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I watched the movie “Pride and Prejudice” a few of years ago and I have had a deep impression on the movie. Therefore, when doing the thesis, I choose it to be able to understand the novel more. The main topic of the work “Pride and Prejudice”, written by the female author Jane Austen, is love and marriage in the eighteenth century. Among a large number of love stories in the work, the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth is the most cherished love affair in my mind and I want to discover the author’s implication as well as her own opinions through the couple. In order to fulfill my research, I use certain research methods such as searching the Internet, reading review books, discussing with people who like this work, including my supervisor, and exchanging opinions on literature forum. In general, I hope that in these way, I can listen to more ideas, acknowledge more reviews and have a more critical and multidirectional view on the topic. In the work, there are a number of marriages symbolizing some types of marriages in the eighteenth century society. However, just the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth can impress the readers and me. It is because their love goes beyond the context of the eighteenth century and is ideal love human beings want to have. In my mind, their love is not only passionate but also intense. The more ardent their love is, the more powerful it is. The intense love helps them overcome both internal barriers their pride and prejudice and external barriers formed by their relatives and friends. Specifically, their powerful love overcomes the prejudices of the eighteenth century. In addition, the ardency in their love impresses me very much because it has hidden inside them for a long time and not expressed outside until the end of the work. In my thesis, I exploit the details in the work to make clear how intense and passionate their love is. I hope that my thesis, to some extent, can help you feel the extraordinary power and ardency in their love. Furthermore, you can realize what true love is and how to build up a true love such as the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth
Abstract I watched the movie “Pride and Prejudice” a few of years ago and I have had a deep impression on the movie. Therefore, when doing the thesis, I choose it to be able to understand the novel more. The main topic of the work “Pride and Prejudice”, written by the female author Jane Austen, is love and marriage in the eighteenth century. Among a large number of love stories in the work, the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth is the most cherished love affair in my mind and I want to discover the author’s implication as well as her own opinions through the couple. In order to fulfill my research, I use certain research methods such as searching the Internet, reading review books, discussing with people who like this work, including my supervisor, and exchanging opinions on literature forum. In general, I hope that in these way, I can listen to more ideas, acknowledge more reviews and have a more critical and multidirectional view on the topic. In the work, there are a number of marriages symbolizing some types of marriages in the eighteenth century society. However, just the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth can impress the readers and me. It is because their love goes beyond the context of the eighteenth century and is ideal love human beings want to have. In my mind, their love is not only passionate but also intense. The more ardent their love is, the more powerful it is. The intense love helps them overcome both internal barriers- their pride and prejudice and external barriers formed by their relatives and friends. Specifically, their powerful love overcomes the prejudices of the eighteenth century. In addition, the ardency in their love impresses me very much because it has hidden inside them for a long time and not expressed outside until the end of the work. In my thesis, I exploit the details in the work to make clear how intense and passionate their love is. I hope that my thesis, to some extent, can help you feel the extraordinary power and ardency in their love. Furthermore, you can realize what true love is and how to build up a true love such as the love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth Table of content Acceptance Page Acknowledgement………………………………………………………… i Abstract…………………………………………………………………… ii Table of contents………………………………………………………… iii Part 1: Introduction 1. Rationale…………………………………………………………… 1 2. Aims and objectives………………………………………………… 2 3. Significance………………………………………………………… 3 4. Research methodology……………………………………………… 3 5. Scope of the study………………………………………………… 3 Part 2: Content Chapter 1: Literature review 1.1 The definition of a fiction…………………………………………….4 1.2 The elements of a fiction 1.2.1 Theme………………………………………………………… 5 1.2.2 Plot………………………………………………………………6 1.2.3 Setting………………………………………………………… 7 1.2.4 Point of view…………………………………………………….7 1.2.5 Character……………………………………………………… 9 Chapter 2: 2.1 Historical background…………………… 10 2.2 English literature trends in the 19 th century…………………… 12 2.3 Jane Austen’s life and career 2.3.1 Jane Austen’s life………………………………………… 13 2.3.2 Jane Austen’s career………………………………………….14 2.4 The summary of “Pride and Prejudice”……………………… 15 Chapter 3: 3.1 The love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth is intense 3.1.1 Their love overcomes the internal barriers…………… 21 3.1.2 Their love overcomes the external barriers……… 29 3.2The love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth is passionate 3.2.1Their love is passionate at Netherfield…………… ………34 3.2.2 Their love is passionate at Rosings……………………… 38 3.2.3Their love is passionate at Derbyshire . …………… …….40 3.2.4 Their love is passionate at Longburn ……………… … 42 Part 3: Conclusion……………………………………………. ………….43 Bibliography…………………………………………………… 45 Part 1 Introduction 1. Rationale There are a great number of reasons that are both subjective and objective for my choice in studying the masterpiece “Pride and prejudice” by the famous English female writer Jane Austen. At first, I asked my friends for certain suggestions of my research topic and one of the suggestions is the work “Pride and prejudice”. Two years ago, I watched the film adapted from this novel by chance and it actually appealed to me as well as persuaded me although it is a classical movie. Until recently, when holding the novel “Pride and Prejudice” by the female writer Jane Austen on my hands, my eyes sticked to a range of its ranks. I had an extremely special impression on the fact that it was the book helping women change their viewpoint of themselves most and ranked twelfth in twenty of the most beautiful love stories over the world. This encouraged me to read the novel because of both my admiration with the female author and my curiosity in exploring the love story in the novel. After finishing my reading, my interest in the work pushed up my decision in studying it. First of all, the work mentions a topic that is simple, familiar, but never timeless, even in our modern society. The novel answers the question: “what is a true love and marriage”. It is clear that in our present society; money, reputation, and social stand are evaluated more highly than a great number of other values, even morals or love among human beings. In order to be superior to other people in the society, numerous girls desire a practical love and marriage instead of a true love and marriage. Perhaps, it is the reason why the love story in the novel is still appreciated and timeless. 1 Secondly, I had my special adoration for the main female character “Elizabeth Bennet” in the novel due to that she or the writer herself taught me to communicate, behave, and love intelligently, wittily. In the twenty-first century, this is more essential than ever. Last but not least, my admiration for the author is quite great. Through the work, the writer- a woman in the nineteenth century, dared to raise her voice and expressed her radical opinion over the world. To her, a true marriage is not brought on by property, or social position; but love from two people. This opinion is opposite to the opinion of people living in her society. With all of reasons above, I truthfully desired to study deeper on the work, in specific, the love between Elizabeth and Darcy. I want to live, experience, be happy, be sorrowful with my favorite characters more, and enjoy their beautiful love more. I hope that the study will benefit not only me but also a deal of readers or the fans of the literary fiction because of meaning and valuable love message that Jane Austen leave readers of all times. Moreover, in my belief, the cherish love between Elizabeth and Darcy provokes my thoughts, my aspiration for a pure love and marriage in myself. 2. Aims and Objectives The topic of my study is love relationship between two main characters: Darcy and Elizabeth in the novel. My objective of studying is analyzing the love in order to discover people‘s opinion in general and women‘s opinion in particular of love and marriage in the nineteenth century. Additionally, I concern the reasons of social setting that leads to their opinions or beliefs. Moreover, I want to make comparison between women and people’s conception of love and marriage in nineteenth century and nowadays, then identify whether the author‘s message is valuable or not and in which aspect. 2 3. Significance I hope that my research will be significant to readers thanks to its practicality. Literature is not simply a scientific subject, but it is useful lessons for human being, especially a masterpiece like “Pride and prejudice”. Through my research, according to my deep belief, you can think critically and draw out lessons, especially lessons about moral, love and marriage for yourselves. 4. Research Methodology In order to fulfill my research, I use certain research methods such as searching Internet, reading review books, discussing with people who like this work including my supervisor, and exchanging opinions on literature forum. In general, I hope that in these way, I can listen to more ideas, acknowledge more reviews and have a more critical and multidirectional view on the topic. 5. Scope of the study In my thesis, I research the content: “The love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth” in the work “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. 3 Part 2 Chapter 1: Literature review 1.1 Definition The knowledge of “what is a literary fiction” varies owing to different approaches as well as senses from individuals. Among a great deal of the knowledge, it is objective that literary fiction is understood based on the origin of the word “fiction” itself. It is derived from the Latin “fictum”, meaning invented. In fact, literary fictions are products of imagination by which writers can create make- believe characters and events in their works. Nevertheless, such unreal characters and events do not cause a strange sense or isolation with readers on account of numerous familiar real-life details and human feelings that authors match with them. It is combination of reality and unreality that leads to a magic attraction and powerful effects on readers. In particular, writers gradually guide readers into a new world that is so vivid and appealing, then let them experience by themselves. Through the characters and events, readers have a chance to discover themselves or recognize certain issues underlying the words that may be implied by writers. Therefore, entertainment is not the last aim that writers want readers to obtain, but it is universal issues of a society or a period, even an era. According to Joyce Saricks at mostlyfiction.com, literary fiction is "critically acclaimed, often award-winning, fiction. These books are more often character centered rather than plot oriented. They are provocative and often address more serious issues these are complex, literate, multilayered novels that wrestle with universal dilemmas". Truthfully, a literary fiction is not only art but also a picture reflecting real life with the most outstanding problems that stir writers’ mind as well as readers’ one. Literary fiction is a basic part of literature with certain genres such as short story, novella, novel and novel sequence. 1 .2. The elements of a fiction 4 According to Judi Clark at mostlyfiction.com, a literary fiction “can be the broadest category and in a sense is a catch all, but the intention is to list books that really draw you in with language, imagery, character insight and sense of place”. This can be acknowledged that a literary fiction includes a large numbers of elements that are related closely to each other and make a unified literary work. Hence, in order to catch ideas as well as beauty of the whole literary fiction, readers need to be aware of elements of a fiction and the contribution of each element to it. In the following part, I would like to introduce five elements of a literary fiction: theme, plot, setting, point of view, characters. 1.2.1 Theme In a literary fiction, theme is the representation of its controlling idea. It can be considered as its root as well as its soul. It means that all of aspects of a literary work are imagined and presented around the central theme. The theme is not simply a topic, but it is the author’s idea or conception about the topic that she or he would like to impart to readers through the fiction in a non-didactic way. In other words, the theme is the authors’ message as well as valuable morals that the readers can obtain from the fictions. They may be the morals about life, society, period, human nature. The literary masterpieces can be said that their vitality is timeless owing to what readers are taught through the works are extremely meaningful and valuable in every period. Nevertheless, writers do not expose the theme explicitly and directly to the readers. Instead of that, writers let readers extract it actively themselves and keep them thinking about it in their own ways. The role of writers is their attempt in conveying the theme to readers through their using characters, literary style, and different figures of speech like similes, metaphors and personification. The art is situated in that how the writers can express the theme underlying literary fictions to readers cleverly, effectively and affect them magically. In another meaning, a successful literary fiction is created thanks to not only a good theme but also an interesting exposition of the theme. Moreover, the theme is evaluated as a special ornament. This results from its role 5 in weaving the literary fiction together. When, all of the aspects of the fiction are built based on a theme, the work become unified and coherent. In general, a theme is the soul of a fiction because it gives a purpose, a reason for readers and writers: writers want to express a message and readers like to discover the message. A successful work is a work whose theme is left to the readers as long as possible. 1.2.2 Plot Plot is defined as the organization or the arrangement of main events, incidents from the beginning to the end of a literary fiction in a certain pattern. The events need to be related to each other; moreover, in a close relationship with main characters. In particular, the events must affect characters, enact them struggle with certain problems and then leads to changes in characters’ thoughts, conceptions, decisions, or characteristics. The fiction ends when the issues are resolved according to the authors’ desire or its theme. Therefore, in fact, a plot can be divided into several parts: the exposition (beginning), conflict (problems’ arising), rising action (premises for the climax), climax (the highest and often the most exciting part of the fiction), falling action (the outcome of the climax), and resolution (conclusion). There is a fact that some people believe that literary fictions are plotless. By contrast, the truth is that literary fictions still compose of a plot, but it is underemphasized and overshadowed by several different factors such as literary style, characters…This is the difference between literary fictions and commercial fictions. While the focus of commercial fictions are sequences of characters’ actions and outer expressions, the focus of literary fictions are characters’ inner thoughts, desires, feelings, motivation, and psychological movements. Specifically, underneath characters’ mental expression is the base of theme, society, and culture. In other words, according to the literary agent and the novelist Nathan Bransford, “In literary fiction the plot usually happens beneath the surface, in the minds and hearts of the characters.” 6 In general, the plot of a literary fiction is underneath of its surface; therefore, literary fictions become more challenging to readers. They require more inference, more recognition of turning points of the work from readers. Truthfully, readers need to experience with characters in order to be able to have an insight in them, the beauty of the literary work and the ideas of authors hidden underlying it. 1.2.3 Setting Setting is the time and the location in which the story of a literary fiction takes place. Setting of time is called chronological setting and setting of place is named physical setting. Regardless of chronological setting or physical setting, they may be general or specific. In other words, in a fiction, both general and specific settings exist. Moreover, settings play an important role in a literary fiction. Along with a theme and a plot, settings may initiate the conflicts in a work that characters deal with, solve, discover and express their feelings. It is easy to realize that settings refer to any social milieu, culture features, historical period, geography, and hour. In summary, setting not only is an integral part of a story but also reappears a picture reflecting a specific period, a space, or an atmosphere that maybe existed long decades ago. 1.2.4 Point of view Point of view mentions the method that an author narrates. In specific, it is writers’ choice of the narrator in a literary fiction, which depends on that from whose viewpoint writers want readers approach to and comprehend the work. There are three modes of narration: first- person view, second-person view, and third- person view. In first- person view, the narrator is a character in fictions. Thus, the pronoun is used throughout the work is “I”. The narrator may be a major character or a minor one, but she or he is often a major character. In this way, a 7 [...]... pride and prejudice lie in Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth In specific, Mr Darcy is proud of his superior social standing and is prejudiced against socially inferior people such as Ms Elizabeth She is proud of her sound judgment, her opinions, and her own dignity; simultaneously, is prejudiced against higher-class people such as Mr Darcy At the beginning of the work, their pride and prejudice are extremely strong... Mr Darcy in opposition to other characters like Mr Bennet, Ms Bingley, and Mr Wickham Although Mr Bingley is kind and marries Ms Jane on the ground of love, he is attracted by her beauty from the first impressions Whereas Mr Bingley reckons that Jane “is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld” and in the ball, “there are a larger number of pretty girls”, Mr Darcy does not feel the same Through Mrs... area is hold and it is the place that he meets Ms Jane- the eldest daughter of the Bennets while Mr Darcy- his close friend in Britain gets acquaintance with Ms Elizabeth- the younger sister right after Ms Jane In the ball, Mr Darcy who is one of the richest men in Britain with overwhelming pride is despised by majority of people and even Ms Elizabeth by his degrading comments on her Mr Bingley’s sentiment... all, under the light of intense love, both Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth crushes their pride and prejudice, change themselves positively and then become each other’s life partner It is not easy for them to overcome their steady rational will and indeed, just their love holds such great power that can help them to do this 3.1.2 The love between Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth overcomes the external barriers It... The love between Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth is intense The love between Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth in the work “Pride and Prejudice” which is so intense that the “no wall that enough love will not throw down” (Emmet Fox) helps them overcome the strong barriers that not every love can triumph Human beings may have known two possible types of barriers in love and marriage: external barriers and internal ones... symbols - mutual attraction and attention Mr Darcy is quickly attracted by her and the passion makes him to attend to her so much As for Ms Elizabeth, her sentiment seems to be less ardent than his affection, but anyway she is also appealed and pays great attention to him 3 2.1.1 Mr Darcy s love is passionate at Netherfield No sooner does Mr Darcy get acquaintance with Ms Elizabeth than his special... positively At the end of the story, he is far from proud and prejudiced By contrast, he becomes modest, friendly, polite, and kinder The image of Mr Darcy before falling in love with Ms Elizabeth In advance of getting acquaintance with Ms Elizabeth and falling in love with her, Mr Darcy is a quite hateful and undesirable man because of his pride and prejudice In the ball in Netherfield, in spite of being... easily overcome other barriers of their relatives and friends Whereas Ms Elizabeth is not scared of Lady Catherine’s threatening, Mr Darcy is ready to ignore his aunt’s opposition to marry her Besides, Mr Wickham is an obstacle partly causing her prejudice against Mr Darcy eventually becomes a contemptible man in their eyes Actually, apart from Ms Jane and Ms Elizabeth, all of the other members in the Bennet... rich man – Mr Darcy does not get married to Ms Elizabeth because of his need of a wife and Ms Elizabeth does not take advantage of her beauty to seduce him Their love is quite pure for it does not base on a few of factors: appearance, superficial factors, and property that are the ground of the other couples in the work Actually, only powerful love like the love between Mr Darcy and Ms Elizabeth can... springs from both of them Thus, not only Mr Darcy but also Ms Elizabeth has to conquer her strong rational will In fact, like Mr Darcy, it is her powerful affection for him that helps Ms Elizabeth overcome all of her own pride and prejudice The letter that Mr Darcy sends to her after proposing is a turning point resulting in changes of both her sentiment for him and her characteristics Before receiving . pride and prejudice lie in Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth. In specific, Mr. Darcy is proud of his superior social standing and is prejudiced against socially inferior people such as Ms. Elizabeth. . and Mr. Bingley proposes Ms. Jane after obstacles. Eventually, two couple holds marriage at the same time and have a happy family life. 15 Chapter 3 3.1 The love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth. between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth is intense 3.1.1 Their love overcomes the internal barriers…………… 21 3.1.2 Their love overcomes the external barriers……… 29 3.2The love between Mr. Darcy and Ms. Elizabeth