傲慢与偏见人物分析ppt课件.pptx
Pride and PrejudiceCharacter AnalysisCONTENTS1234Elizabeth BennetElizabeth BennetLorem ipsum dolor sit ametCharles BingleyOther Characters5Elizabeth BennetElizabeth BennetIntelligence and ReasonIntelligence and ReasonCourage of Courage of Anti-Anti-feudalfeudal Self-knowledgeSelf-knowledgeIntelligence and ReasonIntelligence and ReasonShe makes her own decisions more or less independently and she believes her own judgment. She doesnt reveal to Jane and other people her changed feelings abut Darcy until he has actually proposed again, and she has accept.Her insights are original and deep, and her conversation is intelligent and interesting.Her action is guided by reason, informed by self-knowledge. She once holds good feelings on Wickham, considering him to be the most agreeable man she has ever met. But meanwhile, she thinks it is too imprudent(轻率的) to fall in love with him. So she says to her aunt, Mrs. Gardiner:Courage of Courage of Anti-feudalAnti-feudal Self-knowledgeSelf-knowledge Elizabeth is good at reflection and self-analysis, it is her self-discovery that helps her shed the prejudice and begins to be completely honest with herself. The union of Elizabeth and Darcy is effected by means of a letter from Darcy . She knows the fact. “Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her.” she realizes “that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.” she blames herself for that “pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance.” She faces up the unpalatable (使人不快的) truth about herself, and determined to change. This growth in self-knowledge is at the same a moral growth. She can take the measure of the reality around and in her because she has uncluttered her perception by an honest self-security.Self-knowledgeSelf-knowledge Two important characteristics other characteristicsreserved and kinddignified and virtuous(端庄贤淑)She has the virtues of all women.She is a perfect woman at that time.Compared with ElizabethShe is more gentle, more merciful and more rational than Elizabeth.She doesnt believe Elizabeth when Elizateth tells her that Darcy once hurt Wickham. She thinks that Darcy is a gentleman as before.She doesnt comment on others hastily and tells Elizabeth that Darcy isnt as bad as she imagined.She never mixes up reason and emotion.She has female conciousness. She supports Elizabeth to refuse Collins because marrige without love couldnt stay long. Jane Bennets attitude towards loveShe falls in love with Bingley at first sight.She is too passive in her process to seek love.She lacks confidence and courage to show Bingley her love.Her words:I do assure you that the news doesnt affect me either with pleasure or pain.It would be nothing, I could see him with perfect indifference, but I can hardly bear to hear it thus perpetually talked of.Jane is a traditional woman. She is perfect a t t h a t t i m e . Meanwhile she has female consciousness and the ability to distinguish truth and falsehood. She is rational and cautious.Charles BingleyCharles Bingleyhandsome, good-natured, and wealthy, young, gentleHis best friend is Darcy.He marries Jane and has a happy ending.Charles BingleyHe is contrasted with his friend Mr Darcy as being more modest,kind and more charming and having more generally pleasing manners, although not quite so clever.He rents Netherfield Park near Longbourn and becomes the focus of neighbor in the town. However,he doesnt show any arrogance at all. He doesnt discover the snobbery of Bennet Family and totally fall in love with Jane.Charles BingleyHe is friendly, sincere and considerate. He is an advanced man who cares about female, disregards class, and pursue love,freedom bravely.He invites Jane to his house and looks after Jane when she is very sick.He is always talking to ladies gently.As an upper-class, he falls in love with Jane and marries her without hesitation.Charles BingleyHe lacks resolve and is easily influenced by others.His friends and families advice can easily affect him.Taking advice of Darcy and his sisters, he leaves Jane and goes to London.Finally, he follows Darcys advice and comes back to marry Jane.Other CharactersMr. & Mrs. BennetMr.BennetMrs. BennetMr. BennetMr.Bennet is an intelligent and witty man whose sareasm and humour is largely employed in teasing his wife.Mr.Bennet was so odd and mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humor , reserve and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife undeslrand his character.Mrs. Bennetinconsiderateill-manneredvulgar. She is partly responsible for the superficial charaeters of her three younger daughters.simple-mindedlack of self-knowledgemarriage mainly as a means of social and economic advaneernent. Mr.and Mrs.Bennets wrong marriage is so disastorous that it almost ruins the Iives and prospects of all their children.Incompatibility leads to inresponsibility.Mrs.Bennets lack of knowledge about human nature and the ways of the world is attributed less to inexperience than to stupidity,while Mr.Bennet has retired to the privacy of his library, his country,and his self-entertaining irony.By the ill-mated elder Bennets, Austen tries to caution us that unsuited partners have to suffer mental torture resulting from loveless marriageMr. Collins & Charlotte LucasMr.CollinsCharlotte LucasMr. Collinsa tall and heavy-lookingman of five and twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners werevery formal.For him, speech is not a means to communicate truth but a means to say what he thinks the people around him want to hear or what will make the people around him think well of him.He desires a wife only for the sake of appearances , and his fickle and shallow nature allows him to switch his attention from Jane toElizabeth, and then finally to Charlotte.Charlotte LucasOne cannot wonder that very a fine young men,with a fmily, fortune,everything in his favour should think highly of himself.If l may so express it, he has a right to be proud.”sensibleintelligenttreats people andaffairs impartially and objeetive.Charlotte is so foresighted and reasonable that what she remarks is universally applieable and never obsolete.Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other,or even so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow suiffeiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation,and it is better to know as little as possible of the defeets of the person with whom you are to pass your life.Collins seeks a wife so he may set a proper social example and obey Lady Catherines wishes. He is incapable of formal personal feeling, and values only soeial power,so he seeks security by cringing before his superiors.While Charlotte,unlike Collins,accepts such a contemptible man because he is the only alternative to penury and social isolation.Charlotte is twenty-seven, unmarried, not pretty, not well-to-do, living in a soeiety which treats a penniless old maid less as a joke than as an exasperating burden upon her family.George Wiekham & Lydia BennetGeorge WiekhamLydia BennetGeorge WickhamGeorge Wickhams first impression is very favourable for he has amost gentleman like appearancehad all the best part of b e a u t y, a f i n e countenance, a good figure ,and a very, pleasing addressconifdence trickster leave a series of debts evil,quite willing to curropt others to involve them in public disgraee if he can there by assure his own seeurity .scoundrellure Lydia and they elope regardless of fame and family.Lydia BennetYoungest of the Bennet sisters, Lydia is foolish and flirtatious, given up to indolence and the gratiifcation of every whim. Unfortunately she has inherited all her mothers Iove of trivia and gossip but none of her fathers intelligence.She is high-spirited and empty-headed and her behaviour becomes more excessive and outrageous as the story porgresses.For Lydia and Wickham, their chief motivation appears to be sexual passlon.After marrying, Lydia frequently asks for Janes and Elizabeths assistance towards discharging their bills.how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought to get her because their passions were stronger than their virtue.Thank You