Pride and Prejudice傲慢与偏见简介英国文学

1、Biographical IntroductionFamily background: was born in a country clergymans family and was brought up in an intelligent but restricted environment.Education: Through a wide reading of books available in her fathers library, Jane acquired a through knowledge of 18th century literature.Life: she live

2、d a quiet, retired and uneventful life. And her closest companion was her elder sister, who likes her, never married.Writing: she began as a child to write novels for family entertainment. Her works were published anonymously due to the prejudice against women writers then.The house where she lived,

3、 Chawton, Hampshire Persuasion1818Emma1816Northanger Abbey1818 Major works Her literary achievementsMansfield Park1814Pride and Prejudice1813Sense and Sensibility1811Sense & SensibilityMansfield ParkEmmaPersuasionNorthanger Abbey Pride& PrejudiceAustens Writing FeaturesIn style, she is a neo

4、classical advocator, upholding those traditional ideas of order, reason, proportion and gracefulness in novel writing.She believes in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgments over the Romantic tendencies of emotion and individuali

5、ty Austens literary concernAustens main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. Austen shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivial incidents of everyday life.Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in lo

6、ve. Stories of love and marriage provide the major themes in all her novels. (marry for material wealth and social position; marry for beauty and passion; marry for true love)Austens literary concernAs a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the character range

7、, the physical setting, social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial or village life of the 19th century England. (some family things, dancing parties, tea parties, picnics and gossips). But with a close study of the characters and setting, she can portray them with absolute accura

8、cy and sureness. She depicted the everyday life of the families of bigger or smaller landlords and clergymen, with the interest centered chiefly upon the love and marriage of the young and the not-so-young folk, describing in detail their ordinary conversations, walks, drives, teas, dances, visits,

9、picnics, journeys and other common activities. Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice was first written in the late1700s, then rewritten in 1811-1812 and finally published in early 1813. , originally entitled First Impressions, is the story of a young girl who rejects an offer of marriage because th

10、e young nobleman who makes it has been rude to her family. Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn near London. Because they have no son, their property will have to pass, according to the law at that time, to a cousin, William Collins. Hoping to secure their daughters position

11、 in society, they both want to marry them to some wealthy gentlemen. It so happens that Charles Bingley, a single man in possession of a good fortune, comes to settle in the neighborhood with his two sisters and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is also rich and unmarried. Bingley and Jane fall in l

12、ove with each other almost at first sight. And Darcy is attracted to Janes sister Elizabeth, but he offends her by his insolent behavior and rude remarks at a ball. The dislike and repulsion is increased by the pride of the one and the prejudice of the other. However, Darcy continues to be attracted

13、 to her, in spite of himself, till he proposes to her but is rejected indignantly. Later on, on a trip to north of England with her uncle and aunt, Elizabeth chances to meet Darcy, who receives them very warmly and shows greatly improved manners. Thus pride is checked and prejudice removed. Just at

14、this point, news reaches Elizabeth that her youngest sister Lydia has eloped with Wickham. By Darcys help, their marriage is finally brought about. And through his influence, the former tie between Bingley and Jane is renewed, which leads to their engagement. Darcy and Elizabeth also become engaged

15、despite the intervention of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. The story then ends happily with the marriages of Jane and Elizabeth. Discussion: Jane Austens original title for the novel was First Impressions. What role do first impressions play in Pride and Prejudice?The central male character. He is an int

16、elligent, wealthy, extremely handsome and reserved 28-year-old man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers but possesses an honest and kind nature underneath. Initially, he considers Elizabeth his social inferior, unworthy of his attention, but he finds that, despite his inclinations, he ca

17、nnot deny his feelings for Elizabeth. His initial proposal of marriage is rejected because of his pride and Elizabeths prejudice against him; however, at the end of the novel, after their relationship has blossomed, he is happily engaged to Elizabeth. Mr. DarcyElizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet is the core of

18、 the family. Elizabeth is the second of Mr. and Mrs. Bennets five daughters, and is an intelligent, bold, attractive twenty-year-old when the story begins. In addition to being her fathers favourite, Elizabeth is characterized as a sensible, yet stubborn, woman. Misled by his cold outward behaviour,

19、 Elizabeth originally holds Mr. Darcy in contempt. However, her realization of Darcys essential goodness eventually triumphs over her initial prejudice against him. Elizabeth BennetMr BennetMrs BennetJane Bennet (22)Elizabeth Bennet (20)Lydia Bennet (15)Mary Bennet (17)Kitty Bennet (16)Chapter One M

20、r. Bingley comes to Netherfield Park, an estate in the neighborhood where the Bennets live. The excitement in the Bennet family. Mrs. Bennet urges her husband to call on Mr. Bingley immediately. “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in w

21、ant of a wife.” 凡是有钱的单身汉，总想娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。 Do you agree with the statement? What is the relationship between money and marriage? In this statement, Austen has cleverly done three things: She has declared that the main subject of the novel will be courtship and marriage, She has established the

22、humorous tone of the novel by taking a simple subject to elaborate and to speak intelligently of 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 preoccupation with socially advantageous marriage in the 19th century

23、 England society manifests itself in the first sentence, because in claiming that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, the narrator reveals that the reverse is also true: a single woman, especially the one not in possession of a good fortune, must be in ( perhaps d

24、esperate ) want of a (wealthy) husband.Rhetorically speaking, the sentence is an irony. There is an ironic difference between the formal manner of the statement and the ultimate meaning of the sentence.Mr. Bennet is a very amiable and somewhat eccentric man, but he has a bitingly sarcastic humour an

25、d can only derive amusement from his nervous wife Mr. Bennetquick-minded, sarcastic, humorous, reserved, capricious.Noisy and foolish, she is a woman consumed by the desire to see her daughters married and seems to care for nothing else in the world. Austen uses her continually to highlight the nece

26、ssity of marriage for young women. Mrs. BennetA woman of mean understanding, tittle information, and uncertain temper. Irony the use of words to express something other than, or opposite of, the literal meaningThe first sentence reveals that the reverse is also true: a single woman, whose socially p

27、rescribed options are quite limited, is in (perhaps desperate) want of a husband.Mr. Bennet counters Mrs. Bennets talk with mildly sarcastic statements, the mocking tone of which Mrs. Bennet completely misses. As in many of Austens other novels, irony is employed in Pride and Prejudice as the lens t

28、hrough which society and human nature are viewed. Through the novel, Austen studies social relationships in the limited society of a country neighbourhood and investigates them in detail with an often ironic and humorous eye. The themes of the novelWomen, Patriarchy and Property Rights“Entailment” 律(不动产)继承人之限制determined how property would be passed through several generations within a family; usually