英语毕业论文 分析傲慢与偏见中的一个次要人物——贝内特太太的代表性

1、 分析傲慢与偏见中的 一个次要人物 贝内特太太的代表性学生姓名： 学生学号： 院（系）： 年级专业： 指导教师： an analysis of a minor charactermrs. bennets representativeness in pride and prejudicecontentsabstract. ikey words.i摘要.ii关键词.iiintroduction.1i. the character of mrs. bennet in the novel.3a. mean understanding.4 b. little information.5 c. uncer

2、tain temper.6.the representativeness of mrs. bennets images.8a. the image as a woman.9b. the image as a wife.10c. the image as a mother.10iii. how does the character take shape? .12a. her character is decided by her education.13b. her character is shaped by her living environment.14c. her character

3、is related to the social background.14conclusion.16acknowledgements.17bibliography.18abstractthe theme of pride and prejudice is marriage and love. this essay is based on the analysis of a minor character in this novel and extends the topic to the real life. the characters in this novel are complete

4、ly mixed with reality, obeying the social rules; the plots of the story are depicted. this paper makes research on the representativeness of a minor character. firstly, this paper probes into the minor charactermrs. bennets characters. secondly, this paper analyzes which aspects the representativene

5、ss embodies. lastly, it will reveal the reasons that the character takes shape. although she is a minor character, it has realistic meaning. she is typical and represents a kind of people in real life. the living environment and social background of these people decide their destiny and their choice

6、 in life. their life roles have been designed from the day when they were born. this paper examines austens social background, and discovers the social environment. these have much effect on the forming of the characters in the novel. in that time, wealth is the decisive factor of marriage to the fe

7、male. they understand the marriage as the chance of raising social status and ameliorating economy. the fortune and social status are the relative conditions that decide the person to marry. they try to save themselves in the way of marriage. key wordscharacters; representativeness; image摘要傲慢与偏见这部小说

8、的主题是婚姻与爱情，本文即是从这点出发，立足于小说中的一个小人物而延展到现实生活。小说当中的人物全然融入社会现实，依循社会规则，谱出故事情节。本文研究了一个次要人物的代表性，先是探讨了这个次要人物班内特太太的性格特征，分析了她的代表性体现在哪些方面，以及这个小说人物形成的原因。她是一个小说人物，但她具有现实社会意义，她具有典型性，是现实生活中一类人的代表。这类人的生活环境、社会背景决定了他们的命运，决定了他们的人生抉择，人生的角色也从他们出生那天就已为他们设计好了。本文检视奥斯汀的社会背景，探索社会环境，对小说人物性格形成的影响。在那个年代物质环境为塑造女性婚姻意识的决定因素，他们明白婚姻关系

9、是阶级提升与经济改善的机会，财力与社会地位为决定结婚对象的相关条件。他们因此试图通过婚姻这条唯一的出路来改善。关键词性格特点；代表性；形象introductionthe american literature and art critic edmond wilson thinks that in the recent 100 years, there were some interest revolutions; the change of the taste of literature almost influenced all writers reputation, except shak

10、espeare and jane austen. it is surprised that jane is so famous and admirable by so many people all the time. she is a great writer, especially a female writer. so far as jane austen is concerned, there are so many things to say about her and her works. here are just some talks about pride and preju

11、dice. it is believed that many people know the world famous work pride and prejudice, one of the world famous female writers, jane austens work, which is her masterpiece. pride and prejudice is viewed as the first of the world ten leading fictions by the english fiction field. in jane austens all li

12、fe, she wrote six novels, namely sense and sensibility (1795), pride and prejudice (1796), emma (1814), northanger abbey (1798), and persuasion (1816), which were published in 1811,1813,1815 and in december 1817 respectively. we may say that pride and prejudice is her most famous novel, in which the

13、 writer expresses her viewpoint on the relationship between love and marriage, that is: it is wrong to get married for fortune, money and status, while it is also foolish to be married without considering these factors. the writer embodies the girls from the middle- and upper- classes in country are

14、a with different attitudes towards love and marriage, through the description of the five bennet girls different choices. in this novel, it describes four couples marriages, elizabeth and darcy, jane and bingle, miss lucas and mr. collins, lydia and wickham. two are main clues, and the others are su

15、bordinate. “pride” stands for darcy, whereas “prejudice” stands for elizabeth. the title “pride and prejudice” also refers to the ways in which elizabeth and darcy first view each other. the original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797, under the title “first impressions”, and was probably

16、 in the form of an exchange of letters. there were much research on the author, the novel, and the background. most were about the theme of the novel, such as the female sense, marriage viewpoints, womens social status. there was also research on analyzing the characters of the heroes or the heroine

17、s. there was research on the writing styles and rhetoric too. however, there is almost no analysis of the minor character. the hero and heroine are very important in a novel. they express the idea of the author. the minor characters also have their own key function and typical meaning. we cannot ign

18、ore them. in this paper, we make research about a minor character in pride and prejudice. it is mrs. bennet. although she is not the heroine, readers may have deep impression on her. that is because of her characters. she is a key person and plays an important role in this novel. her characters are

19、typical. she represents a large quantity of people in her timesthe female of middle or upper class in the 18th or 19th in england. she is not alone. people in her like may be easily found in life. she is a representative figure in her times. what are her characters? are these characters typical or n

20、ot? how does she represent others? and what realistic implication can be dug out from this figure?i. the character of mrs. bennet in the novela character, then, is presumably an imagined person who inhabits a story. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 68) this is a very simple definition. we do n

21、ot know the characters of the figure from the surface. if we want to learn the character, we may read the story. then, we will discover the character is very interesting and vivid. the character comes from life, but implies much more than that in life. there is a more concrete concept. the term “cha

22、racter” involves both the imagined person and the specific features of personality of that person in fiction. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 69) from this, we can learn the character more. mrs. bennet is an imagined person with the specific features of personality in the fiction. pride and p

23、rejudice is a novel with a sense of comedy tone. there are no positive or negative characters in the strict meaning, except the swindler, wickham. there are only rational or stupid persons basically. as for the stupid, the writer not only makes them expose themselves, but also uses comic ways to pun

24、ish them by their stupidity. mrs. bennet belongs to the latter. we can use “stupid” to modify mrs. bennets features of personality. according to e.m.foster, characters in fiction are either flat or round, depending upon how the writer sketches or sculptures them. a flat character generally has only

25、one ostensible trait of feature, or at most a few distinct marks. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 70) a round character, however, presents us with many facets and is generally drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility. (yuan xian jun & qian

26、kun qiang, 2004, 70) undoubtedly, mrs. bennet is a flat character under jane austens pen. her ostensible traits of feature or distinct marks are mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. the novelist uses of three distinct ways of “learning” people, eachof them natural to the exp

27、erience of non-fictional life. the first isthe way in which we learn ourselves, partly by self-discovery and partly through enrichment of relationship; the second is learning by the discovery of our misjudgments how to arrive at true judgments of those who strongly influence us; and the third is the

28、 way in which we register the characteristics of those for whom we so not deeply care, but with whose idiosyncrasies we have to live. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 112) the first category, and part of the second, relate to the heroines experience of themselves and to their experience of the

29、ir lovers-the heroes; the rest of the second category-the subjects of misjudgment-are composed of what i choose to call the prime antagonists to the heroine. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 112) the characters which belong to the third class offer much less difficulty to the reader, inasmuch

30、as they have marked characteristics of a simple kind, and do not usually develop unexpected traits in the course of the story. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang, 2004, 112) evidently, mrs. bennet，a minor character，is the third category. her mind was less difficult to develop. (austen, 2003, 1) several

31、 words can generalize her characters: mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. some of jane austens characters are flat. she likes to use caricature, the rhetoric of satire. no matter how we categorize her, she is just she, exposing herself at readers. her social background and

32、social status are not changeable. she belongs to that time and that environment. a. mean understandingthis means she is not a wise person, and does some wrong things. this point may relate to her education. she does not receive the good education, because of her background. being not well-educated l

33、eads to her mean understanding. we can judge ones quality from ones languages and actions. in this novel, mrs.bennet has said the word “nonsense” several times. does a well-educated person say dirty words as this? the answer is denial. another word that she mentioned often is “nerves”. “you have no

34、compassion for my poor nerves.” (austen, 2003, 2) “have a little compassion on my nerves. you tear them to pieces.” (austen, 2003, 3) the words one speaks can easily expose ones character. jane austen is good at using language to describe the character. from the words that mrs.bennet says, an image

35、of a coarse person is displayed in our eyes. she is a countrywoman, who is always quarrelling, not well educated, careless and lives a meaningless life, and never has her own pursuit. we can also learn about her from her actions. she spoils lydia especially, and lets her go out so young. she allows,

36、 even supports her to run after the soldiers, which leads to lydia going with wickham secretly. if she is wise enough, she never allows such stupid things happen, and never does such things. in that conservative society, this is very indecent and impolite. an educated mother especially in the middle

37、-and upper class does not allow her daughter do the matter.when jane receives a note from miss bingle, which invites her to have dinner with them, mrs.bennet-her mother-persists that she had better go on horseback, instead of going on the carriage. “because it seems likely to rain; and then you must

38、 stay all night” (austen, 2003, 19) just in order to create chance for jane and mr. bingle, mrs. bennet has the “good” idea. the results are “her sister was uneasy for her; but her mother was delighted.” (austen, 2003, 19) at last as her mother expects, god helps them, and it rains. jane stays there

39、 all night and ever several days, but also catches a bad cold. she is wise or unwise. personally, i cannot agree with her. the desire is good, but the action is wrong. a decent person does not do as she. in order to achieve the aim, she is regardless to her daughter. due to her mean understanding an

40、d coarse manners, later, she talks aloud about the benefits of marriage about jane and bingle, which frightens mr. bingle, and breaks the relation between jane and mr. bingle. furthermore, she never understands the nature of an entail. why should others, not his own children, entail her husbands est

41、ate? this is all the proof of her mean understanding. b. little informationthis may relate to her mean understanding and her living environment. living in the isolated country, she is likely never to go to the very important or formal occasions, just with the familiar people who live a normal life.

42、this novel begins from her. when she hears of the coming of a new neighbor, she is so excited that she speaks loudly. ”oh! single, my dear; to be sure! a single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. what a fine thing for our girls!” (austen, 2003, 1) from what she said to mr. bennet, w

43、e see her ignorance and less education are obvious. she only knows he is a rich man; she does not know any of his moral standing and other things. she only concerns about the number, the number of the money, his fortune.after the ball, when she reaches home, she kept on talking to mr. bennet. she is

44、 eager to tell her husband the things about the ball, the purpose of which is to show off. even who dances with whom in detail. mr. bennet is bored with her. it seems that she is a rude countrywoman. the educated woman should not chatter away, and should not keep on talking about something meaningle

45、ssly. contrasted with her, the noble or educated woman shall keep silent at most occasions. another little matter is that mrs. bennet argues with young lucas. the topic of argument is whether she should take away his wine bottle or not. the argument ended only with the visit. they must think it is i

46、nteresting. in others eyes, it is very boring. i do not know if there is necessity to argue about this kind of thing, and with a little boy. she does not have any meaningful topic to discuss with others. a noble woman, who shall keep her manners, is not like her. c. uncertain tempermrs. bennet has a

47、 changeable mood. anything can affect her mood. these things control her. the results are that she adds worries to herself, and the persons around her suffer. when mrs. bennet is angry with mr. bennet, she turns to scold one of her daughters. “dont keeping coughing so, kitty, for heavens sake!” (aus

48、ten, 2003, 3) it is very terrible. how unlucky kitty is. she becomes the victim. is there such an unreasonable mother in the world? when jane receives the note from miss. bingle, mrs. bennets eyes sparkle with please, and she is eagerly calling out, while her daughter reads: “well, jane, who is it f

49、rom? what is it about? what does he say?” “well, jane, make haste and tell us; make haste, my love.” mrs. bennets image is vivid. jane austen depicts so well through her speeches. firstly, she is happy for mr. bingles coming; secondly, she becomes sad for his leaving. she is so uncertain. when she l

50、earns that mr. bingle is going to town the following day, she can not imagine what business he has in town so soon after his arrival in hertford shire; and she begins to fear that he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never settle at netherfield as he ought to be. at this mo

51、ment, she is very unhappy to mr. bingle. she must think she may lose a good son-in law. it is a pity for her. she is sad and in bad mood. then, she observes that mr. bingle likes jane; she is very happy and full of hope to marry her to him. her mood is changed with the relation between jane and bing

52、le. she is in bad mood when their relation is tense or far; she is in good mood when they have a good relation. it seems that she lives for others. she does not have her own life. .the representativeness of mrs. bennets imagesa character in fiction is always an imitation of the people in reality und

53、er realism. realists tend to treat characters in their works as our neighbors or colleagues or friends but they represent them in different degrees. (yuan xian jun & qian kun qiang2004, 69) jane austen is different from other writers in her times. she separates herself from others, but she is also a

54、 realistic novelist. the characters she creates have the representativeness. she is not read as taking sides in the political and social disputes of her times. in the past the researchers thought that her personal isolation from the leading writers of her day, together with the conservatism of her l

55、iterary tastes, has been taken to imply that study of her work can have little to do with contemporary literary and intellectual debates, and we must chiefly focus on her personal view of her social environment and her judgments of it as they were influenced by the writers of her immediate past, suc

56、h as johnson and cowper. until recently, this has been the usual opinion from her critics, both admirers and detractors. however, since 1970, a number of studies have taken a different attitude, arguing that on closer inspection she was not merely a bystander to contemporary events and currents of opinion, but a participant in them. we may say jane austen is a realist. she creates the characters based on the real life. the existence of a characte