英语毕业论文--文学类--简奥斯汀的婚姻观.docVIP

Abstract Pride and prejudice is Jane Austin’s great work, discussing the different marriages and love. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen comments that marriage in her time is a financial contract, where love is strictly a matter of chance. This is clearly evident from the very first line 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.” To Regency-era writer Jane Austen, a perfect marriage meant having it all - love and money. She rejects the marriage based on wealth and stresses the element of emotion in a marriage. As this did not happen often in reality, her novels appeased with happy endings. Key Words: Love; marriage; property; social status Table of contents Abstract 1 1. Introduction 4 2. The Background 5 2.1 The Background of that time 5 2.2 The Background of Jane Austin 5 3. Four Marriages in Pride and Prejudice 7 3.1 Collins and Charlotte’s Marriage 8 3.2 Lydia and Wickham’s Marriage 9 3.3 Jane and Mr. Bingley’s Marriage 10 3.4 Darcy and Elizabeth’s Marriage 11 4. The Different Understanding about Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice 13 4.1 The Marriage Based on Same Interests 13 4.2 The Marriage Based on Vanity and Carelessness 13 4.3 The Marriage Based on Money or Benefit 14 4.4 The Marriage Based on True Love 16 5. Jane Austin’s Concept about Love and Marriage 21 6. Conclusion 21 7. Acknowledgements 22 8. Bibliography 23 1. Introduction Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the storys setting is characteristically turn-of-the-19th-century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continu