英语专业毕业论文《傲慢与偏见》中女性角色对比分析(英文).doc
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1、盐城师范学院毕业论文The Comparison and Analysis of the Female Characters in Pride and PrejudiceChen YezhiAbstract: Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen. It is Janes representative masterpiece. This novel mainly writes the development of the love between Darcy and Elizabeth, and depicts us four marria
2、ges. It teaches us a lesson that one should have neither pride nor prejudice in his or her relationship. The writer also reflects the feminism in this novel. The following research will analyze the main distinctive heroines one by one and then do a comparison among them, from their marriages and the
3、 angle of feminism, in order to find the different kinds of female consciousness.Key words: Pride and Prejudice; female consciousness; the comparison of the female characters1 IntroductionIn the 18th century, the number of female writers increased quickly, but novels didnt take up a rather vital par
4、t and were shortage of convention. Till the 19th century, a lot of female writers started to create novels to describe the society, the politics, and people with different fates. From these, people can see that the female literature in Britain was originated from the 18th century and developed in th
5、e 19th century. The novel Pride and Prejudice which created by Jane Austen is a symbol of the formation of the British feminist. And Jane Austen fully shows her distinctive feminist consciousness in this novel. Jane changed the womens peeped position in the literature which was long controlled by ma
6、les, so she proved to be a historic writer.1.1 Jane AustenJane Austen was born in Steventon, Hampshire in Britain in 1775, and she was the seventh daughter in her family. Rev. George Austen, her father, a clergyman in that parsonage of that village Hampshire, must have posed some special influences
7、on Janes growth and literary road. Educated at home, together with her sisters, Jane began to write at an early age and passed her life very quietly. After her fathers death, Jane, together with her family, moved to Southampton and then to the village of Chawton. She lived there uneventfully until M
8、ay 1817, when her family moved to Winchester to seek skilled medical attention for her illness. But Jane died two months later and she was buried in Winchester Cathedral. Although Janes books mainly picture love and marriage, she remains unmarried all her life.1.2 Janes works and Pride and Prejudice
9、Jane altogether completes six novels in her life: Sense and Sensibility (1811); Pride and Prejudice (1813); Mansfield Park (1814); Emma (1816); Northanger Abbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818). Her novels mainly depict the life of the middle class in the country where she spends most time. Her most wor
10、ks concern the youths love and marriage. The themes of her novels are common, but have the insight deep.In 1796, Jane Austen started to work on the first version of Pride and Prejudice, but Jane was not very successful with the publishers later. So at last, the novel was first published in 1813, whi
11、ch was two years after her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility.The novel is mainly about the love affairs and marriage of the five distinctive daughters in the Bennett. In this novel, there is the good mannered Jane, the wise and independent Elizabeth, the unbridled Lydia, the arrogant Mr.
12、Darcy, etc. People know the development of the plot clearly by describing the simple life. However, in this novel, the females are the real protagonists, they instead of the males enjoy the priority. The different kinds of women also make up important parts of the novel, they are mentioned much.Prid
13、e and Prejudice, of course, as Janes masterpiece, has ranked the top ten English novels around the world nowadays. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” It is the most famous sentence in this novel, and it is written in
14、the book as the opening sentence. From this sentence, Austen wants to satirize the monetary reality bounded in her society. And from this sentence, it can infer that there must be some plots about courtship and marriage. The novel is about the marriages of four pairs of young people. The love story
15、between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy is the most important one. Their love story is full of humorous, lovely and comic style. The novel also reflects the human relationship in that time and shows us what on earth the ideal marriage is.From this novel, there have been some feminist elements in the novel.
16、Its why Pride and Prejudice can be a symbol of the formation of the British feminism. But in fact, Jane cant be strictly feminist. It still didnt influence the situation of the novel in British feminism. Jane herself is regarded as important as the first British female writer acknowledged to be of t
17、ruly major stature as an artist. And her work Pride and Prejudice has been considered as the literary work that can maximally change the attitudes of women toward themselves.1.3 The history background of Pride and PrejudiceBefore making a comparison of the female characters and try to understand the
18、 female consciousness perceived in the Pride and Prejudice, it is necessary to study the historical background of this novel first. The following two angles will show it:The first is the social status of the women in the 18th and 19th century.In the 18th century, the British males dominated in the s
19、ociety and family, and the females were underprivileged.At that time, women have no position in the economy. Take Pride and Prejudice as an example. In this novel, in order to support the family, Mr. Bennett has to ask one of his daughters to marry Mr. Collins who is the lawful heir and really contr
20、ol the familys wealth. Only this way can ensure that his family will go on. From this phenomenon, it shows that at that time, the survival of women can only depend on the property of the fathers or the husbands. If a woman wants to live well, she should have a wealthy father, or she should marry a p
21、erson who is rich enough. But no matter how rich the womans family is, the woman herself still has no position in the economy. And the fact is that the women would lose the control of money is decided by the rule of the bourgeoisie. What more, even when the women are married, they still face with th
22、e inequality. They have no rights to dispose the property. A woman must rely on her husband after getting married. If a well educated but poor lady wants to improve her living standard, the best choice is to marry with a rich guy. Therefore, in the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet always expec
23、ts her daughters to marry the rich.Except the above, women also enjoy a disadvantage in the social status. From the 18th century, a lot of books published in Britain were exclusively about the behaviors and manners of the young ladies. Women at that time are required to behave like the angles and th
24、ey should also have different kinds of virtues such as be kindness, politeness, loyalty, pureness, etc.Having taken all these factors into consideration, it can be inferred that at that time, females have a low social position, and they can hardly get to their feet firmly in the society.The second i
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