摘要

   简·奥斯丁是世界文学史上一位有名的女性作家，《傲慢与偏见》是英国文学史上最优秀的作品之一。小说叙述了几对年轻男女的爱情故事，反映了他们的婚姻观念，表达了奥斯汀对爱情、婚姻和家庭的看法。它通过达西和伊丽莎白之间的爱情故事揭示了他们的傲慢与偏见。本文主要研究伊丽莎白和达西两位小说人物之间产生和存在的傲慢与偏见。他们是如何通过互相的了解渐渐萌生爱意并消除各自的傲慢与偏见和其他障碍最后走向婚姻的。

关键词  伊丽莎白，达西，傲慢，偏见，婚姻

Abstract

Jane Austen is a famous woman writer in the world. Pride and Prejudice is one of the greatest novels in English literature. In this novel, Austen portrays several pairs of marriage to convey her personal values. This novel reflects the social background and the view of marriage in that period. It reveals the pride and prejudice of the main characters through the love story of Darcy and Elizabeth. This paper focuses on the pride and prejudice of Elizabeth and Darcy. It studies how Elizabeth and Darcy’s pride and prejudice form and are dispelled gradually. They also overcome class boundaries and other obstacles. Elizabeth and Darcy fall in love with each other and have a happy marriage in the end.

Keywords  Elizabeth, Darcy, pride, prejudice, marriage

1    Introduction
Jane Austen is one of the most outstanding women novelists in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary as well as her acclaimed plots have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. In her whole life, Jane Austen wrote six great novels. Sense and Sensibility was her first novel. A major theme is the importance of environment and upbringing to the development of young people’s character and morality. The plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social status and economic benefits.
Pride and Prejudice is one of her great novels. Set in England in the early 19th century, it tells the story about Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighborhood. The novel focuses on the love story between Elizabeth and Darcy. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth and Darcy first met at a ball but they were not satisfied with each other at the first sight. However, as time went by, Mr. Darcy gradually fell in love with Elizabeth. As for Elizabeth, after going to Mr. Darcy’s house where she saw a different side of him, and when she knew Mr. Darcy helped to arrange Lydia and Wickham’s marriage, she overcame her prejudice against Darcy and realized she also fell in love with him. Elizabeth and Darcy finally got married and lived a happy life.