Pride and Prejudice

When I first know this book by watching the movie long before, I just considered it to be a love story. But now after reading the book myself, I find it’s far more than a love story , it’s also the illustration of the society in Britain in the 18th century.

Pride and prejudice are two weaknesses in our personal qualities。 Elizabeth and Darcy couldn’t avoid that ,either。 Darcy is a rich young man and used to be very proud, he always feels superior to the county people. His proud leave a bad impression on Elizabeth, a clever and beautiful girl who always had her own opinions. then in the course of nature, she began to have prejudice on him, and kept misunderstanding him under Wickham’s evil speaking. Finally, they reconciled and get married.

From their love story I realize that it’s stupid to judge a person just by the first impression and always have prejudice on the person who you dislike, and pride sometimes will make you far away from the people. From the book, we can see, because Darcy’s proud, he offended the girl he loved, and because of the prejudice, Elizabeth was failed to see the merits of Darcy, but fortunately, they didn’t miss each other finally. Their love was romantic and also realistic.

It’s a romantic love story indeed, but at the same time, the author Austen didn’t confined her aim just to telling love stories. In fact, in most cases, the marriage in her book was not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. After reading this book, I know a truth that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man. Just like the first sentence said in the book: “It is a truth well known to the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife.”

For instance, from the marriage between Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, we found that their marriage totally depended on the position,

money, and the background, not the love. Most women choose the men who can satisfy their material comforts to be their husbands at that time, just like Charlotte Lucas. She married Mr. Collins although she shared no common interests with him. She didn’t love him while she married him indeed. She persuaded herself to tolerate her husband’s strange and foolish behavior, and her only comfort was her big new house and rich material life. While in my eye, it’s really unfortunate to rest hope on the material comforts for her rest life. Although sometimes it’s necessary to consider the property, position, and background in the marriage, it’s wretched to marry just for the property, position and background. Charlotte Lucas married for the possession not love, and on the other hand, Mr. Collins married her because he needed a wife, not for love, either. Their marriage seemed to be necessary but not happy. But how to maintain the marriage without love? Charlotte Lucas adopted a most efficient way----to pay no attention to her husband no matter what he did, and turn a deaf ear to what he said. Since she didn’t love him, she didn’t need to care about him, either.

The marriage of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins represented most of the marriages at that time. Most women and men got married for money and power. The marriage had nothing to do with love. The wives were regarded as the beautiful vases for decoration. The husbands took the “vases” with them to the social occasion everyday while thinking about their career advancement in their heart and never cared about the feelings of the “vases”. And what caused this? The essential reason was the low social position of the women. The women were treated badly at that time. They had no work, and had no ability to maintain the life, so the marriage was the most efficient and popular way for them to keep their lives. Even the ladies in the upper class only played the role of a housewife.

第二篇：Book Review Pride and Prejudice书评 傲慢与偏见 英文

Book Review --Pride and Prejudice

Rational or Emotional

Doris Guo 38

Would you like to travel back to the 18th century? Not to visit the busiest Chinese emperor YongZheng but to discover the fantastic story of Elizabeth Bennet--a beautiful girl who has been through a both romantic and rational love story.

This is what you will experience if you read Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen,one of the most famous British female writers. Jane put her own story into the novel, so the emotions of the characters seem more realistic. Unfortunately,the happy ending of the novel was not from Jane’s real life. She has never married and died at her forties.

However, the content of the novel is the story of how Elizabeth and Darcy arrive at nuptial happiness by an improbable and circuitous route.Mr. Darcy is a haughty nobleman who is very rich and handsome. The story Austen has written is that of Darcy’s wooing and winning of Elizabeth.To win the love of such a woman is not easy but Darcy believes it to be well worthwhile- she will love him.

Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but actually, this book is an illustration of the society at that time.It tells us what a key role money plays in the marriage market and how marriage becomes an economic rather than social activity.In addition, much of the pride and prejudice in the novel exists because of class divisions.

Above all, the novel has a great influence on our vision of love and life.Teenagers today usually have puppy love at a very young age and many of them are always confused at it. By reading this novel, we can have a more thorough understanding of love. What actually affects us tends to be sense and sensibility. Are we going to be more rational or emotional? Try to read this book or you can go and watch the movie.Then you’ll have your own answer of this question.

Quotes from Pride and Prejudice

Darcy's first impressions on Elizabeth are colored by his snobbery. He cannot acknowledge his love for her even in his own heart because of his pride. His first proposal clearly reflects this attitude: "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

And this is how Elizabeth turned him

down:”And those are the words of a gentleman. From the first moment I met you, your arrogance and conceit, your selfish disdain for the feelings of others made me realize that you were the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry. ”