An Analysis of Jane Austen
2022-12-30
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Vo1.12 No9 1买与 带恿 川1)车 月 Read and Wnte Periodical September 2015 An Analysis of Jane Austen,’s View of Marriage Zhu Lei (Department of Foreign Languages,Ankang University,Ankang,Shaanxi,725000) Abstract:Jane Austen was generally regarded as one of the most famous female writers in the Western literary history. Throughout her lifetime.she wrote only six Hovels and treated the love and marriage of them as the theme. I11is thesis tires to analyze her view of marriage from the aspects of the ideal marriage in her eyes and the foundation of the marriage in her times. Key words:Jane Austen;marriage;economic ̄undation 中图分类号:H319 文献标识码:A 文章编号:1672—1578(2015)09-0001—01 1 A general introduction of the life of Jane Austen undesirable marriage between Lydia and Wickham purely for Jane Austen,one of the greatest realist novelists in passion and sexuality.It’s obvious that the author preferred English literary history of the 19th century,was born on the ideal marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy and disagreed with December 16,1775,in Hampshire,England.Jane started the latter two types.It could be inferred that it’s wrong to writing in her early teens,making up her parodies and plays marry for money but marrying without money is also foolish. to entertain her family who all supported her writing The most desirable marriage is founded on both sincere love activities.Being middle—class women,Jane and her sister and stable economic base. stayed at home most of their time.Su ̄ounded by her lively 3.2 The foundation of the marriage in her times and affectionate family and fully indulged in domestic chores hTe most outstanding characteristic of Jane Austen’s view and her writing,she lived a life as common as other women on marriage is that she stressed the restirction of economic of her time.She took all kinds of love and marital life of conditions on women’s love and marriage.It also exempliifed the women of the middle class in England as subject of her her realism tendency.At the very beginning of the 19th books.However, in reality, she herself didn’t marry century,women had no rights to inherit the heritage of their throughout her life.Jane Austen died in 1817. fathers according to the law so women’s economic states were 2 A general introduction of the wriitngs of Jane Austen unstable.If the daughters wanted to get married smoothly, In her lifetime,Jane wrote six complete novels which they had to own a great amount of dowry or the penniless were all well—known in the whole world. Sense and daughters had to find a wealthy husband in order to secure Sensibility was published in 1811;Pride and Prejudice in her future life.“For people with property,marriage was an 1813;Mansfield Park in 1814;Emma in 1819.Northanger economic transaction that involved the transfer or c0nsolidation Abbey(written fisrt but not published,although accepted)was of land as well as the development of social networks.”[ ] bought back by her brother Henry and published together Jane Austen described these facts in her novels carefully and with her last novel,Persuasion,in 1818,after her death. humorously.The theme of the predominant considerations of Jane Austen had limited the scope of her novel to“pictures money in love and marriage was sometimes openly presented of domestic life in countyr villages.”[”In these novels.the and sometimes indirectly suggested in her novels,and this life of the gentry,landlords and clergy at the end of the shows Austen’S sha4"p insight into the very essence of the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th centuries was shown aristocratic and bourgeois English society of her time. in detail. Although Jane Austen used the third person narrator to 3 An andlysis of Jane Austen’s view of marriage in narrate the whole story,she wrote it from women’s her novels perspective and stressed the equality between men and In Jane Austen’s novels,love and marriage constitute women.Through a series of cosmic plots and humorous the central thread of the whole story,but they’re not the dialogues,she refuted the popular view that men were purely love story. Behind the seemingly romantic love superior to women at her time and exposed the poor social clothing,more serious subiects exist.That is,the ulteiror reality that the economic condition of women decided her motive of loving and marrying for money and socila position. status and te. 3.1 The ideal marriage in her eyes Jane Ansten dealt with love and marriage in all her References: novels.Her masterpiece,Pride and Prejudice(1813),most 【1]Le Faye,D.Jane Austen’S Letters[M】.London:Oxford typically reflected her views on marriage.Four types of University Press:312. marriage were narrated:ideal marriage between Elizabeth and 【2]Coontz,S.Marriage,A History[M].New York:Viking Press, Darcy on the basis of love and economic foundations; 2005:63. appropriate marriage between Jane and Bingley on the basis of love and beauty and money;dull marriage between 作者简介:朱蕾(1983年一),女,汉,甘肃兰州人,安康学院助教, Charlotte and C0l1ins for the pursuit of reliable basement and 硕士研究生,主要研究方向:英美文学。