Read Report of Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen is a world famous woman writer who has the same position as Shakespeare in literature. She lived a easy and comfortable life in a small landlords family in a small town so that she was familiar with the life of the medium and small landlord. That’s also the reason why there is no significant social controelictions in her novels. Her novels are truthfully description about her around world especially for the marriage and love storm between the gentleman and lady. The stories in her novels are rich of comic conflicts and always happen in easy and humorous atmospheres that readers are crazy about them.

In Pride and Prejudice Mrs. Bennett the heroicness’s mother a woman who lives in a small landlord family and makes great efforts to marry off her five daughters. The five daughters in Bennet family are very different. Jane is simple innocent girl and never speaks evil of others. Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. Mary likes reading classic books. Actually she is a pedant. Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister Lydia. Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things handsome man and somehow a little profligate. Love stories happen between these five young ladies and several young men. Mr. Bingley is one of the lucky friendly young men. So as his friend Mr. Darcy however Darcy is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior because of his rich family and his position. Elizabeth loved by Darcy and Darcy disregards the gap of ancestry and wealthy between them asks Elizabeth to marry him but she refuse to accept because of the misunderstanding and prejudice on him. Elizabeth hates him for his pride which in fact is a reflection of the difference position at that time and at that place. However love made Darcy change as Elizabeth want. When Elizabeth realizes that Darcy is not pride of his fortune and his position any more and he treats everybody equally she shocked. Finally Elizabeth accepts Darcy’s propose they have a happy ending.

In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen wrote Elizabeth’s sisters and her girl friends’ marriage to compare with the heroicness’s marriage in order to show the social concept at that time. Through the novel Austen also show us her opinion on marriage. In her opinion she thinks it is wrong to married for fortune and position however is also stupid to married without thinking about them. That is to laypeople should emphasize their marriage never treat them as a trick. Love is the basis of marriage people can not emphasize the importance of love too much. Although Austen’s subjects are narrow but she is good at shaping distinct characters in daisy ordinary things. No matter Elizabeth and Darcy that the writer thinks is deserve to reward or the person like Collins that should be hate are make people moving by them. What’s more Austen’s words are very nice her dialogues are always full with humorous and satire. And she often fills her language with witty words to foil person’s character. This kind of artistic innovation makes her novels have their own characteristics.

第二篇：英文读书报告傲慢与偏见

A Reading Report of Pride and Prejudice

, Class 2, 2008

Pride and Prejudice is one of the representative works of Jane Austen, first published in 1813. Though the story's setting is characteristically turn-of-the-19th-century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of 'most loved books.

Jane Austen，English writer, who first gave the novel its modern character through the treatment of everyday life. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) and EMMA (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women."

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the landed gentry society of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second eldest of five daughters of a country gentleman landed in the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London。

Elizabeth Bennet is the main character and protagonist. The reader sees the unfolding plot and the other characters mostly from her viewpoint. The second of the Bennet daughters at twenty years old, she is intelligent, lively, attractive, and witty, but with a tendency to judge on first impressions and perhaps to be a little selective of the evidence upon which she bases her judgments. As the plot begins, her closest relationships are with her father, her sister Jane, her aunt Mrs Gardiner, and her best friend Charlotte Lucas.

Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy is the main male character. Twenty-eight years old and unmarried, Darcy is the wealthy owner of the famous family estate of Pemberley in Derbyshire. Handsome, tall, and intelligent, but not convivial, his aloof decorum and moral rectitude are seen by many as an excessive pride and concern for social status. He makes a poor impression on strangers, such as the gentry of Meryton, but is valued by those who know him well.

Mr Bennet has a wife and five daughters, and seems to have inured himself to his fate. A bookish and intelligent gentleman somewhat withdrawn from society, he dislikes the indecorous behaviours of his wife and three younger daughters; but he offers little beyond mockery by way of correcting them. Rather than guiding these daughters to more sensible understanding, he is instead content to laugh at them. He relates very well with his two elder daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, showing them much more love and respect than his wife and younger daughters.

Mrs Bennet is the wife of her social superior Mr Bennet, and mother of Elizabeth and her sisters. She is frivolous, excitable, and narrow-minded, and is susceptible to attacks of tremors and palpitations. Her public manners and social climbing are embarrassing to Jane and Elizabeth. Her favourite daughter is the youngest, Lydia.

Jane Bennet is the eldest Bennet sister. Twenty-two years old when the novel begins, she is considered the most beautiful young lady in the neighbourhood. Her character is contrasted with Elizabeth's as sweeter, shyer, and equally sensible, but not as clever; her most notable trait is a

desire to see only the good in others. Jane is closest to Elizabeth, and her character is often contrasted with that of Elizabeth.

Lydia Bennet is the youngest Bennet sister, aged fifteen when the novel begins. She is repeatedly described as frivolous and headstrong. Her main activity in life is socialising, especially flirting with the military officers stationed in the nearby town of Meryton. She dominates her older sister Kitty and is supported in the family by her mother. After she elopes with Wickham and he is paid to marry her, she shows no remorse for the embarrassment that her actions caused for her family, but acts as if she has made a wonderful match of which her sisters should be jealous.

William Collins, aged twenty-five, is Mr Bennet's clergyman cousin and, as Mr Bennet has no son, heir to his estate. Austen described him as "not a sensible man, and the deficiency of nature had been but little assisted by education or society." Collins boasts of his acquaintance with and advantageous patronage from Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Mr Bennet, Jane, and Elizabeth consider him pompous and lacking in common sense. Elizabeth's rejection of Collins' marriage proposal is welcomed by her father, regardless of the financial benefit to the family of such a match. Elizabeth is later somewhat distressed, although understanding, when her closest friend, Charlotte Lucas, consents to marry Collins out of her need for a settled position and to avoid the low status and lack of autonomy of an old maid。

Austen left this problem for us to think. The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems. Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively. The plots in her works are always very natural. The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic. Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.