Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austin's representative works. Jane is a famous novelist in 19th century. The novel, centered on the love story of Darcy couple, describes four different kinds of marriages. Jane Austin expresses her own opinions on gender discrimination and women’s positions in marriages through the novel. So it is meaningful to refer to the book while studying on social views on love and marriage.

This paper firstly studies the four different marriages described in the novel and then find out the values that the author wants to tell us by comparison. Then, the reasons for different views on marriages will be analyzed in terms of cultural background, social class and female predicaments. At last, it will make a conclusion on modern enlightenment of views on marriages in Pride and Prejudice.

Key words: views on marriages; Pride and Prejudice; enlightenment

Contents

Abstract

中文摘要

1.Introduction1

2.Introduction of Pride and Prejudice1

2.1 Summary of Pride and Prejudice .1

2.2 Four types of marriages in Pride and Prejudice2

2.3 Views on marriage of Jane Austen4 

3.Reasons for the Views on Marriage.6

3.1 The reason in the respect of cultural background.6

3.2 The reason in the respect of social class7

3.2 The reason in the respect of female predicaments 8

4.Modern Enlightenment of the Views on Marriages .10

4.1 Analysis of modern values10

4.2 Elements of a good marriage.11

4.3 Enlightenment for modern marriages.12

5. Conclusion13

References.15