OntheWomen’sStatusSeeninPrideandPrejudice的論文

1、On the Women' s Status Seen in Pride and Prejudice 的論文abstractwith the development of the society, women are playing more and more important roles in various aspects of the modern society, and their statuses are also enhanced. however, traditional ideologies are deeply rooted; women are still tr

2、eated unfairly, and they have to fight against traditional prejudice and self-cultivation to their status ' s enhancement.key wordswomen' s status; pride and prejudice; feudal ideology ; pride and prejudice摘要婦女在很多隨著社會發(fā)展與進(jìn)步，婦女在現(xiàn)代社會各個(gè)領(lǐng)域中起著越來越重要的作用,方面的地位也得到提高。但是，封建觀念根深蒂固，婦女仍然受到來自各個(gè)領(lǐng)域的不公平待遇，所以婦女

3、要敢于與封建偏見做斗爭，要積極通過改變自我來提高自身的地位。關(guān)鍵詞婦女地位；傲慢與偏見；封建觀念；傲慢與偏見introductiontoday, people are more and more caring about women ' s status. women are not a separated individual, but deeply tie to the society, and they play very important roles in every aspects of the modern society. so women' s status

4、not only connects to women themselves, but also the society ' s development. therefore, both women and the government should try their efforts to enhance women' s status and advance the equal right of men and women.as everyone knows, pride and prejudice , a well-known novel written by jane a

5、usten, marriage is central topic of the novel. according to the appearance of the novel, as for austen ' s characters, marriage does not mean the act of ungoverned passion but a complex engagement between the marrying couple and society. in the novel, austen portrays the women ' s low status

6、 and the reasons of women ' s low status. but women in the novel didn ' t try to strive for their right, they thought little of their low status, and had little self-awareness, just negotiated to the society.as for our chinese women, they have been experiencing over 3000 years'traditiona

7、lideology. and even in the modern society, they also suffer kinds of discriminations from the society and men. they are usually thought of humbler than men, and always be excluded out of the society.i .a general summary of the women ' s status in pride and prejudicea. a brief introduction to the

8、 storypride and prejudice is jane austen' s great masterpiece, a sharp and witty comedy of manners played out in early 19th century english society. , a world in which men held virtually all the power and women were required to negotiate mine-fields of social status, respectability, property, an

9、d marriage.marriage is one of the themes in the novel. austen concentrates on women' s fate most. through her characters' process of courtship and marriage, austen shows social backgrounds behind their marriage and what low status women have suffered. in pride and prejudice, for a woman, gen

10、erally the only way to her is to get married besides being spinsterhood or governess. to marry a rich and high status man, is a path for the young women to gaining financial security and social status. the novel portrays life in the middle class rural society of the day, and tells the initial misund

11、erstanding and later mutual enlightenment between elizabeth bennet and darcy. they gradually dispel their prejudice and constitute a happy marriage. here austen shows the power of love and happiness to overcome class boundaries and prejudice, thereby implying that women should strive for their own l

12、ove and happiness, but not to according the social will.however, behind the happy marriage of elizabeth bennet and darcy, austen mainly wants to show that property, social status still play the most important roles in a marriage, from which women suffered a lot. no right of inheritance, such is part

13、icularly the case of the bennets, a family of five daughters whose father' s estate is entailed to a distant relative, for upon mr. bennet' s death they will loose home, land, and income, everything else. after knowing elizabeth ' s refusal to mr. collins, mrs. bennet t hreats her daught

14、er that“if you go on refusing every marriage, you will neverget a husband, and i am sure i do not know who is to maintain you when your father died.illustrated that property and social status are more important than marriage.thus, under the effect of the unreasonable social value, doesn ' t char

15、lotte lucas, who is up to playing in a high-staked matrimonial game forfeit her own personal integrity?b. women' s status shown in the noveleither in the past or today, society puts a significant value on marriage. in modern society, marriage means the birth of a new family, which is filled with

16、 love, understanding, happiness and harmonious atmosphere. moreover, marriage is not a trade and the two persons in a marriage should not get married for the personal benefit or just for convenience. but in which, marriage is an odd phenomenon and it is just an approach, which people could reach the

17、ir aims and provides them convenience. austen describes charlotte; s marriage as a symbol, through which austen shows the readers what low status women hold.in the novel, marriage is an everlasting and hot topic for all the people, especially for women and their families. although marriage is an odd

18、 phenomenon in the end 18th and early 19th century middle class ' s country life in britain, it is very common. women never considered the marriage itself, but to what extent that they would be benefited from a marriage. mrs. bennet, for example never concerns about the moral and teaches her d a

19、ughters the view of moral."the business of herlife was to get her daughters married" and she thinks that could fetch her daughters wealthy andhigh status husbands; she has achieved something great in her life and her family will be benefited much. thus, when mr. bingley, a wealthy bachelor

20、 with large fortune, four or five thousand a year, becomes their neighborhood, mrs. bennet begins to contemplate his getting married to one of her daughters. and in the later days, she is incapable fatigue and enumerates kinds of advantages that her family will get if jane and mr. bingley get marrie

21、d, such as wealth, status ranking, and could also throw her other daughters in the way to other rich men. all her thoughts for fetching her daughter wealthy and high status husband come just out of the considering of practicality, but not out of her daughters' feelings. under the monetary view o

22、f marriage, mrs. bennet totally treats her daughters' marriage as product trades and her daughters are the commodities.in pride and prejudice, austen shows that because of women ' s low status, they are desirable to change their status. so marriage becomes a straight and quick way to change

23、their situation. though they know that such kind of marriage is equal to a trade and for themselves, they are only products in the marriage market or an attachment to a man or even a marriage ' s slave, they do not care much.c. other aspects connecting with women ' s statusthe women in auste

24、n' s age, lived in a patriarchal society, a world in which women werestrictly limited, but men held all the advantages. and under such a society, women forfeited their personal personalities and own integrities. they could not entail their fathers ' estate, which was a quite iniquitous affai

25、r to the daughters in the bennets. although they felt angry about it, think it is the hardest thing in the world that your estate should be entailed away from your own children and i am sure if i had been you, i should have tried long ago to do something or other about it " mrs. bennet cried to

26、 her husband. but the fact is that they could do nothing to change unchangeable social rule.young women of today have a variety of options open to them regarding their future. they can go to college; they can have their careers and become professional women and live on their own; they can earn their

27、 status through hard work and their advantages. however, women in the end 18th and early 19th century english society had no these free choices. their formal education and job were limited, and the society could not welcome of a woman entering a profession, and their knowledge seemed no use to the s

28、ociety. if a woman was unmarried, no matter she was mature or not, she was not allowed to live alone and must live with her family, at least live with a suitable chaperone until her marriage or her spinsterhood to death. in austen ' s age, women' s actions were strictly limited and they coul

29、d not enjoy their personal freedomii reasons for the women' s low status at that timea. traditional feudal notionsobserving the novel pride and prejudice from another aspect, we know that the theme of the novel does not only deal with love and marriage, but also includes the relationship of wome

30、n, society, and women ' s status. jane austen has shown the social fabric of society during her time and makes a comment on the status of women during that time. in austen ' s time, society treated women unfairly and women really enjoyed low statusto know clearly what jane austen writes prid

31、e and prejudice for, we should firstly have a clear mind of the social background and know, under the traditional feudal notion how the society treated the women in the 18th and 19th century country society in britainin the novel, austen presents the gender injustices in the 19th century english soc

32、iety, and how the important role that money played in determining a woman ' s daily life, marriage and destiny. economically dependent, women were robbed of property and inheritance rights and possessed no independent source of income. the entailment of the longbourn estate is an extreme hardshi

33、p on the bennet family, and is quite obviously unjust. no right to entail their father ' s estate leaves the bennet daughters in a poor financial situation which both requires them to be married and makes it more difficult to marry well. having no social status, and in order to improve their soc

34、ial status, women have to give up their personal dignity and ego at the expense of their love and marriage, and they are willing to get married just for financial security and enhancement of social status. under these values of money and social status, women they can ' t enjoy a happy marriage a

35、nd their freedom. and they are deprived of the right to receive education and take part in social activities. because there are no needs for higher education for them, and even if there is necessity to receive a higher education, it is just for self-enhancement or for pleasingtheir husbands.at that

36、time, society offered few opportunities to women to choose for their lives and to decide the destiny. just as the opening sentence of the novel says “ itis a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." whichtells the reader that m

37、en were always in the dominantstatus in a marriage and the heritance of property. thus men enjoy the right to choose their wives according to their will.through pride and prejudice, austen portrays the commonly held views on the characters ' marriage. society, at that time, put a significant val

38、ue on property and social status, and women in such a society, with their privileges tightly limited, had no chance to develop their personalities and their characters were fettered by the society. there were no centrally organized systems of state supported schools, and some local grammar schools d

39、id exist but did not admit girls. so women' s education became impossible, and they didn ' t have careers, but society required little for their use of knowledge and gave little chance for them to use knowledge. they were denied the possibility of improving their status or gaining their fina

40、ncial security through hard work or personal achievements. they were mostly estimated by others through their property and social status.therefore, in pride and prejudice, marriage is one of the most ideal ways, in which women could gain reputation, wealth and raise their social status. just as the

41、character charlotte lucas in the novel, without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, her life goal is marriage. when proposing and being rejected by elizabeth, mr. collins quickly transfers his attention towards charlotte lucas, and he could not possibly be in love with charlotte, for only th

42、ree days before he had proposed elizabeth. yet charlotte knows the fact that the man she will marry has no attachment to her, just for the will of marrying, but she pays no attention to it. she marries mr. collins for the purpose other than love, so she doesn' t care about whether there is love

43、in their marriage. just as charlotte says to her fiend“ i am not romantic, you know. i never was. i ask only a comfortablehome; and considering mr. collins ' s character, connections, and situations in life" she acceptsmr. collins ' s proposal. austenportrays that charlotte' s marri

44、age to collins is a monetary trade. charlotte marries collins primarily because he will be able to provide her enough livelihoods and will be able to make her life quite easy by considering estate. so she thinks that the tolerable collins ' s proposing to her is an extremely good fortune for her

45、 since he earns his money through inheritance and is in the command of the wealthy lady catherine. in other words, charlotte marries collins not because of love but because of her desire for financial security and raising her social status. facing the practicality, she would have sacrificed every be

46、tter feeling to worldly advantages. after their marriage, charlotte has to endure her intolerable husband.another obvious aspect, examining from pride and prejudice is the prejudice on the right of women' s inheritance. society doesn' t admit that women can entail from their fathers. althoug

47、h the bennet family has no son, none of the five bennet daughters are allowed to entail their father ' s estate, after their father' s death. and all his estate will have to be turned over to one of their male relatives mr. collins, and after the death of mr. bennet, the five bennet daughter

48、s would lose all that they have been owned. just as mr. bennet says to her wife a nd his daughter “ about a month ago i received this letterit is from my cousin, mr. collins, who, when i am dead, may turn you all outof this house as soon as he pleases." . certainly, the mention of the inheritan

49、ce offered women inthe situation of plight.b. women' s surrender to social prejudicein the novel, austen criticizes the unreasonable social structure, also the innocence of women.in terms of marriage, they thought they had no high social status and had no large property, so they thought that mar

50、riage was an acceptable path to his high status or their economic safety according to the view of the society. they never thought that they could earn their life and their marriage, which belonged to themselves but not to the social value. they just considered if they could completely integrate into

51、 the society and accepted the twisted monetary view and marriage view, and played the roles that the society needed, they could gain their happiness and easy life. thus, they dressed themselves and were willing to transform themselves into commodities, appearing in kinds of balls, in order to attrac

52、t men.although women were forced under the social prejudice, they tried no struggle. they were willing to believe that marriage was a form of trade and in the marriage market they could be given happiness. facing social prejudice, they also had the consciousness of being humble, thinking that the ma

53、le was the superiority, and women had to surrender to the society, was seemed to more easily to them. in the novel, austen demonstrates that women should strive for their own life and marriage, without considering the influence of the wrapping view of society, be self confident and get rid of the il

54、liberal mind, not ruin any chance to realize the value, dignity, personality of theirs. elizabeth is the best example, although she sometimes shows her pride, she is an admirable, wit, brilliant, and self confident woman, who conquers many difficulties and at last she gains the true love with darcy.

55、 as for charlotte, she also could have tried to find somebody she really loves and gets married, like her friend elizabeth, but she makes no attempt to find a husband whom she really loves and esteems, only giving in to the necessity of acquiring financial security and status ranking through marriag

56、e.iii enlightenment from women ' s status in pride and prejudicepride and prejudice portrays life of the middle class in rural society in the end of 18th century and early 19th century britain. and the novel strongly reflects the point that the property plays an important role in determining wha

57、t a woman ' s destiny will be. in the novel, jane austen shows that women in that society really enjoyed a low status and merely they had no way to decide their destinies, if they were poor or had little money. in austen ' s times, the whole society ' s vale was property or money, women

58、who have very little money, only enjoyed low status and can not choose their marriages according to their will. in contract, things were usually different to men. darcy and bingley are rich men and they have large property, therefore, they have the privilege to choose their wives according to their

59、will. however, for charlotte, she is not good-looking and hasn' t large property, so she is willing to marry mr. collins though he is a stupid man, and obtains a marriage just for convenience and property in the marriage market. additionally, austen also presents women' s low status in other

60、 aspects, such as, in education, career, politics, economy, social status, culture, inheritance right, and so on.then, social advancement was crucial to women, who were denied the involvement in politics, the possibility of improving their status through hard work and there was little generally perceived need for them to receive a higher education.in old china, things were similar. especially, china wa