论《傲慢与偏见》中五种爱情模式及其现实意义_英语论文

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论文（设计）题目：论《傲慢与偏见》中五种爱情模式及其现实意义
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1、论文（设计）研究目标及主要任务
本论文的研究目标是探讨《傲慢与偏见》种的五种爱情模式及其出现差别的原因。

其主要任务是通过分析这五种爱情模式，揭示其现实意义，进而指导现实婚姻问题
2、论文（设计）的主要内容
本论文分为三章，第一章介绍五种爱情模式，第二章介绍五种爱情模式存在差别的原因，最后一章小说五种爱情模式体现的现实意义。

3、论文（设计）的基础条件及研究路线
本论文的基础条件是不同的评论家对《傲慢与偏见》的研究结果。

研究路线是通过对小说中的五种爱情进行不同角度的阐释，揭示其现实意义，进而指导现实婚姻问题。

4、主要参考文献
Jane, Austen, Pride and Prejudice, New York: Oxford University Press.
Juliet, Norman. The Cambridge Compain to Jane Austin. Nation Press, 1998.
毕宇宏.《傲慢与偏见》中的五桩婚姻[J].赤峰学院学报，2010.
李素芬.《傲慢与偏见》中的婚姻观及其对当代女性的启示[J].时代文学,2011
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题目:论《傲慢与偏见》中五种爱情模式及其现实意义
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On “pride and prejudice”
--love patterns and realistic
significances
By
XXX
Pro. XXX, tutor
A Thesis
Submitted to the Foreign Languages Institute in Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements
for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts at
XXXX University
May 7th, 2013
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Abstract
There are five love patterns in pride and prejudice and the realistic significances are reflected throughout the modern society. The five love patterns are Elizabeth & Darcy, Jane & Bingley, Charlotte & Collins, Lydia & Wickham and Mr. & Mrs. Benet. Elizabeth and Darcy‟s marriage is the organic integration of love and respect, which is beyond the social status. Jane and Bingley‟s marriage is grasping every access to happiness by oneself without any hesitation. Charlotte and Collins‟ marriage is a compromise to the reality and the pursuit of the real benefits of marriage. Lydia and Wickham's marriage is blind passion for the pursuit of pleasure. Mr. & Mrs. Benet is Companionate love. In this novel, the author criticizes the marriage which is for a moment of lust and impulse by describing five different love patterns of marriage, and admits the role of property and social status in marriage; however, she objects the marriage which is simply for money. As a contemporary woman, what should be taken into consideration when selecting the object of love and marriage? The basis of a happy marriage on the earth is reason, emotion or other factors? Jane Austen thinks that, marriage for property and status is wrong; it is stupid not to take the above factors into consideration. Though marriage is connected with property and status, it should not be decided by property and status. Jane Austin stressed that marriage based on love is happy and feelings of both men and women should be the cornerstone of an ideal marriage.
Key words marriage love wealth
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摘要
《傲慢与偏见》讲述了五种爱情模式，其现实意义贯穿于整个现代社会。

这五种爱情模式分别是伊丽莎白和达西，简和宾利，夏洛特和科林，莉迪亚和威利姆还有班尼特夫妇。

伊丽莎白和达西的婚姻是爱和尊重的有机结合，已经超越了社会地位。

简和宾利的婚姻是毫不犹豫地抓住幸福的每个机会。

夏洛特和科林的婚姻是对于现实社会的一种妥协，是对于婚姻真正利益的追求。

莉迪亚和威利姆追求欢愉的盲目激情。

班尼特夫妇的婚姻是一种相濡以沫的爱。

在这个小说中，通过对于以上五种爱情模式的描述，作者批判了追求一时贪欲和冲动的婚姻，并且承认，财富和社会地位在婚姻中扮演了十分重要的角色。

可是，她也反对仅仅是为了钱财而结婚的婚姻。

作为现代女性，当选择结婚对象时，应该考虑哪些方面的因素？幸福婚姻的基础到底应该是理智，情感还是其他因素？简·奥斯汀认为，益财富和社会地位为目的的婚姻是错误的，同时，不考虑财富和社会地位的婚姻是愚蠢的。

尽管，婚姻与财富、社会地位密不可分，但是也不能由财富和社会地位决定。

简·奥斯汀强调，以爱情为基础的婚姻是幸福美满的，男女之间的感觉应该成为理想婚姻的基石。

关键词婚姻爱情财富
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Table of Contents
Introduction (1)
Chapter I. Five Love Patterns (4)
A. Elizabeth & Darcy (4)
B. Jane & Bingley (7)
C. Charlotte & Collins (9)
D. Lydia & Wickham (11)
E. Mr. & Mrs. Benet (12)
Chapter II. Reasons Why There Are Five Patterns (14)
A.Women can not be economically independent (14)
B.Women's low social status (14)
C.Affected by the Enlightenment (15)
D.Austin personal love life (15)
Chapter III. The Realistic Significances (17)
A.Money is not the primary factor (18)
B.Love does not always come first (18)
C.Marriage should be a good match (18)
Conclusion (21)
Notes (23)
Bibliography (24)
Introduction
Jane Austen (1775-1817) grew in a literate pastor family, Hampshire, Steven
town of Dayton, in the south of England, who lived a peaceful and well-off country life. There were eight brothers and sisters in her family, in which Austin ranked the sixth. She had never been to a regular school. When she was nine years old, she had been sent to her sister‟s school as a reading partner. Sister Cassandra was her lifelong best friend, Austin‟s education, however, mostly came from her father. Austin loved reading and writing, who had already started writing at eleven or twelve years old. Austin had moved several times with his family as an Adult. In 1817, Austin was ill. To facilitate medical treatment, his family moved to Manchester, but she died two months later. Austin was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Jane Austen never married. When she was dead, she was only forty-one years old.
Since she lived in the rural and got to the small and medium-sized landowners, priests and other figures, and they were living in a quiet and comfortable living environment, there are no major social contradictions in her work., she truly depict the world around her by her Female-specific and nuanced observation, especially marriage and love affairs of the ladies and gentlemen. Her works are welcomed by readers with relaxing witty and comedic conflict. English literature is full of Vulgar and boring "sentimental fiction" and "Gothic novel” from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, however, Austin‟s novels destroy the old and establish the new by unconventionally showing the daily life and rural scenery of the middle class in English countryside which was not yet influenced by the capitalist industrial revolution.Austin‟s works often sneers at people‟s weakness, such as stupid, selfish, snobbish and blind self-confidence and so contemptible and ridiculous. Austen‟s works in the early 19th century, sweeping away then false romanticism trend, inheriting and developing the excellent British realist tradition in the 18th century, and make preparations for the climax of the realistic novel in the 19th century. Although the breadth and depth his works reflect is limited, her works peep into the whole social forms and ways of the world from a small window , playing a good role in changing the vulgar culture of the novel creation, which has a nexus significance in the history of the development of the English novel. She is known for the status of equal footing with Shakespeare. Austin is good at writing the life in the British
country and human feelings, in the end of the 18 century to the beginning of the 19th century. In more than forty years of her life, she basically has nothing to contact with the outside, expect for family members. But she has written six works - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Temple, the Mansfield estate, Emma and persuasion. There is not thrilling adventures, or the passionate lyrical in Her work, but she wins readers‟ love and appreciation by her detailed description about the life, characters and plot .Her work has been called "The art of simplicity”1 by the domestic and international critics.
Austin‟s creations of novel are almost all after repeatedly amendments for a long time. Her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813) is her second work. These two works in addition with Northanger Abbey (1818) which was published after her death are all written in the 1990s and her early works. Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816) and persuasion (1818) were written in the 19th century, which are considered to be her later works. These six works are a total of 1.5 million words, and the number is not that much. Works published in the early are not good sellers.
In these six works, Pride and Prejudice is the most well-known work and highly representative. Jane Austen never married, but in this novel, she describes various marriages: the suffering between the clever Mr. Benet and poorly intellectual Mrs. Benet, exchange of interests between dull pastor Collins and Charlotte who values reality, ·the lust between the, Playboy Wickham and frivolous Lydia, the perfect combination between the kind-hearted and beautiful Jane and the refined and cultured Mr. Bingley, the ideal marriage between the rich son Darcy and the humorous lively Eliza.
In this work, the author portraits a few distinct marriages by using the comic language, and profoundly reflects the attitude towards love and marriage and moral values of British upper-class in the early 19th century . Men of wealth and status Plays an absolutely essential role in the British upper-class marriage in the early 19th century. For a middle-class girl almost has no other way to maintain their own lives, in addition to marry a man who can give their own food and clothing. Material
conditions have become the main standard when they are making mate choice.
“it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want a wife." 2is mentioned at the very beginning of Pride and Prejudice. This brilliant and cautionary prologue, not only has a strong irony, but also contains a rich and profound social significance. People's motivation of making mate choices determines people's mate standards. It is Obvious that in the early 19th century money, wealth and status are people's mate standards. For a girl without the life estate, marrying a rich husband seems to be the best choice. Well, men how to choose his own wife? How do they see the gap between love, material, marriage and family status?
These five love patterns also reflect the author's view of marriage: it is rational but not right to get married just because of the other side of the wealth and status. In addition, it may not be happy to get married without taking wealth into account.
Pride and Prejudice is light comedy shining battle of wits, but it tells us an eternal truth that is solid and stable love is the cornerstone and prerequisites of a happy marriage. It is wrong to marry for money, wealth and status, but it is very stupid does not take the above factors into consideration in marriage. Jane Austen tells people in this novel: there is hope, if you have self-reflection and action. Human dignity is obtained from self-reflection and action, and is not innate; human kingdom is built to be different from the secular and material world by rational action, which has a unique spiritual value mode.
Chapter One. Five Love Patterns
A. Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage: the organic integration of love and respect
Darcy and Elizabeth's marriage is the most important marriage in the novel, even the marriage of Jane and Bingley is also a foil for them. Darcy in this Novel is delicate with burly a figure and noble manners. What is the most important is his annual income of ten thousand pounds, meet the standard "a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want a wife", but also a proud and defiant man. Elizabeth is smart and lively, cheerful, with sense of humor, likes to laugh at others, and to laugh at herself. At the ball, when Bingley asks Darcy to invite Elizabeth for a dance, Darcy refused, which makes Elizabeth sitting beside finds that Darcy look down on people, thus she had a bias; in addition, when Elizabeth is told that the reason why Bingley left without saying goodbye is that Darcy looks down on the despicable conducts of their relatives. Looking increasingly haggard Jane, Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy is deeper and deeper. Furthermore, when Elizabeth is told by the officers of the militia groups Wickham that he was deprived of his property by Darcy, Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy gets out of hand. At the very beginning, Darcy thinks Elizabeth as an insolent girl, and later grows to fall in love with her because of her wisdom and vitality, her humor, her unafraid of powerful, but Elizabeth has been misunderstanding him all the time and rejects Darcy‟s first propose to her first. Later, Elizabeth gradually sees Darcy fortes: he loves his sister, takes care of his friend Bingley, and is tolerant and generous with Elizabeth. All the advantages eventually make Elizabeth fall in love with Darcy and Darcy as well as change his insolent and arrogant character for Elizabeth. In the end, they are together. The twists and turns of marriage increasingly strengthen the feeling between Darcy and Elizabeth, which is also the basis of this perfect marriage.
The marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy is the most happy and successful ideal marriage in Pride and Prejudice. The combination of the two is really built on the foundation of love. Elizabeth Benet is an ideal image of women in the author‟s eyes, and the most charismatic image of this novel. She came from a bourgeois family of intellectuals, with wealthy individuals and the spirit of resistance. She challenges the upper-class society whoever looks down on her with her wisdom and the noble spirit.
Elizabeth‟s love and marriage reflects Austen's views of marriage: “it is wrong to get married for money, while it is stupid to get married without money." Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage is not only a marriage with love, but also a marriage with money. In addition to her elegance, Elizabeth with nothing married the richest and most handsome man. Her mother is pleased to say that this is a not bad trading in her businesswoman vision; her father has been very much appreciated this smart daughter but never expected that education he has given her in the marriage market is at such high exchange value. It shows that love has the noble meaning to marriage: Even more wealthy and handsome, if holding a condescending or arrogant attitude towards the other, it is both difficult to produce love. If without love, there will be no marriage.
What Jane Austin advocates and praises in this novel is Elizabeth's views on marriage, and the author has spent a lot on describing Elizabeth‟s attitude towards love, money and marriage. We may spy on the author's views of marriage through the analysis of the character of Elizabeth.
In the novel, Elizabeth is a smart, beautiful and very rational girl. It is her reason that gives her the courage to choose marriage. She believes that marriage without love is totally unacceptable. She also believes that marriage should be established under the protection of money .Marriage of love and the protection of wealth is the ideal marriage in her heart. The idea of marriage is what the author wants to show the readers by describing the attitude of the heroine. For the public does not accept this kind of avant-garde view of marriage at the end of the 18th century to early 19th century. In the process of striving for a happy marriage, Elizabeth lives under the dual pressure from both family and society, which made her more aware of valuing the hard-won and happy marriage between Mr. Darcy and herself
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1. Love is the basis of marriage
Elizabeth‟s attitude towards marriage is distinctive. She believes that if there is no love, then they should not get married. In the novel she has rejected two proposals- Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy's first proposals. It is fully illustrated by two rejections that
what Elizabeth pursuing is happiness, not the so-called life protection like other ladies. Her happiness must be built on the foundation of love. Marriage with no love, only money is just like the sunset, in which the scenery is beautiful, but the lack of proper warmth and vitality. Therefore, in her opinion, money and status is not first factors to be considered in the marriage relationship.
As for the refusal to Mr. Collins, Elizabeth decided that he would not make her happy, and love between them is impossible, so she is very simply rejected. Darcy's first proposal is rejected for two reasons, partly because of the heroine‟s prejudices, on the other hand is Darcy‟s arrogance. Darcy's arrogance is a manifestation of social status differences between him and Elizabeth. Elizabeth thinks that as long as Mr. Darcy's arrogance exists, she and Darcy can not be together, because she will not accept love on the basis of inequality. Her scolding Darcy on his confession clearly expresses her views on marriage that Love is the basis of marriage, and she does not want marriage lacking of love.
2. Wealth is the guarantee of love
Elizabeth pursues true love, but she does not shy away property either. Property is, Elizabeth considering about marriage, a factor, but not the primary one. She believes that an ideal marriage must be based on love and guaranteed by wealth, which is also in response to the prevailing social reality. In the 19th century UK was dominated by the male chauvinism, the popular view of marriage is based on material conditions, and women are very difficult in controlling their own destiny, because marriage with only love can not provide guarantee for the postnuptial life. Every woman is looking forward to finding a man possessing of enough wealth to meet the happy postnuptial life; above all Elizabeth is no exception.
From the novel, we can tell that Elizabeth is longing for the property. When she visited Darcy‟s Manor, she showed her yearning for Darcy…s wealthy life visibly. It is obvious that Elizabeth does not exclude the property. Substantial household income is the very reason that Elizabeth has never lost her admiration for Mr. Darcy. Then Elizabeth‟s feeling to Darcy is sublimated from a good impression to the pure and true love. Elizabeth can‟t had have the courage to accept Darcy's second proposal If only
with her pure love with Darcy, meanwhile Darcy is not possessed with abundant property as the guarantee for their marriage,. It was Darcy‟s well-off family that gives her the confidence to entrust her whole life to him. Thus, Elizabeth's views of marriage also pay attention to this factor; she believed that wealth is the guarantee for love, and it is stupid not to take wealth into consideration, when it comes to live.
The process of Elizabeth and Darcy falling into love and getting married is the main line throughout the whole novel. The first time they met each other, because of the arrogance of one and the prejudice of another, results in many misunderstandings between them. Unawareness of injustice to Mr. Darcy leads to the prejudice. The awareness of the fair understanding of Mr. Darcy has helped Elizabeth to gain true happiness. The love process of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy reflects the true value of marriage. Elizabeth, with wisdom, self-esteem, and her own ideas, takes the courage to pursue her own happiness, then, gains ultimate happiness, and has a lot of possessions, such a marriage is perfect.
B. Jane and Bing ley’s marriage: Grasp every access to happiness by oneself without any hesitation
In the novel, Jane is the eldest sister of the Benet family. Austin describes Jane as a perfect woman. Her beauty is unparalleled. Bingley falls for her in the first ball; her behavior is elegant and generous. Even if she was in love with Bingley, she does not as arbitrary as her sister Lydia; her kindness no one can compare. When Bingley walks out, she did not blame him too much, but suffers the pain all by herself; she does have remarkable wisdom. when she mistakes that her sister Elizabeth chooses to marry Darcy for wealth, she warns her sister that a happy marriage does not exist if it is not based on feelings .Such a perfect woman, only is worthy of a true gentleman, and Bingley is a typical gentleman: he treats a friend with sincere trust. When Darcy believes that He and Jane do not match, despite of his dismay, he chooses to leave with full confidence in his friends; he is polite to everyone. At the ball, he is not as defiant as Darcy, but is very friendly to everyone. Although they are finally happily together, after a variety of problems and challenge that then go into the marriage hall. Their marriage is based on both emotional foundation and the material conditions,
which can be said to be a perfect match. Misunderstanding has played a very key role in their love process.
Jane has a demure temperament, who likes Bingley the first time she saw him, and involuntarily getting enamored of him. Bingley is very handsome, and he falls in love with Jane at first sight. It is thought that their love will be smooth sailing, and soon step into the marriage hall. But misunderstanding breaks this trend, and then Bingley suddenly leaves, not to mention the tricks designed by Caroline that Bingley has fallen in love with Miss Darcy. Jane is so simple and straightforward that she is persuaded that Bingley is not going to marry a girl without enough money, a grand social status. In fact, Bingley mistakes Jane's love and leaves. He lacks self-confidence and is persuaded by the speech of Darcy.
One with a subtle character does not want to express her love, while the other lacks self-confidence in emotion. Therefore, they can not directly show their feelings to each other and hid their love. It is well- known that it is easy to misunderstand only through the words and deeds of both sides to feel and to speculate about each other's mind. Not showing the true feelings of the two makes love no progress. Fortunately, the fruit of misunderstanding is not bitter, and they still catch the opportunity almost lost to tie the knot. When Bingley is informed of Jane's true feelings, he immediately expressed his admiration for Jane. In the end, they two had a happy life soon as they wish.
Misunderstanding leads to the reversal of their love, but it is just short-lived. When misunderstanding is eliminated, that is to say, it is on the occasion of the twists and turns of love. Misunderstanding is a powerful force to promote a qualitative change in their love, so that they will cherish the hard-won happy marriage.
Judging from the description of Jane Austin, Jane Benet is a very gentle, kind-hearted girl with a good looking. Although she is very fond of Mr. Bentley, even falls into love with him, she does not show on the appearance. While Mr. Bentley is a handsome and graceful gentleman with decent manners, but his character is indecisive. Because of the character of the young couple, their love was interrupted. After all the hardships, they two finally made it. They two have a sincere love, and ultimately have
a happy marriage after a long-term suffering. In a nutshell, this marriage is happy. C. Charlotte and Collins’ marriage: compromise to the reality and the pursuit of the real benefits of marriage
Money, love and marriage are often inseparable in Pride and Prejudice. When it comes to, marriage, money will surely be talked about in the novel. To elaborate that money plays a key role in the choice of marriage, one of the most typical examples is combination of Pastor Collins and Charlotte Lucas.
Charlotte Collins marriage is based on the reality and material. In contrast to Lydia, Charlotte is a very rational person who believes that it is unsafe for love to run its own course, and a happy marriage is in fact just a matter of opportunity. Her goal is to get married. Because marriage has always been her goal. Young women with Education and without a good background always regard marriage as an only decent retreat. Though marriage does not necessarily makes people happy, after all he arranged for her one of the most reliable storage rooms. They will not have to bear the coldness and starvation in the future. Now she owns a storage room. Charlotte‟s misunderstanding of marriage that material and money are the most important in marriage. Precisely because of this misconception, that intelligent, independent girl marries Collins just for money. There is no emotional foundation of their marriage, which is built on the basis on money. Charlotte has paid a heavy price for it. Just like what Charlotte says in a letter to Elizabeth, her marriage life is filled with a happy atmosphere. Collins is a conceited, arrogant, narrow-minded and stupid man; in fact, Charlotte is covering up their marriage mistakes and failures.
Charlotte Lucas can be the most intelligent and rational woman in Pride and Prejudice, who clearly recognized the universal nature of the upper class‟s marriage in the then British society: "Marriage is not the private combination in order to meet the individual‟s psychological and physiological needs , but an institutional strategy to ensure that family and property stay forever. " Thus, Charlotte, as a member of the dilapidated aristocratic family, does not have that considerable dowry, and can not climb high. She does not have that many choices but to marry Collins, which is actually forced. To survive, women have to gain the guarantee for life and “financial
assurance”. Marriage is the shortcut and the only way, which has led to a phenomenon that marriage at that time is not just a destination of love, but also a means of "making a living", and surely some seemingly absurd matters.
Mr. William Collins is one of the most typical comic characters in English literature calculated on the basis of the novel. This man seems to be a little bit foolish and ridiculous who lacks the manhood, but particularly artful, bent to curry favor with the rich and powerful, as well as good at flattering around. His efforts are not in vain, and he has been appreciated by the lady Catherine Deb to be appointed as the pastor, and thus he becomes more pretentious and arrogant. In Collins's eyes, marriage is only a mission and a task. The reason why he wants to get married, is just “a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want a wife ".3 He is so Pedantic and conceited that he does not know how to love a person, not to mention how to manage a marriage. In fact, Collins's view of marriage is on behalf of the bourgeois‟ values of marriage: Marriage is not a crystallization of love, but is just a way to get. No matter whomever it is, whether they have love or not, as long as they can get married, nothing is that important. Collins is the nephew of the Benet couple, who is the successor of the property of the Bennett, according to the provisions of the social and legal system. In order to reduce the loss of the Benet family, he decides to marry a Miss Benet as his wife. First, Pastor Collins proposes to Jane, due to the relationship with Bingley, Jane refuses to marry him. So Pastor Collins immediately turns to Elizabeth. He thinks that women will be more subtle when getting a proposal, their words and deeds vary. Although Elizabeth has repeatedly refused him, he takes those refuse as encouragement, only to find that Elizabeth will not accept his proposal in the end. Pastor Collins who has been twice rejected does not give up. In his opinion, he has already have money and status, and what he needs is just a wife who can be subordinated to him and is able to take care of the housework, and then he asks Charlotte Lucas who would like to meet his own interests to marry him. They two hit it off immediately and become husband and wife. Collins himself is mentally retarded and vulgar, and he does not have any charisma. Charlotte chooses him completely out of economic considerations. Charlotte has gained a certain amount of property and
status from her marring Collins. Though they are living a gratifying life to some extent, but the marriage of they two lacks emotional foundation.
D. Lydia and Wickham's marriage: blind passion for the pursuit of pleasure
If we have to select the most absurd marriage in Pride and Prejudice, there is no doubt that it is the marriage of Lydia and Wickham. The authors do not even have a positive account of how the two come together, and then run away. Just a simple letter to Elizabeth addressed by Jane and Aunt M. Gardner allows readers to understand the general idea. It is difficult to say whether there is love between they two, even if there is barely love, which can only be regarded as blind passion out of "carnal love". Jane Austen held a critical attitude towards their marriage. Lydia is frivolous, reckless and ignorant even at the end of the author does not change anything about her, while Wickham is cunning, ambitious, and superficial which make us feel disgusted. Reason, emotion and moral can be the most important parts of marriage‟s spiritual level, however, this marriage does not have any one of them, and thus the failure of their marriage is already doomed.
The author does not indicate the reason why Wickham selects Lydia in detail, but he had agreed to marry Lydia, in which money plays an important role. Wickham is an officer of the militia groups, who has a handsome look, and is good at flattery and making up stories. When he arrived in the village, his appearance has earned a good impression of the Benet sisters for him, and even the sensible Elizabeth also inadvertently falls in love with his “loveable" look. B ut the Real Wickham is in fact idle dandy, trying to lure Darcy‟s sister to elope with him and to defraud money from Darcy. Later, when his lies are brought to light, and Elizabeth no longer cares for him, he turns to seducing Elizabeth's sister Lydia to elope with him. Lydia is the youngest daughter in the Benet family, who seems to be completely uneducated. She decides to be with Wickham only because of his handsome appearance, so it makes sense to some extent that the two of them run away. The essence of such a marriage is contrary to the ethics and morality. Lydia only cares about appearance and material and ignores the connotation of people, for their own lust, regardless of their families' concerns, regardless of the ethical constraints. Eventually it lead to the bitter pill. Wickham is a。