1、LOGOThe presentation of book report Book title:Pride And PrejudiceReporter:陈贝贝Company NContentsAbout authorAbout this literatureAbout work backgoundAbout subject analysis About writing skillsCompany NAuthor Jane Austen1.She was born on December 16,1775,in Steventon,Hampshire,where her father,Rev.Geo
2、rge Austen,was a rector.2.She was the second daughter and seventh child.3.She was mostly tutored at home,and irregularly at school,but she received a broader education than many women of her time.Brief life4.She started to write for family amusement as a child.Her earliest-known writings date from a
3、bout 1787.5.After her fathers death,the family moved to Southampton then Chawton,and in Chawton she started to write her major works.6.She was never married.7.Due to the poor health,she died on July 18,1817 in Winchester and buried in Winchester Cathedral.Company NMaster WorksPride and Prejudice(181
4、3)Sense and Sensibility(1811)Northanger Abbey(1818)Mansfield Park(1814)Emma(1816)Persuasion(1818)MasterpieceCompany NAbout this literatureLOGORelationship Between CharactersLOGODifferent opinions on love marriage expressed by four marriages:Jane Bingley Elizabeth Darcy Charlotte Collins Lydia Wickha
5、mJane Bennet -男才女貌型或才子佳人型Undoubtedly,she is beautiful,gentle,pure,but craven(krevn胆小的)and cowardly.She is definitely a button-down minded woman who just waits for a stroke of luck,rather than making efforts to obtain what she wants.Thank goodness,Mr.Bingley consist on the wave of popularity finally.
6、And whats more,he is gentle and cultivated.This is the best for her.Jane BingleyElizabeth Bennet -情投意合型或相知相通型 She is an independent minded woman with marked individuality.Her parents marriage pattern is not her style.When Collins asks for her hand,she refuses very directly”You could not make me happ
7、y,and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.”Apparently,wealth,social states and other material is not what she want from a marriage.That is also why,Elizabeth is a prominent representative of Feminism for its gestation period(萌芽时期).“Alls well that ends well.”Eli
8、zabeth DarcyCharlotte Lucas -世俗利益型或现实功利型“It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”This is the first sentence in this novel,Charlotte and Collins marriage demonstrated it completely.She takes life as it comes,when she decide t
9、o make a big commitment to Collins,her life turn over a new leaf.I think their mating together is right to their social states and realm of thought.Mercenary marriage.Charlotte CollinsLydia Bennet -情欲享乐型或激情狂热型Lydias levity(轻浮),recklessness(卤莽)and ignorance,even in the end of the novel has not change
10、d.Wickhams cunning,ambition and superficiality has caused disgust.Six of one,half a dozen the other,that is their position.Weckham asks Lydia to elope with him in the name of“killing time”,Lydia answered in want of his handsome appearance.Their marriage seems like a roller coaster ride.Lydia Wickham
11、About work backgoundv简.奥斯汀家道小康，终身未婚。由于居住在乡村小镇，接触到的是中小地主，牧师等人物以及恬静舒适的生活环境，因此她的作品里没有重大的社会矛盾。从18世纪末到19世纪初“感伤小说”和“哥特小说”充斥英国文坛，而奥斯汀的小说标新立异，一反常规地反映当时尚未受到工业革命冲击的英国乡村中产阶级的生活和田园风光。她的小说一扫风行一时的假浪漫主义潮流，继承和发展了英国18世纪优秀的现实主义传统，为19世纪现实主义小说的高潮做了准备。虽然其作品的广度和深度有限，但却从一个小窗口窥视到整个社会形态和人情世故，对改变当时小说创作中的风气起到了好的作用，在英国小说的发展史上有
12、承上启下的意义，被誉为 地位“可以与莎士比亚平起平坐”的作家。vJane Austen is born in the well-off family and never married.Because living in the rural town and exposing to small and medium landowners,priests and other characters as well as quiet and comfortable living environment,she seldom describes social conflicts.From the 18
13、th century to the early 19th century,sentimental novel and Gothic novel“was full of English literature,but Austens novel was unconventional,which reflected the middle-class life and rural scenery.Her novels swept false romanticism trend,inherited and developed excellent realist tradition,as the prep
14、arations for the climax of the 19th century realistic novel.While the breadth and depth of her work are limited,but we can peep from a small window to the entire social patterns,which have good to change the culture of English novel.So Jane Austen is hailed for the position on an equal footing with
15、Shakespeare,About subject analysis Company NvTheme:whats a happy marriage？v(1)v(2)v(3)Company NAbout writing skillsShe draws vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels.Her works have a very narrow literary field.She confines herself to small country parishes,whose simple people become the characters of her novels,but within her own field,she is unrivaled.Her language is simple,humorous,and with quiet irony.LOGO
