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1、盐城师范学院毕业论文- 1 -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 m
2、arriages. 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 an
3、d the 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 vita
4、l part 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
5、in the 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
6、by males, 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 influe
7、nces 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 un
8、til May 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 Prej
9、udiceJane 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 mos
10、t works concern the youths love and marriage. The themes of her 盐城师范学院毕业论文- 2 -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 pu
11、blished in 1813, which 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 Lydi
12、a, the arrogant Mr. 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
13、 mentioned much.Pride 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, a
14、nd it is written in 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 peo
15、ple. The love story 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 ele
16、ments in the novel. 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 truly 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
