摘 要

简•奥斯汀是英国著名小说家，她的作品主要关注乡绅家庭女性的婚姻和生活，以女性特有的细致入微的观察力描绘了她周围世界的小天地。本文选取简•奥斯汀的代表作《傲慢与偏见》，对作品中女性的婚姻观进行浅析。第一部分是引言，介绍作者简•奥斯汀和《傲慢与偏见》这部作品；第二部分，分析作品中女性的社会地位；第三部分，分析女性和婚姻的关系；第四部分，也是文章的核心部分，将结合第二、三部分的分析对作品中女性角色的不同类型的婚姻观进行解读。第五部分是总结。

关键词：《傲慢与偏见》；女性；社会地位；婚姻观

Abstract

Jane Austen is a famous British novelist, and her works focus on the marriage and life of women in the squire family and depict the small world around her through the unique and nuanced observation of female. This paper chooses Jane Austen’s masterpiece Pride and Prejudice to analyse women’s view on marriage in this novel. The first part is introduction, introduces the writer Jane Austen and her novel Pride and Prejudice. The second part analyses women’s social status in Pride and Prejudice. The third part analyses the relationship between women and marriage. The forth part, the core part of this paper, analyses the different types of women’s view on marriage in Pride and Prejudice based on the analysis in the second and third part. The fifth part is conclusion.

Key words: Pride and Prejudice; women; social status; view on marriage;

1. Introduction
1.1 Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.
Austen lived her whole life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers 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 novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth.From 1811 until 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. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen’s works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism.