JaneAusten简·奥斯汀PPT文学史
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傲慢与偏见(共16张PPT)
• 附近小镇的民团联队里有个英俊潇洒的青年军官威克姆，人人都夸他 ，伊丽莎白也对他产生了好感。一天，他对伊丽莎白说，他父亲是 达西家的总管，达西的父亲曾在遗嘱中建议达西给他一笔财产，从 而体面地成为一名神职人员而这笔财产却被达西吞没了。伊丽莎白 听后，对达西更加反感。
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• 柯林斯夫妇请伊丽莎白去他们家作客，伊丽莎白在那里遇到，并且被邀去她的 罗辛斯山庄做客。不久，又见到了来那里过复活节的达西。达西无法抑制自己
• 班纳特先生没有儿子，根据当时法律，只有男性可以继承财 产，而班纳特家的女儿们仅仅只能得到五千英镑作为嫁妆， 因此他的家产将由远亲柯林斯(Collins)继承。柯林斯古板平庸 又善于谄媚奉承，依靠权势当上了牧师。他向伊丽莎白求婚 ，遭拒绝后，马上与她的密友夏洛特(Charlotte)结婚，这也给 伊丽莎白带来不少烦恼。
作者简介
• 奥斯汀终身未婚，家道小康。由于居住在乡村小镇， 接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、舒 适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾 。她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了 她周围世界的小天地，尤其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱 情风波。她的作品格调轻松诙谐，富有喜剧性冲突， 深受读者欢迎。在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的 意义，被誉为地位“可与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。
傲慢与偏见
《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的代表作。这部作品以 日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的 内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，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。这部社会风情画式的小说不仅在当时 吸引着广大的读者，时至今日，仍给读者以独特的 艺术享受。 也有根据书本改编的电影.
先后两次求婚的不同态度，实际上反映了女性对人格独立和 平等权利的追求。这是伊丽莎白这一人物形象的进步意义。
Jane Austen 英美文学PPT资料37页
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
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4) Austen's novels are brightened by their witty
conversation & omnipresent humor. Her language shines with an exquisite touch of lively gracefulness， elegant & refined， but never showy.
3) Austen's interest was in human nature; in her depiction of human nature， instead of being fascinated by great waves of elevated emotion， by passion or heroic experience， she focused on the trivial & petty details of everyday living， which became very interesting through her truthful & lively
2) Her subject matter is also limited， for most of her novels deal with the subject of getting married， which was in fact the central problem for the young leisure-class lady of that age， who had no other choice in her life but to find a good husband.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
description.
4) Austen's novels are brightened by their witty
conversation & omnipresent humor. Her language shines with an exquisite touch of lively gracefulness， elegant & refined， but never showy.
3) Austen's interest was in human nature; in her depiction of human nature， instead of being fascinated by great waves of elevated emotion， by passion or heroic experience， she focused on the trivial & petty details of everyday living， which became very interesting through her truthful & lively
2) Her subject matter is also limited， for most of her novels deal with the subject of getting married， which was in fact the central problem for the young leisure-class lady of that age， who had no other choice in her life but to find a good husband.
英国文学关于简奥斯汀的PPT
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Jane Austen’s Life
writing at an early age six novels
quiet Retired隐退的 Uneventful平淡的 never married
died in 1817, 42 years old
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels and one of the first "romantic comedies" in the history of the novel.
The book is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where Austen lived in the rectory.
只是简心意已决精神上的独立自主和桀骜不逊再加上年轻人的傲慢与偏见她决定要为爱而婚
Jane Austen 简· 奥斯丁 1775—1817
Jane Austenusten’s Life
Hampshire
rector(教区长) educated at home
read a lot
who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisely, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune.
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Her governess, Miss Taylor, marries a neighbor, Mr. Weston. Emma has too much time and she spends it choosing proper partners for her friends and neighbors - blind to her own feelings. She makes a protégée of Harriet Smith, an illegitimate girl of no social status and tries to manipulate a marriage between Harriet and Mr. Elton, a young clergyman, who has set his sight on Emma.
Emma has feelings about Mr. Weston's son. When Harriet becomes interested in George Knightley, a neighboring squire who has been her friend, Emma starts to understand her own limitations. He has been her moral adviser, and secretly loves her. Finally Emma finds her destiny in marriage with him. Harriet, who is left to decide for herself, marries Robert Martin, a young farmer.
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human beings with their families and neighbors. • 4. Jane Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. • 5. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.
Jane Austen 英美文学PPT资料37页
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Lydia and Wickham
Viewpoint on marriage
Ideal marriage should be built on genuine love
Irony (反语) in the novels
Austen established great “Irony” between the words and the thought. Hence, her “irony” was no longer limited to text ,but has become Austen’s whole art world and her inner soul. In her preliminary work, like “Sense and Sensibility”、 “ Pride and Prejudice ”,”Verbal Irony” ,言语反讽 and “Dramatic Irony”戏 剧反讽 is Austen’s favorites “Irony” type, and is also the novel comedic fountainhead. But in her later period work like “Mansfield Park”、 “Emma” and “Persuasion”, Austen’s “Irony” change its style, it became more serious ,they are “Situational Irony”情境反讽 and “General Irony”总体反讽 , the novel’s thought also became deeper ,however ,we can still find the humor of “Verbal Irony” and “Dramatic Irony”.
生活就是一连串的无事忙。
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.
繁荣的大都市里，没有道德情操这一说。
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Lydia and Wickham
Viewpoint on marriage
Ideal marriage should be built on genuine love
Irony (反语) in the novels
Austen established great “Irony” between the words and the thought. Hence, her “irony” was no longer limited to text ,but has become Austen’s whole art world and her inner soul. In her preliminary work, like “Sense and Sensibility”、 “ Pride and Prejudice ”,”Verbal Irony” ,言语反讽 and “Dramatic Irony”戏 剧反讽 is Austen’s favorites “Irony” type, and is also the novel comedic fountainhead. But in her later period work like “Mansfield Park”、 “Emma” and “Persuasion”, Austen’s “Irony” change its style, it became more serious ,they are “Situational Irony”情境反讽 and “General Irony”总体反讽 , the novel’s thought also became deeper ,however ,we can still find the humor of “Verbal Irony” and “Dramatic Irony”.
Jane Austen简介PPT课件
2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
3. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
上帝没有那么多但我们的精神是平等的就像我们的灵魂穿过坟墓站在上帝面前彼此平等本来就是如此
Jane Austen
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After reading this novel , I realize the author—Jane Austen’s attitudes and views towards love and marriage . It is unpractical to get married just for property, wealth and social status while would it be without caring about these elements.
2、Set in current day or very near past .
3、Detailed realism, as if a reporter or a photographer.
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The impression of Pride and Prejudice
3. Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
上帝没有那么多但我们的精神是平等的就像我们的灵魂穿过坟墓站在上帝面前彼此平等本来就是如此
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After reading this novel , I realize the author—Jane Austen’s attitudes and views towards love and marriage . It is unpractical to get married just for property, wealth and social status while would it be without caring about these elements.
2、Set in current day or very near past .
3、Detailed realism, as if a reporter or a photographer.
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The impression of Pride and Prejudice
关于简奥斯汀的PPT
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.
《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
5. Emma 《爱玛》 6. Persuasion 《劝告》
英国著名女性小说家简奥斯汀介绍PPT模板
傲慢与偏见
• 《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀的代表作。这部作 品以日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的 感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，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。这部社会 风情画式的小说不仅在当时吸引着广大的读者， 时至今日，仍给读者以独特的艺术享受。 也有 根据书本改编的电影。
理智与情感
• 《理智与情感》虽是简·奥斯汀的第一部小说，但写作技 巧已经相当熟练。故事中的每一个情节，经作者的巧妙 构思，表面的因果关系与隐藏在幕后的本质缘故均自然 合理。女主人公根据表面现象产生合情合理的推测和判 断，细心的读者虽然不时产生种种疑惑，但思绪会自然 而然随着好的观察而发展，等着最后结果出现时，与表 面现象截然不同，造成了出乎意料的喜剧效果。如果反 过来重读一遍，会发现导致必然结果的因素早见于字里 行间。
人物生平
奥斯汀终身未婚，家道小康 居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主、牧师等人物以及他们恬静、舒适的 生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。 她以女性特有的细致入微的观察力，真实地描绘了她周围世界的小天地，尤 其是绅士淑女间的婚姻和爱情风波。 18世纪末到19世纪初，庸俗无聊的“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥英国文 坛，而奥斯汀的小说破旧立新，一反常规地展现了当时尚未受到资本主义工 业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的日常生活和田园风光。
• 成为简·奥斯汀，而且她的生活同样充满了激情 与爱情。1796年，二十岁的简遇到了汤姆·勒 弗罗伊（Tom Lefroy，詹姆斯·麦卡沃伊饰）。 他们的感情成为了现实生活中的传奇，而爱情 故事也成为她毕生最伟大的著作。
成为简·奥斯汀
简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）是英国文学史上著名的女作家，她用独特和细腻 笔触创作出感人至深的爱情故事，自己却终身未婚。喜欢看《傲慢与偏见》、 《理智与情感》、《爱玛》的影迷不要错过了，影片《成为简·奥斯汀》将解 开她的情路历程，而且这部电影的风格就如同那些根据奥斯汀小说改编的影 片一样。 只不过，《成为简·奥斯汀》将重点描写，放在了奥斯汀的生活 经历是如何促使她写出那些浪漫的小说的。把一位当时信手涂鸦完成的作品 现在被公认为经典名著的作家的生活改编成电影，是很冒险的一件事情。在 这么多年以来，出现过各种各样简·奥斯汀小说的电影版本之后，能够拍摄一 部关于她自己真实世界的电影，这样看上去是再好不过的一件事情。
Jane-Austen--简--奥斯丁PPT课件
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Lydia’s lack of common sense and responsibility is revealed when she takes pride in being the first Bennet girl to be married. Lydia does not take into consideration the circumstance of her marriage, the personality of her husband, or the prospects of their marriage for the future.
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❖ 1.Austen was born in Hampshire, a small ❖ town in southwest England, where her ❖ father was rector of the church. ❖ 2. She was educated at home, with her ❖ sisters and passed her life quietly, ❖ cheerfully in doing small domestic duties.
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JaneAusten简·奥斯汀PPT文学史
-- Jane Austen, letter of March 13, 1816
1.Main concern is about personal relationships, particularly with that between men and women in love. 2. Writes within a narrow sphere, concerns the landed gentry families with the trivial incidents of their everyday life.
The tone of the novel is light, satirical, and vivid. Scenes such as Mr. Collins proposal to Elizabeth, and Lady Catherine visits to Lizzy at Longbourn, provides comic relief to the reader while at the same time revealing certain characteristics of the characters. For example, Lydia's lack of common sense and responsibility is revealed when she takes pride in being the first Bennet girl to be married. Lydia does not take into consideration the circumstance of her marriage, the personality of her husband, or the prospects of their marriage for the future. Elizabeth Bennet's ability to laugh off her misfortunate and to continue to be optimistic, considering her situation, also contributes to the tone of the novel.
1.Main concern is about personal relationships, particularly with that between men and women in love. 2. Writes within a narrow sphere, concerns the landed gentry families with the trivial incidents of their everyday life.
The tone of the novel is light, satirical, and vivid. Scenes such as Mr. Collins proposal to Elizabeth, and Lady Catherine visits to Lizzy at Longbourn, provides comic relief to the reader while at the same time revealing certain characteristics of the characters. For example, Lydia's lack of common sense and responsibility is revealed when she takes pride in being the first Bennet girl to be married. Lydia does not take into consideration the circumstance of her marriage, the personality of her husband, or the prospects of their marriage for the future. Elizabeth Bennet's ability to laugh off her misfortunate and to continue to be optimistic, considering her situation, also contributes to the tone of the novel.
简奥斯汀 英语介绍 PPT
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A Novelist for Everyone
When Shakespeare and Dickens have sunk into venerability, Austen, on the other hand, has become our contemporary.
Master Works
Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey (1818) Persuasion (1818)
Writing Style NhomakorabeaAssessment
Jane Austen has brought the English novel, to its maturity, and she has been regarded by many critics as one of the greatest of all novelists. Her fiction is of a limited subject, and her novel cover only that section of society she belonged : the country gentry.
Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century. She holds the ideal of the landlord class in politics, religion and her works show clearly her firm in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clearsighted judgment over the romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality.
英美文学欣赏资料janeausten优秀PPT资料
feelings into literary creation Love and marriage
Relationship between men and women in love. 《劝导》(Persuasion, 1818, 死后出版) Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. 《Pride and Prejudice》 Major concerns are about human being in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors. Pride and prejudice both stand in the way of relationships She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.
one to underestimate other mortals. Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry.
• Pride narrows the vision of a person and causes She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.
Relationship between men and women in love. 《劝导》(Persuasion, 1818, 死后出版) Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry. 《Pride and Prejudice》 Major concerns are about human being in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors. Pride and prejudice both stand in the way of relationships She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.
one to underestimate other mortals. Austen lived her entire life as part of a large and close-knit family located on the lower fringes of English gentry.
• Pride narrows the vision of a person and causes She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading.
《傲慢与偏见》课件
达西先生
傲慢性格
达西先生是本剧的主要男性角色 ，他出身贵族，拥有财富和地位 ，但性格傲慢，对中产阶级存在 偏见。
爱情观
在遇到伊丽莎白后，达西先生的 傲慢逐渐被打破，他学会了尊重 和理解他人，最终向伊丽莎白表 白并赢得了她的心。
简·班纳特
温柔善良
简是班纳特家的长女，她温柔、善良 ，对爱情充满憧憬。在剧中，简与宾 利先生相识相爱，但因种种误会而历 经波折。
个人尊严与傲慢
个人尊严的重要性
在小说中，伊丽莎白·班纳特是一个具有强烈自尊心的女性，她不愿意为了追求财富和社会地位而牺牲 自己的尊严。她坚持自己的原则和价值观，最终赢得了真爱和尊重。
傲慢的代价
达西先生一开始在舞会上对伊丽莎白的傲慢态度，导致伊丽莎白对他产生了偏见。但随着故事的发展 ，达西逐渐放下了傲慢，学会了理解和尊重他人，最终赢得了伊丽莎白的爱情。
艺术特色
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全知叙述者
小说采用全知叙述者，能 够深入角色内心，揭示人 物动机和情感。
第一人称叙述
通过女主角伊丽莎白的视 角展开叙述，使读者更加 深入地了解角色。
多线索叙事
小说中有多条线索交织， 形成复杂的故事结构，使 情节更加丰富。
语言风格
对话生动
对话描写生动，人物语言 各具特色，反映了人物性 格和身份。
作品评价
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文学价值
人物塑造
作品中的主要人物形象鲜明，个性独特，反映了 当时社会不同阶层的人物特点。
情节安排
故事情节紧凑，布局合理，通过一系列事件展现 了人物性格和命运的发展。
语言艺术
作者运用了丰富的语言技巧，如对话、内心独白 等，使作品具有很高的艺术价值。
Jane Austne 简-奥斯丁.ppt
一个女人要是不幸聪明得什么都懂，那就必 须同时懂得怎么伪装成什么都不懂。
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• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion。 订了婚的女人最可爱了。她什么都满足了， 什么忧虑都消散了，她可以大大方方去讨 好自己未来老公，而无需担心人家以为她 在玩暧昧。
Jane Austen
• • • Master piece Famous remark Her writing style
Master piece
• Sense and Sensibility 1811 《理智与情 感》 • Pride and Prejudice 1813 《傲慢与偏 见》 • Mansfield Park 1814 《曼斯菲尔德庄 园》 • Emma 1816 《爱玛》 • Northanger Abbey 1818 《诺桑觉寺》 • Persuasion 1818 《劝导》
& Her style is easy and effortless.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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治愈情伤最好的药就是友谊带来的安慰。
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
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• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion。 订了婚的女人最可爱了。她什么都满足了， 什么忧虑都消散了，她可以大大方方去讨 好自己未来老公，而无需担心人家以为她 在玩暧昧。
Jane Austen
• • • Master piece Famous remark Her writing style
Master piece
• Sense and Sensibility 1811 《理智与情 感》 • Pride and Prejudice 1813 《傲慢与偏 见》 • Mansfield Park 1814 《曼斯菲尔德庄 园》 • Emma 1816 《爱玛》 • Northanger Abbey 1818 《诺桑觉寺》 • Persuasion 1818 《劝导》
& Her style is easy and effortless.
• Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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治愈情伤最好的药就是友谊带来的安慰。
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
简奥斯汀 英文介绍ppt课件
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Sense and Sensibility
❖ Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pen name "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre( ['miːgə] 贫弱的) cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.
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List of works
❖ Short fiction
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The point of view in Pride and Prejudice is limited omniscient; the story is told through Elizabeth, but not in first person. As a result, the mood of the novel lacks dramatic emotions. The atmosphere is intellectual and cold; there is little descriptions of the setting. The main actions of the novel are the interactions between opinions, ideas, and attitudes, which weaves and advances the plot of the novel. The emotions in the novel are to be perceived beneath the surface of the story and are not to be expressed to the readers directly. Jane's powers of subtle discrimination and shrewd perceptiveness is revealed in Pride and Prejudice; she is able to convey such a complex message using a simple, yet witty, style.
• The latest survey in England shows that the ideal man making appointments with in English women’s eyes is Mr. Darcy-----a character in the 1800s novel Pride and Prejudice .Even cool 007 Mr. Bond has to be in the second place, the superman is in the third place.
• courtship 求爱期；求爱；追求 • complementary /kɒmplɪmentri互补的；补充的；相互补
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• reconcile 使和解；使和好如初 ,使和谐一致；调和 • flaw错误；缺点品格上的）弱点，缺点 • gullible /ɡʌləbl轻信的；易受骗的； • complying遵从；服从；顺从 • vivacity [vi’væsiti] 活泼;快活;有生气 • hasty /heɪsti/ 匆忙的；仓促而就的；草率的 • spouse配偶
-- Jane Austen, letter of March 13, 1816
1.Main concern is about personal relationships, particularly with that between men and women in love. 2. Writes within a narrow sphere, concerns the landed gentry families with the trivial incidents of their everyday life.
Main works
• 1811 Sense and Sensibility • 1813 Pride and Prejudice (First expression) • 1814 Mansfield Park • 1815 Emma • 1818 Northanger Abbey • 1818 Persuasion
The beginning……
“IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune mu st be in want of a wife. ”
The main subject in the novel is stated in the first sentence of the novel: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." In this statement, Jane has cleverly done three things: she has declared that the main subject of the novel will be courtship and marriage, she has established the humorous tone of the novel by taking a simple subject to elaborate and to speak intelligently of, and she has prepared the reader for a chase in the novel of either a husband in search of a wife, or a women in pursuit of a husband. The first line also defines Jane's book as a piece of literature that connects itself to the 18th century period
Pride and Prejudice, similar to other Jane Austen's novels, is written in gentle or Horacian 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 18th century. 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 is devoted to a life of dancing, fashions, gossips and flirting; and Mr. Williams Collins, the silly and conceited baboon who is completely stupify by Lady Catherine in every aspect of his life that he has forgotten his own morals and duty.
The tone of the novel is light, satirical, and vivid. Scenes such as Mr. Collins proposal to Elizabeth, and Lady Catherine visits to Lizzy at Longbourn, provides comic relief to the reader while at the same time revealing certain characteristics of the characters. For example, Lydia's lack of common sense and responsibility is revealed when she takes pride in being the first Bennet girl to be married. Lydia does not take into consideration the circumstance of her marriage, the personality of her husband,ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้or the prospects of their marriage for the future. Elizabeth Bennet's ability to laugh off her misfortunate and to continue to be optimistic, considering her situation, also contributes to the tone of the novel.
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Something about the title
Jane Austen began her second novel, Pride and Prejudice, before she was twenty-one. 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, Jane found the title Pride and Prejudice more appropriate