傲慢与偏见读后感英文版

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傲慢与偏见读后感英文版 篇1

After a term’s reading, I finished ten more books, however, what impressed me most is Jane Austen and her two classical books.

In China maybe we all know LiQingzhao, a great female poet whose poetry are full of the emotions from the bottom of her heart. However, in England the figure maybe is my most admirable authoress Miss Austen who can never have too many respects from the common people just like me. After read her two masterpieces of books Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, I feel so proud of being female to see a world-famous authoress using her independent thoughts, humor words to show us the relationship between the so-called superiors and the lower-class.

At that time, neither in the east nor in the west, it is not so easy for a woman to become a great figure with literary reputation. In China Li made it, while in England Miss Austen with her unique characteristic also realized her dream after a long struggle with the temporal points. It seems that all in Jane’s life, she made a decision between sense and sensibility; once there was an old saying “Affection is desirable, money is absolutely indispensable.” She resolutely chose her true love but not a splendid life or a comfortable home, what a pity she can not marry the one she did not really love even a beloved one, in her short life, she finished six famous books with her heart and soul but never married and stayed single for ever.

When reading Pride and Prejudice, I wondered why the oldest sister in the Bennet family also was named Jane, is there any possibility Jane Bennet is the soul of Miss Austen; and Miss Austen expected to realize all the pity which can not come true in her real life, so Jane Bennet was pictured as prefect as possible to be the best of the five sisters.

It’s a classical book with abundant description of everyone’s inner heart, especially the changes in their hearts. It can never deserve too many analyses for it was so wonderfully worked. One can say anything but ordinary to show our respects and admiration.

The man said“I do not have that talent of conversing easily with people I have never met before.” The woman said“We all don’t know him.” The book is full of the man’s pride and the woman’s prejudice in its lines and words.

From his pride we can see his confidence and persistence; whereas from his pride we can’t see his kindness and gentleness which he hid behind the surface.

From her prejudice we can see her firmness and treason; whereas from her prejudice we can’t see her expectation and worries which she hid behind the surface.

So it gave us a beginning of the story of pride and prejudice and led us to Miss Austen’s emotion world. So wonderful a book, so classical a story, so prefect a happy ending made it never a problem whether his pride or her prejudice counted, because of love, all can be neglected.

In the book once the proud Mr Dracy talked about the traits an accomplished woman must have, it needed a thorough knowledge of music, singing, dancing, drawing and modern languages, and besides this, a certain something in her manner of walking, in her voice and her behaviour. What’s more, something more solid, the improvement of her mind by wide reading. It could never be too strict for a common woman to follow.

About the attitudes to the marriage, Charles Dickens in the Oliver Twist also showed us the opinions of that day, he said if a man has ambitions to enter politics, then he marries a woman with a stain on her name, over though it’s not her fault, it might spoil his chances of success in his life. The society is cruel, people might use the knowledge of his wife’s doubtful birth against him, and against his children, too. And one day, he might begin to regret his marriage.

But love is so great that nothing can conquer it, and in the Pride and Prejudice we see the type of classical love, if we say in the realization we are so sorry to see the over more interest lead us to forget what love is, what a pity when love is not so pure as it should be, what a pity when love is used as a medium of exchange.

To my happiness the books inflected Miss Austen’s marriage view, it is wrong to get married for property, money and states. She objects to getting married for money and regarding the marriage as a trifling matter. She also points that the man and the woman’s emotion is the foundation of an ideal marriage.

After reading it, I feel that I just want to turn Elizabeth who is ordinary but with special beauty, brave but with a little stubborn, though she is not a prefect woman our eyes, she does be a woman with prefect disadvantages. To the hero Mr Dracy, I feel that I just want to marry a gentleman like Mr Dracy who always puts his love deep in his heart, till the day he made sure that Elizabeth was the one he wanted to spend the rest time of the live. Under the handsome and gentle; proud and serious face, there was a kind heart full of love.

Pride is just like a piece of beautiful clothes which is luxurious and untouchable. However, the expense of pride is loneliness. Prejudice is just like the clouds floating in the sky with its freedom. However, the expense of prejudice is lost.

傲慢与偏见读后感英文版 篇2

关键词：《傲慢与偏见》,班内特夫人,语言与性别,语言特点

1 Introduction

Jane Austen is a renowned British novelist in the 19th century.In her lifelong career,she wrote altogether six complete novels,among which Pride and Prejudice is her masterpiece.

The novel,Pride and Prejudice,is noted for its fluency and witty language.With simple language and conversational dialogues,the pictures of the characters are vividly depicted and everyone comes alive by displaying the trivial incidents of the everyday life,such as dancing parties,tea parties,picnics and gossips(Zhangboxiang,1999).In this novel,besides the detailed descriptions of the protagonists,Austen emphatically depicted Mrs.Bennet.With the help of witty conversational diction,a fussy,nagging,neurotic and silly Mrs.Bennet is completely and adequately presented in front of us.

2 The Relationship between Language and Gender

In the course of linguistic development,many linguists have tried to research the relationship between language and gende over the past decades(Huzhuanglin,2001).These studies on language in relation to gender show that men and women speak differently,that men and women are spoken about differently and that the language is discriminatory against women(Lakoff1975).

To be more specific,1)compared with men,women tend to use adverbs;2)women have their own vocabulary for emphasizing certain effects;3)aside from specific lexical items,there are differences between the speech of women and that of men in the use of particles that grammarians often describe as"meaningless";4)women use more tag questions;5)women use more statement questions with a rising intonation at the end;6)women's linguistic behavior is more indirect and more polite.(Mary Talbot,1998)

3 Analysis the Features of Mrs.Bennet's language

In Pride and Prejudice,in spite of being only a flat character,Austen portrayed Mrs.Bennet vividly.She played an important role in the development of plots.In almost every chapter,Mrs.Bennet is present.More interestingly,it is always her voice that attracts our attention first and then she turns up.Her words are distinctive,original and fitful for her unique identity very well.

3.1 Mrs.Bennet likes using adverbs

It is interesting to know that the language used by men and women have some special features of their own.According to Mary Talbot(1998),women tend to use meaningless adverbs.

In the novel,She was a woman of mean understanding,little information,and uncertain temper.When she was discontented,she fancied herself nervous.The business of her life was to get her daughters married,its solace was visiting and news.She complained about everything and made a fuss about anything.Thus,her language feature was terrifically presented by such adverbs:horridly,abominably,immensely,excessively,amazingly,so,most,etc.

"Oh!My dear Mr.Bennet,we have had a most excellent ball.…Jane was so admired.Every body said how well she looked.Mr.Bingley thought her quite beautiful,…I was so vexed to see him stand up with her.…I am quite delighted with him.He is so excessively handsome!"(p.30)

The overuse of these words imply that Mrs.Bennet is sentimental,shallow and not objective enough.

3.2 Mrs.Bennet prefers to words of absoluteness and ex-tremity

As we all know,this novel tells us a truth that in the late18th-century landed-gentry families a mother(Mrs.Bennet)with five daughters at home must want to finds suitable husbands fo her daughters(Zhangboxiang,1999).Being such a mother,Mrs Bennet made good use of her authorities.Therefore there is no surprise for her to use many words of absoluteness and extremity In the whole novel,we find that she used"musts"more than tens of times and words of absoluteness and extremity very frequently.

"Mrs.Bennet's eyes sparkled.--'a gentleman and a stranger!It is Mr.Bingley,I am sure.Why Jane--you neve dropt a word of this;you sly thing!Well,I am sure I shall be extremely glad to see Mr.Bingley.--But--good lord!How unlucky!There is not a bit of fish to be got today.Lydia,my love ring the bell.I must speak to Hill,this moment.'"(p.69)

"Good gracious!Mr.Darcy!--And so it does,I vow Well any friend o Mr.Bingley's will always be welcome here,to be sure;but else I must say that I hate the very sight of him."(p374)

3.3 Mrs.Bennet loves using exclamations

In the novel,Mrs.Bennet possessed the distinctive characteristics of fussy,silly,stupid,vulgar,fussy,garrulous and wordy To highlight these characteristics,a large numbers of exclamations with no practical meanings were widely used,such as:"Oh dear,dear me,well,you know,goodness me,my goodness".Fo instance,when Elizabeth told her mother that she would marry Mr.Darcy,Mrs.Bennet's response made readers simmer with laughter.Austen wrote in this novel that"its effect was most extraordinary;for on first hearing it,mrs.Bennet sat quite still,and unable to utter a syllable.Nor was it under many,many minutes that she could comprehend what she heard….she began at length to recover,to fidget about in her chair,get up,sit down again wonder,and bless herself."

"Good gracious!Lord bless me!Only think!Dear me!Mr.Darcy!Who would have thought it!And is it really true!Oh!My sweetest Lizzy!How rich and how great you will be!What pin-money,what jewels,what carriages you will have!Jane's is nothing to it--nothing at all.I am so pleased--so happy.Such a charming man!--So handsome!So tall!--Oh,my dear Lizzy!Pray apologize for my having disliked him so much before.I hope he will overlook it.Dear,dear Lizzy.A house in town!Everything that is charming!Three daughters married!Ten thousand a year!Oh,lord!What will become o me.I shall go distracted."(p.423)

3.4 Mrs.Bennet likes using lots of subjunctive mood sen-tences

Pride and Prejudice is famous for its witty conversational dialogues.Mrs.Bennet was portrayed as a self-centered mother.She always thought and speculated everything in her own absolute way.As to the conversations related to her,it is characterized by using subjunctive mood sentences to either stress her attitude or express her ideas.

"If I had been able,"said she,"to carry my point of going to Brighton,with all my family,this would not have happened;but poor dear Lydia had nobody to take care of her….I am sure there was some great neglect or other on their side,for she is not the kind of girl to do such a thing,if she had been well looked after."(p.324)

"I do not blame Jane,"she continued,"or Jane would have got Mr.Bingley,if she could.But,Lizzy!Oh,sister!It is very hard to think that she might have been Mr.Collins's wife by this time,had not it been for her own perverseness.…"(p.163)

4 Conclusion

From the above detailed analysis,it tells us not only that language does have certain relationship with gender,but also that such relationship will produce unique and special language features.Mrs.Bennet is a very interesting character in Pride and Prejudice.Her language features are quite typical and distinctive.It is her languages features that turn out the special effects for portraying the character of"Mrs.Bennet".

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《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感 篇3

Many people simply regard pride and prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time.She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters.The characters have their own personalities.Mrs.Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters.Mr.Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr.Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior.Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different.Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others.Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion.Mary likes reading classic books.(Actually she is a pedant.)Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia.Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate.When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now.That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic.But this little topic can reflect big problems.It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century.You can find these from the very beginning of this book.The first sentence in this book is impressive.It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”.The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.people always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories.In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs.After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs.Bennet wants to marry off her daughters.If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time.Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions.Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives.Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions.Jane Austen told us that

money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.In “pride and prejudice”, the sister of Mr.Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them.From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband.The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind.A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages.Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage.Marry for money is still a big problem in our society.We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?

Austen left this problem for us to think.The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems.Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “pride and prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively.The plots in her works are always very natural.The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics.I think the depth of pride and prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic.Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.傲慢与偏见英文读后感

The first sentence in this book is impressive.It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”.The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.people always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories.In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs.After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs.Bennet wants to marry off her daughters.If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time.Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions.Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives.(读后感

《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感 篇4

The first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession. People always think that Austen was an expert at telling love stories. In fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs.

After reading this book, I know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man. I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs. Bennet wants to marry off her daughters. If you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, I must mention the situation in Britain at that time. Only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father’s possessions. Younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. (读后感 ) Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. Jane Austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century. In “Pride and Prejudice”, the sister of Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bennets don’t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband.

The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married. In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind. A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages. Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage. Marry for money is still a big problem in our society. We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?

傲慢与偏见读后感英文版 篇5

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by Jane Austen in 1813.At that time,English writers loved to write sad stories which seemed a little affected and contrived,but Austen overcame the tendency,her novels are close to life.For example,Pride and Prejudice describes the life in countryside and the love stories happen among the people there.Just because the book is easy to understand and everyone can find some similarities with the characters,it can be popular in all these years,even be adapted into several movies and TV series.The novel took place in Longbourn,where the poor squire,Mr.Bennet,lived with his vulgar,gossipy wife and five daughters of different personalities.Jane was the eldest and the most beautiful one,she got over all the difficulties and finally married Mr.Bingley;Lydia,their youngest sister with a wild character,married Mr.Wickham because of a sudden impulse,but luckily their married life wasn’t so bad.However,the relationship between Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy is the most impressive one.At first Mr.Darcy was a very proud man,therefore Elizabeth had a prejudice against him,especially when she heard from Mr.Wickham that he occupied the money which should not belong to him,and then she knew it was he who separated the lovers,Jane and Mr.Bingley.So she rejected his proposal which seemed proud as well.Mr.Darcy was so sad and wrote a letter to her to explain that two things wasn’t all his fault,in order to show his sincerity,he tried to be modest and even spent a lot of money to help Lydia.After that Elizabeth began to see Mr.Darcy through her own eyes and gradually fell in love with him.The novel has a prefect ending,they got marry and lived happily together.There are many famous lines in Pride and Prejudice,such as this one from Chapter 5,”Vanity and pride are different things,though the words are often used synonymously.A person may be proud without being vain.Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves,vanity to what we would have others think of us.”The words are raised by Mary when they talked about Mr.Darcy.Everyone has self-esteem,or we can call it pride.We are tend to be careful and defensive when our importance seems to be threaten by someone new,like early Mr.Darcy.If we just stick to this and refuse to make any change,we may be hated and lose our true love forever.And meanwhile,we are easy to judge people by appearance and believe in what others say about him,then we treat the imagination as evidence.Prejudice prevents us from seeing and listening the truth.But the story also tells us love can overcome all these obstacles,as Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy,Elizabeth made Mr.Darcy a less pride creature,while Mr.Darcy made Elizabeth realize her prejudice.This is the power of love.

傲慢与偏见英文版读书报告 篇6

But quiet and uneventful though her life was, it yet supplied her with material for half a dozen novels as perfect of their kind as any in the language. While still a young girl she had experimented with various styles of writing, and when she completed “Pride and Prejudice” at the age of twenty-two, it was clear that she had found her appropriate form. This novel, which in many respects she never surpassed, was followed a year later by “Northanger Abbey,” a satire on the “Gothic” romances then in vogue; and in 1809 she finished “Sense and Sensibility,” begun a dozen years before. So far she had not succeeded in having any of her works printed; but in 1811 “Sense and Sensibility” appeared in London and won enough recognition to make easy the publication of the others. Success gave stimulus, and between 1811 and 1816, she completed “Mansfield Park,” “Emma,” and “Persuasion.” The last of these and “Northanger Abbey” were published posthumously.

The most remarkable characteristic of Jane Austen as a novelist is her recognition of the limits of her knowledge of life and her determination never to go beyond these limits in her books. She describes her own class, in the part of the country with which she was acquainted; and both the types of character and the events are such as she knew from first-hand observation and experience. But to the portrayal of these she brought an extraordinary power of delicate and subtle delineation, a gift of lively dialogue, and a peculiar detachment. She abounds in humor, but it is always quiet and controlled; and though one feels that she sees through the affectations and petty hypocrisies of her circle, she seldom becomes openly satirical. The fineness of her workmanship, unexcelled in the English novel, makes possible the discrimination of characters who have outwardly little or nothing to distinguish them; and the analysis of the states of mind and feeling of ordinary people is done so faithfully and vividly as to compensate for the lack of passion and adventure. She herself speaks of the “little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work,” and, in contrast with the broad canvases of Fielding or Scott, her stories have the exquisiteness of a fine miniature.

we are always pride and think something in our mind but not right,we assess the others only depend on their background or their color of skin , we hide our true heart and pretend ,we dispise the others without any reason.

傲慢与偏见读后感英文版 篇7

--Rassendyll Yan

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is regarded as one of the most famous English literature ever since it was first published in 1813.The book telling a story of the Bennets with five daughters but no sons has a micro but deep insight of society and human nature.The title covers two main psychological features of general people which are shown in the characters of the novel of which, more specifically, „pride‟ indicates Mr.Darcy, the hero, while „prejudice‟ indicates Miss Elizabeth Bennet, the heroin.Summary The novel begins with the entrance of a rich bachelor, Mr.Bingley with his two sisters, Caroline Bingley and Luisa Hurst and his friend, Mr.Darcy to Longbourn and Mr.s Bennet‟s requiring her husband call upon the newcomers to see if one of theirs five daughters can marry the gentleman.Mr.Bingley is attracted by Jane Bennet, the eldest of the five at their first meeting, they fall in love with each other after several balls and at the mean time, Elizabeth Bennet the second eldest of the five seizes the attention of Mr.Darcy.However, because of family dignity from the man and the prejudice caused by imprudent judgment of the lady, the Darcy-Lizzy relationship hasn‟t the same development as that of Mr.Bingley and Jane, the prejudice of which has deepened even further with the appearance of Mr.Wickham, the son of Mr.Darcy‟s late father‟s steward, and his intended wrong saying of Mr.Darcy.And Elizabeth is even fond of Wickham herself.When the Bennets and the neighborhood observe the development of Mr.Bingley and Jane, Mr.Collins pays a visit to Longbourn who is the cousin of the girls and the heir of the property of the Bennets after Mr..Bennet die.Mr.Collins is a clergyman and crazily admires his patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh who happens to be sister of Darcy‟s mother.Mr..Collins offers his proposal to Elizabeth Bennet during his stay in Longbourn, but rejected.The he turns to Charlotte Lucas and marries her to fulfill his purpose to visit Longbourn—getting married.As the consequence of the conspiracy of Caroline Bingley and Mr.Darcy, Mr.Bingley believes the indifference of the Jane, thus, they separate.Even when Jane pays a visit to Caroline when she is in London with her uncle and aunt, Mr.and Mr.s Gardiner, they keep this as a secret to Bingley After the marriage of Mr.Collins and Charlotte, Elizabeth is invited to visit them in Hunsford, where they pay several visits to Lady Catherine de Bourgh.During Elizabeth‟s stay in Hunsford, she meets Mr.Darcy and his cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, the former of which offers a proposal in an arrogant manner to Elizabeth but refused.The next day Elizabeth receives a letter from Mr.Darcy which tells the truth about his interfering of Bingley-Jane relationship as well as the evil of Mr.Wickham particularly the intended elopement with Georgiana Darcy, younger sister of Mr.Darcy.Elizabeth returns to Longbourn with mixed emotion and her feeling to Mr.Darcy begins to change.Lydia receives an invitation to Brighton with Colonel Forster‟s wife.Though trying to persuade her father, Elizabeth doesn‟t make it to prevent Lydia from the trip to Brighton.After a long misery time in her home, Elizabeth is asked to go north with her uncle and aunt.They pay a visit to Pemberley, Mr.Darcy‟s estate.The earlier return of the master surprises both Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy.And the change in Mr.Darcy‟s attitude confuses Elizabeth and he ever wants to make his sister Georgiana acquaintance with Miss Elizabeth.There she also meets Mr.Bingley and his sisters.When Elizabeth enjoying her journey, two letters from Jane ends the trip earlier than plan—their youngest sister Lydia has run away with Wickham.Elizabeth and her uncle and aunt hurries to Longbourn and Mr.Gardiner set out to assist Mr.Bennet in finding Lydia while Mr.s Gardiner remains at Longbourn to look after the Mr.s Bennet and rest of the family.Lydia is found at last and marries Wickham in town.When the new couple returns to Longbourn, Lydia gives out that Mr.Darcy was in the wedding of Wickham and Lydia.Elizabeth discovers that it was Mr.Darcy who help find Wickham and Lydia and persuade Wickham to marry Lydia.Bingley and Darcy suddenly return to Meryton and visit the Bennets again.Bingley soon get engaged with Jane.At the mean time, Lady Catherine de Bourgh suddenly drops by Longbourn to make Elizabeth promise not to marry Darcy.Elizabeth rejected firmly and Darcy comes propose again, accepted by Elizabeth.At last, they get married and live happily together.Characters

Elizabeth Bennet Elizabeth Bennet is the second of the five daughters of the Bennets who is the heroin of the novel.She is a smart independent woman, deeply loved by her father, Mr.Bennet.She has her own unique opinion of whatever she meets, and always likes to make judgments at the first sight, which naturally leads to some mis-judgment and prejudice—her misunderstanding of Mr.Darcy.She is a brave woman who is true to herself.She always follows her own feeling when dealing with different kinds of things happen in her life.Her dislike of Mr.Darcy, her travel to look after Jane, her initial fancy of Mr.Wickham, her rejection of Mr.Collins proposal, her temped prevention from Lydia going to Bridgton, etc, all of these show her loyalty to her own feelings.And because of her direct personality and braveness, she catches the attention of Mr.Darcy and makes his propose twice and, finally, get her happiness.She also shows her courage to court equality,(though not the main theme of the novel nor the author‟ tendency to court equality)when Lady Catherine de Bourgh rudely requests her not to accept any of Darcy‟s proposal.„In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere.He is a gentleman;I am a gentleman‟s daughter;so far we are equal.‟ This what she says to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her rejection to de Bourgh expresses her being true to herself which may has been lost and should be learnt by people or everyone who always thinks about surrender to limits and restrictions around them.Fitzwilliam Darcy Fitzwilliam Darcy, the hero of the novel, is the wealthy owner of a famous family estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire.His is the first been noticed by crowds because of his handsome appearance and big fortune.But he is soon regarded disagreeable because of his silence and seldom dancing with women.But his demerit is not pride as many people think.Mr.s Gardiner has corrected it as obstinacy—„ “He has been accused of many faults that he did not do himself;though I am sure(and I do not speak it to be thanked, therefore say nothing about it,)your uncle would most readily have settled the whole.” ‟ He is also deeply trusted by his friend Mr.Bingley and really loves and cares about his sister, Georgiana.Readers always get to know his characteristic from the observer, from people around him like the neighbours in Longbourn or Mr.s Reynolds.It is showed from different angles but each of them has it own prejudice, otherwise, which forms a relatively clear image of Mr.Darcy.Here it doesn‟t mean he is a 100% perfect man.It shouldn‟t be regarded proper to make decision for others especially when it comes to the one concerning lifelong happiness and the interest of others.His interference in the relationship between Mr.Bingley and Jane which brings so many ups and downs in the plot and influences so many people around has been strongly opposed and criticized by Elizabeth.Though admitting later after Elizabeth‟s refusing his proposal and gaining her forgiveness and understanding, Mr.Darcy or part of his decision should not be regarded as morality.Mr.Bennet He is a gentleman with five daughters and because he doesn‟t have male heirs his property must be inherited to his nephew Mr.Collins.He is a wise and humorous man who loves reading.He really cares about his second daughter, Elizabeth.From the observation of Elizabeth, Mr.Bennet‟s marriage is unfortunate—„Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour, which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and illiberal mind, had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her.Respect, esteem, and confidence, had vanished for ever;and all his views of domestic happiness were overthrown.‟ But still, here comes to respectful side of Mr.Bennet‟s character—„But Mr.Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.He was fond of the country and of books;and from these tastes and arisen his principal enjoyments.To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.This is not the sort of happiness which a man would in general wish to owe to his wife;but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.The book gives a relatively thorough comment of the impact on the whole family exerted by Mr.Bennet‟s impropriety as a husband.It goes, via the feeling of Elizabeth, like this—„She had always seen it with pain;but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible.But she had never felt so strongly as now, the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents;talents which rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife‟

Mr.Bennet is kind of man who has his own philosophy of life.He loves reading, and his own decision.He really cares about his family and daughters, which can be shown from his initial visit to Mr.Bingley and his immediate departure after Lydia‟s running away with Wickham.Besides his laziness also makes his family depressed—„The whole party were in hopes of a letter from Mr.Bennet the next morning, but the post came in without bringing a single line from him.His family knew him to be on all common occasions, a most negligent and dilatory correspondent, but at such a time, they had hoped for exertion.‟

Though not being the leading character of the novel, the author still paid much attention and efforts on the establishment of the character, which makes Mr.Bennet a real and lovable person.Mr.and Mr.s Gardiner This couple, though not the leading characters of the novel, witnesses and influences so much of the development of the story.Mr.Gardiner is Mr.s Bennet‟s brother and a successful businessman of sensible and gentlemanlike character, greatly superior to his sister as well by nature as education.And his personality and characteristic seem different by the traditional judgment and stereotype of others—„The Netherfield ladies would have had difficulty in believing that a man who lived by trade, and within view of his own warehouses, could have been so well bred and agreeable.‟ He wins the respect of Mr.Darcy by his character and promotes, to some extend, the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth.„Mr.s Gardiner, who was several years younger than Mr.s Bennet and Mr.s Philips, was an amiable, intelligent, elegant woman and a great favourite with all her Longbourn nieces.‟ She has an intimate relationship with the two elder sisters of the Bennets.Her existence is a great consolation to the two ladies.She witnesses all the relationships of the Bennet‟s ladies—she reminds Elizabeth to be careful about her affection towards Mr.Wickham, she picks up Jane in London to give her comfort, she bring Elizabeth to travel Pemberley where she meets Mr.Darcy and acquaints with Miss Darcy, she witness the marriage of Lydia and Wickham and she observes the affection of Mr.Darcy to Elizabeth.Mr.s Bennet Mr.s Bennet is one of the most interesting and vivid characters of the novel.Being a mother of five daughters, her major task and ambition is to marry her daughters to rich, handsome young men.The novel points out her personality and characteristics directly at the very first chapter—„Her mind was less difficult to develop.She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.When she was discontented she fancied herself nervous.‟ She judges people at her first sight and purely controlled by her temper and situation.In chapter 2, when Elizabeth refers to Mr.s Long‟s promise to introduce Mr.Bingley, she just says like this „I do not believe Mr.s Long will do any such thing.She has two nieces of her own.She is a selfish, hypocritical woman, and I have no opinion of her.‟ But after she regains hope that her eldest daughter, Jane, may marry well she just says something really kind about Mr.s Long.She doesn‟t set an ideal model to her youngest daughter and spoils her too much.Actually she doesn‟t know how to behave herself and pass her value directly to Lydia.However the demerit of her personality does really make Mr.s Bennet an impressive character.The amazing irony of the author makes Mr.s Bennet a true-to-life person.Mr.Collins Mr.Collins is the cousin of the five Bennet ladies and the heir of the Bennts‟ property.Mr.Collins is obsequious, pompous and lacking in common sense.„Mr.Collins was not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society;the greatest part of his life having been spent under the guidance of an illiterate and miserly father;and though he belonged to one of the universities, he had merely kept the necessary terms, without forming at it any useful acquaintance.The subjection in which his father had brought him up, had given him originally great humility of manner, but it was now a good deal counteracted by the self-conceit of a weak head, living in retirement, and the consequential feeling of early and unexpected prosperity.‟ He meets Lady Catherin de Bourgh merely by a „fortunate chance‟ so that he admires the Lady with heart and soul, and regards all she says as golden words.The novel clearly shows his motivation of visiting Longbourn family—„Having now a good house and very sufficient income, he intended to marry;and in seeking a reconciliation with the Longbourn family he had a wife in view, as he meant to choose one of the daughters, if he found them as handsome and amiable as they were represented by common report.Also, as he says frankly to Elizabeth—‘But the fact is, that being, as I am, to inherit this estate after the death of your honoured father,(who, however, may live many years longer,)I could not satisfy myself without resolving to choose a wife from among his daughter, that the loss to them might be as little as possible, when the melancholy event takes place—which, however, as I have already said, may not be for several years‟, he console himself by marrying one of the daughter.He doesn‟t have any feeling or passion of love either.He merely takes it for granted that he may get the affection of Elizabeth because of his income, status and his connection with both Lady Catherine de Bourgh and the Bennets.(Elizabeth‟s rejection of Mr.Collins‟ marriage proposal is welcomed by her father, regardless of the financial benefit to the family of such a match.)The author made Mr.Collins an interesting and ridiculous character.Besides, Jane Austen also painted other characters successfully, including Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Lydia, Mr.Wickham etc.She uncovered the merit and demerit of every character sharply and vividly and made all of them true-to-life.Readers can often find something in common in their daily life.Comments Plot

Most of Jane Austen novels were set in English village, where life is simple and where there is a seldom social change.Therefore, much of the attention of the author is paid on people—the changes of people as Elizabeth once tells to Mr.Darcy.As for a novel, the twists and turns of the plot are most important and catching.The main plot of the novel is the development of Darcy-Elizabeth relationship, during which the alteration of their attitude towards each other plays a very important role.But focusing mainly on these two people may make the story dull and tiresome, so the author skillfully use Mr.Collins, Mr.Wickham and also their marriage as ingredients to make the plot more lively and complicated(both Mr.Collins and Mr.Wickham have more or less affected Elizabeth‟s emotional life)Besides, the coincidences of the story are also attracting.What I want to mention here is the one-day earlier returning of Mr.Darcy to Pemberley which gives further development of the relationship between him and Elizabeth.Style Pride and Prejudice, like most of Jane Austen‟s works, employs the narrative technique of free indirect speech(the free representation of a character‟s speech—not the words actually spoken by a character, but the words typify the character‟s thoughts, or the way the character would think and speak, if he or she thought or spoke.By using narrative that adopts the tones and vocabulary of a particular character(like Elizabeth)Austen invites the reader to follow events from Elizabeth‟s viewpoints, sharing her prejudices and misapprehensions.We can find a lot in the story, and mainly from Elizabeth and Mr.s Gardiner who show their viewpoints and thoughts and let the reader know what exactly what they think.Theme

Though the novel is entitled with „pride‟ and „prejudice‟, the theme of the novel is not simply about these two feelings and I think the title just stands for the hero and heroine of the novel.This is a love and marriage story but talks more than love, or shows other things by presenting a love story.One simple and obvious theme in Pride and Prejudice and much of Austen‟s work is the importance of environment and upbringing on the development of young people‟s character and morality.In Pride and Prejudice, the failure of Mr.and Mr.s Bennet as parents is blamed for Lydia‟s moral judgment;Darcy on the other hand, has been taught to be principled and scrupulously honourable, but he is also proud and overbearing.Kitty, rescued from Lydia‟s bad influence and spending more time with her older sisters after they marry, is said to improve greatly in their superior society.We can learn from some of Elizabeth‟s thoughts about her parents and how she looks into the education of the five girls of the family.The novel talks more about classes and freedom.Though Austen‟s novel doesn‟t aim at the social revolution and changes directly, it really uncover people‟s thoughts and awareness of the problem of the gap between classes and the pursuit of freedom and equality.The historical events which defined the social and political background of Jane Austen‟s adult life were the French Revolution and the subsequent wars between England and France.It is a well-worn fact that these events make little explicit appearance in her novels;but in so far as they highlighted the question of relationship between classes and also, though the repressive social response to them in England, the limits of individual rights to free expression, they are central to Pride and Prejudice, and specifically to the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth.No one has a stronger sense of the social impossibility of this relationship than Lady Catherine de Bourgh: „My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other.They are descended on the maternal side, from the some noble line;and, on the father‟s, from respectable, honourable, and ancient, though untitled families…and what is to divide them? The upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune.Is this to be endured!But it must not, shall not be.If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere, in which you have been brought up.‟ She speaks for the aristocratic concept of marriage as a contract between families, Elizabeth and Darcy oppose to this the concept of marriage as a personal agreement between individuals.For Darcy, he is determined to pursuit his love and happiness in spite of convention and family dignity.And for Elizabeth, she has got great courage to enter into a superior class.The novel ends therefore with an emphatic statement that the social gulf, much stressed by Elizabeth in earlier passages of the novel, has been crossed.With her dangerous tendency to mock and challenge convention, she has brought „a little liveliness‟ to Darcy, but she has also, on a social level, brought the middle classes into the home of the aristocracy.Conclusion Though written more than hundred years ago, the characters in the novel still seems vivid and real today.And the themes of the story deserve people‟s thoughts and reflection through the social development of human society.Reference