摘要

傲慢与偏见被认为是简奥斯丁最为著名也是最为成功的小说，它也是史上最为伟大的英语小说之一。它的伟大不仅仅在于它精彩绝伦的情节, 还在于其能够帮助读者重新思考真爱是什么。小说主要描写简，宾利和达西，伊丽莎白的两段爱情故事。其中，以对达西和伊丽莎白之间傲慢与偏见和理性情感之间的变化过程的描写最为主要。伊丽莎白对四个主要人物包括其自己有自己的认知与预期，读者也分享了她的预期。但是，尼日斐舞会之后的转折和变化打破了原本的预期。简奥斯丁通过围绕尼日斐舞会前前后后来设计了精妙的安排。 本人通过对这种结构的描写来发现其对人物刻画和小说主题的重要意义。

关键词  傲慢与偏见，爱情故事，尼日斐舞会，预期，结构

Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is considered as Jane’s most famous and successful novel and it is also one of the greatest fictions written in English. It is a great work not only because of its wonderful plots but also because it helps readers to re-think what true love is. It mainly describes two love stories: Jane and Bingley, Elizabeth and Darcy. The changing of Darcy’s and Elizabeth’s pride and prejudice and emotion is the principal line. Jane Austen makes a subtle arrangement around Nether field ball. Elizabeth has her own certain acquaintance and expectation about the four main characters including herself, but also get all the readers involved, sharing Elizabeth’s acquaintance and expectation. However, all sorts of the twists and turns in the plot after Nether field ball break down those expectations. This paper studies it to find out the significance of the structure to the characterization and the unfolding of the theme of the novel.

Keywords  pride and prejudice, love stories, Nether field ball, expectation, structure

1  Introduction
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a famous English female novelist in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She lived her entire life as part of a happy family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brother as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novels which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 to 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer.