论《劝导》中安妮演变式的婚恋伦理观_英语论文

On Anne’s Evolvable Ethics of Love and Marriage in Persuasion

摘要

简·奥斯汀是18世纪初19世纪末英国文学史上最杰出的女性小说家之一。她将其一生献给了文学创作，在短暂的时间里共创作了六部完整的小说。她的作品都体现了她对婚姻观这一永恒话题的探讨。这一婚姻主题使她的作品广受读者与文学研究者们的喜爱。奥斯汀的封笔之作《劝导》对婚姻伦理观进行了更深层次的探讨，被称为是其小说中的另类。

该论文旨在从传统家庭伦理观、安妮的婚恋观由谨慎到浪漫的演变等角度来分析安妮的婚恋伦理观。首先从传统的家庭伦理观入手，探讨落后的封建制度对当时人们的婚恋观产生的恶劣影响。其次，主要针对安妮演变的婚恋观进行研究，分析得出安妮的婚恋观由谨慎到浪漫演变的原因不仅仅是受当时社会风气的影响，更多的是被女主人公安妮自身女性意识的觉醒所致。最后，该论文通过对比分析奥斯汀的两部著作《劝导》和《理智与情感》，从而得出两种不同的爱情，虽然各自的婚恋观不同，但结局又殊途同归；与此同时，揭示幸福爱情的唯一秘诀就是真爱，以此来鼓励当代的大龄女青年应该勇敢地追求自己的幸福婚姻。

关键词：谨慎；演变；浪漫；恋爱和婚姻；劝导

Abstract

Jane Austen is one of the most brilliant female novelists in English literature that is born at the turn of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. She has devoted her whole life to writing novels, and finally accomplishes six completed novels, all of which are masterpieces and share the same theme of marriage. It is the marriage theme that makes her novels popular among readers and literature researchers. Persuasion is Austen’s last mature novel where the marriage theme is further developed. 

This thesis analyzes Anne’s ethics of love and marriage from the perspective of traditional ethics of family as well as Anne’s evolution from caution to romance. At first, the bad influence of the backward feudal system on people’s ethics of love and marriage is analyzed from the perspective of traditional ethics of family. Then, studies are conducted in Anne’s evolvable ethics of love and marriage. Next, Anne’s evolution from caution to romance is proved not only influenced by the society at that time, but also by Anne’s female consciousness. Finally, this paper makes a comparison between Austen’s famous novels Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility, by analyzing two different marriage patterns to reveal that happy marriage must be based on the mutual true love, thus encouraging the older female youths today to pursue their happy marriages bravely.    

Key words: caution; evolution; romance; love and marriage; persuasion  

Contents

1 Introduction 1

2 Literature review 2

3 Traditional ethics of family 3

3.1 Background and embodiments 3

3.2 Influences on social ethics of love and marriage 4

4 Anne’s evolution from caution to romance 5

4.1 Reasons for caution and its consequences 5

4.2 Anne’s struggle in the course of evolution 7

4.3 Influence on Anne’s ethics of love and marriage 8

5 Two love patterns in Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility 9

5.1 Love between Anne and Wentworth 9

5.2 Love between Elinor and Edward 10

5.3 The secret to happy marriage 11

6 Conclusion 13

References 15