1、- 1 -Pride and prejudice is Austins great work. Through the discussion of the different marriages and love, the writer demonstrates her concept about love and marriage: love and marriage is closely associated with property and society, however, love and marriage can not only be decided by the proper
2、ty and social status. An ideal marriage should be based on mutual affection and respect. She rejects the marriage based on wealth and stresses the element of emotion in a marriage.Pride and prejudice the book about commonplace things and ordinary people, is one of Jane Austens famous book, being the
3、 representative of realistic literature. It portrays, with special sensitive characteristic of female writers, the life and ideas of middle class whollive in countryside. This novel makes an analysis of human nature and then stick up readers to think over social relations. This novel takes young peo
4、ples marriage as the thread and it covers the inheritance of fortune, womens social status, ethics and customs. Being the masterpiece of Jane Austen, it comes to the extensive favor of literary lovers and experts at the same time.This paper makes an analysis of four marriages in pride and prejudice
5、and discusses the deep outlook for their love and marriage in the light of social back ground at the time.However, her marriage is like a blank paper in her 42 years real lifetime. Going through the finest time, but eventually without meeting a comfortable partner, she gives up her love. Going throu
6、gh the sweet and bitter feeling which helps her to write the great wo- 2 -ce eventually eliminates, the lovers finally get married. The marriage of Elizabeths sister Jane and Darcys friend Bingley is another clue. They deeply love each other, but they are multiblocked, after their departure, Jane mi
7、sses Bingley very much. The two marriages reflects the another point of view in positive way that marriage should be based on true love, which is the ideal marry in the authors opinion. The stories seem to be the ordinary lives, feelings and persons linked up in a harmonious order under the others m
8、eticulous concepts. However, the marriage between Charlotte and Collins is a negative example with the marriage between Lydia and Wickham, which help to make the plots more tortuous and richer.” In pride and prejudice, the first part is the marriage of Charlotte and Collins, their marriage is lucky
9、and natural. They get married without any expectation. Charlotte is William Lucass daughter, who is the neighbor of Lizzy Bennett. She was born of humble parentage and very mediocre in every aspect. So she has not got married even until she is 26 years old. She may be a typical questionable girl. Ho
10、wever, there are 5 daughters in the Bennetts, the five daughters are gradually growing up to the age for marriage. So both of the two families rival mutually, especially in the eyes of the vulgar women, such rivalry was particularly tedious. Bennetts wife was especially typical; she does not give bi
11、rth to a boy but five girls. The familys property couldnt be given to a daughter according to the custom at that time, and the family without a son can grant the wealth to the nephew. Thus, one of Bennett nephewCollins can inherit the family wealth. Therefore, Mrs. Bennett has great expectations on
12、her nephew. Though the family is not very rich, he is the final owner of Bonnet familys wealth. With this, Mrs. Bennett felt at ease, and then she has great hope on Collins and likes him. Catherine Collins, with the help of one of his relatives, becomes a priest. And then he goes to the home of his
13、uncle, wanting t- 3 -o be home complement of Bennett. Because he has heard a lot about the arrangement of the five golden flowers of his uncles family, he is coming to try his luck here. In his mind, if he could be one son-in-low of his uncles, then he could get the property of the family. He stays
14、at home for a long time to repay his uncles heritage and gets sympathy by the family. Informed that the eldest daughter Jane has a boyfriend, he aims at the second daughter Elizabeth Bennett in spite for his aunts interesting sake, Elizabeth has been tired of him. Eventually, she refuses him with sh
15、arp tongue. But Collins quickly finds comfort from Charlotte who desires to get love from a male and believes marriage is the elegant way for a girl with some education, and then they get married as quickly as the lightning. A mediocre love, a dull marriage has been established effortlessly. Such ma
16、rriage without love is too practical, so it is a kind of superficial marriage without happiness. Bolobbyist, a politician, at the end of the 18th century, said that upbringing was more important than law, because it could promote moral, help to realize moral or ruin moral. Thus it could be concluded
17、 that upbringing played very important role in life at that time. On the first ball organized by Mr. Bingley in the Niger Park, Jane-the eldest daughter of the Bonnets is favored by the host. But the reserved personality and the standardized qualities make her feelings show nothing, so she almost lo
18、ses Bingley, which is also caused by her nest-of-kins lap sad conducts. For example, Mrs. Bennet often gives comments on the marriage in public, especially the benefits of the marriage, which almost frightens Bingley away. This good marriage based on a favorite of mutual good impression and true lov
19、e nearly evaporates. Fortunately, the loves get married by experiencing twists.B. The Marriage Based on Vanity and CarelessnessLydia is impulsive, credulous and blindly following. She is pursuing love and thinking - 4 -about how to get love from a male. She is stiffened with the style of an officer
20、called Wickham. She elopes with him because of an impulse. They spend money without restraint, and they are unable to make ends meet. For sake of Elizabeth, Darcy gave them a sum of money to let them get out of difficulties. At the same time, this swindler prepares to climb another woman for a sum o
21、f money. Bennet couple is another example for this kind of marriage. Mr. Bennet covets the youth and beauty and is attracted and gets married with a narrow-minded young and beautiful woman lacking intelligence. Not long after the marriage, he puts an end to his love and affection, the mutual respect
22、 and trust between the couple has gone. The expectation to have a harmonious and well-being family has evaporated. Clearly, this couples marriage is unfortunate caused by rashness and vanity.C. The Marriage Based on Money or BenefitAlthough Mrs. Bennet has been described as a comedy character in the
23、 work gaining a lot of sarcasm and derision, her universally acknowledged truthall the wealthy bachelors want to marry a lady, has been proved to be truth which proves another fact that its the wealth and the number of the wealth that decides the fate of life and marriage. Charlotte knows that the m
24、arriage without property would eventually move toward disappointment and suffering. Even if the couple loves each other deeply at first, when Collins, known as a social climber, is rejected by Elizabeth, he immediately turns to fall in love with Miss Charlotte. Although Collins is an inborn fool, hi
25、s love could not move the heart of a woman, Charlotte accepts him, because her purpose is to get married. Almost all the girls born in a poor family without good education always regard marriage as the only decent way, although marriage might not necessarily bring - 5 -happiness to them. She manages
26、 to arrange one of the most reliable way by marriage, thus she would not be exposed to the cold temperatures and suffer hunger in the future. She now gets a storage room.Charlotte is like a rodman catching a fairly plump fishCollins. But if he doesnt meet a setback from Elizabeth, and the encouragem
27、ent of Charlotte, I am afraid that he would not be so willing to propose marriage to Charlotte. The man like Bentley who has fairly numerable money need a beautiful wife, the poor man needs a wife with a huge wealth, like Wickham; It was lucky for Charlotte that she could gain the marriage with Coll
28、ins although their marriage is not happy at all.In these marriages, it was quite interesting that the women without property really get married with those rich bachelors. However, the happiness brought by marriage to them has not accompanied the husband. In marriage, money is very important. Austin
29、objects such marriage simply based on money. Collins is the heir of Bonnet family; he doesnt know what love is. He would state some of the inappropriate remarks at any time. Charlotte gets married for money. Eventually she gets nothing more than a rich man, though she has economic security. She does
30、nt care about her husbands accompanying and love. She encourages him to clean up the garden more. She sets his living-room in the small house absent of even a small number of sunshine. When her husband makes gaffe in front of their friends, she ignores and turns a deaf ear. Such arrangement for the
31、story is a perfect irony for” the truth universally acknowledged” at the beginning of the novel. The author expresses great sympathy to the tragic fate of the women at that time and those who had to marry because of economic restraints by the description of the marriage of charlotte. Austin understa
32、nds completely that the social environment makes man obey not only in material but in psychology, which improved that Austin is a rational author that she prefers - 6 -true love to survival.Miss Bingley also extremely objects the marriage between her brother and Bennets eldest daughter Jane. She hopes her brother to marry Darcys sister Miss Geovgiana in order to make herself to have the same status.
