prideandprejudice赏析.ppt

Pride and Prejudice----Chen Yao “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.,.,Jane Austen was born at Steventon Parsonage, Hampshire, England, on December 16th, 1775, the seventh of eight children.At first,she was sent to Oxford to be educated.A few years later,she had returned home because the Austens could not afford to send her to school . Austen acquired the remainder of her education by reading books, guided by her minister-father . Her father apparently gave Austen unfettered access to his large and varied library, and provided her with expensive paper and other materials for her writing and,.,drawing.Austen had a close relationship with her sister---Cassandra Elizabeth. .Austen never married.In 1796,she had a short relationship with Tom Lefroy ,who was the Irish supreme judge.It is said that he is Mr. Darcys prototype in Pride and Prejudice.In 1816,Austen got a serious illness and died in Winchester on 18th, July 1817, at the age of 41.She was buried in the north aisle of the nave of Winchester Cathedral .,.,Status From 18 century to the early 19th century ,sentimental novel and Gothic novel are full of British Literature. But Austens novel destroys the old and establishes the new. Unconventionally shows that British rural middle class life which has not been under capitalist industry revolution impact.Her works, often through the comedic scenes of mocking peoples stupidity, selfishness, snobbery and blindly confident weakness.Austens novel appeared in the early 19th century.She broke the false romanticism trend , inheriting and developing the excellent tradition of realism in the 18th century in the UK. She opens the climax of the realistic novels of 1830s.,.,,Jane Austen is one of the very few famous female writers in the world .She is a domestic novelist and novelist of manners.She is mentioned in the same st atus with Shakespeare.,.,Austens literary concern,Austens main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationship. She is particular preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love. Stories of love and marriage provide the major themes in all her novels, in which female characters are always playing an active part.,.,Novel of Manners(社会风俗小说）,work of fiction that re-creates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society. The conventions of the society dominate the story, and characters are differentiated by the degree to which they measure up to the uniform standard, or ideal, of behaviour or fall below it. The range of a novel of manners may be limited, as in the works ofJane Austen, which deal with the domestic affairs of English country gentry families of the 19th century and ignore elemental human passions and larger social and political determinations..,.,Domestic Novel,domestic Novel refers to a type of novel popular with women readers during the middle of the nineteenth century. The genre began with Catharine SedgwicksNew-England Tale(1822) and remained a dominant fictional type until after 1870.,.,Features,1. Plot focuses on a heroine who embodies one of two types of exemplar. 2. The heroine struggles for self-mastery, learning the pain of conquering her own passions 3.The tales generally end with marriage. 4. The novels may use a language of tears that evokes sympathy from the readers.,.,List of Works,Novels: Sense and Sensibility(1811) Pride and Prejudice(1813) Mansfield Park(1814) Emma(1815) Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) Persuasion (1818, posthumous) Short fiction : Lady Susan(1794, 1805) Unfinished fiction : The Watsons 1804) Sanditon (1817) Other Works: Sir Charles Grandison (adapted play) (1793, 1800) Plan of a Novel (1815),,,,.,A Brief Introduction of Pride and Prejudice,Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of Jane Austen. This work takes the daily life as the source material . Contrary to popular sentimental novels of the community content and affectation of writing methods. Vividly reflects the end of the 18th century to the early 19th century British township life in a conservative and occlusion state and the ways of the world ..,.,Social Background,1.The story of Pride and Prejudice took place in nineteenth century.At that time, Britain was at the period of transition from the earlier stage of Capitalism to Capitalist Industrialization. In the countryside, the aristocratic family still held great power and right that country squires were likely to fawn upon them. However, as the development of Capitalism and the expand of the rank of rich people, the distinction between social strata was becoming smaller and smaller, while money was getting more and more important in peoples mind about social value. England consented to accommodate the aspirations of the rising middle classes by permitting intermarriage with commomers.,.,2.The story took place in the times between 18th and。