1. Introduction

1.1. Introduction of the author

Jane Austen (1775-1817), who was born at Steventon on December 16, 1775, was a famous novelist in England. She received most of her education at home. Her families are all fond of reading books, which influenced her very much. She totally wrote six novels in her life, named Sensibility and Sense, Pride and Prejudice,Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. Among the six novels, Pride and Prejudice has been valued as the most successful and popular works. In this novel, Jane Austen mainly described the ordinary life of the Bonnets. She told us four different marriages to show the readers that different people have different attitudes towards love. And also she expressed her own viewpoints on marriage that a combination between love and similar interests is a happy and perfect marriage. In her opinion, the money-oriented marriage and sex-oriented marriage are not successful although the people can live together. The theme is narrow, but she showed us a beautiful picture of the England people s life of her own time. It seems that she had a talent to describe the ordinary life of people.

Jane Austen reflected the daily life of the middle class in countryside of Britain where the capitalism industrial revolution had not reached between the end of 18th century and the early of the 19th century. Although the reflection of living was not wide, it turned to the common of the creation of novels at that time and formed a connecting with the development of history in Britain.

1.2. The summary of Pride and Prejudice

Austen s novel Pride and Prejudice mainly focuses on a pair of sisters who want to pursue the good marriage in the future. There are five Bennet sisters in all: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. They, together with their mother will be forced off their father s small estate about the event when their father is dead. So Mrs. Bennet increasingly worries about her daughters. When the wealthy Mr. Bingley moves into a nearby estate with a young gentleman, his good friend-Darcy, the scheming Mrs. Bennet want to seize the opportunity to find a husband for one of her daughters at least. The unemotional Jane and unsentimental Mr. Bingley seem to be born of a couple. Darcy runs a foul of Elizabeth. The comment makes