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Pride and Prejudice, First Impression
When another young man called Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, she has prejudice against him because she thinks that he has nothing but pride. After many twists and turns, misunderstanding disappears and they are happily united.
Characteristics of Her Works


1. Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.
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Mr. Bingley, much like Jane, is an amiable and goodtempered person. He is not overly 过度地concerned with class differences, and Jane‘s poor family connections are not a serious deterrent制止 to his attachment to her. Bingley is very modest and easily swayed by the advice of his friends, as seen in his decision not to propose to Jane as a result of Darcy's belief that Jane is not really attached to him. Also like Jane, Bingley lacks serious character faults and is thus static throughout the novel. His character and his love for Jane remain constant; the only thing that changes is the advice of Darcy, which leads him not to propose to Jane in the beginning of the novel but to propose to her in the end.
Character analysis

The protagonist of the novel and the second oldest of five sisters, Elizabeth is lively, quick-witted, sharp-tongued, bold and intelligent. Elizabeth is good-looking, and is especially distinguished by her fine eyes. The importance of her eyes may be symbolic of her abilities of perception. She has pride in her abilities to perceive the truth of situations and of people‘s characters. However, her perceptive abilities fail her frequently because she is influenced by vanity and judges people rashly轻率地. By the end of the novel she overcomes her prejudice through her dealings with Darcy. Elizabeth is concerned with propriety礼貌, good-manners, and virtue, but is not impressed by mere wealth or titles
writing at an early age six novels
quiet Retired隐退的 Uneventful平淡的 never married
died in 1817, 42 years old
Her Novels
1. Northanger Abbey
《诺桑觉寺》
2. Sense and Sensibility
Characteristics of Her Works
2.Jane Austen’s main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors. Stories of love and marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major characters.
Pride and Prejudice, First Impression
The
book mainly tells the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.

Jane is the oldest in the family. Beautiful, good-tempered, sweet, amiable和蔼的, humble and selfless, Jane is universally wellliked. She refuses to judge anyone badly, always making excuses for people when Elizabeth brings their faults to her attention. Her tendency to give people the benefit of the doubt leads her to be hurt by insincere friends such as Caroline Bingley, although in the end her judgments seem to be more accurate than Elizabeth‘s overall and to do her much less harm. Jane is a static 静态的 character as she is basically a model of virtue from the beginning, there is no room for her to develop in the novel.
Characteristics of Her Works
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Jane Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. 4. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated高雅的 art. she keeps the balance between fact and form.
Pride and Prejudice, First Impression
None of the daughters of the wealthy family can inherit the estate (property) of the family for it has been entailed (把遗产留 给) upon the nearest male heir, William Collins. Collins intends to marry and he decides to choose Elizabeth. But Elizabeth rejects his proposal.
Jane Austen 简· 奥斯丁 1775—1817
Jane Austen (1775—1817)
Jane Austen’s Life
Hampshire
rector(教区长) educated at home
read a lot
restricted environment
Jane Austen’s Life
The Theme The first theme is pride and prejudice. Another theme is love and marriage.

Other Features
Jane
Austen is successful in the employment of irony and frequent use of witty and delightful dialogues .
Three of types of marriage:
(1) those who marry for money, position and property, (2) those who marry just for passion , (3) those who marry for love based on consideration of the person’s personal merit as well as his economical and social status.
《理智与情感》
3. Pride and Prejudice 《傲慢与偏见》
(It went begging/没人要/ for 16 years)
Her Novels


4. Mansfield Park 《曼斯菲尔德花园》 5. Emma 《爱玛》 6. Persuasion 《劝告》

An extremely wealthy aristocrat贵族, Darcy is proud, haughty傲慢的 and extremely conscious of class differences at the beginning of the novel. He does, however, have a strong sense of honor and virtue. Elizabeth‘s rebukes责难 after his first proposal to her help him to recognize his faults of pride and social prejudice. It is, in fact, precisely because Elizabeth is not so awed 敬畏的by his high social status as to be afraid to criticize his character that he is attracted to her. The selfknowledge acquired from Elizabeth's rebukes and the desire to win Elizabeth's love spur him to change and judge people more by their character than by their social class.