摘 要

在十九世纪的英国，工业化已经得到飞快发展，商业化也获得空前提高，商品极大地丰富，英国城市上流社会已经盛行这种为了奢侈和享乐而消费的风气，使得英国进入了“消费社会”。与其它时期盛行的消费文化不同的，是这种风气只局限于贵族和中产阶级，工人阶级还处于旁观状态。贵族和中产阶级为了安逸和奢侈而消费屡见不鲜，人们渐渐受到萌芽时期消费主义的影响，并随之深深地影响了当时的人们――唯利是图、拜金主义、金钱支配一切、懒散、愚昧、伪善、荒唐更是随处可见。《傲慢与偏见》正是一部反映这个时期英国中上层阶级的小说，小说中通过不同的爱情故事真实地展示了当时英国的社会面貌以及消费文化。小说的作者简•奥斯丁一生都生活在乡村，接触的人物以地主、牧师为主，观察到的环境也以他们恬静舒适的生活为主，因此在小说中也大都是围绕这些人而构建的故事情节。作者简•奥斯丁在她的作品中通过诙谐幽默的故事情节叙述以及人物对话的生动描写展示了那个时代人们的消费主义观，并从中隐含着作者对这种消费观的批判与讽刺。
  
关键词：消费社会；消费主义；符号价值；适度消费
 
Abstract

In the 19th century，the industrialization developed fast and the commercialization improved unprecedentedly in Britain. The variety of products had been enriched and the fashion of the consumption of luxurious things for pleasure had become popular in Britain, which led Britain to stepping into an era of the consumer society. The consumption culture, which is different from other consumption cultures popular in other times, was limited to the aristocrat and the middle class only, while the working class is still in the spectator’s state. It was very common that the aristocracy and the middle class consumed just for comfort and luxury, and people were gradually influenced by the concept of consumerism in the period of the capitalist sprout, which, in verse, imposed some effect on the people in that time. This concept of consumerism is: profit, money worship, and the money controlling all. Besides, laziness、ignorance、hypocrisy, and absurdness could be found everywhere in daily life. "Pride and Prejudice "is a novel which reflects the British upper class. The novel vividly shows the British social appearance as well as the expense culture at that time through different love stories. Jane Austen, the author of Pride and Prejudice, lived in rural areas all her life and the people she met and kept in contact with are mainly the landlords and the priests. The environment she observed was featured in the quietness and comfortable life, and most of the story in the novel is about these people there. The author, Jane Austin ,through the vivid narration of the plots as well as the dialogues of the characters, reflected the consumption concepts that the people in that time held, and the author’s attitude toward this consumption , more specific , critique and the satire, could be found.

Keywords: consumer society; consumerism; symbolic value; moderate consumption