《傲慢與偏見》英文書評

1、_The comment of "Pride and prejudice"Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by the famous English writer, Jane Austen, who wasthesixthchildrenin a familyof sevenandwasbornin thevillageof steventoninHampshire in 1775 and died of Addisons disease in 1817.Pride and Prejudice is a love story,

2、mainly tells the love between Elizabeth and Darcy. Itdivided into 2 volumes and is composed of 42 chapters altogether. The major charactersare Mr. Darcy, A rich and proud young man. Elizabeth, the second eldest daughter of Mr.and Mrs. Bennet. Mr. Bingley , A rich young bachelor. Jane, the first daug

3、hter of Mr. andMrs.Bennet.ThestorybeginwithBingley s arrival.OnedaywhenMrs.BennethearBingley has taken Netherfield, a house near hers. She is so happy and arranged one ofher five daughters marriage with him. At a ball, luckly, Bingley and Jane fall in love at thefirst sight. Darcy, a friend of Bingl

4、eys , was attracted to Elizabeth, a lively and spirited girl.But Darcy greatly offends her by his supercilious behavior and this dislike is increased byWickham,a dashingyoungmilitiaofficerof the unjusttreatmenthe hasmet withatDarcy's hands. One day when Darcy and Bingleys two sisters disgusted w

5、ith the vulgarityof Mrs. Bennet and her two youngest daughters, effectively separated Bingley and Jane.Meanwhile,Collins,a cousinofMr. andMrs.Bennet,marriedcharlotte,a friendofElizabeth s, for Elizabeth s refuseto marryhim. But Oneday DarcysendElizabethaletter, in which he justifies the separation o

6、f his friend Bingley and Jane and make it clearthat Wickham is. So Elizabeth changed her opinions and ideas toward him. Once when精品資料_Elizabethvisitedher uncle andaunt inthe north of England, shemet Darcy there andwitnessed his changes through series of behaviors, no longer pride and become gentlean

7、d attentive, all these made their marriage arranged, and they also suitably provided forBingleyandJane s reunitedandengaged.Thestoryendswithboththeirhappymarriages.Sir Walter Scott評論READagain,and for the third time at least, Miss Austen'svery finelywrittennovelof"Pride and Prejudice."

8、That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements andfeelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with.The big bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, whichrendersordinarycommonplacethingsand charactersinterestin

9、g,from the truth of thedescription and the sentiment, is denied to me. From "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott,"March, 1826.We bestow no mean compliment upon the author of "Emma" when we say that keepingclose to common incidents, and to such characters as occupy the ordinary walks

10、of life,she has produced sketches of such spirit and originality that we never miss the excitationwhich depends upon a narrative of uncommon events, arising from the consideration ofminds, manners, and sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands almostalone; for the scenes of Miss Ed

11、geworth are laid in higher life, varied by more romantic精品資料_incident, and by her remarkable power of embodying and illustrating national character.But the author of "Emma" confines herself chiefly to the middling classes of society; hermost distinguished characters do not rise greatly abo

12、ve well-bred country gentlemen andladies; and those which are sketched with most originality and precision, belong to a classrather below that standard. The narrative of all her novels is composed of such commonoccurrences asmay havefallen under the observation of most folks; and her dramatisperson

13、? conductthemselvesuponthe motivesand principleswhichthe readersmayrecognize as ruling their own, and that of most of their own acquaintances. From "TheQuarterly Review," October, 1815.Lord Macaulay評論SHAKESPEARE has had neither equal nor second. But amongthe writers who, inthepoint which w

14、e have noticed, have approached nearest to the manner of the great masterwe have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud.She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, commonplace, all suchas we meet every day. Yet they are all as perfectly

15、 discriminated from each other as ifthey were the most eccentric of human beings. There are, for example, four clergymen,none ofwhomwe shouldbe surprisedto findin any parsonagein thekingdom Mr.EdwardFerrars,Mr. HenryTilney, Mr.EdmundBertram, and Mr. Elton.They are allspecimens of the upper part of t

16、he middle class. They have all been liberally educated.精品資料_They all lie under the restraints of the same sacred profession. They are all young. Theyare all in love. Not one of them has any hobby-horse, to use the phrase of Sterne. Not onehas a ruling passion, such as we read of in Pope. Who would n

17、ot have expected them tobe insipidlikenessesof eachother?No suchthing.Harpagonis not moreunliketoJourdain, Joseph Surface is not more unlike to Sir Lucius O'Trigger, than every one ofMiss Austen's young divines to all his reverend brethren. And almost all this is done bytouches so delicate t

18、hat they elude analysis, that they defy the powers of description, andthatweknowthemtoexistonlybythegeneraleffecttowhichtheyhavecontributed. From essay on "Madame D'Arblay," 1843.My pointof view towardsthe masterpieceof JaneAusten s is that this novelreflectsthe Englishhumansentimentof

19、 the end of 18th centuryand the earlyof 19thcentury under the circumstance of conservative ， and tellsusthe difference ways andattitudes to marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennets five daughters. Thereby reveal the authorherself attitude towards marriage, that is love and marriage based on money, property

20、andsocial status is not perfect, but it is also stupid Without considering all of these. There, theauthor emphasize the importance of ideal marriage, meanwhile, to be opposed to love &marriagebasedon moneyor propertyandto be opposedto people s laughlove&marriageoff. The authortakes the affec

21、tion/loveas the cornerstoneof ideal marriagebetween male and female. Elizabeth as the leading character in this novel, was born in thefamilyof squireen s, and is loved by Darcy.Darcy proposemarriageto her in spite ofdifference in the possession of property and social status, but is refused by Elizab

22、eth for精品資料_his pride , the novel demonstrate that if the pride of Darcy， there will be nos existedlove and also happy marriage between Elizabeth and he, it is really nice that Elizabethwitness the changes of Darcys through series of behavior in the following days. viewingthat he is no longer pride and then elimi