As is known to all, being pioneers to encourage women to pursue what they really want at that period was such a difficult thing that might lead the two female novelists to predicament. They knew the situations of themselves, too, thus they wrote two brave girls in their works to claim that even if they couldn’t see the day of success, they would advocate this spirit always.原文请加辣,文.论,文'网QQ3249'114
Jane in Jane Eyre and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice are both aspired to be independent and equal at least in their little families. They are not only kind-hearted and pretty, but also strong and self-reliant. Two heroines are the ideal women of the two novelists, bearing the weight of two novelists’ wishes and expectations. What’s more, their happy endings are the novelists’ best wishes to all women in the world.毕业论文
http://www.751com.cn/ Jane Austen was born in a country clergyman’s family on December 16, 1775, in the parish of Steventon. She was brought up in an intelligent but restricted environment. Her father was a rector and a scholar with a private library. She was educated at home. In her father’s library, Jane acquired a thorough knowledge of eighteenth-century English literature. Although she did move to several places like Bath, Southampton and Chawton, she lived a quiet, retired and uneventful life. And her closest companion was her elder sister Cassandra, who, like her, never married. Austen began as a child to write novels for her family entertainment. Her works were later published anonymously due to the prejudice against women writers then. In 1817, she died in Winchester.
“Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the eighteenth century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century. She holds the ideals of the landlord class in politics, religion and moral principles; and her works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion, the sense of responsibility, good manners and clear-sighted judgment over the Romantic tendencies of emotion and individuality. As a realistic writer, she considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind. She shows contemptuous feelings towards snobbery, stupidity, worldliness and vulgarity through subtle satire and irony. And in style, she is a neoclassicism advocator, upholding those traditional ideas of order, reason, proportion and gracefulness in novel writing.”(Zhang Boxiang, 2005:223)
The works of Jane Austen are among the greatest achievements of English literature. With sharp observation and in meticulous detail, she presents the quiet, day-to-day country life of the upper-middle-class English. Her characteristic theme is that maturity is achieved through the loss of illusions. Faults of character displayed by the people of her novels are corrected when, through tribulation, lessons are learned. Even the most minor characters are vividly described in Austen’s unique lucid style. All these show a mind of the shrewdest intelligence adapting the available traditions and deepening the resources of art with consummate craftsmanship. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, Jane Austen has brought the English novel to its maturity, and she has been regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists in Britain by many critics as well as by many readers.
Austen’s main literary concern is about the personal relationship of human beings. Therefore, her novels have a universal significance. It is her conviction that a man’s relationship to his wife and children is at least as important a part of his life as his concerns about his belief and career. As for her interest in the study of human beings in their relationships with other people in daily life, Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love. She always argues that it is wrong to marry just for beauty or for money, but it is also wrong to marry without them.
When it comes to Jane Eyre, the structure is extremely deft or skillful; the characterization is very memorable; the irony has a radiant shrewdness unmatched elsewhere. At the heart of the novelist’s exploration of the marriage, property and intrigue lies the exhilarating suspense of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy, and Jane Austen’s delicate probing of the values of the gentry. The moments of high comedy in the novel are always related to deeper issues. Elizabeth’s rejection of the odious Mr. Collins suggests her independence and self-esteem. Some readers may think that Elizabeth was just the girl that Jane wanted to be. Though she didn’t get married in her life, she, just like Elizabeth in her novel, held a firm attitude that the essential of marriage is love, not anything else.
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