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Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is one of the great works of England’s great writer, Jane Austen. In this work, Jane Austen describes four different marriages in Pride and Prejudice. Through the analysis on four marriages in Pride and Prejudice, this dissertation discusses different concepts of love and marriage of four different marriages and analyses the views about love and marriage of Jane Austen. There are four different marriages with different concepts of love and marriage, and different roles have different ideas about love and marriage. In Pride and Prejudice, Some people just want to have power, status and wealth, and others only look for true love. But people need to consider the importance and cruelty of reality in marriage. Reality is ruthless, people should have clear ideas about love and marriage, and don’t be fooled by false and unreal things. The true love is the foundation of a happy marriage; if people ask for too much on power, status and wealth, they can not have true happiness on love and marriage.

Key words: Jane Austen; Pride and Prejudice; concept of love and marriage

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摘 要

《傲慢与偏见》是英国著名女作家简·奥斯汀的一部伟大著作。它以男女主人公的爱情纠葛为主线，描写四段不同的婚姻，展示了当时社会爱情和婚姻的状况。本文旨在分析四组人物的爱情观与婚姻观，并探讨简·奥斯汀的爱情观和婚姻观。四组不同的婚姻及不同的人物向读者展现了不同的恋爱观和婚姻观。在《傲慢与偏见》中，有人只是为了追求地位，权利和财富而结合，也有人只是为了追寻真爱。但是，人们要考虑到现实社会的残酷性。人们应对爱情观与婚姻观有清楚的认识，不要被虚伪和假情假意所蒙蔽。真正的爱情与婚姻应基于真爱；过多的追求权利，地位与金钱的爱情与婚姻是不幸福的。 关键词：简·奥斯汀；《傲慢与偏见》；爱情观与婚姻观

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Table of Contents

Abstract ....................................................................................................................................................................... i 摘 要 ............................................................................................................................................................................ ii 1.Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................. 1 2. The Introduction to Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice .................................................................................. 2 2.1 The introduction to Jane Austen .......................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 The introduction to Pride and Prejudice ............................................................................................................. 2 3. The Concept of Love and Marriage in the Society and the Four Marriages ..................................................... 3 3.1 The concept of Love and Marriage in the Society .............................................................................................. 3 3.2 The four marriages in Pride and Prejudice ......................................................................................................... 3 3.2.1 Jane and Mr. Bingley’s marriage ................................................................................................................. 3 3.2.2 Lydia and Wickham's marriage .................................................................................................................... 3 3.2.3 Charlotte and Collins's marriage .................................................................................................................. 4 3.2.4 Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage ................................................................................................................... 4 4. The Different Understanding about Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice ............................................... 6 4.1 The combination based on love and similar interests .......................................................................................... 6 4.2 The combination based on vanity and carelessness ............................................................................................ 6 4.3 The combination based on money....................................................................................................................... 7 4.4 The combination based on true love ................................................................................................................... 7 5. The Inspiration about Love and Marriage from Pride and Prejudice................................................................. 9 5.1 Jane Austen's concept about love and marriage .................................................................................................. 9 5.2 The concept of love and marriage in modern society ......................................................................................... 9 6. Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 References .................................................................................................................................. 错误！未定义书签。 Acknowledgements.................................................................................................................... 错误！未定义书签。

1. Introduction

In a sense, Pride and Prejudice is the story of two courtships – those between Darcy and Elizabeth and between Bingley and Jane. Within this broad structure appear other, smaller courtships: Mr. Collins’s aborted wooing of Elizabeth, followed by his successful wooing of Charlotte Lucas; Wickham’s pursuit first of Elizabeth, them of the never-seen Miss King, and finally of Lydia. Courtship therefore takes on a profound, of often unspoken, importance in the novel. Marriage is the ultimate goal; courtship constitutes the real working-out of love. Courtship becomes a sort of forge of a person’s personality, and each courtship becomes a microcosm for different sorts of love (or different ways to abuse love as a means to social advancement).

Through the Darcy-Elizabeth and Bingley-Jane marriages, Austen shows the power of love and happiness to overcome class boundaries and prejudices, thereby implying that such prejudices are hollow, unfeeling, and unproductive. “Jane Austen thinks that marriage will not be happy without love. The happy marriage should be based on the mutual respect, mutual admiration” (Zhong, 2010:8). Of course, this whole discussion of class must be made with the understanding that Austen herself is often criticized as being a classist: she doesn’t really represent anyone from the lower classes; those servants she portrays are generally happy with their lot. Austen does criticize class structure but only a limited slice of that structure. “The rational and realistic features of her love stories are also an important part in attracting her readers’ attention and interest” (Ye, 2010:12). Jane Austen sets Elizabeth and Jane as examples for the girls who want to be happy.

British female writer Virginia Woolf once said that: “Among all the greatest writers, Jane Austen is the most difficult one to be captured in the great moments” (Virginia Woolf, 1927:35). The American psychologist Dr. Arnold A. Lazarus stresses that, “happy marriage is based on similarity, not difference” (Dr. Arnold, 1978:26). And people’s marriage is based on social status and property. As Zhu Hong says: “the essence of marriage (at that time) is money dealing and beneficial integration” (Zhu, 1985:45). In Lord David Cecil’s view: “Conflict arises between dissimilar characters, and the deepest attachments are based on characters’ similarity or affinity as expressions of the same spiritual principle” (Cecil, 1959:146). Education background, possessions, remain the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. In Pride and Prejudice, there are marriages based on vanity, carelessness and wealth, we should not be controlled by these shortages in the real society, but keep our own faiths and feelings.

The concept of love and marriage in this novel gives inspiration to readers. The combination based on money, social status and power is false and unreal. This dissertation analyses four marriages in Pride and Prejudice, and discusses different concept of love and marriage.

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