摘要
  
 《傲慢与偏见》是英国著名女作家简·奥斯丁的代表作，而反讽是这部著作中的显著特色。反讽不仅仅是一种修辞手法也是一种文学艺术。在《傲慢与偏见》中，反讽贯穿于小说的始终且起着很重要的作用，奥斯丁运用反讽成功地塑造人物，构造情节。本文将就《傲慢与偏见》中贝内特太太，柯林斯牧师，伊丽莎白这三位典型人物形象的刻画进行分析。虽然贝内特太太和柯林斯不是故事的主要人物，但也和伊丽莎白一样，给读者留下了深刻的印象，这种人物塑造的成功在很大程度上要归功于作者反讽手法的巧妙运用。

关键词  反讽，贝内特太太，柯林斯牧师，伊丽莎白

Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most famous representative novels of British female writer Jane Austen. Irony is the most distinguished feature in this novel. It runs through the whole novel and plays an important role. Irony is not only a kind of rhetorical device but also a kind of literature art. Austen uses irony to portray characters, design the whole novel even highlight themes. The successful use of irony in characterization is impressive and attractive. This paper analyses the use of irony in characterization of three typical characters, Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins, and Elizabeth.
 
Keywords  irony, Mrs. Bennet, Mr.Collins, Elizabeth

1  Introduction
    Jane Austen is considered as one of the most famous female novelists in English literature. She was born in an English small town named Steventon, where her father was a vicar. She was the second daughter and seventh child in a family of eight. Austin didn’t receive formal education, but she received a good family education. Her education was  primarily from her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. Her interests in reading popular novels laid a solid foundation for her writing career. Austen started to write novels when she was about 20 years old. She first gave the novel its modern character through the daily life. Although Austen was widely read in her life time, she published her works anonymously. Most of her works are about the courtship and marriage of young, well-bred heroines. Austin’s best-known books include Pride and Prejudice(1813) and Emma. George Henry Lewis, who is a literary critic, compares Austen to “Shakespeare in prose”. Virginia Woolf calls her “the most perfect artist among women”.