Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

By TangQin

A Thesis Presented to

A Brief Analysis of the Characters Personality in Pride and

Prejudice

Sichuan Normal university

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for

The Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Under The Supervision of Mr. Liu Yuanzhi

February 2012

Thesis statement:Pride and prejudice was the second novel of Jane Austen. It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel. However, because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the character’s first impressions, that is their prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is written in gentle or Horatian satire. The main object of Jane’s satire in the novel is the mercenary and the ignorance of the people, a common criticism of the the eighteen century.

Outline

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Strategies used by setting examples

A.The hero’s personality

⒈The reason for Darcy’s pride

⒉Darcy changes his view

B.The heroine’s personality

⒈Elizabeth’s family condition

⒉Elizabeth’s prejudice to Darcy

⒊Elizabeth sober herself and fall in love to Darcy

C.The other characters personality

Ⅲ. Conclusion

The characters’ personality in Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is very successfully. This novel is based on daily life, it reflects the current situation of the British’s life in eighteen to nineteen century.

A Brief Analysis of the Characters Personality in Pride and

Prejudice

School of Foreign Languages, ABTC, Sichuan, China, 610000

Abstract: Pride and Prejudice is the second novel of Jane Austen. The hero Mr. Darcy looks like a pride and ungracious in the superficial, but he is a kindheartedness and one who can correct his mistake when he know it. The heroine Elizabeth witty, have courage, visionary, have very strong self-respect and thinking. At that time, it is the phenomenon that society is the mercenary and the ignorance of the people. Characters in the novel which best carries these qualities are Mrs. Bennet, a foolish woman who talks too much and is obsess with getting her daughters married; Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet daughter who to a life of dancing, fashions, gossips and flirting; and Mr.Williams Collins, the silly and conceited baboon who is completely stupefy by Lady Catherine in every aspect of his life that he has forgotten his own morals and duty. Like Mr. Bingley, Mr. Bennet and so on.

Key word: Pride and Prejudice, characters, personality

Jane Austen ( 1775―1817 ) , who was born at Steventown on December 16, 1775, was one of the greatest novelists in England. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular fiction of Jane Austen, it reflects three kinds of marriage views. The readers were deeply moved by the emotion of the hero and heroine, they have several experiences for their love; at the beginning, they are much alike in character, and then they misunderstand each other, after a long time, they decline their misunderstand, finally, they get together and have a happy time. In a word, the heroine has experienced pride、slight、prejudice and excellent idea about her view of emotion.

There is never any deviation into the unnatural or exaggerated; and how worthy of all love and respect is the finely disciplined genius which rejects the forcible but transient modes of stimulating interest which can so easily be employed when desired, and which knows how to trust the never-failing principles of human nature. In this