傲慢与偏见英文读后感

第一篇：傲慢与偏见英文读后感

many people simply regard pride and prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time. she perfectly reflected the relation between money and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters. the characters have their own personalities. mrs. bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters. mr. bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, mr. darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior. even the five daughters in bennet family are very different. jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others. elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion. mary likes reading classic books.kitty doesn't have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, lydia. lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate. when i read the book, i can always find the same personalities in the society now. that is why i think this book is indeed the representative of the society in britain in the 18th century.

the family of gentleman in the countryside is jane austen's favourite topic. but this little topic can reflect big problems. it concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in britain in her century. you can find these from the very beginning of this book.

the first sentence in this book is impressive. it reads: “it is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must be in need of a wife”。 the undertone is very clear: the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.

people always think that austen was an expert at telling love stories. in fact, the marriage in her book is not the result of love, but the result of economic needs. after reading this book, i know the truth is that a poor woman must be in need of a husband, a wealthy man.

i couldn't forget how eager mrs. bennet wants to marry off her daughters. if you want to know why she is so crazy about these things, i must mention the situation in britain at that time. only the eldest son had the privilege of inheriting his father's possessions. younger sons and daughters who are used to luxurious lives have no choice but marry a man or woman in possession of a large fortune to continue their comfortable lives. thus, we can see that getting married is a way to become wealthier, particularly for women without many possessions. jane austen told us that money and possession determined everything, including marriage and love in her century.

in “pride and prejudice”， the sister of mr. bingley strongly opposed his plan of marrying jane because the bennets don't have many possessions and their social positions are much lower than them. from this, we can see there are a lot of obstacles for a not very rich woman to marry a wealthy ……此处隐藏3853个字……rived by mr. darcy, also was his pastorate. all this increased eli’s prejudice about mr. darcy. at another ball mr. darcy invited elizabeth to dance with him, but eli refused him. eli’s elder male cousin mr. collin came to hertfordshire to inherit the bennett's property by rules, he wanted to marry with one of the bennets. having known that jane was already engaged with mr. bingley, he asked elizabeth to marry him but was seriously rejected. at last he proposed to charllote who was eli’s friend. mr. collins was good at flattering and he got the pastorate with the help of lady catherine. once his

family was invited to rosings garden by lady catherine. elizabeth also went there with mr. collin and charllote. there she met mr. darcy who’s lady catherine’s nephew. later in a garden, sir william told eli about mr. darcy’s latest act of dissuading mr. bingley’s marring jane bennet which caused eli’s exceedingly anger. then mr. darcy came to the collins’ and confessed his love for elizabeth, of course he was rejected impolitely. afterwards mr. darcy wrote a letter to eli in order to remove her misunderstandings of him. elizabeth’s uncle and aunt were also impressed by mr. darcy’s politeness. gradually eli’s prejudice of mr. darcy diappeared. eventually they became couple.

the writer jane austen disclosed mid-class young ladies’ different ideas of marriage and love through describing the different ways in which the bennet girls doing with their marriage problems ,and this undoubtedly 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 by 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. 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 eli accepted his proposal. those two opposite attitudes reflect female’s pursue of independent personality and equality. i think elizabeth has personality ethic which caused her independent idea about love and marriage and in consequence she earned a happy life. there’re also eli’s sisters’ love stories served as contrasts to the female subject’s ideal marriage, such as charlotte and collin’s life: they do had a luxury life, but there’s noreal love between them and this kind of marriage is surely a tragedy of society.