《傲慢与偏见》达西性格分析英文版

Characters of Mr Darcy
Brief Introduction
As we all know, Pride and Prejudice is a love story, but to some degree, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. Jane Austen perfectly reflected the relation between property and marriage at her time. Different people have different vivid characteristics in the novel. So, I will take Mr Darcy for example to show his personalities.
Analysis of Mr Darcy
1.wealthy and handsome
Mr Darcy is an extremely wealthy aristocrat. He has a large estate in Derbyshire as well as ten thousand pounds a year. While his friend, Mr Bingley only possesses four or five thousand pounds a year. From this reality, we can draw a conclusion that Mr Darcy is so rich. What’s more, he is a handsome gentleman. As the novel says “The gentleman pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening.” (p12) From the sentence, we know that Mr Darcy is so noble and attractive to draw so much people’s attention.
2.proud and haughty
From the title “Pride and Prejudice”, we can see that Mr Darcy is so proud. When the ladies are more than gentlemen at a ball, he is just
standing and does nothing. He is arrogant, fancying himself so great.
As you know, Elizabeth is a charming and lively lady, but Mr Darcy coldly said, “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me.”
(p13). From this, we can infer Mr Darcy is so fastidious and haughty.
With the development of the story, he falls in love with Elizabeth, but he pretends to ignore her because of pride. For example, “Steady to his purpose, he scarcely spoke the words to her through the whole of Saturday, and though they were at one time left by themselves for half an hour, he adhered most conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.” (p76)
3.sincere and generous
According to Mr Darcy’s housekeeper, Mrs Reynolds says that he is always the sweetest-tempered, most generous-hearted boy in the world. In other words, Mr Darcy is liberal and generous,----to give his money freely, to display hospitality, to assist his tenants and relieve the poor. (p106) Mr Darcy is also a good brother because he always gives his sister any pleasure.
In another example, Elizabeth’s youngest sister, Lydia eloped with Wickham. This infamous elopement will make people look down upon the Bennets. Fortunately, Mr Darcy helped to solve this problem and covered the disgrace. From the details, he helped Wickham pay debts
and gave Lydia another one thousand pounds to make her settlement and so on.
4.devoted and consistent
Mr Darcy loves Elizabeth always the same from first to last. “If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.” (p471) He is devoted to Elizabeth in spite of her refusal. Besides, Mr Darcy makes great efforts to help Lydia in order to please Elizabeth. From all of these, we can know that Mr Darcy loves her so deeply from heart and soul.
Conclusion
As a matter of fact, gold can’t be pure and man can’t be perfect. If a person wants to be recognized by the society, he must have many excellent qualities, such as patience, magnanimity, tolerant, easiness and so on. Anyway, the story ends with their happy marriage at last through Mr Darcy’s changes in his behaviors.
Reference
1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice,中央编译出版社，2011年3月第一版
2. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice,译林出版社，孙致礼译，2000年3月第二版
3. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice,航空工业出版社，Wheatley Bernstein改编，2004年5月第一版。