《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻英文毕业论文.doc

PAGE 本科毕业论文（设计） 题　　目： 论简奥斯汀作品《傲慢与偏见》中的爱情与婚姻  LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK—PRIDE AND PREJUDICE A thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Language Shenyang Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts By Yang Xiwen Under the Supervision of Zhang Lin April 2009 ABSTRACT Jane Austen is one of the most remarkable women novelists in the world. As an authoress in the eighteenth century in England, she had a sensible idea on love and marriage. On her whole life, she wrote six novels: Northerner Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, which describes various kinds of characters and their everyday life. Pride and Prejudice, one of the well-known novels in the history of the English literature, was published in 1813. The story talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. Through the description of the daily talks and doings of young men and women, Austen pointed their characteristics. All of the characters had different experiences, and acted in different ways. However, they had a common pursuit, that’s ‘good marriage’. This paper is to make an analysis of four marriages in Pride and Prejudice and discuss the deep outlook for their marriage in the light of social background at the time. In describing the characters’ everyday life and one marriage after another, Austen expressed her sensible view on it clearly. In her opinion, money was essential to a marriage while the equality in social status would increase the possibility of the marriage, but what affected the marriage most were manners. According to her, it was the good manners that united the heroes and heroines. Compared with the social scene on marriage nowadays, maybe her view was so restricted. But during her time, her view was so advanced that it was not accepted widely. On summary, we can fi