On Marriage Attitudes Between Elizabeth and Charlotte 试论伊丽莎白与夏洛特的婚姻态度.docx

On Marriage Attitudes Between Elizabeth and Charlotte Author : Supervisor : A Thesis Submitted asa Partial Fulfillment of The Requirement for the Degree of . in English School of Foreign Studies Fuyang Teachers College, Anhui Province May , 20 12 学位论文试论伊丽莎白与夏洛特的婚姻态度指导老师姓名职称副教授单位阜阳师范学院外国语学院专业名称英语教育申请级别学士学位授予单位阜阳师范学院 2012 年5月 On Marriage Attitudes Between Elizabeth and Charlotte Abstract Jane Austen isa famous female novelist in the romantic period of England. After years of living in the English countryside, the rural life is the main theme of her novels. Her novels are mainly about the country young people's love and marriage story , in which the men are always wealthy, handsome and elegant squire ; women are full of wit, sharp observation and tender ness. Pride and Prejudic e isno exception. The novel shows colorful, vivid plicated relationships between the characters, describes a couple of men and women ’s love story, reflects the marital theme , marital status and value orientation in the eenth century of England . Jane Austen depicts five different love and marriage relationships in Pride and Prejudice ,but these five different love and marriage stories lead to different degrees of marriage happiness .In the paper, the author will mainly focus on the two different marriage attitudes between Elizabeth and Charlotte Lucas and analyze the cause of their marriage attitude s through examples as well parative analysis, and try to tell reader s such a conclusion: different marriage attitudes result in different life . Elizabeth bases her marriage on mutual respect and understanding while Charlotte Lucas builds her marriage on money, social rank and status. Asa result, the former harvests happiness while the later only gets a shelter. Key words: love; marriage; fate 试论伊丽莎白与夏洛特的婚姻态度内容摘要简·奥斯汀是英国浪漫主义时期著名的女性小说家。长年生活在英国的乡村, 因此乡村生活是她小说的主要题材。她的小说主要是关于乡村里青年们的婚恋故事,其故事中的男性多是富豪乡绅、英俊潇洒而又举止高雅,女性多是聪慧机智、观察敏锐而又温柔细腻,《傲慢与偏见》也不例外。小说中展现了形形色色、栩栩如生、纷繁复杂的人物关系,描述了多对男女的爱情故事,体现了小说的创作主题即婚姻问题,反