《傲慢与偏见》达西性格分析__英文版

Characters of Mr Darcy Brief Introduction As we all know Pride and Prejudice is a love story but to some degree this book is an illustration of the society at that time Jane Austen perfectly reflected the relation between property and marriage at her time Different people have different vivid characteristics in the novel So I will take Mr Darcy for example to show his personalities Analysis of Mr Darcy 1 wealthy and handsome Mr Darcy is an extremely wealthy aristocrat He has a large estate in Derbyshire as well as ten thousand pounds a year While his friend Mr Bingley only possesses four or five thousand pounds a year From this reality we can draw a conclusion that Mr Darcy is so rich What s more he is a handsome gentleman As the novel says The gentleman pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr Bingley and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening p12 From the sentence we know that Mr Darcy is so noble and attractive to draw so much people s attention 2 proud and haughty From the title Pride and Prejudice we can see that Mr Darcy is so proud When the ladies are more than gentlemen at a ball he is just standing and does nothing He is arrogant fancying himself so great As you know Elizabeth is a charming and lively lady but Mr Darcy coldly said She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me p13 From this we can infer Mr Darcy is so fastidious and haughty With the development of the story he falls in love with Elizabeth but he pretends to ignore her because of pride For example Steady to his purpose he scarcely spoke the words to her through the whole of Saturday and though they were at one time left by themselves for half an hour he adhered most conscientiously to his book and would not even look at her p76 3 sincere and generous According to Mr Darcy s housekeeper Mrs Reynolds says that he is always the sweetest tempered most generous hearted boy in the world In other words Mr Darcy is liberal and generous to give his money freely to display hospitality to assist his tenants and relieve the poor p106 Mr Darcy is also a good brother because he always gives his sister any pleasure In another example Elizabeth s youngest sister Lydia eloped with Wickham This infamous elopement will make people look down upon the Bennets Fortunately Mr Darcy helped to solve this problem and covered the disgrace From the details he helped Wickham pay debts and gave Lydia another one thousand pounds to make her settlement and so on 4 devoted and consistent Mr Darcy loves Elizabeth always the same from first to last If your feelings are still what they were last April tell me so at once My affections and wishes are unchanged but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever p471 He is devoted to Elizabeth in spite of her refusal Besides Mr Darcy makes great efforts to help Lydia in order to please Elizabeth From all of these we can know that Mr Darcy loves her so deeply from heart and soul Conclusion As a matter of fact gold can t be pure and man can t be perfect If a person wants to be recognized by the society he must have many excellent qualities such as patience magnanimity tolerant easiness and so on Anyway the story ends with their happy marriage at last through Mr Darcy s changes in his behaviors Reference 1 Jane Austen Pri