《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感

第一篇：《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感

Impressions of pride and prejudice

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.The author 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.(Actually she is a pedant.)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 husband.The society, the relatives would not allow them to get married.In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind.A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages.Education background, possessions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage.Marry for money is still a big problem in our society.We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?

Austen left this problem for us to think.The genius of Jane Austen lies in this perfect simplicity, the simplicity that reflects big problems.Although Austen was only 21 when she wrote “Pride and Prejudice”, her sharp observation of social lives makes the style of this book surprisingly mature and lively.The plots in her works are always very natural.The development of the plot is as inevitable as a problem in mathematics.I think the depth of Pride and Prejudice is the reason that makes this book prominent and classic.Today, her book still can be the guide telling us the economic relationships both at her time and in modern time.

第二篇：傲慢与偏见英文读后感

Reading after Pride and Prejudice

Recently I have been reading a novel called Pride and Prejudice, which was written by Jane Austen.Although I haven’t finished it yet, I still have something to write.The writer, Jane Austen, was an English woman.She was born in Steventon, Hampshine, where her father was a rector.She was the second daughter and the seventh child in a family of eight.The first 25 years of her life Austen spent in Hampshire.Austin didn’t go to regular schools, but she read many literary works at her parents’guidance.She started writing about the age of 20, and published six novels.Pride and Prejudice(1813)and Emma(1816)are the best-known books of them.Virginia Woolf called her “the most perfect artist among women”.Most of her novels were all adapted into movies and successful in the world.For living in a small country town, contacting the medium and small landlords, pastor as well as their quiet and comfortable living environment, there were no significant social contradictions in her works.She described a truthful picture of her world, especially the marriage and love between gentlemen and ladies by her meticulous feminine observation.The style of her works is humorous and rich in comic conflicts, so many readers love them.This type of novels not only at that time attracted broad readers, today;it still gives the readers unique art enjoyment.The novel describes love process of heroine Elizabeth and hero Darcy, her elder sister Jane and Mr.Bingley, younger sister Jane and Mr.Bingley, younger sister Lydia and Mr.Wickham, her good friend Charlotte and Mr.Collins.The marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth revealed the characteristics which constituted a successful marriage.One of these characteristics was that the feeling couldn’t be brought on by appearances and must gradually develop between the two people as they got to know one another.The marriage between Jane Bennet and Bingley was also an example of successful marriage.They had the excellent understanding, super-excellent disposition of Jane and a general similarity of feeling and taste between her and her husband.Unlike Darcy and Elizabeth, there was a flaw in their relationship.The flaw was that both characters were too gullible and too good-hearted to ever act strongly against external forces that may attempt to separate them.Obviously, Lydia and Wickham’s marriage was an example of a bad marriage.Their marriage was based on appearances, good looks and youthful vivacity.Once these qualities could no longer be seen by each other, the once strong relationship would slowly fade away.Through their relationship, Jane Austen showed that hasty marriage based on superficial qualities quickly cooled and led to unhappiness.The marriage between Mr.Collins and Charlette was based on economics rather than on love or appearance.It was a common practice during Austen’s time for woman to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security.However, Jane Austen viewed this as a type of prostitution and disapproved it.Elizabeth was a clever, beautiful and strong-minded woman, who looked down upon the hypocrisy in high-society circles.Facing the marriage, she was courage, visionary and good at thinking.Although, she had some wrong opinions on Darcy in the beginning, finally she knew about Darcy justly through thinking, hence gained the true love.Darcy was a handsome, rich gentleman, but proud and didn’t want to make contact with others, leading to dissatisfactions from neighbors.Even worse, Darcy left bad impressions on the people around him and Elizabeth also hated him.She had prejudice against Darcy gradually.When Darcy proposed to her, she refused him decisively.After that, Darcy began to reflect on the self-examination and treated people with more populist.As time went by, they came across again.Darcy was not only polite, but was popular among the neighbors.Finally, regardless of his aunt’s strong objection and concept of family, Darcy proposed to Elizabeth again.Elizabeth willingly consented.She began to appear her lively side to Darcy.The characters have their own personalities.Mrs.Bennet was a woman who was eager to marry off her daughters.Mr.Bingley was a friendly young man.Jane was simple, innocent and never spoke evil of others.Elizabeth was a clever girl who always had her own opinions.Mary liked reading classic books.Kitty didn’t have her own opinions but liked to follow her sister.Lydia was a girl who followed exotic things, handsome man and was somehow a little profligate.As far as I am concerned, love is the most beautiful and valuable thing and the basis of marriage.Although material is important, we shouldn’t give up seeking for the true love.By contrasting Elizabeth with Lydia, we know the true love is essential.Then, I think the behavior is the symbol of people.If Darcy was polite and warm-hearted in the beginning, maybe he would not have been misunderstood by Elizabeth.Therefore, never be arrogant.It is true that the first impression is important, but we should also recognize someone in long time and from all aspects.That requires we are strong-minded, reasoned and sensible.Be tolerant to anyone, and you will be more likely gain happiness.Last but not least, this novel has an effect on today’s Chinese society, which is full of bullionism and hedonism.Many youngers have the question, especially girls, “Rose and bread, which is more important”.Once in a famous dating show called If you are the one, a girl said “Would rather sit in the BMW car crying, don’t sit on the bike laughing”, which means she would live together with a rich man rather than a poor man.Most girls think that houses, cars and property are more important than appearances and characters.I don’t agree with it.As new century’s girls, who are expected to be independent, self-reliance, self-love, we could earn money through our own effects instead of putting the hope on others.Only in this way can we have the security sense and be more attractive to lovers.The lover is one of the most intimate persons and the family is a part of our lives, therefore, let’s seek for the true love and create a promising future.

第三篇：英文傲慢与偏见读后感

凡是有财产的单身汉，必定需要娶位太太，这已经成了一条举世公认的真理。”以这样一句话作为本书的开头，让人不由想到这会是一部清喜剧，来讲一个皆大欢喜的爱情故事。可是如若只为了消遣而读，那么这部《傲慢与偏见》就不会有如此长久的生命力。往往，伟大出自于平凡，奥斯丁就是将她的哲理通过爱情这一人人司空见惯的事物来表达的。

《傲慢与偏见》是英国著名女作家简·奥斯丁的代表作，这部作品以日常生活为素材，一反当时社会上流行的感伤小说的内容和矫揉造作的写作方法，作品描写傲慢的单身青年达西与偏见的二小姐伊丽莎白、富裕的单身贵族宾格莱与贤淑的大小姐吉英之间的感情纠葛。

这本书中似乎只有两种人：聪明的和愚蠢的，没有绝对的好坏之分，文中的所谓「傲慢」就是指出身富贵、教养颇高、眼光锐利的青年达西的个性弱点；而所谓「偏见」是指出身中产阶级、教养颇好、机智聪明的小姐－伊丽莎白的精神弱点。一个眼光锐利，一个机智聪明，都属人中杰，但却都难免人性的弱点的纠缠。他们在一次的家庭舞会上初次见面，却因对彼此的印象不佳，一个态度傲慢，另一个心怀偏见。第一个印象先入为主，以后又加上女人们在旁闲言碎语，而造成了两人之间的爱恨情仇。伊丽莎白曾对达西说过:“我们的性情非常相似,我们都不爱交际,沉默寡言,不愿开口,除非我们会说出话来语惊四座,像格言一样具有光彩,流传千古.”就是因为这思想上的一致,才在婚姻中百般受到阻碍,同时也是因为这才最后促成美满的婚姻.作为故事中的女主人公，伊丽莎白聪敏机智，有胆识，有远见，有很强的自尊心，并善于思考问题。就当时一个待嫁闺中的小姐来讲，这是难能可贵的。而我第一次被伊丽莎白的个性打动，就是在她拒绝达西先生告白时。虽然有误会造成的偏见，但她理直气壮地指责初见不欢的告白对象的样子着实可爱。让人不禁感叹，她哪来的这么大的勇气和自信？怎么会这么坚定的不为所动？对达西先生的误解是一方面，另一方面，小说在最后给出了解答。当本内特先生听闻自己最心爱的女儿心有所属时，对伊丽莎白的那句“我担心世上没有人能配得上你”。由此看来，伊丽莎白的自信应该是来源于父亲的教育。这种自信让她在任何事物面前都不失去自我，哪怕是教条，哪怕是别人的目光，哪怕是金钱和地位，哪怕是爱情。

爱情中的人应该坦诚相待。当达西向伊丽莎白求婚而遭到拒绝时，他说了一句话：“要是我耍一点手段，把我内心的矛盾掩饰起来，一味地恭维你，使你相信我无论在理智方面、思想方面以及其他各方面，都是对你怀着无条件的纯洁的爱，那么也许你就不会有这些苛刻的责骂了。可惜无论是什么样的伪装，我都痛恨。”达西沒有为了讨好伊丽莎白，而改变他的傲慢性情。伊丽莎白也表现了很真实的自己，彼此都不刻意去营造给人的印象，表现出了最真实的一面。而开始的时候，伊丽莎白一直活在自己的偏见之下，而忽略思考事实的真相，经过达西的解释和自己的判断，才最终找到幸福的归宿。

《傲慢与偏见》，是我们很常见的弱点和毛病。每一个人其实都很容易被自己的主观印象所驱使，因而容易对别的人下不正确的注解，进而造成了彼此之间的误会。一个人所给予的第一印象固然可以影响到很多事，但并非一定不会改变，要有更加深入的了解，才能有更客观一点的论点，就好像故事中女主角对达西的看法，就是因为了解才有所改变.阅读的魅力在于能在别人的故事中看到自己的内心，不断反思与成长，伊丽莎白与达西的结合告诉我们，获得人类一切美好感情的前提是消除傲慢与偏见以及更多的负面人生观。当然还有更多作者欲说还休的情怀需要随着时间的流逝而去参悟

第四篇：《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感

After reading:Pride and Prejudice

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About the story: Jane Austen is this novel’s writer who is a famous writer in the world,and she is famoused with her a series of novel.s.Mrs.Bennet had five daughters,and marrying all her daughters was her biggest wish.In a genteel ball, Mr.Bingley , a friendly young man,also the host,fell in love with Jane at first sight.Jane was Mrs.Bennet 's first daughter who was simple,pure and never speaks evil of others.Darcy ,who was Bingley 's good friend ,a very proud man who seemed to always feel superior, was fond of Jane’s sister,Elizabeth.But his arrogance behavior and the smear from Wickham led Elizabeth to misunderstand and was biassed against Darcy.Darcy couldn't restrain himself from loving Elizabeth ,so he proposed to her.But his attitude was still so arrogant ,Elizabeth declined firmly.This hit made Darcy noticed the consequence from proud and conceited for the first time.Leaving a long letter to explain the things around him and Elizabeth, he left her painfully.She felt regret after reading it.Not only feel guilty for misunderstanding of Darcy , but also ashamed for the behavior of her mother.Elizabeth gradually changed her views of Darcy.When Darcy met her in his own manor again, his sincere attitude and dignified behavior made her considerably surprised.Finally ,they walked out of the frog which was pride and prejudice.It could be called a happy ending.There are seven different marriages presented in the novel.Excluding the Gardiner and the Lucas, the remaining five marriages contrasts each other to reveal Jane’s opinions and thoughts on the subject of marriage.The marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth reveals the characteristics which constitutes a successful marriage.One of these characteristics is that the feeling cannot be brought on by appearances, and must gradually develop between the two people as they get to know one another.In the beginning, Elizabeth and Darcy were distant from each other because of their prejudice.The series of events which they both experienced gave them the opportunity to understand one another and the time to reconcile their feelings for each other.Thus, their mutual understanding is the foundation of their relationship and will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage.This relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy reveals the importance of getting to know one’s partner before marrying.The marriage between Jane Bennet and Bingley is also an example of successful marriage.Jane Austen, through Elizabeth, expresses her opinion of this in the novel.The last example of a marriage is a of a different nature than the ones mentioned above.The marriage between Mr.Collins and Charlotte is based on economics rather than on love or appearance.It was a common practice during Austen’s time for

women to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security.However, Jane Austen viewed this as a type of prostitution and disapproved of it.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen dramatizes this form of women inequality and show that women who submits themselves to this type of marriage will have to suffer in tormenting silence as Charlotte does.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane has denounced the elements of marriage and society that she found distasteful.These are the conclusions of her observation of the people in her world.However in her writing, Jane has also reflected her own enjoyment in life among these people with and without their faults.About my opinions: Believe it or not,I have readed this story no less times no matter book movie.I readed it again and again,and the more time I read the story is more than a love story I found.I like this story for the outsdanding characteristic of the characters.A good book not only can bring you exciting,but also give you some further thingking.From the Pride and Prejudice,I lean a lot.First,it’s stupid to judge a person by the first impression and always have prejudice on the person who you don’t like.In a word,we can’t judge a person without any further reconigse or by other people’s words.Just like Elizabeth,under Wickham’s evil speaking she judge Darcy wad a pround and hatest man and began to have prejudice on him,and kept misunderstanding him.As a reselt,she was failed to see the merists of darcy.Other example,Mr.Binely persuadeed himself run away from falling in love with june for having heard Darcy’s word that June didn’t like him,at least no more deeper than him.This hurted two loved heart.They even almost missed each other.By the way,we can learn that pride sometimes will make you far away from others.You can’t deny that the country people didn’t like Darcy very much no matter how rich he.For,he always feels superior to the country people.And,because Darcy’s pround,he offended the girl he love.Then, After reading this book, I couldn’t forget how eager Mrs.Bennet wants to marry off her daughters.Why is she so crazy about that?I know it’s because of money.money is very important for our lives.Money is required for food, shelter,and clothing, so many things in our life need money.With money, you can make your life more comfortable.You will be able to buy a big house with servants.But, Can money determine everything?How could a marriage maintain without love bue just for money?From the marriage between Charlotte Lucas and Mr.Collins, we found that their marriage totally depended on the position, money, and the background, not the love.Most women choose the men who can satisfy their material comforts to be their husbands at that time, just like Charlotte Lucas.She married Mr.Collins although she shared no common interests with him.She didn’t love him while she married him indeed.She persuaded herself to tolerate her husband’s strange and foolish behavior, and her only comfort

was her big new house and rich material life.While in my eye, it’s really unfortunate to rest hope on the material comforts for her rest life.Although sometimes it’s necessary to consider the property, position, and background in the marriage, it’s stupit to marry just for the money.Charlotte Lucas married for the possession not love, and on the other hand, Mr.Collins married her because he needed a wife, not for love, either.Their marriage seemed to be necessary but not happy.But how to maintain the marriage without love? Fortunately,I don’t know more them in the end of the book.

第五篇：《傲慢与偏见》英文读后感

After reading:Pride and Prejudice

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Jane Austen is this novel’s writer who is a famous writer in the world,and she is famous with her a series of novels.I still remember the first sentence in this book.It reads :“It is a truth well known to all the world that an unmarried man in possession of a large fortune must in need of a wife.” The undertone is very clear : the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.Love seems to be a perpetual theme all the time.And the main story in the book Pride and Prejudice is not a exception.The writer tells us her views and attitudes about love and marriage in this book.Mrs.Bennet had five daughters,and marrying all her daughters was her biggest wish.In a genteel ball, Mr.Bingley , a friendly young man,also the host,fell in love with Jane at first sight.Jane was Mrs.Bennet 's first daughter who was simple,pure and never speaks evil of others.Darcy ,who was Bingley 's good friend ,a very proud man who seemed to always feel superior, was fond of Jane’s sister,Elizabeth.But his arrogance behavior and the smear from Wickham led Elizabeth to misunderstand and was biassed against Darcy.Darcy couldn't restrain himself from loving Elizabeth ,so he proposed to her.But his attitude was still so arrogant ,Elizabeth declined firmly.This hit made Darcy noticed the consequence from proud and conceited for the first time.Leaving a long letter to explain the things around him and Elizabeth, he left her painfully.She felt regret after reading it.Not only feel guilty for misunderstanding of Darcy , but also ashamed for the behavior of her mother.Elizabeth gradually changed her views of Darcy.When Darcy met her in his own manor again, his sincere attitude and dignified behavior made her considerably surprised.Finally ,they walked out of the frog which was pride and prejudice.It could be called a happy ending.There are seven different marriages presented in the novel.Excluding the Gardiner and the Lucas, the remaining five marriages contrasts each other to reveal Jane’s opinions and thoughts on the subject of marriage.The marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth reveals the characteristics which constitutes a successful marriage.One of these characteristics is that the feeling cannot be brought on by appearances, and must gradually develop between the two people as they get to know one another.In the beginning, Elizabeth and Darcy were distant from each other because of their prejudice.The series of events which they both experienced gave them the opportunity to understand one another and the time to reconcile their feelings for each other.Thus, their mutual understanding is the foundation of their relationship and will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage.This relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy reveals the importance of getting to know one’s partner before marrying.The marriage between Jane Bennet and Bingley is also an example of successful marriage.Jane Austen, through Elizabeth, expresses

her opinion of this in the novel.The last example of a marriage is a of a different nature than the ones mentioned above.The marriage between Mr.Collins and Charlotte is based on economics rather than on love or appearance.It was a common practice during Austen’s time for women to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security.However, Jane Austen viewed this as a type of prostitution and disapproved of it.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen dramatizes this form of women inequality and show that women who submits themselves to this type of marriage will have to suffer in tormenting silence as Charlotte does.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane has denounced the elements of marriage and society that she found distasteful.These are the conclusions of her observation of the people in her world.However in her writing, Jane has also reflected her own enjoyment in life among these people with and without their faults.About my opinions:

Believe it or not,I have read this story no less times no matter book still is movie.I read it again and again,and the more time I read the story is more than a love story I found.I like this story for the outstanding characteristic of the characters.A good book not only can bring you exciting,but also give you some further thinking.From the Pride and Prejudice,I learn a lot.First,it’s stupid to judge a person by the first impression and always have prejudice on the person who you don’t like.In a word,we can’t judge a person without any further recognise or by other people’s words.Just like Elizabeth,under Wickham’s evil speaking she judge Darcy is a pride and masty man and began to have prejudice on him,and kept misunderstanding him.As a result,she was failed to see the merits of Darcy.Other example,Mr.Binely persuaded himself run away from falling in love with Jane for having heard Darcy’s word that June didn’t like him,at least no more deeper than him.This hurt two loved heart.They even almost missed each other.By the way,we can learn that pride sometimes will make you far away from others.You can’t deny that the country people didn’t like Darcy very much no matter how rich he.For,he always feels superior to the country people.And,because Darcy’s pride,he offended the girl he love.Then, After reading this book, I cloudn’t forget how eager Mrs.Bennet wants to marry off her daughters.Why is she so crazy about that?I know it’s because of money.Money is very important for our lives.Money is required for food, shelter,and clothing, so many things in our life need money.With money, you can make your life more comfortable.You will be able to buy a big house with servants.But, Can money determine everything?How could a marriage maintain without love but just for money?From the marriage between Charlotte Lucas and Mr.Collins, we found that their marriage totally depended on the position, money, and the background, not the love.Most women choose the men who can satisfy their material comforts to be their

husbands at that time, just like Charlotte Lucas.She married Mr.Collins although she shared no common interests with him.She didn’t love him while she married him indeed.She persuaded herself to tolerate her husband’s strange and foolish behavior, and her only comfort was her big new house and rich material life.While in my eye, it’s really unfortunate to rest hope on the material comforts for her rest life.Although sometimes it’s necessary to consider the property, position, and background in the marriage, it’s stupid to marry just for the money.Charlotte Lucas married for the possession not love, and on the other hand, Mr.Collins married her because he needed a wife, not for love, either.Their marriage seemed to be necessary but not happy.But how to maintain the marriage without love? Fortunately,I don’t know morethem in the end of the book.