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4. Love and Marriage
4.1 Brief Introduction
What is love? What is marriage? And what is their relationship? All these questions have been confusing human beings for thousands of years, and people have been seeking for the answers consistently all the time. What are the elements that form and maintain marriage? Is the foundation of marriage sense, or sensibility or something else? These questions has draw Austen’s attention. Although she doesn’t marry in her whole life, most of her is devoted at exploring marriage. Most significantly, in the story “Pride and Prejudice”, she describes several different love and marriage by using up all her ink. Her unique value of love and marriage can be felt in the story. The several different marriages in the story respectively are: Love of blindness, love of common customs, love of fleshliness, love of sense and love of true love. Although all of these love have finally be brought into palaces of marriage, not all of them have led to happy marriages. Although these marriages seem not like at all, under the veiling of marriage, they somehow have something in common on their essence. The five different love and marriage are discussed hereinafter.
4.2 Five Different Marriages In Pride and Prejudice
(1) Love of Blindness:
It is confused for the readers why Mr. Bennett would marry Mrs. Bennett. Because this women has almost nothing good or unusual to be reported, except for her ever beauty, which can be identified from her beautiful daughters. It no doubt that Mr. Bennett is one of the most lively and charming people in the story.
“Mr. Bennett was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor, reserve, and caprice”. He is a countryside gentleman, while Mrs. Bennett is the daughter of a lawyer. This marriage is well-matched in social and economic status at that time, however, the shortcomings of Mrs. Bennett herself have made this marriage completely inharmonious. “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”. In the society of that time, it is no doubt that she is looked down. As a parent, she should hold the direct responsibility for the levity and superficialness of her 3 little daughters. Moreover, Lydia’s elopement is the result of her overindulgent.
We can image that marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett is the result of Mr. Bennett’s feeling and action on impulse. He is just captivated by the beautiful appearance of Mrs. Bennett. If they do have love, this kind of love shall be ephemeral and unable to bear tests. The reason that he marry this slow-witted and short sighted woman is that he is misled by her submissive image under her beauty, therefore, all so-call true love for her do not exist any longer after their marriage. On their marriage, impulse is over sense, beauty considering is over than characteristics judging. Their marriage is an outcome of an unwise choice of Mr. Bennett. This kind of love and marriage produced under imprudent conditions leads to not only unhappiness of marriage itself (we can see that Mr. Bennett keeps himself in his bookroom all the day), but also makes an effect on marriages of their daughters directly or indirectly-the hesitation of Bingley to Jane, Pride of Darcy, and levity of Lydia.
(2) Love of Common Customs:
In the story, love between Jane and Bingley just serves as a foil to love between Elizabeth and Darcy. We have to say that love between them is the ordinary type of “Talented guy and beautiful lady” or “Gifted scholar and beautiful lady”, which can be seen universally in ordinary love fictions.
Jane is beautiful though, she is not intelligent. Compared with the agile creativeness of Elizabeth, she is lack of charm on her characteristics. Bi辣-文^论,文.网http://www.751com.cn ngley is handsome and gentle though, he is weak and incompetent on characteristics, and it is also easy for him to surrender to persuasion from his friend. Love between them can be concluded that “The lady loves the handsome and gentle man, and the man loves the beautiful and tender lady”. Their love is lack of mental sympathy which exists exactly in love between Elizabeth and Darcy. Fortunately, benefitting from their respective advantages, they can hold hands of each other and live together in their entire lives. Moreover, they will respect each other like guests, treat each other with courtesy and not to such an extent as to step after Mr. and Mrs. Bennett.
Marriage of Jane and Bingley is a combination of sense and sensibility. From the very beginning, they are just attracted by each other on sense, but when Bingley finally decides to marry Jane in despite of her indifferent family background and her vulgar mother, their marriage has reached to the high degree of unity of sense and sensibility.
(3) Love of Fleshliness:
Relationship between Lydia and Wickham can just be called as “Love of Fleshliness”. These two people is the targets that being criticized by the author. The author states out a view of her own through them, that is, simply seeking for sex would undoubtedly bring themselves and their families with troubles.
The levity, impertinence and innocence of Lydia are what Austen looked down on; the guile, ambition and superficialness are what Austen hates. Therefore, the marriage of these two people would not be happy at all. This also represents a view of the author, that is, apart from fulfilling needs of materials and sensibility, a perfect marriage needs people to possess good morality. These elements are exactly what Lydia and Wickham are lack of. Their marriage is criticized by the author. From the point of the author’s view, a marriage should be a combination of sense, sensibility and morality. However, Lydia and Wickham possess none of them. Therefore, their marriage is doomed to be a failure from the very beginning.
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