Money and Marriage——the Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and Prejudice.doc

金钱与婚姻-《傲慢与偏见》中婚姻价值取向Money and Marriage—— the Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and PrejudiceContentsAbstract……………………………………………………………………..1Key words…………………………………………………………………...1I. Introduction………………………………………………………………2II. About the novel and the author………………………………....2III. The Formation of Three Different Marriages in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice ………………………………………………....………….31. Utilitarian marriage………………...………………………………..…..31)The story of Collins and Charlotte’s marriage…………………………3 2)The marriage of no passions and little affection but successful……………43)Social background behind marriage……………………………..…..42. Moral marriage…………….. ……………..……………………………51) The story of Bingley and Jane’s marriage………..……………………52) The marriage of genuine affection, esteem, shown as a real marriage but not an ideal one…………….. ……………………………………………53) Their marriage fit Austen’s ideal of happiness…….……………………63. Perfect marriage…………….. …………………..……………………61)The story of Darcy and Elizabeth’s marriage……..……………………62)The marriage with affection, esteem and passion, shown as perfect, real and happy couple…………….. …………………..………………………73)Elizabeth’s bravery and true love..………...…….………………………84)Social backgrounds behind their marriage………………………………8IV. Conclusion…………….. ………………………..……………………9 References…………………………………………….…………………….9Money and Marriage-----The Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and PrejudiceMoney and Marriage——the Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and PrejudiceAbstract: Pride and Prejudice is a very popular novel written by Jane Austen which is read widely all over the world. As one of the most famous novelist, Jane Austen is one of the writers that English learners must be familiar with in English literature. In her works, she mainly talks about love and marriage, which are seriously influenced by people’s wealth and status. That specific history time decided that people at that time took money much more seriously, even on their marriage. In her most popular work, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen shows her own opinions on the marriage. So in my essay, I will show the different views on the people and talk about how money influences their matrimonial value orientation.Key words: Pride and Prejudice, money, matrimonial value orientation, marriage  摘 要: 简·奥斯丁的《傲慢与偏见》写于1813年，一直以来很受欢迎，并被广泛阅读。

特定的历史时代决定了那个时候的人们对金钱特别看重，影响波及婚姻观念在这篇文章里面，简·奥斯丁对婚姻提出了她自己的观点所以，在我的论文中，我会对书中呈现的婚姻进行分析，证实金钱体现人物的婚姻价值取向 关键字: 傲慢与偏见; 金钱; 价值观; 婚姻I. Introduction Pride and Prejudice is the most enduringly popular novel written by Jane Austen. It talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. The plot is very simple. That is how the young ladies choose their husbands. John Richetti said, “Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel, flatly rejected William Collin’s proposal, who is the heir of her father’s property and manor, refused the first proposal from the extremely wealthy nobleman Fitzwilliam Darcy. All of these make it clear that Elizabeth seek no fame nor fortune, but self-improvement and high mental outlook.” (The Eighteenth Century Novel, 112) It’s right. From the view point of Austen, Elizabeth’s marriage, who finally marries Darcy, as well as Jane and Bingley’s, composed money and love, and is the ideal marriage people should pursue. But in other marriage cases in this novel, we can see that if money and love can’t be held together in one marriage, love would always make a concession to money because of the special social background. After reading through the whole book, we will find that money acts as the cause of each plot and the clue of its development. It affects everybody’s words and deeds, even Elizabeth Bennet. Tony Tanner once said that Jane Austen was very clear that no feeling could be extremely pure and no motive could be definitely single. But as long as it is possible, we should make it clear that which feeling or motive played the leading role.II. About the novel and the authorPride and Prejudice is the most popular novel written by Jane Austen. She occupies an important position between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has been popular with people around the world. Early in the nineteenth century, she got many people’s attention to her works and a lot of writers have given her their reviews on her works, such as Woolf, Henry James. Nowadays, Austen has become not just an author, but a “figure”, a writer avidly claimed by readers lay and academic, by critics of different stripes and school. Among her works, Pride and Prejudice is the most popular one as her masterpiece. Marilyn Butler( Jane Austen,1963)said that “Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel, flatly rejected William Collins’ proposal, who is the heir of her father’s property and manor, and refused the first proposal from the extremely 。