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《傲慢与偏见》的作者Jane Austen(演讲稿)
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《傲慢与偏见》的作者Jane Austen(演讲稿)
By Kan Sun
August 2008
Jane Austen Oral:
Start with first paragraph of Pride and Prejudice.
This is the well known paragraph that displays what Jane Austen writes about.
Authors Background:
Birth:
16 December 1775 was a great day for English Literature because on this particular day Jane Austen was born into this world. With her remarkable talent with the pen she was able to write great novels that entertained and inspired generations of women.
Austen was part of a large household consisting of 6 brothers and 1 sister. The large part of her education came from her brothers and her father, George who worked in the ministry. The Austen family was a well known Gentry family. Her fathers’ family had risen to gentry (which is the rank just below nobility in Great Britain) from the production of woolen goods.
Austen lived in a very open, amusing and intellectual household. This along with this, the family had many private theatricals that were also part of the Austen’s education. Austen would certainly have joined this activity as a spectator at first and then gradually participating and writing plays as she got older. Most of the plays were comedies, which suggests one way in which Austen’s comedic and satirical gifts were cultivated.
Austen’s childhood was one with no rules and no principals and she had absolute access to her fathers library and this was a fundamental part of her being able to write so feely.
The contents of her books and the themes that she writes in them are very similar to her life. The theme of marriage in those days meant stability and comfort which Jane Austen was going to marry for when she briefly accepted the proposal of her friend Harris Bigg-Wither. Who was not attractive and was an aggressive man who was the heir to an extensive estates and a substantial fortune. This would provide her mother and sister with a comfortable home.
Contents of Books:
1) Emma:
Emma is an example of Jane Austen’s comic and satirical writing. The book is about wrongly interpreted romance. The heroine of the story is the beautiful, clever and rich young woman, Emma Woodhouse who is determined that she will never marry. The whole story is set in a village called, Highbury and remains there throughout the novel. Emma lives with her father, Mr Woodhouse and is the mistress of the household because her mother passed away when she was a child. Emma’s close friend and confident and critic, Mr Knightly.
The novel begins with Emma attending the wedding of her old governess and good friend, Miss Taylor who is getting married. Emma takes credit for their marriage because she was the one who introduced them. She then decides to occupy her time with the game of matchmaking against Mr Knightly’s advice. She then tries to match her new friend, the young Harriet Smith. Harriet is not Emma’s intellectual equal and is persuaded that Mr Elton who is a class above Harriet. This fails due to the two’s class difference.
Class difference is one of the main themes that Austen writes about. She highlights the mindset of the 18th century british people and their need and respect for rank and class. This is also very evident in Pride and Prejudice.
Well after Emma’s failed matchmaking, marks the arrival of Frank Churchill who is wealthy, handsome and the step son of her governess, Miss Taylor. Frank seems like he has an interest in Emma and Emma tries to make herself fall in love with him largely because everyone says they would make a lovely couple. However, he has been secretly engaged to another woman, Jane Fairfax who is Emma’s rival in beauty and talent.
Frank tried to hide the relationship between him and Jane by pretending to admire Emma. Emma feels very uncomfortable and humiliated. This book is definitely about rongly interpruted romance. You will have to read the book to find out what happened to Emma.
++++When Harriet confides that she thinks Mr. Knightley is in love with her, jealousy forces Emma to realize that she loves him herself. Mr. Knightley has been in love with Emma for the duration of the book and after the engagement of Jane and Frank had been discovered, he proposes to her. Shortly thereafter Harriet reconciles with her young farmer Mr. Martin and Jane and Emma reconcile and everyone lives happily.*****
Pride and Prejudice:
What happens:
A wealthy young man called Mr Charles Bingley rents an estate called Netherfeild Park which is close to the village of Longbourn. In Longbourn lives the Bennet family in which the story is mainly based. The Bennet family has 5 unmarried daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. Their mother Mrs Bennet is desperate to has them all married and the Mr Bingley is such a wonderful candidate and ‘claims’ him for her daughter Jane when she sees that he is interested in her eldest daughter at the ball. Mr Bingley’s friend Mr Darcy and his sister also accompanied him to the ball but was less impressed with the society. Mr Darcy is openly rude and arrogant and refuses to dance with Elizabeth.
However, later Mr Darcy finds himself increasingly attracted to Elizabeth’s charm and intelligence. While his friend, Mr Bingley continues to court her sister, Jane. Miss Bingley is very spiteful when she discovers that Mr Darcy has taken a liking to Elizabeth, whom she had been pursuing.
However, Mr Collins, who is a cousin of Elizabeth’s father, Mr Bennet. Mr Collins is to inherit the Longbourn estate when Mr Bennet dies. This puts the family in a difficult position, they do not know whether to like him or hate him. In short Mr Collins is a fool and wants to, somehow, atone for inheriting the Longbourn estate. He makes a offer of marriage to Elizabeth but she turns him down and wounds his pride.
Meanwhile, the Bennet girls have become friendly with the militia officers and Elizabeth meets the handsome Mr Wickham who likes Elizabeth and he tells her how cruel Mr Darcy is and that he is the arrogant man that everyone already thought he was.
At the biginning of spring, the Bingleys and Mr Darcy abruptly leave Netherfield for London. This shocks the whole Bennet household, especially Jane because she really believed that herself and Mr Bingley had a connection. There is further shock when the family finds out that Mr Collins is engaged to Elizabeths close friend Charlotte Lucas.
All seems lost for the Bennets but as the story unfolds it becomes better. You guys have to read the book to find out what happens at the end.
Themes
The themes that are present in both novels are class, marriage and love.
Class:
In the much of the 18th and 19th century there was much focus on the importance on class and how it affected the happiness of couples.
This theme is evident in Jane’s novel Emma and Pride and Prejudice. Emma’s friend Harriet did not marry a man that was truly in love with her because she was influenced to believe that he was lower than her, even though she was a bastard child. However, the man that Emma was trying to Get Harriet together with did not like Harriet because of her low class.
Features that are common in both novels:
The protagonist in both novels are head strong and smart.
Both people that the characters are initially set to be a couple with are careless. Emma-Frank. Elizabeth—Mr Wickham. However, Frank is less villainous than Mr Wickham. This could reflect her own situation of agreeing to marry her childhood acquantance, Harris Bigg-Wither.
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By Kan Sun
August 2008
Jane Austen Oral:
Start with first paragraph of Pride and Prejudice.
This is the well known paragraph that displays what Jane Austen writes about.
Authors Background:
Birth:
16 December 1775 was a great day for English Literature because on this particular day Jane Austen was born into this world. With her remarkable talent with the pen she was able to write great novels that entertained and inspired generations of women.
Austen was part of a large household consisting of 6 brothers and 1 sister. The large part of her education came from her brothers and her father, George who worked in the ministry. The Austen family was a well known Gentry family. Her fathers’ family had risen to gentry (which is the rank just below nobility in Great Britain) from the production of woolen goods.
Austen lived in a very open, amusing and intellectual household. This along with this, the family had many private theatricals that were also part of the Austen’s education. Austen would certainly have joined this activity as a spectator at first and then gradually participating and writing plays as she got older. Most of the plays were comedies, which suggests one way in which Austen’s comedic and satirical gifts were cultivated.
Austen’s childhood was one with no rules and no principals and she had absolute access to her fathers library and this was a fundamental part of her being able to write so feely.
The contents of her books and the themes that she writes in them are very similar to her life. The theme of marriage in those days meant stability and comfort which Jane Austen was going to marry for when she briefly accepted the proposal of her friend Harris Bigg-Wither. Who was not attractive and was an aggressive man who was the heir to an extensive estates and a substantial fortune. This would provide her mother and sister with a comfortable home.
Contents of Books:
1) Emma:
Emma is an example of Jane Austen’s comic and satirical writing. The book is about wrongly interpreted romance. The heroine of the story is the beautiful, clever and rich young woman, Emma Woodhouse who is determined that she will never marry. The whole story is set in a village called, Highbury and remains there throughout the novel. Emma lives with her father, Mr Woodhouse and is the mistress of the household because her mother passed away when she was a child. Emma’s close friend and confident and critic, Mr Knightly.
The novel begins with Emma attending the wedding of her old governess and good friend, Miss Taylor who is getting married. Emma takes credit for their marriage because she was the one who introduced them. She then decides to occupy her time with the game of matchmaking against Mr Knightly’s advice. She then tries to match her new friend, the young Harriet Smith. Harriet is not Emma’s intellectual equal and is persuaded that Mr Elton who is a class above Harriet. This fails due to the two’s class difference.
Class difference is one of the main themes that Austen writes about. She highlights the mindset of the 18th century british people and their need and respect for rank and class. This is also very evident in Pride and Prejudice.
Well after Emma’s failed matchmaking, marks the arrival of Frank Churchill who is wealthy, handsome and the step son of her governess, Miss Taylor. Frank seems like he has an interest in Emma and Emma tries to make herself fall in love with him largely because everyone says they would make a lovely couple. However, he has been secretly engaged to another woman, Jane Fairfax who is Emma’s rival in beauty and talent.
Frank tried to hide the relationship between him and Jane by pretending to admire Emma. Emma feels very uncomfortable and humiliated. This book is definitely about rongly interpruted romance. You will have to read the book to find out what happened to Emma.
++++When Harriet confides that she thinks Mr. Knightley is in love with her, jealousy forces Emma to realize that she loves him herself. Mr. Knightley has been in love with Emma for the duration of the book and after the engagement of Jane and Frank had been discovered, he proposes to her. Shortly thereafter Harriet reconciles with her young farmer Mr. Martin and Jane and Emma reconcile and everyone lives happily.*****
Pride and Prejudice:
What happens:
A wealthy young man called Mr Charles Bingley rents an estate called Netherfeild Park which is close to the village of Longbourn. In Longbourn lives the Bennet family in which the story is mainly based. The Bennet family has 5 unmarried daughters: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. Their mother Mrs Bennet is desperate to has them all married and the Mr Bingley is such a wonderful candidate and ‘claims’ him for her daughter Jane when she sees that he is interested in her eldest daughter at the ball. Mr Bingley’s friend Mr Darcy and his sister also accompanied him to the ball but was less impressed with the society. Mr Darcy is openly rude and arrogant and refuses to dance with Elizabeth.
However, later Mr Darcy finds himself increasingly attracted to Elizabeth’s charm and intelligence. While his friend, Mr Bingley continues to court her sister, Jane. Miss Bingley is very spiteful when she discovers that Mr Darcy has taken a liking to Elizabeth, whom she had been pursuing.
However, Mr Collins, who is a cousin of Elizabeth’s father, Mr Bennet. Mr Collins is to inherit the Longbourn estate when Mr Bennet dies. This puts the family in a difficult position, they do not know whether to like him or hate him. In short Mr Collins is a fool and wants to, somehow, atone for inheriting the Longbourn estate. He makes a offer of marriage to Elizabeth but she turns him down and wounds his pride.
Meanwhile, the Bennet girls have become friendly with the militia officers and Elizabeth meets the handsome Mr Wickham who likes Elizabeth and he tells her how cruel Mr Darcy is and that he is the arrogant man that everyone already thought he was.
At the biginning of spring, the Bingleys and Mr Darcy abruptly leave Netherfield for London. This shocks the whole Bennet household, especially Jane because she really believed that herself and Mr Bingley had a connection. There is further shock when the family finds out that Mr Collins is engaged to Elizabeths close friend Charlotte Lucas.
All seems lost for the Bennets but as the story unfolds it becomes better. You guys have to read the book to find out what happens at the end.
Themes
The themes that are present in both novels are class, marriage and love.
Class:
In the much of the 18th and 19th century there was much focus on the importance on class and how it affected the happiness of couples.
This theme is evident in Jane’s novel Emma and Pride and Prejudice. Emma’s friend Harriet did not marry a man that was truly in love with her because she was influenced to believe that he was lower than her, even though she was a bastard child. However, the man that Emma was trying to Get Harriet together with did not like Harriet because of her low class.
Features that are common in both novels:
The protagonist in both novels are head strong and smart.
Both people that the characters are initially set to be a couple with are careless. Emma-Frank. Elizabeth—Mr Wickham. However, Frank is less villainous than Mr Wickham. This could reflect her own situation of agreeing to marry her childhood acquantance, Harris Bigg-Wither.
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-72754-42840.html
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