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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
By TangQin
A Thesis Presented to
A Brief Analysis of the Characters Personality in Pride and
Prejudice
Sichuan Normal university
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
The Degree of Bachelor of Arts
Under The Supervision of Mr. Liu Yuanzhi
February 2012
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Thesis statement:Pride and prejudice was the second novel of Jane Austen. It was originally titled First Impression because the appearances of the characters created the plot of the novel. However, because the novel is also concerned with the effects of the character’s first impressions, that is their prejudice. Pride and Prejudice is written in gentle or Horatian satire. The main object of Jane’s satire in the novel is the mercenary and the ignorance of the people, a common criticism of the the eighteen century.
Outline
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Strategies used by setting examples A. The hero’s personality ⒈The reason for Darcy’s pride ⒉Darcy changes his view B. The heroine’s personality ⒈Elizabeth’s family condition ⒉Elizabeth’s prejudice to Darcy
⒊Elizabeth sober herself and fall in love to Darcy C. The other characters personality Ⅲ. Conclusion
The characters’ personality in Austin’s Pride and Prejudice is very successfully. This novel is based on daily life, it reflects the current situation of the British’s life in eighteen to nineteen century.
A Brief Analysis of the Characters Personality in Pride and
Prejudice
School of Foreign Languages, ABTC, Sichuan, China, 610000
Abstract: Pride and Prejudice is the second novel of Jane Austen. The hero Mr. Darcy looks like a pride and ungracious in the superficial, but he is a kindheartedness and one who can correct his mistake when he know it. The heroine Elizabeth witty, have courage, visionary, have very strong self-respect and thinking. At that time, it is the phenomenon that society is the mercenary and the ignorance of the people. Characters in the novel which best carries these qualities are Mrs. Bennet, a foolish woman who talks too much and is obsess with getting her daughters married; Lydia Bennet, the youngest of the Bennet daughter who to a life of dancing, fashions, gossips and flirting; and Mr.Williams Collins, the silly and conceited baboon who is completely stupefy by Lady Catherine in every aspect of his life that he has forgotten his own morals and duty. Like Mr. Bingley, Mr. Bennet and so on.
Key word: Pride and Prejudice, characters, personality
Jane Austen ( 1775―1817 ) , who was born at Steventown on December 16, 1775, was
one of the greatest novelists in England. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular fiction of
Jane Austen, it reflects three kinds of marriage views. The readers were deeply moved by the emotion of the hero and heroine, they have several experiences for their love; at the beginning, they are much alike in character, and then they misunderstand each other, after a long time, they decline their misunderstand, finally, they get together and have a happy time. In a word, the heroine has experienced pride、slight、prejudice and excellent idea about her view of emotion.
There is never any deviation into the unnatural or exaggerated; and how worthy of all love and respect is the finely disciplined genius which rejects the forcible but transient modes of stimulating interest which can so easily be employed when desired, and which knows how to trust the never-failing principles of human nature. In this
novel, each character has their own personality. And all the characters personality are stand for the human nature of that time. Then the analysis the characters personality in the following:
Firstly, the personality of Mr. Darcy.
Mr. Darcy is an extremely aristocrat, Darcy is proud, haughty and extremely conscious of class differences at the beginning of the novel. Darcy is Mr. Bingley's close friend, an intelligent, wealthy and reserved man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers. He is wary of his friend Bingley's romantic entanglements with unsuitable women. He does, however, have a strong sense honor and virtue. Elizabeth’s rebukes after his first proposal to her help him to recognize his faults of pride and social prejudice. It is, in fact, precisely because Elizabeth is not so awed by his high social status as to be afraid to criticize his character that he is attracted to her. The self-knowledge acquired from Elizabeth’s rebukes and the desire to win Elizabeth’s love spur him to change and judge people more by their character than than their social class.
Darcy was born a well-established family, and the master of great estate of the family. The narrator relates Elizabeth’s point of view of events more often than Darcy’s, so Elizabeth often seems a more sympathetic figure. The reader eventually realizes, however, that Darcy is her ideal match. Intelligent and forthright, he too has a tendency to judge too hastily and harshly, and his high birth and overly proud and overly conscious of his social status. Indeed, his haughtiness makes him initially bungle his courtship. When he proposes to her, for instance, he dwells more on how unsuitable a match she is than on her charms, beauty, or anything else complimentary. Her rejection of his advances builds a kind of humility in him. Darcy demonstrates his continued devotion to Elizabeth, in spite of his distaste for her low connections, when he rescues Lydia and the entire Bennet family from disgrace, and when he goes against the wishes of his haughty aunt, Lady Catherine, by continuing to pursue Elizabeth. Darcy proves himself worthy of Elizabeth, and she ends up repenting her earlier, overly harsh judgment of him.
Darcy also a man very cute, he asks Mr. Bingley to leave and to go to London