《傲慢与偏见》的幽默与讽刺Word文档下载推荐.docx

1、Humor and Satire in Pride and Prejudice 论文题目 （中文）： 傲慢与偏见的幽默与讽刺答 辩 成 绩： _* * *学 号：身 份 证 号：* * * * *完 成 日 期： 2011年11月6日ContentsAbstract （in Chinese） Abstract （in English） . . Introduction .11.1. An introduction to the author .1 1.2. An introduction to the novel .5. The analysis of the humor in the nov

2、el.6. The analysis of the characters in the novel.143.1. The Satire of the characters in the novel.14 3.2. The satire of the plot.16. Conclusion .18Notes.20Bibliography .21摘要傲慢与偏见以伊丽莎白和达西的爱情故事为主线向读者们展示了一幅18世纪末英国乡村的风俗画卷。作者，简奥斯丁运用了各种讽刺手法,揭露了当时社会盛行的以金钱为轴心的爱情与婚姻,抨击了只注重物质的婚姻。为了更好地支撑这一主题，本文分为四大部分：第一部分对作者和

3、小说做一简介；第二部分对小说的幽默进行分析；第三部分是对于小说的讽刺加以分析；第四部分为结论，重申主题。关键词: 傲慢与偏见；幽默；讽刺AbstractIn the novel of Pride and Prejudice, the love story of Elizabeth and Darcy is the main line，which shows a picture of the 18th century of the English customs. Jane Austin, skillfully used the technique of a variety of satire.

4、 Her novel reveals the love and marriage of the young people as that age. As the same time, the novel criticizes the marriage, which only focuses on material ism.To support the thesis, the paper is divided into four parts. The first part brings a brief introduction on both the author and the novel.

5、The second part makes an analysis of the humor in the novel. The third part makes an analysis of the characters in the novel. The fourth part is the conclusion, restating the thesis of the paper.Key words: Pride and Prejudice; humor; irony. Introduction1.1.An introduction to the author Jane Austen w

6、as born on December 16th, 1775, in Steventon rectory in Hampshire, England. She spent her years of childhood and youth there. Her father was the rector of Steventon, Hampshire and Jane Austen was the seventh daughter. At first, Mr. Austen wanted to find a good boarding school for his daughters. Howe

7、ver, all this attempts failed. Then, he decided to teach his daughters at home. Of course, they benefited from their fathers extensive library and his guidance a lot. Jane Austen spent her early years quietly and cheerfully in doing small domestic duties. She began to write at an early age and when

8、she was fifteen years old, her writing was already marked by her characteristic neat stylishness and her crisp irony. Jane Austen liked to read what she had written to her family. And it impressed her father greatly. So in order to publish his daughters works, Mr. Austen tried to write to some publi

9、sher, offering the manuscript. But he failed. The Austen family moved to Bath in 1801.They lived there until Mr. Austen died in 1805. Later, Jane Austen moved to Southampton, and then to Chawton in Hampshire together with her mother, her sister-Cassandra, and her lifelong friend-Martha Lloyd. In 181

10、7, she went to Winchester due to her health problem and died there on July 18th, 1817. She was buried in Winchester Cathedral. In Jane Austens lifetime, she did not get married.Jane Austen enjoyed a life of 41 years. During this period, she wrote six novels all together. They are Sense and Sensibili

11、ty, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. The first four novels were published while she was living at Chawton, and the last two in December 1817, several months after her death. But Jane Austen was too modest to acknowledge that she was the authors of these si

12、x novels. All of her novels were published anonymously. In all these six novels, Jane Austen talked about the small world that she lived in. “Of events her life was singularly barren: few changes, and no great crisis even broke the smooth current of its course.” She fixed her eyes on the ordinary an

13、d comic life and the association of the so-called respectable middle-class families in village which she was quite familiar with, especially the experience of provincial girls hunting for husbands. She was enlivening her fathers parsonage and writing about the clergy, the old maids, the short-sighte

14、d mothers, the marriageable daughters, and other people that figure in village life. There were no things in her novels about sex, violence, death, radical behavior, heroic passions, astounding adventures, dramatic conflicts or tragedies, which were always talked about by the her predecessors and he

15、r contemporary writers. The stories and the characters under her pen are all of lyrical and pastoral flavor without being influenced by the great historical change the French Revolution, which broke out in Jane Austens time.As to Jane Austens very style of her works, the British female Virginia Wool

16、f said in her famous A Room of Ones Own. Of all great of novelists, Jane Austen is the most difficult to catch in the act greatness. In About Austen, T. B Macaulay said: “Shakespeare is Unparallel, however, in this respect, the writer whose writing style is the most perfect as him, is undoubtedly Ja

17、ne Austen. She is the pride of Great Britain.” And the comment from Sir Walter Scott is:“That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life, which is- to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now

18、going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary common-place things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and sentiment, is denied to me. What a pity such a gifted creature died so early! ”It is true that Jane Austen kept her eyes on around her and about the small worl

19、d she lived in. People both in her life and in her novels paid visits, went to balls and parties with each other and spent part of every year at Brighton, especially at Bath. Her writing was confined to a narrow and small field. However, it was right in this narrow and small field that several great

20、 novels were created, which have been popular throughout the history of literature. Therefore, Jane Austen herself compared her work to some fine engraving made upon a little piece of ivory in only two inches square.Jane Austens words are humorous and ironic. As mentioned above, she paid great atten

21、tion to the ordinary and comic life of common people in the countryside of Britain. She is good at making the characters in her novels. In an Austen novel, words and modes of discourse take on a new significance as indications of how characters will act Austens ironic emphasis places significance up

22、on the localities of language and situation rather than on narrative. They reflect the conceit, foolishness and absurdity of human nature like a mirror. Just as the British critic A. C Bradley has said that Jane Austen has two obvious tendencies: she was both a moralist and a humorist.In addition, J

23、ane Austen is regarded as a realistic novelist instead of a romantic one and her novels are regarded as the first scale of generally-acknowledged British realistic novels in the nineteenth century because her emphasis on reason, propriety, and decorum makes her closer in spirit to late-eighteenth-ce

24、ntury Age of Reason than to the Romanticism that generally rebelled against eighteenth-century values. She concerned about the social reality of her day and as mentioned above, she succeeds in producing very vivid portraits of her major characters and in painting realistic and colorful pictures of t

25、he life and manners of the upper middle class in rural England of her time.1.2. An introduction to the novelAmong the six novels that Jane Austen has written, Pride and Prejudice is the most famous and the most popular one. So far, it has been translated into many languages and widely read. It is al

26、so adapted into films and dramas, all of which are successful. So there is no wonder that it is included in the list of the worlds ten famous novels. It is a very dramatic and attractive novel.The main subject in the novel is stated in the first sentence of the novel: “It is a truth universally ackn

27、owledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”1 In this statement, Jane has cleverly done three things: she has declared that the main subject of the novel will be courtship and marriage. She has established the humorous tone of the novel by taking a simple su

28、bject to elaborate and to speak intelligently of, and she has prepared the reader for a chase in the novel of either a husband in search of a wife, or a women in pursuit of a husband. The first line also defines Janes book as a piece of literature that connects itself to the 18th century period. Pri

29、de and Prejudice belongs to the 18th century because of the emphasis on man in his social environment rather than in his individual conditions. The use of satire and wit, a common form of the 18th century literature, also contributes to label the book as a novel of the 18th century. The analysis of

30、the humor in the novelJane Austen is recognized to be one of the supreme artists of the novel. It is believed that she inherits the tradition of the European way of writing a novel and develops it into a unique one of her own, which makes her novels always in among discerning readers of all classes,

31、 and time and space have never damaged her reputation. It can be manifested by T. B. Macaulays a words: “Shakespeare has had neither equal or second, but among the writers who, have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen, a women of whom England is justly proud.” Another renowned critic followed this assertion, saying that Jane Austen is “a prose Shakespeare”. Another critical evaluation of Jane