Jane Austen’s Feminine Consciousness That Reflected in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen is one of the most famous female novelists in the world.Among her works,"Pride and Prejudice" is her most outstanding representative.The story of "Pride and Prejudice" happened in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.At that time,Women regarded marriage as goods to climb up the upper class and to obtain the financial support and their attitudes towards marriage was affected by material factors in determine way.The story of this novel and the behavior of the characters develop around marriage.It mainly talks about Elizabeth,Jane,Charlotte and Lydia these four young ladies’ marriages.There are three kinds of motivations of or attitudes towards marriage that are presented for manifestation.First,Charlotte’s marriage to Mr.Collins is just for money and social position.Second,Lydia’s marriage to Wickham is for beauty regardless of personal morality.Third,is the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy and that of Jane and Mr.Bingley which are for love and personal merits.Their love stories reveal different views to marriage among young women of the middle class and express Jane Austen her own attitude towards marriage.What’s more important,we find that Jane Austen concerns about women’s lives and their unfair conditions by means of her feminine consciousness.By examining Jane Austen’s social conditions that she lived in and her experiences and analyzing these four marriages,this paper attempts to find the Austen’s views of marriage and her feminine consciousness that reflected in this novel.     

An Analysis of Jane Austen’s Outlook on Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen,one of the most influential female novelists in the history of world literature,is the first female to break up the monopoly of male writing.Her famous work Pride and Prejudice was created in 1813,which gained her lasting fame and popularity.In this novel,the characters of the four ladies are impressive:Jane is mild;Charlotte is mediocre;Lydia is ignorant;Elizabeth is wise.Different characters result in different marriages which are moral marriage,utilitarian marriage,sex-oriented marriage and perfect marriage.Through the analysis of the characters and these four marriages,this thesis aims to conclude Jane Austen’s Perception of Marriage,that is,character determines marriage.     

Female Silence and Resistance: Feminist Interpretation on Entailment of“Pride and Prejudice”

"Pride and Prejudice"is a classic masterpiece written by British female novelist Jane Austen.In this outstanding novel,Austen vividly portrays the romantic love stories among four young couples.They believe that being deprived of basic working right is the root cause of their dependence on their husbands.This paper analyses the complicated relations between Elizabeth Bennett and other main characters in the level of legislation to expose the reality of entailment and female’s discourse power loss and to promote new women images characterized by Elizabeth’s rebellious spirit towards unfair legal system.     

An Analysis of Jane Austen’s view of Marriage in Her Book Sense and Sensibility

In this paper,I focus on Jane Austen’s book Sense and Sensibility,discuss characters and views of marriage of Elinor and Marianne in this book.Consequently,that leads to the conclusion of Jane Austen’s view of marriage.     

The Most Influential People to the Growth of Emma

Jane Austen(1775-1817)’s most famous novel is Emma in which she portrays the growing image of Emma Woodhouse, from a spoiled, headstrong girl to a rational young lady. The writer depicts the writing of Emma through shaping many kinds of characters, mainly Mr Knightley, a close friend of Emma’s family and Harriet Smith, a pretty,sweet, non-too-bright girl of inferior social class and the natural daughter of somebody unknown.     

Jane Eyre’s Character Displayed in Her Experience of Marriage and Love

Charlotte Bronte is a famous English woman novelist in the 19th century.Her masterpiece Jane Eyre creates a bright figure in the world’s literature,attracting readers of generations all through the globe with her character of both unconvention and convention,which is a unity of contradictions.In this paper,the author presents the analysis in two parts:Jane Eyre’s convention presented in her experience of marriage and love,and Jane Eyre’s unconvention presented in her experience of marriage and love,drawing a conclusion finally that the two aspects of Jane Eyre’s nature-unconvention and convention are indispensable for portraying the heroine.     

Jane Eyre and Her Female Conception about Love

Jane Eyre is a famous image in literature history.Her strong will about women’s independence influenced a lot of women readers.In this thesis,we analyze Jane Eyre through her Love and conscience,female conception and Searching for home and real love.     

Images of Ladies in Emma

Jane Austen (1775-1817) is a British novelist, she began writing from 20 years old. Her most famous novel is Emma. In the novel, Jane Austen analyzes images of ladies in Emma. It mainly analyzes the ...     

Love and Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s great masterpiece.It discusses love and marriage between middle class and upper class in Britain in 19th century.This thesis aims at analyzing love and marriage in Pride and Prejudice.There are three chapters in this thesis.Chapter one portrays the social background of the author and the social background of Pride and Prejudice.Chapter two describes the concept of love and marriage in Britain in 19th century and four marriages in the novel.Chapter three analyses Jane Austen’s concept of love and marriage:love and marriage are closely connected with property and social status;however,an ideal marriage should be based on true love.Marriages that based on money and social status can not lead to a happy life.     

Be Reserved in Front of Love—A Brief Analysis on the Characteristic of Jane Bennet in the Novel Pride and Prejudice

This essay mainly discusses the attitude that modern ladies should preserve towards love since people treat love and divorce as less seriously as before.It reveals the idea that to be reserved in front of love should be considered by nowadays people according to analyzing the characteristic of the female image,Jane Bennet,in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice.     

Jane Austen’s Ambivalent Feminism in Pride and Prejudice

"Ambivalence" is a word which entered the language only in this century,the feminism reflected in Pride and Prejudice is ambivalent.Not only was Jane Austen’s novel composed almost 200 years ago,but in it she seems to attack love-as-attraction,a notion presupposed in the idea of emotional ambivalence,which is reflected from Austen’ subconciousness,from the main themes of the novel,from the characters’ modelling and from four marriages in the novel,which also boasts the significance of studying ambivalent feminism in literature.In addition,it manifests the limitations and awakening of feminist consciousness.The thesis also applies the influence of Jane Austen’s ambivalent feminism in the field of literature.     

Love and Marriages in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece by Juan Austen.Generally,Austen is considered one of the two major novelists of the Romantic period in the history of British literature,the other is Walter Scott.But her view of life is totally realistic.She shows the readers the daily life of middle class.This paper investigates different kinds of love and marriages in Pride and Prejudice with feminism,and comes to the conclusion that Jane Austen is a romantic writer as well as a realistic writer.     

A Comparison Between Jane Eyre and Zhu Yingtai

In the thousands literature history of women’s life,it can be said that Jane Eyre and Zhu Yingtai,two most world famous women characters,embody the rebellion and fight of women for freedom both in academy and marriage.This paper is mainly based on the analysis of the two women characters to find out some seminaries and differences between those two heroines.     

Cinderella Archetypal Interpretation of Jane Austen’s Heroines——Case Study of Elizabeth and Catherine

Cinderella is a well-known fairy-tale heroine,whose love and marriage has been considered as a typical pattern.In the article,the two protagonists,Elizabeth and Catherine,will be explored from the perspective of Cinderella archetype,from which the conclusion can be drawn Jane Austen’s viewpoint about marriage based on love and her feminist consciousness.     

The Awakening of Female Consciousness:Analysis of Jane Eyre’ s Character

Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of Charlotte Bronte,who was a famous British woman novelist.In Jane Eyre,the author describes a heroine Jane Eyre who shows her rebelliousness to the indifferent and unequal society in her time and revealed the tragic life of common people,especially of women and children,under Capitalism.Meanwhile,this novel also provides such an important theme that women should enjoy an equal position with men both in family and social life.The heroine Jane is neither beautiful,nor rich,but her rebellion,independence and her pursuit of love strike us deeply.Jane Eyre sets a good example for women.Therefore,Jane Eyre becomes the typical figure with female consciousness.This paper is to analyze the typical character in Jane Eyre from the different periods of her life and conclude that Jane comes to self consciousness in this process.From the analysis of Jane’s splendid character,we can see the awakening of female consciousness in that period of time.     

Sense of Humor of Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice: Realized by Violating the Quality Maxim of Cooperative Principle

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen created a supremely spirited and attractive heroine, Elizabeth. In this paper, the author provides a new perspective-from the Quality Maxim of CP to analyze and appreciate one of Elizabeth’s personalities-sense of humor.     

The Personalities of Jane Eyre Compared with Other Person

Jane Eyre is still loved by readers although 150 years so far, which is the famous British writer Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece. Compared to other person, we know the personalities of Jane Eyre vividly and her pure love with Mr. Rochester. As Cahill Gibran said"Beauty is a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted".     

Thoughts of Marriage in Jane Austen＇s Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a great realistic novel of the 18th century, in which Jane Austen presents us a central topic on marriage： the plots of the novels and the actions of the characters revolve around marriage.The thesis analyzes women＇s opinion on marriage in different two times-the end of the 18th century, the beginning of the 19th century and modern society. How the novel influence the people＇s views of marriage in that period, and what we can learn about marriage from it.