Reading Report of Pride and Prejudice 傲慢与偏见读后感

Book report of Pride and prejudicePride and prejudice is a famous novel throughout the world. The author of Pride and Prejudice is a British novelist, Jane Austin. Austin was born in a mid-class family. Her father was a local vicar. Although her family was not very rich, her father attached great importance to her education. Influenced by her father, Jane read many literary works when she was young. Jane was unmarried all her life and her novels did not earned her great fames when she was alive. After her death in 1817, Jane’s novel became popular across the world.Jane Austin was known for her excellent writing skills of narrating the country love stories since she lived in a small country town all her life. Her other novels Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma were all about the marriage and love between gentleman and ladies in countryside. Austin authentically and intimately describes the quiet, day-to-day country life of the upper-middle-class English.The novel is named Pride and Prejudice because the principal male character Mr. Darcy was pride at first and the principal female character Elizabeth had prejudice against Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth first met Mr. Darcy at an assembly. Soon Mr. Darcy fell in love with Elizabeth but Elizabeth disliked Mr. Darcy because of his haughtiness. When Elizabeth met Mr.Wickham who was Darcy’s childhood playmate, she was told that Mr. Darcy treated Wickham badly. Later Elizabeth discovered that Darcy urged his friend Mr. Bingley to leave her sister Jane. Elizabeth prejudiced against Darcy deeper and deeper. As a result when Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth, she refused directly. Mr. Darcy wrote a letter to Elizabeth in order to explain his relationship with Wickham. From then on, both of them have changed their attitudes and the misunderstandings gradually eliminated. When Mr. Darcy saved her little sister Lydia and her family’s reputation, Elizabeth lost her heart to Mr. Darcy. Darcy’s aunt Lady Catherine is a domineering woman who tried to make her daughter marry Darcy. One day Lady Catherine went to Elizabeth’s house and asked her to break up with Darcy. To Lady Catherine’s surprised, Elizabeth refused to obey. Angry and displeased, Lady Catherine told Mr. Darcy what Elizabeth said. Few days later, Mr. Darcy proposed to Elizabeth again and this time Elizabeth accepted his proposal immediately. They married soon and lived together happily.I read Chinese version of Pride and Prejudice when I was in middle school. At that time I thought the story was all about Elizabeth and Darcy’s love story. But when I read it again in college I find the book tells us more than love story, but the marriage and family. In my opinions, there are little similarities between courtship and marriage. Noteveryone can marry someone who they love deeply. One can easily fall in love with a handsome person but they have little chance to get married if they have completely different social statues and education background. Elizabeth is a lucky woman since she fell in love with Mr. Darcy who is intelligent and wealthy. Mr. Darcy can be a sweet lover as well as a responsible husband. Bur if Elizabeth is not pretty enough and smart, it is rather difficult for her to find an ideal husband. I don’t like Elizabeth’s criticizes on Charlotte. I personally like Charlotte best because she treated Elizabeth as her best friend from beginning to end. She never envy toward Elizabeth. When Elizabeth married with Mr. Darcy, Charlotte gave her best wishes sincerely. Some people think Charlotte’s marrying with Mr. Collins is a thoughtless decision but I can understand Charlotte’s decision. In a society where women are not allowed to work, it’s acceptable to treat ensuring fundamental material needs as the primary object of marrying a man. Charlotte was already 27 years old. If she insists on seeking for a man she loves, she may be an old maid till her dying.Comparing to the main character Elizabeth, I’m more interesting in her sister Jane, a very gentle and kind girl in this book. She never see a fault in any body. I have never met such a wonderful girl in my life. I can’t understand that Jane be so kind that she never doubt people around her.She ignored Mrs. Bingley’s unkind behavior and made up excuse for Mr. Wickham when she heard of Mr. Wickham’s shameful past.I don’t particularly like the main characters in Pride and Prejudice as well as the author’s idea on marriage but I do appreciate her satire. Apparently Jane Austin is good at portraying comic figures within a few details and language. For example, Mr. Collins is one of the comic figures. It’s quite suffering for me to read Mr. Collins’ letters; he used lots of big words, wrote long complicated sentences. He was self-conceit and vain. Mrs. Bennet is a woman of little information and uncertain temper. She is eager to marry off her five daughters.To sum up, Pride and Prejudice is a book worth reading. It expressed several different ideas of marriage through the story of Elizabeth and Darcy, the story of Jane and Bingley, the story of Lydia and Wickham and so on. Since the novel was written more than 200 years ago so some ideas in it may be hard to understand now. But there is still something that we can learn from the novel.。

The Reading Report of Pride and Prejudice Pride and Prejudice is the representative work of Jane Austen.This work was based on the life in that centry.It is the earliest work she finished.At fires its name was First ter she writed it again and found the title Pride and Prejudice more approprite.Jane is a wonder of fair maiden in English literature history.She writed the love of gentlemen and fair maiden and eulogize the Pastoral scenery.Although the works were numbered they make people keep memories.And also those works are best-sales in hunderend years and more and more famous.Jane Austen growed up in a happiness countryside town.She had six brothers and an old sister.She was influenced by her father’s literatuer books.She lived a life of medium and small landlords,so her works had no big social contradiction s.She used womon’s meticulous observation and descripted a true life around her especially the love and marriage between gentlement and fair maiden.Her works were relaxed and witty,and were imbued with irony.She didn’t marry at the end of her life.In 1816,Jane’s state of health became bad.And died in july 1816.Her works appeared in early nineteen century.And got ready for the high tide of realistic novels.The summery of the novel is about the choice people make for marriage partners.Mrs Bennet had five daughters and she had no other wish if her daughters could get married with someone wealthy as soon as possible.The Bennt daughters are Jane,who romantically favors a wealthy man new to their neighbourhood Mr.Bingley,whom Jane will come to marry.Elizabeth the second daughter whosharp-eyed,witted who will eventually marry Mr.Darcy who is a friend of Bingley’s.He is wealthy,aristocratic and arrogant.And Lydia,impetuous and overtly flirtatious,who elopes with a never do well army officer,Wickham.Of course,the most uppermost is about the protagoinst—Elizabeth and Darcy.Elizabeth was disgusting with Darcy at first sight.And Mr.Darcy is arrogant.So she was biased against Darcy.And Mr.Darcy was not popular because of his arrogant,he also didn’t care this.For he,arrogant is reasonable but prejudice is heartless.So there are more and more unhappy and misunderstands between they two.And also because Darcy disapproves of Bingley’s obvious infatuation with Jane,because of less than desirable behavior exhibited by certain members of her family in part.In order to let Bingley leave this village,Darcy and Bingley’s sister contrive to have him go to London.Jane lapses into a deep depression,senstives to the situation Mrs.Bennet hopes to keep Jane within Bingley’s social sphere,she arranges for her daughter to visit her aunt and uncle,who are based in London.Then Mr. Collins, a distance nephew of Mr. Bennet, came to ask a marriage to one of his cousins before Mrs. Bennet was able to get clear why Mr. Bingley left suddenly. After receiving the hint from Mrs. Bennet that Jane already had an admirer, Mr. Collins turned to Elizabeth without wasting a minute and to Miss Charlotte Lucas two days later after refused by Elizabeth. It was difficult for Mrs. Bennet to recover herself as a result of the“deadly stupid” decision made by Elizabeth until she got the news that Lydia finally married Mr. Wickham, though the marriage was built on the basis of ten thousand pounds. Mr. Darcy offered the money and did everything departing from his will just because he loved Elizabethso much. He could not hide his feelings any more and showed his affection to Elizabeth at last, who, because of a series of misunderstandings towards him, rejected him without hesitation.Although there were more misunderstands between Elizabeth and he.But with these many things becoming clearly,Elizabeth found her loved Mr.Darcy gradually.And the prejudice of Elizabeth to Mr. Darcy was exposed and removed since then. And the combination of the two young couples, Jane and Bingley, Elizabeth and Darcy came at last.It seems that the book has two people in this nevol:clever and foolish.The “prede”means who born with a silver spoon in his mounth and with hingh upbringing,like Darcy,these are his personality weakness.The “prejudice”refer to the people who with high upbringing and smart,like Elizabeth’s weakness.One is sharp sighted,the other is witty,they are all standouts.But they all get entangled with weakness.Prede and Prejudice is the obstacle between their love,but in real society people they also are the obstacle between people and also are the stumbling block in oneself’s life and work.There are many imperfections with people,every people need to see clearly with themselves.Every people is confused easily by subjective impressions,so can easily give rise to misread.One person’s first impression is important and may influence many things,but it is not never change,like Elizabeth’s attitude to Mr.Darcy,because the gradually realize to each other.At last,Mr.Darcy knew the Elizabeth’s heart for him,he said to her “You are too generous to trifle with me.”and proposed to her sincerely again.They live a happyiness life since then.Prede and prejudice are the common weakness for every people.but we need more in-depthknowledge,through this we can get objective evaluations,just like Elizabeth and Darcy.Austen’s novels’themes were confined she was good at image-builder in every life.Her words are humorous and satiric.She used scherzando words to model every characters.These art innovation made her works with herself characteristics.。

In the story, Elizabeth must not only cope with a hopeless mother, a distant father, two badly behaved younger sisters, and several snobbish, antagonizing females, she must also overcome her own mistaken impressions of Darcy, which lead her to reject his proposals of marriage at first.
In our opinion, Darcy is a real Gentleman. He is noblewoman’s nephew, the master of the great estate of big family. Some people thought that he was very proud and rude gentleman. He met Elizabeth in a genteel ball. At first, he thought that Elizabeth is “not handsome enough to tempt me,” and from his class-based prejudice against her lack of wealth and family connections. The initial description of the building and grounds at Pemberley serves as a symbol of Darcy’s character.
Someone think Darcy was proud, but the fact that he lacks “any artificial appearance” indicates his basic honesty. Beginning with Darcy’s opinion, expressed early in the novel, that Miss Bennet’s “smiled too much,” attitudes towards laughter divide the characters. She laughs at hypocrisy, vanity, pretension, the gap between statement and action, and between theory and practice. On the other hand, Darcy takes a conservative attitude toward laughter. The Pride and Prejudice exists everywhere in the novel.

Book report of Pride and Prejudice外国语学院2010级英语5班 (20104169)Pride and Prejudice has been valued as most successful and popular masterpiece among all the novels written by Jane Austen. The novel describing several different marriages among young women of the middle class, which reveals that love is the foundation for a happy marriage, and also should be based on a large amount of money. Pride and Prejudice also reflected Jane Austen’s marriage view: It is wrong to marry for the property, money and position. She emphasizes the importance of the ideal marriage, and regards men and women's emotion as the foundation stone which concludes the ideal marriage.The story of Pride and Prejudice took place in the time of the Regency in Britain. At that time, Britain was at the period of transition from the earlier stage of Capitalism to Capitalist Industrialization. In the countryside, the aristocratic family still held great power and right that country squires were likely to fawn upon them. However, as the development of Capitalism and the expand of the rank of rich people, the distinction between social strata was becoming smaller and smaller, while money was getting more and more important in people’s mind about social value.The author, Jane Austen, was a British novelist who was born in a small country town. Austen 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. She described a truthful picture of her world, especially the marriage and love between gentleman and ladies by her meticulous feminine observation.It mainly describes the development of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, an intelligent young woman and the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich and haughty aristocratic landowner. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.The writer Jane Austen disclosed mid-class young ladies’ different ideas ofmarriage and love through describing the different ways in which the Bennet girls doing with their marriage problems, and this undoubt edly shows the writer’s idea about love and marriage: it’s wrong to get married just for property, wealth and status while neither would it be without caring about those elements. Jane Austen just attached great significance to marriage through her novel b y telling people that marriage should be regarded carefully cause it is not a game you could just enjoy without prudent consideration. She also wanted to deliver information that marriage should be based on real love between the lovers. Besides, marriage does not mean the act of uncontrolled passion but a complex engagement between the marrying couple and society.Elizabeth was a clever and smart girl, although she was not the most beautiful one. She was also an independent girl and always had an individual opinion, because Elizabeth was an educated girl, although she learned by herself. So education is very important to women. I think Elizabeth has personality ethic which caused her independent idea about love and marriage and in consequence she earned a happy life.Darcy was handsome man and he seemed very noble. He was very wealthy, but he was very proud and rude in other people’s eyes. Because of the education he had in his childhood, he first ignored Elizabeth’s merits because of the social position she was in and the relatives she had. But later, he realized Elizabeth’s smart and beauty and proposed to her.Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage is a perfect one. The female subject Elizabeth is a mid-class girl, and Darcy proposed to her regardless of the gap between them, but Elizabeth refused because of his pride had formed Eli’s prejudice. Cause Darcy’s pride was a suggest of status gap between he and Eli, he wouldn’t have the same thought with Eli and consequently the ideal marriage. But later Darcy’s doings especially his change of the prideful manner eliminated Eli’s misunderstandings and prejudice about him, and Elizabeth accepted his proposal.At the beginning of Pride and Prejudice, a sentence reads “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” It not only reflects Austen’s opinion towards marriage that money is very important, but also reflects the reality of the British society at that time: moneywas at the first place, men played an important role in the society, but women had no position in the society. In Austen’s opinion, a marriage that both had money and love is a perfect one. Elizabeth and Darcy’s marriage just coincided with Austen’s basic requirements. It was Elizabeth’s optional marriage based on her personal value that made her get the final happiness and curbed Darcy’s arrogant as well. They thus established an equal relation based on mutual understanding and respect. So their marriage was the most harmonious one in the novel.Jane was the oldest in Bennet’s family. She was the most beautiful one among her sisters. But she was shy and lack of self confidence. So she was afraid to speak out that she loved. Bingley was also very wealthy, but he was more approachable than Darcy. Similar to Jane, he was lack of courage and had no definite views of his own on his marriage. They were met on a ball. Jane was attracted by Bingley’s handsome appearance, and Bingley also indulged in Jane’s beauty. So they fell in love with each other at the first sight. Although Jane loved Bingley very much, as a lady, she never showed her love. And she was within an inch of losing such a good man. Bingley was also not a strong-minded person. Influenced by his friend Darcy and family, he left Jane. But fortunately, this couple got married at last. In my opinion, their marriage was just based on the attraction between each other. Actually, they were lack of confidence and understanding with each other. Although this marriage appeared a happiness one, some crisis was hidden.The style of her works is humorous and rich in comic conflicts, so many readers love them. From the late eighteenth to the nineteenth century, vulgar and boring sentimental novels and gothic novels were full in British literary. Bu t Jane’s novel iconoclastic showed mid-class of daily life and pastoral scenery in British countryside at that time which had not been capitalist industrial revolution impacted,. Although the breadth and depth of the reflection was limited, it played good effect to change the vulgar atmosphere in novels.Pride and prejudice are our common weakness and shortcomings. Every person actually is easy to be driven by his own subjective impression. So it can comment easily to other people under incorrectness, then it will cause misunderstandings between each other. A person’s first impression can affect many things. Not he mustchange, but you should more deeply know about him, then you will have more objective opinion, just like the heroine's opinion of Darcy in the novel changed because of knowing. Or if the people in the world no longer have pride and prejudice these two bad behavior customs, this world will more harmonious and friendly.。