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Book report on Pride and Prejudice
I read
this semester.It is a novel written by Jane Austen.I have got the original edition of the book for many years and I wanted to read it through many years ago but every time I started to read, I was frightened by the deep and strange structure form of old English.I thought my English wasn’t good enough to understand the original version of the book.At the very beginning of this semester, Profeor Qin urged us to read an original English novel, which gives me a chance to pick up this novel again and this time I made it.The results are truly spectacular.The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with iues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living in Hertfordshire, near London.(Wikipedia)The end of the novel, everyone is married and settled and lead a happy life ever after.At about the 2/3 of the novel, Elizabeth's aunt asked her to accompany them to Derbyshire where Mr.Darcy lives.They decide to visit his home, Pemberley.Elizabeth agrees to go when she knows that Mr.Darcy is not at home.Once at the estate, Elizabeth is impreed by its wonderful taste.Darcy's housekeeper also has nothing but compliments for Darcy.To Elizabeth's surprise, Darcy come back early, so they meet.And, to her
further surprise, he's immensely polite to her aunt and uncle.Darcy asks Elizabeth to meet his sister, who is quite nice but very shy.As far as I know, after this visit, Elizabeth became changing her view toward Mr.Darcy.To her, Mr.Darcy is not pride anymore, what’s more, she found Mr.Darcy’s merits and she was so much in love with the grand and fine decoration of Pemberley.Gradually, she fell in love with Darcy, especially when Darcy helped her sister Lydia to marry to Mr.Wickham.That’s why she firmly refuse Lady Catherine de Bough’s request of promising not to marry to Darcy.Darcy knew her changing opinion of him through Lady Catherine de Bough’s disappointed behavior.So he proposed to Elizabeth again, this time, he made it.After so many obstacles, Elizabeth and Mr.Darcy finally get together.I really enjoy this happy ending!
Mr.Darcy is my favorite character in this novel.He is an ultimate gentleman – he is wealthy, aristocratic, and good-hearted, and learns to add good manners and sociability.Though he is pride, he has reason to be pride.He is so wealthy and handsome and kind.He is too pride to talk or to dance with country girls.In another way, that means he is not that kind of guys hanging about and doing nothing or like Wickham using his pretty look and sweet words to seduce gentlewomen.Mr.Darcy and Elizabeth’s marriage and Mr.Bingley and Jane’s marriage are the most happine one in the novel.Both Elizabeth and Jane marry
to love and money.This is also the theme of this novel as well as Jane Austin’s idea of marriage.In the novel, love is not a neceary component of marriage.In fact, most of the marriages we see are not based on love, but instead either on lust that quickly fades or on economic neceity.In this novel, romantic love is a privilege that most people have to do without and something that most people do not expect to find.At the same time, because love is a union between empathetic minds, it is shown to be a completely special emotion that is available only for intelligent, mature adults – it's the crowning achievement in the building of character.Marriage with love only can’t be really happy.As an old saying goes, “Poor couples sorrow”, a couple of beggars may not be a love life.We might take Lydia’s marriage as an example(though I don’t think Wickham really love her)we know that Lydia’s running away with Wickham is due to her love to Wickham, but we can image that if Mr.Darcy or Mr.Bennet didn’t give Wickham money or pay his debts, he must not be good to Lydia, not to say marrying her.Lydia's marriage is destined to be worse than Mrs.Bennet's.Though Mrs.Bennet and Lydia are the same silly at a certain degree, Mr.Bennet is no doubt a better man than Wickham.Charlotte and Collins’s marriage is the representative of marriage with money but without love.They only pursue material security but ignore
the need of spirit.Of course, everyone has his or her own choice of life, I can’t judge them, and I just don’t appreciate it.As a matter of fact, I understand them, jobs are not really an option for proper young ladies like Jane and Elizabeth and Charlotte Locust in early 19th-century England.These girls are too high cla to get jobs, but not high cla enough to inherit wealth to support them.What they can do is to marry well to get a secure life.By showing us the miserable marriage of the Bennets, and by groing us out with the mercenary marriages of Charlotte and Lydia, the novel questions a system which places so much importance on this institution that it seems to endanger individual morality and happine.On the other hand, with the marriages of Jane and Elizabeth front and center, the novel does allow room for good partnership as well.The novel has very strong sense of realism and it is by having very detailed and exact references to money, even in minor situations.One example of this is Lydia wanting to treat her sisters but having to borrow money from them instead.As a whole, the novel offers me a general picture of women’s life in 19th century of England.I realize women’s life in that time is not as easy as I thought before.
