Pride and Prejudice-简·奥斯汀傲慢与偏见英文简介 作者简介

Pride & Prejudice
❈Pride narrows the vision of a person and causes one to underestimate other mortals. ❈Prejudice blinds the vision and leads to false perceptions about others. ❈Upper classes & lower classes’ pride and prejudice.
In 1783 ,Jane was sent to Oxford to be educated by Mrs. Ann Cawley In 1786, returned home , educated by their father
In 1801,because her father was retired, Jane moved to Bath with her family 1805, her father was dead, and in 1806 Jane moved to Southampton with her mother and sister
In 1809, move to a large cottage in the village of Chawton
Engraving of Steventon rectory, home of the Austen family during much of Jane Austen's lifetime
Society and class
♢Pride and Prejudice upholds reasonably
conservative views on class. ♢strict social class system and class distinction ♢inequality and resistance to social hierarchy Ideal society: a humanistic society
Family
♣Creating endless problems for the Bennet daughters. ♣Family in Pride and Prejudice, therefore, affects your opportunities and life chances in a very real way.
• So Elizebeth'accuses him of being responsible for the separation between Mr. Bingley and Jane, her sister and of ill-treating Mr. Wickham , a young officer who was the son of Darcy’s former steward because when Darcy shows his love he cannot help showing contempt for her inferior social position . • After Elizebeth'’s refusal of him, Darcy writes a letter where he explains that Wickham was an unscrupolous adventurer.
★bright, attractive, thoughtful, humorous, sympathetic, independent little woman, whose sunny qualities are unconsciously reflected in all her books.
♥Love and Marriage
♥ Three kinds of motivations towards marriage:
♡ Those who marry for fortune, money and social rank.
♡ Those who marry for beauty, attraction and passion
The cottage in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austen's House Museum
Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral
Marrige for love
Marrige for benefit☂
Major Themes
♣Good judgment about people ♣Love and marriage ♣Society and class ♣Pride & Prejudice ♣Family ♣Women and Femininity
♡ Those who marry for love.
♦In Pride and Prejudice, love is not a necessary component of marriage. ♦But the power of love is great, it can let a hate in human love change, can let you cast prejudice and reknow and accept a person.
Plot Overview
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A new neighbour Bingley ($bachelor) instantly became the hunting target of Mrs Banner. • Bingley felt in love at the first sight with the eldest daughter Jane.
• Darcy.Bingley's friend($) • extremly arrogant. • deemed all of Banner's daughters were unquailified to dance with him. However,felt in love with Jane's sister Elizabeth and gruadually changed his attitude.
• Meanwhile Wickham elopes with Lydia ; Darcy traces them and provides for their marriage. • Elisabeth realises that she was mistaken about Darcy and accept his renewed proposal , in spite of the opposition of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Darcy’s arrogant aunt. • Then Bingley comes back and get engaged with Jane and so the novel ends with the happy marriages of the two couples.
Pride & Prejudice
Plot
Author
Background
Character Themes
Once upon a time,there was a villager called Bennet who had five unmarried daughters.Bannet's wife always tried to find husbands who were suitable for their daughters.
Characteristics of Her Works
---her heroines return society to a more moderate course as a reaction பைடு நூலகம்o 18th century sentimentalism ---wit and irony provide stability because they regulate conduct ---Cosmic order in courtship and marriage
★Good
judgment about people
• In the process of judging others, Elizabeth finds out her own weakness and Darcy ★ learns about other people and himself. In the end false pride is humbled and prejudice dissolved.
Bingley'sister Caroline wanted to marry Darcy. Darcy refused her. She discoveried that Darcy loved Elizebeth so she began to do something to damage their relationship. Darcy can't stand for the ignorance of Elizebeth's sisters so he persuaded Bingley not to marry Jane. Being persuaded by his sister and Darcy,Bingley left and headed to London.But Jane still loved him so much.
Jane Austen
Life
Career
Characteristics of Her
works
Quotations
1775 born at Steventon rectory, Hampshire,England 1817, Jane was sent to Winchester to take the treatment by her sister,but at last she die and buried in Winchester Cathedral, unmarried 1816,Jane caught the tuberculosis
Social Background
Mr.Wickham
1 foxy 2 snob 3 love money very much
• few middle-class women could choose not to marry or to marry simply for love.
• women could not enter occupations and earn their own living; one might become a governess, but this job paid little and was similar to a servant in status. A few middle class women did write, like Jane Austen, but they seldom made enough money to live on, and few women inherited wealth. (Property and money were passed down through men.) Marriage was the only path to financial security. • women devoted themselves to attracting a husband. A well-rounded education was not essential, since women would spend their time in the home.