Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见赏析

Pride and Prejudice

1.主题(Theme)

-----Theme of Love

In Pride and Prejudice, love is not a necessary component of marriage.At the same time, it is shown to be a completely special emotion that is available only for intelligent, mature adults.

------Theme of Marriage

The novel shows us the miserable marriage of the Bennets and mercenary marriages of Charlotte and Lydia, And with the marriages of Jane and Elizabeth front and center, the novel does allow room for good partnership as well.

------Theme of Wealth

Wealth is crucially important in Pride and Prejudice. There is almost no conversation about potential spouses that doesn't also calculate the annual income that the pair might have to live on. ------Theme of Society and Class

Darcy's character arc is to become the ultimate gentleman –he starts out wealthy, aristocratic, and good-hearted. Conversely, although Wickham seems to have the outer polish of an aristocrat, he is proven to be thoroughly ungentlemanly.

------Theme of Women and Femininity

The novel is actually concerned with the plight of the middle-class, single woman. Most of the women we see here are caught in a bind.

Pride and Prejudice offers us a look into this rather intensely feminine world of courting, marriage decisions, and social realities.

------Theme of Family

We all have families that embarrass us to some extent, but the Bennet family takes it to a whole new level, creating endless problems for the two eldest Bennet daughters.

the joy and pain of love, the pursuit of happiness and the infulence of social opinion.

The main themes of pride and prejudice: love, reputation, class, courtship and pride. the last part of the paper shows that this great novel not only attracted thousands of readers in austen’s time, but also gave a special feeling to today’s people.

1. love between darcy and elizabeth

2. reputation--a woman’s reputation is of the utmost important

3.class boundaries and prejudice

4.courtship --those between darcy and elizabeth and between bingley and jane

5. two ways of pride: positive and negative

2.情节

Pride and Prejudice is one of the representative works of Jane Austen, first published in 1813. Though the story's setting is characteristically turn-of-the-19th-century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of 'most loved books.

Pride and Prejudice is Austen’s masterpiece. The story is mainly about Mrs. Bennet’s four daughters’marriage. Elizabeth, the second oldest daughter and Darcy’s love is used as the main plotline and the other three daughters’marriage as the subordinate plot. In the story, Charlotte