusion for Three Marriages83 The Meaning to People in Modern Times8Conclusion10Bibliography12Abstract：Jane Austen is a distinguished realism novelist in British at the cross of 18th century and 19th century. In

3、her novels, what the most eye-catching performance is the viewpoint of marriage which is based on love. But love will not always be happy without money, and love itself is based on the quality, wisdom and character. This paper analyzes three marriages in Austens masterpiece Pride and Prejudice, Eliz

4、abeth and Darcys marriage with love and money, Charlotte and Collinss marriage with money but love, and Wickham and Lydias marriage with moral bankruptcy and emotion lost. These three marriages abovementioned have shown Austens point of view of marriage. Key Words：Marriage Love Money【摘要】：简奥斯汀是1819世纪

5、之交英国杰出的现实主义小说家，在她的小说中最引人注目的是其所表现的婚姻观点，即婚姻是以爱情为基础的，但是光有爱情是不幸福的，爱情是要以金钱为条件，而爱情本身是以素质、智慧及品质为基础的。奥斯汀的代表作傲慢与偏见中的三桩婚姻，即伊丽莎白和达西既有爱情又有金钱的婚姻；夏洛蒂和柯林斯只有钱没有爱的婚姻和道德沦丧、情感迷失的威克姆和莉迪亚的婚姻，体现了奥斯汀的婚姻观点。【关键字】：婚姻 爱情 金钱 IntroductionIn the 18th century, women had lower social status compared to men; many women had to bow t

6、o money in order to hold on to descent lives. Material wealth was the basic stone for luxury lives, decent social status, and psychological satisfactions. Because of that, money acted as the first order of consideration in the determination of marriages. “With no career possible for a woman of any p

7、retension to gentle birth, beyond that of a wretchedly overworked schoolteacher or a lonely and humiliated governess, it is easy for us to sympathize with these girls”. (Nicholas, 156)“It is truth well known to the entire world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need o

8、f a wife. And when such a man moves into a neighborhood, even if nothing is known about his feelings or opinions, this truth is so clear to the surrounding families, which they think of him immediately as the future husband of one or other of their daughters.”(Austen, 2)This is the first sentence of

9、 Pride and Prejudice, the masterpiece of the greatest British female writerJane Austen, which brings about a classical story about love and value happened in the 19th century in London.As we all know, through the different attitude of Bennett towards his five daughters marriage in this novel, Austen

10、 reflects his own opinion towards love and marriage: It is wrong to get married just for the property, money and status; but it is also stupid not to consider these facts for marriage. Therefore, she is not only against the marriage for the money, but also against regard marriage as a trifling matte

11、r. She emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage, and regards the relationship between men and women as the foundation of ideal marriage.The heroin of the story Elizabeth was born in the landlord family with four sisters, the flat and quiet life of these five girls was changed after the coming

12、 of two young boys. Healthy Bingley and wealthy Darcy are good friends, after they met the five girls of Bennetts, there comes a beautiful love story Pride and Prejudice.Wealthy Darcy fall in love with beautiful Elizabeth deeply, and he proposed to her in spite of the wealth. But Elizabeth refused h

13、im for the considered himself peerless, in fact, she misunderstood Darcy, so she changed her attitude towards him, and they got married finally.1 The Brief Introduction1.1 The Background of the AuthorJane Austen (17751817) was a British female realistic writer; she was born in Hampshire, a country p

14、riest family located in Hants, the village of Kingston, Sidemen in north England. Her father was a pastor. Austen didnt receive any regular education, but she received a good family educationthe books that her father collected. Austen began writing at the age of 20, she was published six novels. Her

15、 first novel Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811, and after that she published Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Among them, Pride and Prejudice was her masterpiece.However her marriage is like a blank paper in her 42 years real lifetime. Going through the fi

16、nest time, but eventually without meeting a comfortable partner, she gives up her love. Going through the sweet and bitter feeling which helps her to write the great work. She describes the real world around her with her delicate observation, especially the love story between men and women. Her work

17、s are light and humorous, and was so popular among the readers. She was said to be “The writer equal to Shakespeare”. 1.2 The Introduction to Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, a famous British writer with six novels, is famous at depicting the daily life of ordinary people. Pride and Prejudice is her

18、masterpiece, which tells a love story of young people. The course of true love never runs smooth due to arrogance and prejudice. By female-specific sensitivity and delicate observation, the writer painted a rich, leisure class, quiet and comfortable rural life and ladies and gentlemens love and marr

19、iage, and reflected the daily life of 18th century English rural scenes by her superb artistic skills, her writing style of realism plays a role of linking the history in the United Kingdom. This Novel is Austins most popular novel which plot twists and turns, dramatic, language fresh and smooth, fu

20、ll of wit.2 The Different Views of Marriage in the Novel2.1 The Marriage between Elizabeth and DarcyThe most successful marriage in the novel is Elizabeth and Darcys marriage. It emphasizes a perfect marriage is combine of both money and love.Elizabeth is the ideal image for women as well as the mos

21、t charismatic person in the novel. She is Bonnets second daughter, an active, intelligent and smart girl. She has a middle-class family background and has not been affected by the formal education belonging to those aristocratic young girls, so she isnt good at music and painting, but she has read m

22、any books which make her knowledgeable and perceptive. The most important aspect is that she is a lady with dignity and upbringing. Darcy is a man with tall figure and good manner. He is handsome, rich and powerful. So he is the ideal husband of most girls. But he has grown up in the surroundings wi

23、th strong sense of power, so he always is selfish and arrogant, and he has a critical look at each individual, except the family members. He is not concerned about anyone else, and looks down upon anyone else. Therefore, when he first arrives in the village, he finds all the persons are far away fro

24、m those imagined .Although every girl there is young and lovely, he has no interest to anyone except Elizabeth. At first he doesnt put an eye on Elizabeth. Gradually, he has to admit that Elizabeth is beautiful, distinct and popular, although he insists that Elizabeth hasnt the same social status as

25、 him. Darcy is rational because he has a strong sense of power, which agrees on the reality at that time. Although he expresses his love to Elizabeth, he couldnt help showing his arrogance, which makes Elizabeth have misconception and prejudice on Darcy. Darcy loves Elizabeth, but looks down upon he

26、r social status. He considers that he has been lowing himself and doing something against his will, personalities and even moral standard. He thinks that his marriage would certainly succeed and Elizabeth is waiting for him to propose marriage. Therefore, even he is irresistible to the flooding feel

27、ings, and condescends to Elizabeth; he still remembers the gap between them. Clearly, the rational aspect of Darcys personality performs on the realities of society. When he talks about his feelings of love, he also expresses the arrogance of these feelings in details, which results in the arousing

28、resentment of Elizabeth; she rejects his marriage proposal, and angrily accuses his insolence. The rational aspect of the heroine Elizabeth shows her clear, calm and actually stressful personality. Compared with her stupid mother, the smooth and lazy father, the shallow-minded, self-willed sister wi

29、th feather head, Elizabeth is one with ideal mind. She is elegant like her sister Jane, but more intellectually superior unlike her sister being easy to be favorable. She also advises her sister to see through the stupidity and nonsense of those camouflage honest persons. Elizabeth is unique, becaus

30、e she has a deep understanding of all the things around her. In fact both she and Darcy are extremely sensitive to the social status. Different from Darcy, Elizabeth doesnt have superiority about her family background and status. Instead, she feels deeply ashamed for her sisters being lack of fairly

31、 education and her mothers rudeness and stupidity. Compared with her moderate and generous sister Jane, she is smarter and even more profound. She has a clean understanding about her own social status, which is due to the psychotically sedimentary deposits because she is in a inferior position for l

32、ong time. Because of this, she resists extremely against the arrogance of Darcy, and she tries her best to protect herself from being hurtled by Darcys commanding attitude. She believes that she must make him understand that she is not woozy, which reflects her belief to deal with the emotional enta

33、nglements with Darcy, as well as her constant patter with Darcy and the prejudice on Darcy. It superficially seems to be shared by the traditional psychological requirement that everyone needs to be respected mutually. Mutually speaking, this is another form of expression about the awareness of stat

34、us. Perhaps, to some extent, Darcy has more romantic temperament than Elizabeth; it is because he is better positioned than her. Elizabeth refuses the stupid priest Collins and challenges wealthy Darcy; all of this is actually the resistance of the prevailing marriage at that time. The ultimate fail

35、ure makes Darcy wake up. He is aware of his own short-comings. He accepts Elizabeths criticism, and faithfully corrects the shortcomings and mistakes. He is no longer arrogant and has a real love with Elizabeth.With the revealing of the truth, Elizabeths prejudice on Darcy becomes deeper. Until when

36、 Elizabeth refuses Darcys long love letter, she experiences the fierce shock. After undergoing a period of painful and profound thought, she could not help but to shout how despicable she is, she believes she is the excellent one in the family, she is skillful and always despises her sisters dress.

37、In order to satisfy her own vanity, she always treats people with an irrelevant suspicion and confusion. But this shame serves her right. Even if she really falls in love with someone, she should not be so blind to meet this flunking stage. She is stupid not only in love, but in the vanity. When she

38、 first knows them two, one loves her and makes her feel happy, and the other treats her in a cold manner, which makes her angry. All these cause her prejudice and ignorance, when she encounters their affairs. She would not be able to distinguish the right and the wrong. She could be considered to be

39、 knowledgeable at last. When we see the blame from heart, we find her shortcomings and the courage that she could face herself directly. It is her bringing that plays a role; she starts to give up the bias caused by self-esteem, truly and seriously understand Darcy. Elizabeth wouldnt believe the sha

40、meless lies about Darcy said by Han and eliminate the misunderstanding and prejudice. She finally falls in love with Darcy. When the sister asks how she would love Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth replies that she should date from the day she see the beautiful lane manor park. The statement seems to refer to th

41、e property of Darcy. Therefore, Jane doesnt want the sisters to be kidding. In addition to referring to the specific manor, she also refers the new Darcy seen in the garden. In other words, Darcy changes the attitude of being arrogant and rudest, and this is the reason why Darcy wins Elizabeths hear

42、t and love. 2.2 Collins and Charlottes MarriageIn Pride and Prejudice, the first part is the marriage of Collins and Charlotte, their marriage is lucky and natural. They got married without any expectation, just built on the foundation of money totally.Charlotte is William Lucass daughter, who is th

43、e neighbor of Bennett. She is a smart girl, was born of humble parentage and very mediocre in every aspect. And is the best friend of Elizabeth. Because she was a litter older, she has a sharp observation than Elizabeth. So she has not got married until she is 26 years old. She may be a typical ques

44、tionable girl. Collins is a stupid pastor who has a very bad manner and always depends on the rich people. But the most attractive places to single female are his successive possession from his father and 2000pounds real estate from Bennett. Collins thinks he has a house and a good income, Elizabeth

45、 had no reason refused him, but it is contrary to the fact, because she didnt believe the marriage just for the money.Charlotte is the single woman who was attracted by everything of Collins. She didnt have a celebrated family background, and live under a great pressure of family and society. After

46、Collins was refused by Elizabeth, he proposed to Charlotte, and Charlotte agreed him without any hesitation. It is the ugliness and bad manner of Collins that Charlotte can never stand, but in order to have a security in economy, she has to bear it. Austen didnt agree with her, she thinks Charlotte

47、just married for money. With no doubt, Charlottes experience is awful the marriage. Her husband often embarrasses her with his inappropriate words and behaviors, and the only thing she can do is to pretend to ignore those. Obviously their marriage is a kind of superficial marriage without happiness.

48、2.3 Wickham and Lydias MarriageThe marriage is between Bennetts third daughter Lydia and Wickham, the son of the housekeeper. Originally he is well-treated by the family and the friends. However, he comes down in the world because of his misbehavior. He gets into debt. So, he wants to get money and

49、become rich and change his social status through marriage, marriage is also a way to approach the talents, he is a man without any responsibility. He does nothing except assailing a woman with obscenities. In his opinion, love is only recreation. For his purpose, he entices Lydia and gets her love e

50、asily, because she is young, innocent and vainglorious, and loves to go ease and hates to work hard, and is spoilt by her mother. Getting love and praise of a boy is her dream. So when Wickham wants to reach his aimgetting wealth by love and exalts her beauty hypocritically, she forgets who she is a

51、nd feels she is the most beautiful and happiest girl in the world. Their love does not get the permission from the parents, and then they elope. When Elizabeth hears the news, she believes that their love is false, Wickham would not marry Lydia, because she is no charming and has nothing to attract

52、him, He does not love her but the wealth of her family. The marriage is admitted on the condition of Darcys help. Their marriage is considered to be a scandal in Bennetts family. But Mrs. Bennett is not disgraceful to this marriage. When Collins gets the news, of course, he is very angry and reacts

53、to the marriage to revenge his early failure of proposal to her. This marriage is one without love. They dont the real meaning of marriage, they only want to satisfy their aspiration. So we can say this is a kind of impromptu love and marriage without true love and responsibility. Such couple only s

54、eek having had the experience but not everlasting and unchanging. Of course, such kind of marriage is doomed to be a tragedy.In Austens point view of love: Love is based on the persons quality, wisdom and character. She thinks that whether happy in marriage or not is depends on a mans morality, not

55、his appearance. Austens view was embodied totally in Pride and Prejudice. Lydia is the negative role in the work that has an empty thought, stupid mind and only seeks after the pleasure and wealth. Her husband Wickham was a handsome but fair without and foul within the hypocrites. The stupid Lydia c

56、onsiders that she gets the happiest love in the world, she eloped with Wickham and proud of this. But she didnt realize that her elopement brings her family a great panic, implicated a lot of person including her sisters. Actually they didnt elope for love as other people think, Wickham is for evadi

57、ng from the creditors, and Lydia is just for fun. If we say there is a little sympathy towards Charlotte and Collins, and to Wickham and Lydia is just full of with criticize and dissatisfied. We can conclude that the marriage of them is the marriage which is morality completely missing, and also emo

58、tion lost.2.4 The Conclusion for Three MarriagesAusten paid much effort on describing Darcys mental shift on his own marriage. Because of Elizabeths mother and her low connections, people in their social circle always think less of them. When Darcy talks with Bingley and his sisters, he even critici

59、zes Elizabeth “It must very materially lessen their chance of marrying men of any consideration in the world”. When Darcy is attracted by Elizabeth, he even believed that “were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger”. These are all caused by the difference between

60、 their social statuses; however, since they belong to the same class, they still have the opportunity for further progress. Through the analysis of three different marriages in the novel, we can know that Austen fully expresses her views on love and marriage only by appreciating the marriage founded

61、 on the basis of mutual understanding and true love, but also by satirizing the marriage founded on the basis of origin and desire. The experiences in life, her inside feeling and the social environment she lived formed her writing stylelove story, especially about marriage. Austen has her own point

62、 of view towards marriage. She insists that love is based on the persons quality, wisdom and character. But money is the foundation of love as well as the persons quality and moral standard. It is a true love that with both money and morality. All this can be proved in this novel Pride and Prejudice

63、.3 The Meaning to People in Modern Times The stories show the ordinary lives, feelings of the ordinary people. They are linked up in a harmonious order under the authors meticulous concepts. A persons purpose to choose his spouse decides his standard to choose his spouse. The standard differs from t

64、he purpose. Determines the nature of marriage that people attribute to consider a mans physical, economic, religious, and ethical and other factors when choosing a spouse. According to the difference of the standard of choosing spouse, historian Lawrence Stone decided the purpose to four kinds in hi

65、s masterpiece: For strengthen the economy of the family; for their own feeling, friendship and love; for the attraction of the sex; And for the passion. We can find the examples through the several marriages in Pride and Prejudice. For example, the marriage of Charlotte and Collins is the purpose for strengthen the economy of the family.Jane Austen uses a relax way to describe the marriages humorously in Pride and Prejudice. How the gentlemen choose their wife and how the young ladies choose their future husbands make the nov