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This article mainly describes the image of Mr. Darcy before and after he falls in love with Elizabeth. These “images” would be discussed in two separated part so that readers can distinguish the differences easily. This research will consist of interpreting, comparing and contrasting the sources of material that the researcher gets. After having adequate knowledge and data, the researcher will analyze and synthetize these sources of information and draw conclusion. The reasons for the transformation, the process of the changes will be discussed as well to find out the significance of the entire progression.
VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION GRADUATION PAPER THE CHANGES OF MR. DARCY IN THE NOVEL PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN Supervisor: Văn Thị Thanh Bình, M.A Student: Nguyễn Huyền Ly Course: QH2010 Ha Noi, May 2014 1 ĐẠI HỌC QUỐC GIA HÀ NỘI TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC NGOẠI NGỮ KHOA SƯ PHẠM TIẾNG ANH KHÓA LUẬN TỐT NGHIỆP SỰ THAY ĐỔI CỦA DARCY TRONG TIỂU THUYẾT KIÊU HÃNH VÀ ĐỊNH KIẾN CỦA JANE AUSTEN Giáo viên hướng dẫn: Th.s Văn Thị Thanh Bình Sinh viên: Nguyễn Huyền Ly Khóa: QH2010 HÀ NỘI - 2014 2 ACCEPTANCE PAGE I hereby state that I: (Nguyen Huyen Ly, class Qh2010.F1.E1), being a candidate for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (TEFL) accept the requirements of the College relating to the retention and use of Bachelor’s Graduation Paper deposited in the library. In terms of these conditions, I agree that the origin of my paper deposited in the library should be accessible for the purposes of study and research, in accordance with the normal conditions established by the librarian for the care, loan or reproduction of the paper. Signature Ha Noi, 2014 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT From when I started to the end of this thesis, it had been for many people who helped me a lot in conducting the content. Without them, this paper would not have been as you can read now. The first and foremost thank I would like to say to my supervisor, Ms. Van Thi Thanh Binh. She was the one who inspired me to literature and to English love stories, especially in the Medieval Literature – the type I have never spent any interest in. When I was doing my thesis, she was the one who guides me all essential steps as a mother taught her toddler daughter to walk. She was the one that I wanted to say my deepest thank to. Besides, I would like to say thanks to my friends, especially Kieu Thi Ha. She also helped me a lot in checking my expression and encouraging me to go on with my thesis. And, finally, I would like to give many thanks to our university, especially our division that created opportunities for other students and me to do thesis and every guide that they sent. 4 ABSTRACT This article mainly describes the image of Mr. Darcy before and after he falls in love with Elizabeth. These “images” would be discussed in two separated part so that readers can distinguish the differences easily. This research will consist of interpreting, comparing and contrasting the sources of material that the researcher gets. After having adequate knowledge and data, the researcher will analyze and synthetize these sources of information and draw conclusion. The reasons for the transformation, the process of the changes will be discussed as well to find out the significance of the entire progression. 5 Table of content 6 PART 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Rationale of the study The first time the researcher heard about the novel Pride and Prejudice was when she studied in primary school. However, she did not read or even care for it because she was not interested in the English Medieval literature then. It was not until she became a sophomore did she got a great chance to watch the movie and fell in love immediately with this masterpiece. The author kept on watching the movie again and again without feeling bored at all. Watching is not enough; the investigator dug deeper into the film by reading the original novel in both languages: English and Vietnamese. The decision was not wrong, as the author has found lots of fabulous detail in the novel and after each time reciting it, she experiment some more attractive points. After hundreds of time enjoying the masterpiece, the researcher decides to investigate this love story as her B.A. thesis. As the author had some explorations, many researchers have studied this masterpiece before. The topic can be simple as analyzing the main characters as Student Companion to Jane Austen (Teachman, 2000) and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Bloom, 1987); to the deeper topic as studying the society in Understanding the society in which Jane Austen sets Pride and Prejudice (Whalan, 2003) or examining about artistic as in Jane Austen: New Perspectives (Todd, 1983). It seemed that this novel has been studied in many aspects. However, the author found out that there were some slices of the masterpiece have been glanced through only. One of those is the changes of Mr. Darcy – the main character of the novel. Apart from that, in the context of University of Language International Studies, there exists few research on the novel. There are only two studies about the love between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth (Lizzy); and a few ones penetrated further into the personality of Lizzy. It appeared that in the whole world for general and in our university for particular, the love and the personality of women are more interested than that of men, that is the reason why Mr. Darcy is considered to be the most perfect man in the world but there is not many research about him. If there is, they are usually essays, not a real research. In addition, the author realized that from the beginning to the end of the novel, this gentleman have gradually changed in his behavior toward everyones, especially to Elizabeth. He was described as “the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world” at his first appearance to everyone and at the end of the writing, he became the man respect all others and very “pleasing”. This factor can be an interesting topic for examining. With all the reasons aforementioned, the author decided to investigate the main male character – Mr. Darcy, focusing on the changes in his behavior and its effects to others and even himself. The tittle for the research is “The changes of Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.” 2. Significance of the study When the investigation is completed, it will bring some certain benefits for anyone who is interested in this novel. They will understand more about the characteristic features and the nature of main characters. Apart from that, from the changes of Mr. Darcy, readers may recognize that for human being, there is no one is “perfect”. Nevertheless, we can limit our down side and improve our own personality so that we can get the bliss in our life. Besides, for those who would like to study the novel, he can use this research as a reference. 3. The scope of the study It can be seen that “Pride and Prejudice” tells us a very nice love story and the relationship among people. However, this study will only focus on investigating the behavior of Mr. Darcy to see how much he changed and how his new actions influence people and counter-act to him. 4. Research methodology By carrying out this research, the author aims at finding how the behavior of Mr. Darcy changed as time went by, the reason(s) and the effects of the changes to other people in the novel and to himself as well. To achieve these aims, the researcher carries out the study to address the following questions: • How did the personality of Mr. Darcy change throughout the whole novel? • What are the reason(s) and effects of the changes on Mr. Darcy’s behavior to other people and to himself? 4.1. Data collection procedure To conduct this investigation, the researcher has to collect and read the novel and other research about this mastepiece to have deeper understanding about it. Besides, research about the people, society and norms of that society are also sources of material for the study. The discussion of researchers and others about the content of the novel are backbones for the researcher to analyses characters’ thought and behaviors. They are significant background knowledge for researcher to base on during the process. The types of sources are various such as books, journal articles oand previous study related to the topic. 4.2. Data analysis procedure This research will consist of interpreting, comparing and constrating the sources of material above. After having edequate knowledge and data, the researcher will analyse and synthetize these source of information and draw conclusion. Therefore, researcher will use document observation as the main instrument to conduct the study. After being analyzed, the result would be presented in Part 2 “Development”. PART 2: DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1. Definition of fiction According to Hirst (n.d), fiction “in archaeology and elsewhere, refers to a piece of literature or other creative work that's wholly invented by the author”. This means fiction is the literary work which people use their imagination only to form the story. This is the biggest difference to distinguish fiction with all other types of literature work: fiction is the work of imagination of the mind whereas other kinds are based on the truth, statistic and information in the outside world. According to the definition of fiction by Hirst, fiction may consist of novels, short stories, plays and poems; and literature works which based on the truth such as memoirs, biography, investigation papers, etc. are non-fiction. 1.2. Elements of a fiction In fiction, because all the words written down are based on the imagination of the writer, then he has to set up the entire essential factors as the foundation for his work. So, what are the elements a writer must have to build his base? Below are some most important ones that the researcher has found after examining about fiction. 1.2.1. Theme In daily use, a theme is the subject or topic that a person writes or speaks; but in fiction, theme is the center idea or meaning of a story (Satwase, 2008). The theme in a daily life may be presented by the speaker(s), however, in fiction, the theme can seldom be stated in a fiction, therefore readers have to infer from the words they read by themselves. The theme supplies “a unifying point” to help the author organizes all the plot, setting, point of view and characters in a story. 1.2.2. Plot [...]... convention of each class for the others was gradually set up from this problem Jane Austen 1.4.1 Jane Austen s life Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) though did not well-known at her time, has become 1.4 one of the world’s famous writer Austen was the seventh child in her family (out of eight) and her parents were both respected by the people as Jane s father was an Oxford-educated rector Thanks for her father; all... Bennet, Jane Mr Bingley is an easy-going and pleasant man, but his sister and his best man Mr Darcy are not When everyone in the Hertfordshire is having a ball, Mr Darcy lets everyone around him know just how dumb and boring he finds the whole thing It is obviously that Mr Bingley and Jane has fallen in love with each other, however, Jane too shy to let her feelings shown and that make Mr Darcy think Jane. .. so surprised that she meet Mr Darcy there (he is going to visit his aunt) At this time, readers can see clearly the changes of Mr Darcy: he acts like he's glad to see Lizzy, and even comes to visit her at Charlotte's house Lizzy gets the information from Darcy s friend that Bingley was going to propose to Jane until Darcy intervened Right after this shocking news, Mr Darcy proposes Lizzy and obviously,... and obviously, she refuses After the horrible proposal day, Mr Darcy writes a letter to explain himself for the two misunderstand of Lizzy: the full story about Wickham (he's a liar, a gambler, and he tried to elope with Darcy' s underage sister) and Jane (Darcy was convinced Jane was just a gold-digger) Being touched by the letter of Mr Darcy, Lizzy begins to have some more good affection for him At... and the whole family moved to Bath At that time, she focused more on creating literature work Jane Austen died in July 18th, 1817 which was quite young then Even her life was not long, her work was so huge and we can still enjoy them today 1.4.2 Jane Austen s literary career As the Republic of Pemberly (2004), Austen s novels are highly prized not only for their light irony, humor, and depiction of contemporary... when Lydia lets slip that Darcy is the one finds them and helps them, Lizzy knows that there’s more to the story and her affection for Darcy increase again The matter of Lydia has just settle down, two others matter come up First, Bingley comes back and finally proposes to Jane And then, Lady Catherine visits Longbourn to strong-arm Elizabeth into rejecting any proposal from Darcy, which obviously doesn't... reading.” (Austen, p.56) It can be seen clearly that the standard that Mr Darcy set up was too high for any woman in the world How in the world can it exist someone exactly the same as his norms? The norms were so unbelievable that Elizabeth did question Mr Darcy that “I rather wonder now at your knowing ANY.” (Austen, p.57) For all noble men in other novels, it was likely that no one had such a strong... that Darcy set The most beautiful one was Ms Jane Bennet – who was in favor of Mr Bingley – and the rest in the room he “had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest and from none received either attention or pleasure.” (Austen, p.22) That is why when Mr Bingley asked Darcy to choose someone to make acquaintance but Darcy. .. reader no longer see Darcy s pride and prejudice, because he totally jettison them to grasp happiness in love In this part, for the new Darcy, Austen merely gave three thoughts in very far chapters In addition, each thought expressed a completely new way of thinking; this can be seen as the landmark for the changing process of Mr Darcy As the thoughts were thinly sown in the novel by Austen, readers may... land of Mr Darcy and they accidently met each other If Mr Darcy was a stable character then there would not be any remarkable thing to notice But he was a dynamic character, as Austen wanted to, therefore his behavior changed little by little and the more different he became, the more shocked the readers got For instance, Mr Darcy gave the audience an amiable amazement when “their eyes (Darcy and . to go on with my thesis. And, finally, I would like to give many thanks to our university, especially our division that created opportunities for other students and me to do thesis and every guide. comes back and finally proposes to Jane. And then, Lady Catherine visits Longbourn to strong-arm Elizabeth into rejecting any proposal from Darcy, which obviously doesn't work. Finally, when. of the paper. Signature Ha Noi, 2014 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT From when I started to the end of this thesis, it had been for many people who helped me a lot in conducting the content. Without them,