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Pride and Prejudice
《傲慢与偏见》
阅读指导
二、学习目标
（一）语言能力目标
学习该作品中词句，积累英语语言知识，提高英语阅读能力。
（二）文化意识目标
了解简·奥斯汀的生平、作品主题及特点，熟悉《傲慢与偏见》的内容、角色特点和故事情节。以此为基础，获得西方文化知识，理解西方文化内涵，比较中西文化异同，形成正确的价值观，坚定文化自信，培养跨文化意识和跨文化沟通能力。
（三）思维品质目标
通过阅读该作品并积极思考，评价简·奥斯汀对婚姻的态度，从跨文化视角观察和认识世界，分析中外文化异同，做出正确的价值判断，形成健康的情感态度及价值观，发展多元思维和批判性思维。
（四）学习能力目标
提高学生学习英语的兴趣，做好英语学习的自我管理及规划，养成良好的英语阅读习惯。
Introduction
Characters
Homework
Attitude Towards Marriage
Plot Summary
Introduction
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Jane Austen’s Life
Uneventful
Restricted
Educated at home
Read a lot
Performed daily domestic duties
writing from
an early age
six
novels
never
married
died in 1817,
42 years old
The cottage in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austen's House Museum
Jane Austen’s Novels
1. Sense and Sensibility《理智与情感》
2. Pride and Prejudice《傲慢与偏见》
3. Northanger Abbey《诺桑觉寺》
4. Mansfield Park 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》
5. Emma《爱玛》
6. Persuasion《劝告》
Austen's plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security.
In all of Austen's novels her heroines are
ultimately married.
Characteristics of her Works
1. Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists.
She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.
2. Jane Austen’s main concern is about human beings in their personal relations, human beings with their families and neighbors.
Stories of love and marriage provide the framework for all her novels and in them women are always taken as the major characters.
Characteristics of her Works
3. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.
4. Jane Austen is successful in the employment of irony and frequent use of witty and delightful dialogues .
Quotes of Jane Austen
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
“An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.”
About the title
Pride and Prejudice
Q: Who embodies the characteristic of “pride” and who embodies “prejudice”
Prejudice
pride
Austen's book is a piece of literature that connects itself to the 18th century period.
Pride and Prejudice is 18th century because of the emphasis on man in his social environment rather than in his individual conditions.
The use of satire and wit, a common form of 18th century literature, also contributes to label the book as 18th century.
However, because Austen had allowed personal feelings of the characters to be expressed in her work, she can also be classified as Romantic.
CHARACTERS
Mr.Bennet
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman with an estate in Hertfordshire. He has five unmarried daughters .
Mrs.Bennet
Mr. Bennet’s wife, a noisy, shallow and foolish woman.
The five daughters of the Bennets
Jane, marries Bingley
Elizabeth (lizzie), marries Mr. Darcy
Lydia，elopes with Wickham
Mary,
bookish
Catherine (kitty)
immature
The second daughter of the Bennets.
intelligent,
witty,
attractive,
sensible, yet stubborn
with a tendency to judge on first impression
Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy)
The eldest daughter of the Bennets.
beautiful
reserved
pleasant
Jane Bennet
Fitzwilliam Darcy
The son of a wealthy, well-established family and the master of the great estate of Pemberley, Darcy is Elizabeth’s male counterpart.
Mr. Bingley，Darcy’s wealthy best friend.
Charles Bingley
Mrs.Charlotte
Eli’s best friend, who married to Mr. Collions.
Mr. Collins
Eli’s elder male cousin, who will come to Hertfordshire to inherit the Bennett’s property by rules. He is a clergyman.
He is an officer. His father had been the steward of the Darcys.
Mr. Wickham
She is Mr. Darcy's aunt and Mr. Collins' patron. Despite her self-conscious sophistication, she is inconsistent and arrogant.
Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Plot Summary
Mr. and Mrs. Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn near London. Because they have no son, their property will have to pass, according to the law at that time, to a cousin, William Collins. Hoping to secure their daughters’ position in society, they both want to marry them to some wealthy gentlemen.
It so happens that Charles Bingley, a single man in possession of a good fortune, comes to settle in the neighborhood with his two sisters and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is also rich and unmarried.
Bingley and Jane fall in love with each other almost at first sight. And Darcy is attracted to Jane’s sister Elizabeth, but he offends her by his insolent behavior and rude remarks at a ball. The dislike and repulsion is increased by the pride of the one and the prejudice of the other.
However, Darcy continues to be attracted to her, in spite of himself, till he proposes to her, but is rejected indignantly. Later on, on a trip to north of England with her uncle and aunt, Elizabeth meets Darcy by chance, who receives them very warmly. Thus pride is checked and prejudice removed.
Just at this point, news reaches Elizabeth that her youngest sister Lydia has eloped with Wickham. By Darcy’s help, their marriage is finally brought about. And through his influence, the former tie between Bingley and Jane is renewed, which leads to their engagement. Darcy and Elizabeth also become engaged despite the intervention of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. The story then ends happily with the marriages of Jane and Elizabeth.
Attitude toward marriage
There are three kinds of motivations or attitudes towards marriage.
Those who marry for fortune, money and social rank.
Those who marry for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic conditions or personal merits.
Those who marry for love which is based on consideration of the person’s personal merit as well as his economical and social status.
The marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth reveals the characteristics that constitute a successful marriage.
One of these characteristics is that the feeling cannot be brought on by appearances, and must gradually develop between the two people as they get to know one another.
In the beginning, Elizabeth and Darcy were distant from each other because of their prejudice. The series of events which they both experienced gave them the opportunity to understand one another and the time to reconcile their feelings for each other.
Thus, their mutual understanding is the foundation of their relationship and will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage.
This relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy reveals the importance of getting to know one’s partner before marrying.
The marriage between Jane Bennet and Bingley is also an example of successful marriage.
Austen, through Elizabeth, expresses her opinion of this in the novel:
"....really believed all his [Bingley] expectations of felicity, to be rationally founded, because they had for basis the excellent understanding, and super-excellent disposition of Jane, and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and himself." (Chapter 55)
However, unlike Darcy and Elizabeth, there is a flaw in their relationship. The flaw is that both characters are too gullible and too good-hearted to ever act strongly against external forces that may attempt to separate them:
"You [Jane and Bingley] are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income." (Chapter 55)
Lydia and Wickham’s marriage is an example of a bad marriage.
Their marriage was based on appearances, good looks, and youthful vivacity. Once these qualities can no longer be seen by each other, the once strong relationship will slowly fade away.
As in the novel, Lydia and Wickham’s marriage gradually disintegrates; Lydia becomes a regular visitor at her two elder sister’s home when "her husband was gone to enjoy himself in London or Bath."
Through their relationship, Austen shows that hasty marriage based on superficial qualities quickly cools and leads to unhappiness.
The marriage between Mr. Collins and Charlotte is based on economics rather than on love or appearance.
It was a common practice during Austen’s time for women to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security.
In Pride and Prejudice, Austen dramatizes gender inequality and shows that women who submit themselves to this type of marriage will have to suffer in tormenting silence as Charlotte does.
The relationship between Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Bennet was similar to that of Lydia and Wickham.
Mr. Bennet had married a woman he found sexually attractive without realizing she was an unintelligent woman. Mrs. Bennet’s favoritism towards Lydia and her comments on how she was once as energetic as Lydia reveals this similarity.
Mr. Bennet’s comment on Wickham being his favorite son-in-law reinforces this parallelism.
The effect of the relationships was that Mr. Bennet would isolate himself from his family; he found refuge in his library or in mocking his wife.
Mr. Bennet’s self-realization at the end of the novel in which he discovers that his lack of attention towards his family had led his family to develop the way they are, was too late to save his family.
Homework
Comment on Jane Austen’s views toward marriage.
Watch the movie.
1. Jane Austen’s first novel is __________.
A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma D. Plan of a Novel
2. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true
A. It is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.
B. It is originally drafted as "First Impressions".
C. It is a tragic novel.
D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.
Exercises
3. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of_______.
A. simple character and poor understanding
B. simple character and quick wit
C. intricate character and quick wit
D. intricate character and poor understanding
4.Which of the following is not a novel by Austen
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Northanger Abbey
D. Waverly
5. Who does not appear in Pride and Prejudice
A. Charles Bingley B. Jane Bennet
C. Charlotte Lucas D. Elizabeth Marianne
6. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ” is the beginning sentence of
A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma D. Northanger Abbey
7. Who does Elizabeth Bennet choose to marry at the end of the novel Pride and Prejudice
A. Mr.Collins B. George Wickham
C. Fitzwilliam Darcy D. Charles Bingley
Identification
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
What is the novel of the selection
Who is the author of the selection
What kind of rhetorical device is employed in this sentence What is the function of this sentence
In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. My affections and wishes have not changed. But one word from you will silence me on this subject forever——You must know... surely, you must know it was all for you. …
Thank you!
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