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精品文档 1欢迎下载 Pride and Prejudice Book Review The novel centres on Elizabeth Bennet the second of the five daughters of a landed country gentleman The story opens with news in the Bennet family that Mr Bingley a wealthy charismatic and sociable young bachelor is moving into Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood Mr Bingley is soon well received while his friend Mr Darcy makes a less favourable impression by appearing proud and condescending at a ball that they attend Mr Bingley singles out Jane for particular attention and it soon becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other While Jane does not alter her conduct for him she confesses her great happiness only to Lizzie By contrast Darcy slights Elizabeth who overhears and jokes about it despite feeling a budding resentment On paying a visit to Mr Bingley s sister Caroline Jane is caught in a heavy downpour catching cold and is forced to stay at Netherfield for several days Elizabeth arrives to nurse her sister and is thrown into frequent company with Mr Darcy who begins to act less coldly towards her In the spring Elizabeth visits Charlotte and Mr Collins in Kent Elizabeth and her hosts are frequently invited to Rosings Park coincidentally Darcy also arrives to visit Thus she is no mood to accept when Darcy arrives and quite unexpectedly confesses love for her and begs her hand in marriage His proposal is flattering as he is a very distinguished man but it is delivered in a manner that is ill suited He talks of love but also of revulsion at her inferior position and family Despite assertions to the contrary he assumes she will accept him Elizabeth rebukes him and a heated discussion follows she charges him with destroying the happiness of both her sister and Bingley with treating Mr Wickham disgracefully and with having conducted himself towards her in an arrogant ungentleman like manner Mr Darcy shocked ultimately responds with a letter giving a good account of his actions Elizabeth who had previously despaired over this very behavior is forced to admit the truth of Mr Darcy s observations and begins to see that she has misjudged him She quite rightly attributes her prejudice to his coldness towards herself at the beginning of their acquaintance Some months later Elizabeth and her aunt and uncle Gardiner visit Pemberley Darcy s estate believing he will be absent for the day He returns unexpectedly and is surprised but gracious and welcoming quite unlike his usual self He treats the Gardiners very civilly surprising Elizabeth who assumes he will decamp immediately on learning who they are Elizabeth begins to acknowledge her own attraction to him Darcy returns to Longbourn Chance allows Elizabeth and Darcy a rare moment alone He renews his proposal of marriage and is promptly accepted Elizabeth soon learns that his hopes were revived by his aunt s report of Elizabeth s refusal to promise not to marry him The novel closes with a happily ever after chapter including a summary of the remaining lives of the main characters None of the characters changes very 精品文档 2欢迎下载 much in this summary but Kitty has grown slightly more sensible from association with Jane and Elizabeth and distance from Lydia and Lady Catherine eventually condescends to visit the Darcy family To begin with I d like to talk about the relationship of heroine At the beginning of the story Elisabeth takes a shine to Wickham but after she knows notorious for his misdeeds she has other feelings which soon drive away When Wickham proposes marriage to someone else Elisabeth is unperturbed and quiet inside Next I d like to tell the love story of hero Darcy and heroine Elisabeth In the first place Elisabeth is just hate Darcy which is reaching a point that even if the man in the world is all dead she won t choose to marry him But after Elisabeth find out she is mistaken about Darcy it makes Elisabeth feel guilty about that In a consequence of receiving courteous treatment from Darcy Elisabeth feels extremely flattered Darcy s first proposal is a remarkable self assertion a refusal of one of the most eligible bachelors in the whole of England by a girl of no position and no means This is extremely impressive but is surely depends on her opinion of what his opinion of her is She cannot tolerate the belief she attributes to him that he is marrying beneath himself There is no doubt that Elizabeth believes what she says to Darcy and is truly indignant at his behavior but her indignation masks the fact that these are only excuses for her dislike of Darcy Collins s manners are at least as bad but the passions of her soul do not combine in a passionate attack on him With him she is objective and detached or at most irritated But with Darcy she is enraged because of his hold over her the fact that his opinion really does count The real objection to Darcy is his taking her for granted and the hopeless inferiority that a marriage with him would entail All the power is in his hands and his only attachment to her appears to be an uncontrollable attraction without the support of either the conventional standards or a reverence for her virtue Throughout a marriage that began in this way he wold have the advantage in every disagreement for she would merely be a siren who entrapped him counter to all the good reasons for permanent moral attachment Her accusations help her to avoid admitting the less than noble reasons for her resentment Her education in the novel is learning to accept her dependence Marriage between these two savages requires the acceptance by each of slavery to the other while each thinks that he or she ought to be the master Elizabeth would never marry a man whom she ought to be the master Elizabeth would never marry a man whom she considered her inferior while she hates a man 精品文档 3欢迎下载 who considers himself her superior Equality of the partners would seem to be the answer and it is But the establishment of equality between two strong willed individuals is not such an easy thing and probably requires each to think the other is superior The fact is that Elizabeth would very much like to marry Mr Darcy and she must only persuade herself that she is taming her own will rather than being tamed by Darcy and that Darcy requires her for substantial and enduring reasons The correctives to pride and prejudice and progress in self knowledge result from the combative engagement of these two doubting warriors The need to explain himself to another forces him to explain himself to himself This is the immediate effect Elizabeth has on him and it is probably the deepest long range effect it will have on him in their marriage Virtue he learns is not so self sufficient as he thought and requires the confirmation of valid judges This reciprocal recognition is the heart of romance as Rousseau taught it Throughout all of Austen s works the heroines are somehow self generated She discounts the authority and respectability of the parents who are distinctly inferior beings particularly from the point of view of wisdom or prudence This is a sign of the unconventional or radical side of Austen s point of view Her heroines fit into the conventional order but that does not entirely disguise the unconventional grounds of the relationships They are triumph of nature over convention However charming Mr Bennet s detachment its godlike distance from the things that agitate most people is callous and perverse Mr Bennet is a charming dropout He helps us to see people as they are but he is not so helpful in understanding the virtuous Although Austen criticizes the lack of proper education in the Bennet family Jane and Elizabeth like so many of Austen s good characters are self made This underlines her belief that nature is far more important than convention even though she treats the framework of convention with great respect Jane Austen s world when one comes to Pride and Prejudice fresh from The Red and the Black is boring But when one actually reads Austen the intensity and excitement are as great as or greater than what one discovers in other writers It is a kind of miracle but the fate of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet in their relations to Bingley and Darcy engages us Stripped of all external drama the history of the heart as presented by Austen is endlessly fascinating Irony flourishes on the disproportion between the way things are and the way they should be while accepting the necessity of this disproportion But she dose make us laugh at these things indicating that there is much joy and strength to be gained simply from knowing This perspective is largely 精品文档 4欢迎下载 absent in the Romantics This woman who writes exclusively of the relation between male and femal and who as a writer is nothing but a matchmaker was herself a spinster and none the worse for it Austen represents and justifies reason and leisure in human affairs when they are in short supply and without much honor in literature and life A decent respect for the perhaps illusory convictions of men who are at least partly decent is his mode a mode that protects him as well as these men and gets more to the heart of things Rather than railing at stupidity and boasting comedy does best to treat them with the greatest apparent respect as dose Socrates in both Plato s and Xenophon s account of him This is also Jane Austen s mode It was not that they classical writers simply rejected or despised love in marriage but that is got in the way of being reasonable They appear to have said be reasonable first and love might follow later Austen s heroes must think through their attractions and tend not to have the experience of le coup de foudre but this thinking through is an attempt to ascertain the genuineness and seriousness of the sentiments rather than to discover whether having such sentiments is reasonable Jane Austen would never insist on the illusoriness of love and she always underpins love with solid supports like property and proof of fixed character The greatest betrayal of the seriousness of the relationship would be to decide about marriage on the basis of mere sexual attraction Jane Austen presents a reasonable picture of what may be an unreasonable hope that is the harmonious union of sexual desire with love marriage and friendship Pride is evidently understood to be a vice particularly by those who think they are victims of Darcy s or anyone else s alleged high self esteem but that self esteem is essential to both Darcy s and Elizabeth s strong characters as well as to their capacity to get along with each oth