傲慢与偏见—从伊丽莎白的性格塑造看简

《傲慢与偏见》

—从伊丽莎白的性格塑造看简·奥斯汀的女性主义思想

摘要

简·奥斯丁是十八世纪末、十九世纪初的现实批评小说家。《傲慢与偏见》是她的代表作。小说生动地反映了18世纪末到19世纪初处于保守和闭塞状态下的英国乡镇生活和世态人情。简·奥斯丁作为那个时代的女性主义启蒙者和倡导者,在其作品《傲慢与偏见》中成功地塑造了具有时代反叛精神的女主人公形象伊丽莎白。奥斯丁首次尝试探讨了妇女的处境和地位,主张妇女人格独立和平等权利,表现出进步的思想。她对女性主义的关怀无疑为整个女性文学的发展作出了开拓性的贡献。

关键词：《傲慢与偏见》，简·奥斯丁，女性主义，伊丽莎白

Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's feminism reflected in

the portraying Elizabeth's personality

Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of Jane Austen, the English critical realistic writer in late 18th century and early 19th century. In this work, Austen as an enlightener and initiator of feminism at that time, successfully create the most attractive heroine image— Elizabeth, who possesses a rebel spirit of that time. For the first time Austen tried inquiring into feminine situation and status, and showed her advance in ideas through advocating feminine independence in personality and equal rights with man. With no doubt that her caring of feminism made pioneering contribution to the development of female literature.

Keywords: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, feminism, Elizabeth's personality

Contents

ⅠIntroduction (4)

1.1 A brief introduction about Jane

Austen (4)

1.2 A brief introduction about Pride and

Prejudice (5)

ⅡJane Austen's feminism reflected in Elizabeth's Personality (6)

2.1 Elizabeth in Pride and

Prejudice (6)

2.2 Austen's feminism: advancing idea of equality between man and women (7)

2.3 Austen's feminism: contempt for the feudal and traditional restrain of female (8)

2.4 Austen's feminism: disapproval of the people's unfair ideas about marriage (9)

ⅢConclusion (10)

Bibliography....................................................................................................................

11 Acknowledgements.........................................................................................................

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Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's feminism reflected in

the portraying Elizabeth's personality

ⅠIntroduction

1.1 A brief introduction about Jane Austen

Jane Austen, who wrote the most classic works, is generally hailed as the real great novelist of 20th century by critics and Literary historians. She was born in a British little town of a family pastor, and led a peaceful and well-off villeggiatura life. Jane was the sixth of her brothers and sisters. She received no school education, but taught by her father at home instead. Jane had a great passion on reading and writing, and entertained herself with writing stories even at eleven or twelve. Jane was not married all her life. She died at 1817, when she was only 41, and buried at Winchester Cathedral.

She had six famous works, Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811; Pride and Prejudice in 1813; Mansfield Park in 1814; Emma in 1815; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, published after she died in 1818. Among those six novels, Pride and Prejudice was acknowledged as the most popular one and Emma as the most mature one.

Jane Austen was the first novelist who realistically portrayed ordinary characters