《傲慢与偏见》英文书评

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《傲慢与偏见》英文书评

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The comment of "Pride and prejudice"

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by the famous English

writer, Jane Austen, who was the sixth children in a family of

seven and was born in the village of steventon in Hampshire in

1775 and died of Addison’s disease in 1817.

Pride and Prejudice is a love story, mainly tells the love

between Elizabeth and Darcy. It divided into 2 volumes and is

composed of 42 chapters altogether. The major characters are

Mr. Darcy, A rich and proud young man. Elizabeth, the second

eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. Mr. Bingley , A rich

young bachelor. Jane, the first daughter of Mr. and Mrs.Bennet.

The story begin with Bingley’s arrival. One day when Mrs.Bennet

hear Bingley has taken Netherfield, a house near her’s. She

is so happy and arranged one of her five daughters marriage with

him. At a ball, luckly, Bingley and Jane fall in love at the

first sight. Darcy, a friend of Bingley’s , was attracted to

Elizabeth, a lively and spirited girl. But Darcy greatly

第 2 页 共 18 页 offends her by his supercilious behavior and this dislike is

increased by Wickham, a dashing young militia officer of the

unjust treatment he has met with at Darcy's hands. One day when

Darcy and Bingley’s two sisters disgusted with the vulgarity

of Mrs. Bennet and her two youngest daughters, effectively

separated Bingley and Jane. Meanwhile, Collins, a cousin of Mr.

and Mrs. Bennet, married charlotte, a friend of Elizabeth’s, for Elizabeth’s refuse to marry him. But One day Darcy send

Elizabeth a letter, in which he justifies the separation of his

friend Bingley and Jane and make it clear that Wickham is. So

Elizabeth changed her opinions and ideas toward him. Once when

Elizabeth visited her uncle and aunt in the north of England,

she met Darcy there and witnessed his changes through series

of behaviors, no longer pride and become gentle and attentive,

all these made their marriage arranged, and they also suitably

provided for Bingley and Jane’s reunited and engaged. The story

ends with both their happy marriages.

Sir Walter Scott 评论

READ again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's

very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice." That young

lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings

and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most

第 3 页 共 18 页 wonderful I ever met with. The big bow-wow strain I can do myself

like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders

ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from

the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to

me.—From "The Journal of Sir Walter Scott," March, 1826.

We bestow no mean compliment upon the author of "Emma" when

we say that keeping close to common incidents, and to such

characters as occupy the ordinary walks of life, she has

produced sketches of such spirit and originality that we never

miss the excitation which depends upon a narrative of uncommon

events, arising from the consideration of minds, manners, and

sentiments, greatly above our own. In this class she stands

almost alone; for the scenes of Miss Edgeworth are laid in

higher life, varied by more romantic incident, and by her

remarkable power of embodying and illustrating national

character. But the author of "Emma" confines herself chiefly

to the middling classes of society; her most distinguished

characters do not rise greatly above well-bred country

gentlemen and ladies; and those which are sketched with most

originality and precision, belong to a class rather below that

standard. The narrative of all her novels is composed of such

common occurrences as may have fallen under the observation of

第 4 页 共 18 页 most folks; and her dramatis personæ conduct themselves upon

the motives and principles which the readers may recognize as

ruling their own, and that of most of their own acquaintances.—From "The Quarterly Review," October, 1815.

Lord Macaulay 评论

SHAKESPEARE has had neither equal nor second. But among the

writers who, in the point which we have noticed, have approached

nearest to the manner of the great master we have no hesitation

in placing Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud.

She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a certain

sense, commonplace, all such as we meet every day. Yet they are

all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were

the most eccentric of human beings. There are, for example, four

clergymen, none of whom we should be surprised to find in any

parsonage in the kingdom—Mr. Edward Ferrars, Mr. Henry Tilney,