Today, the book which I prepare to told about called Pride and Prejudice. This book was wrote by an English writer Jane Austen, who lived from 1775 to 1817. Her novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities.
I liked this book，it is really famous that it attracts my attentionm easily. I like the love story, which reflected me deeply. What?s more, the author?s writing style. She wrote this story which is all focus on the character?s disposition---- pride and prejudice. She perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people who is in her book vivid characters. I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic.
Next, let?s go on with the characters of the book. In this book, there are two leading actors, they called Elizabeth and Darcy. Both of them are the thread of the story,：Elizabeth is “prejudice”, and Darcy is “pride”. What about the other characters, such as the other four daughters of Bennet?s, and Mr. Bingley, who is Darcy?s friend. All of them have their own personalities. From
these people, I can always find the same personalities in the society now. That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century. And I think the first sentence in this book is impressive. It reads: “It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”. The undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.In “Pride and Prejudice”, Mr. Bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying Jane because the Bonnets don?t have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. From this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy husband. The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married. This part is deeply attracted me. I can?t forgot that Bennet wants to marry off all her daughter, that?s because in early Britain, younger daughters and sons have no choice to decide their marriage.Thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions.
As in any good love story, the lovers must elude and
overcome numerous stumbling blocks, beginning with the tensions caused by the lovers? own personal qualities. Elizabeth?s pride makes her misjudge Darcy on the basis of a poor first impression, while Darcy?s prejudice against Elizabeth?s poor social standing blinds him, for a time, to her many virtues. Pride and prejudice was the representative work of Jane Austen. It gave a vivid expression of the reactionary and traditional country life and people?s minds during 18th centuries and 19th centuries in Britain to us. This great novel not only attracted thousands of readers in Austen?s time , but also gave a special feeling to today?s people.
第二篇：读后感
Book report of Pride and Prejudice
This summer vacation I read a novel called Pride and Prejudice which is famous all over the world for many years according to my English teacher Gloria’s recommendation. This type of novels not only at that time attracted broad readers, today, it still gives the readers unique art enjoyment. And I did really enjoy it.
Jane Austen, a British novelist, was born in a mid-class family and was brought up in a comfortable environment with harmonious surroundingsin a small country town. Her father was a local vicar. Austin didn't go to regular schools, but she read many literary works at her parents' guidance. She started writing about the age of 20, and published six novels. Jane was unmarried all her life. For living in a small country town, contacting the medium and small landlords, pastor as well as their quiet and comfortable living environment, there were no significant social contradictions in her works. Actually,I find it interesting to see the love between men and women in the classical society of Britain from a woman‘s perspective. In Pride and Prejudice she talked different ideas about love and marriage through different characters.
When it comes to my fresh feeling about the book, I felt it a little boring at first. Because I had not got access to such stories in paper, not single a Chinese word seen, in particular. In the chapter one, a sentence really made confused” It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” So I took it for granted that it was all about gentleman and fair lady. But afterwards I found I was wrong. What surprised me most in reading this book was how different the book was from what I had imagined.It made me think of a British opera named which I had watched called Downtown Abbey. I suddenly was aware of something related to British tradition with the renewal of the sentence in chapter one. I could safely conclude their life using two words, “upstairs” and “downstairs”. Besides the bell ring connects the two. With regard to the British tradition, it is quite different from ours. The similarity between the book and the opera give me an inclination to compare them in my own opinion. In the ancient society of China, it was hard to see the intimacy or so-called pursuit of morality or the courage of free love. In the process of the reading the book, it seemed as if I began to accept how they lived even tried to stand in every characters’ shoes to see how I would do. I called it “my own cognition of a different culture”.
As for the main plots,it was all around the love and marriage of Mr. Bennet’s five unmarried daughters of which Elizabeth (the second oldest daughter)’s story was the main emphasis. Why is it called pride and prejudice? Elizabeth and Darcy’s story can explain. Darcy loved Elizabeth at first sight at the ball. But the arrogant character caused by the growing environment stopped his initiatively close to Elizabeth. Elizabeth as anyone else believed he is haughty and stubborn. The more Darcy loved Elizabeth, the more he would not show on the surface instead of making apathy. He thought if Elizabeth would be proud after knowing he loved her, so his character of pride stopped this happening. Elizabeth prejudiced against Darcy deeper and deeper. In her eyes, he even became a sinister, hypocritical people. As Darcy more loved Elizabeth, he finally was unable to restrain to show his love to Elizabeth. He certainly thought Elizabeth would accept, but he didn't know how about his image in Elizabeth’s eyes. So he was surprised when Elizabeth refused him. His arrogance had suffered a blow. But from then on, they began to candid exchange, then misunderstandings gradually eliminated. Later, inadvertently knowing that Darcy properly handled her sister Lydia and Wickham’s elopement, Elizabeth’s attitude changed. Darcy was not arrogant as others thought. After Elizabeth’s rejection, he began to reflect on the
self-examination and treated people with more populist. Finally, regardless of his aunt’s strong objection and concept of family, Darcy proposed to Elizabeth again. Elizabeth willingly consented. She began to appear her lively side to Darcy. What a happy ending it is!
After closing the book, I began to recollect the whole story. It was not boring at all. For one thing, Jane’s description was vivid and a little humorous. What impressed me most was her description of Elizabeth’s mental activity. When Elizabeth received Darcy’s proposal, she was angry, surprised and proud.When she made everything clear and met Darcy again, I even could recall how awkward and subtle she was. This cannot help but reminds me of the sentence on the cover “How could I join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?” by Jane.I searched for its various Chinese translations ,among which, “我怎么可能用我的那支精美的笔，把辛勤的劳动之后获得的成果雕刻在那小小的象牙上呢？” is the one I like best. For another, I was wondering if Jane wanted to reflect something more. It cannot be seen as a reflection of that society. Although I don’t know much about the real history, it still can be conjectured that the image of British gentleman wasn’t built in one day.
To conclude, I would like to mention the good virtues of the characters. As far as I am concerned, we all have shortcomings, what matters is that if we are willing to amend them for whom we love like Darcy. Besides, we should be brave to love who we love and reject who we don’t love and never obey your heart, just like Elizabeth. And I feel have fell in love with British culture, maybe it’s not a bad thing, who knows?