Abstract
                               
The feminist consciousness is concretely reflected in the three female protagonists — Elizabeth, Charlotte as well as Jane, which is manifested in their distinct personalities, different attitudes towards marriage and different views on their middle-class social status in Jane Austin’s novel Pride and Prejudice. The feminist consciousness in the novel Pride and Prejudice can encourage modern females to pursue their own happiness and achieve self-realization.
   
Key words: Pride and Prejudice, feminist consciousness, personalities, attitudes towards marriage, views on the social class

摘 要

简•奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》体现出强烈的女性意识，具体体现在三个女主人公伊莉莎白•班内特、夏洛特•卢卡斯和简•班内特不同的性格、相异的婚姻观以及对于自身所属社会阶层的不同观念上。《傲慢与偏见》中体现出的女性意识能够鼓励当代女性努力追求属于自己的幸福，实现自我完善。

关键词：《傲慢与偏见》；女性意识；性格；婚姻观；社会阶层观

1.    Introduction
Jane Austen (1775-1817), the youngest daughter of George Austen, is an outstanding female novelist in England. She received a good education at home. She lived an uneventful life amid the provincial surroundings of the Southern England, and never married throughout her life.
   Jane Austen started writing at an early age. Her main novels include: Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816), Northanger Abbey (1818) Sense and Sensibility (1818) and Persuasion (1818). In her works, she never “touched upon the class conflicts of her time, and restricted her subject matter to a narrow range of society and events that she had already been familiar with: a quiet and prosperous, middle-class circle in provincial surroundings” (Tian and Wang, 169). However, she treated this matter with “such subtlety of observation, depth of psychological penetration and delicacy of touch that she is ranked among the best of English novelists” (Wei, 134).