Prideandprejudice英语读书报告 Contents About author About this literature About work backgouuses very directly” You could not make me happy ,and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so .”Apparently ,wealth ,social states and other material is not what she want from a marriage .That is also why ,Elizabeth is a prominent representative of Feminism for its gestation period(萌芽时期). “All’s well that ends well.” Elizabeth & Darcy Charlotte Lucas --世俗利益型或现实功利型 “ It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ”This is the first sentence in this novel ,Charlotte and Collins’ marriage demonstrated it completely .She takes life as it comes ,when she decide to make a big commitment to Collins , her life turn over a new leaf . I think their mating together is right to their social states and realm of thought. Mercenary marriage . Charlotte & Collins Lydia Bennet --情欲享乐型或激情狂热型 Lydia’s levity(轻浮) ,recklessness(卤莽) and ignorance , even in the end of the novel has not changed . Wickham’s cunning , ambition and superficiality has caused disgust. Six of one, half a dozen the other , that is their position .Weckham asks Lydia to elope with him in the name of “killing time” , Lydia answered in want of his handsome appearance .Their marriage seems like a roller coaster ride . Lydia & Wickham About work backgound 简. 奥斯汀家道小康,终身未婚。由于居住在乡村小镇,接触到的是中小地主,牧师等人物以及恬静舒适的生活环境,因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。从18世纪末到19世纪初“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥英国文坛,而奥斯汀的小说标新立异,一反常规地反映当时尚未受到工业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的生活和田园风光 。她的小说一扫风行一时的假浪漫主义潮流,继承和发展了英国18世纪优秀的现实主义传统,为19世纪现实主义小说的高潮做了准备。虽然其作品的广度和深度有限,但却从一个小窗口窥视到整个社会形态和人情世故,对改变当时小说创作中的风气起到了好的作用,在英国小说的发展史上有承上启下的意义,被誉为 地位“可以与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。 Jane Austen is born in the well-off family and never married. Because living in the rural town and exposing to small and medium landowners, priests and other characters a