2.1 Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen’s Own Shadow
Pride and Prejudice mainly tells us the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet. Mr. Bennet, a clergyman who has married young and rashly, is skeptical of conventional marriage and has no good words for his beautiful daughters except Elizabeth. Mrs. Bennet is a beautiful but empty-headed, snobbish and vulgar woman whose only goal in life is to marry her five daughters to rich, handsome young men. Darcy comes to the neighborhood with his friend Bingley who is an immediate success in local society and falls in love with Jane, the most beautiful and good-natured eldest daughter of the Bennets. At a party, Darcy, with his proud and seemingly cold disposition, makes a bad impression on the local people. He slights Elizabeth and hurts her dignity by refusing to dance with her. In their later meetings, however, Darcy begins to admire the girl, but Elizabeth, on account of her prejudice against him, tries to bring down his pride and has the satisfaction of refusing him a dance, too. Once in a town, Elizabeth makes acquaintance with a charming young officer毕业论文
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Besides the main story of this happy pair, also told are the minor ones about the union between the rich bachelor Bingley and the beautiful, mild Jane; about the servile clergyman Collins, cousin of the Bennets and heir to the Bennets’ property, who first proposes to Elizabeth and, when refused, marries the plain, 27-year-old Charlotte Lucas, the best friend of Elizabeth; and about the thoughtless couple Lydia and Wickham. The old Bennets too are vividly portrayed.
Jane Austen was born in a clergyman’s family, not so rich but she was exactly an apple in her parents’ eyes. They gave her good education and trained her being considerate; she was such a lovely girl that she was kind and sincere. The love from both her parents and her sisters made her knew exactly what she wanted and what was suited for her. She never improperly belittled herself though she hadn’t a rich family; she cherished emotions between families and never wanted to marry a rich man just for the superior life. It was more than 200 years ago that Jane already knew exactly that happiness could not depend on money, but the person who you live with and whether you are serious or pay efforts to it.
Above all were what Jane Austen was, which were also what Elizabeth Bennet was. Heroine in Pride and Prejudice was so familiar to Jane herself, maybe we can say she put an ideal ending that she was dying to have to Elizabeth’s life to make up the pity that was on her. She understood women may surrender to the cruel reality eventually in that period even they have struggled for their whole lives, thus she made Elizabeth an easy life relatively. Experiencing difficulties was inevitable; however, Jane gave Elizabeth a splendid rainbow in the end.
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