第一篇：book report on pride&prejudice-傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记
Name: Zhang Yifei
Student No.2012012808
November 19, 2012
Will Elizabeth and Darcy marry each other in
reality?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This is the first sentence of the novel and it sets the tone for the whole story.Two aspects should be noticed: the story is about marriage, not love;and that marriage is based upon possession or money.If we bear this in mind, then it is rather strange to see that at the end of the novel the two humble girls should marry their wealthy Mr.Right.Actually, this is where the genius of Jane Austen shines brightly, that the comic ending is a sharp irony towards the 18th century, when the European society boasted heavily of wealth and social status.The Bennet couple is truly snobbish, especially the madam.Dig down into reasons why Mrs.Bennet is so eager to marry her five daughters and you will find that, at that time, a good marriage brings about a fortune to the family.Such fortune will sustain their life lest they will be swept out of the house and live in starvation after Mr.bennet dies.Just take a look at how the mother’s attitude towards Elizabeth changes when Mr.Collin is willing to propose to her daughter and when later on the girl turns him down.There is no better description than this to picture Mrs.Bennet’s characteristic and intention.Mr.Bingley’s sisters and Mr.Darcy’s aunt are representatives of the rich and upper class, but their fine taste does not varnish their narrow opinions of social stratum.By constantly saying ill of the Bennets and showing proud themselves, they convey the message that they despise the Bennets, they will not truck with them, let alone the marriage of the two families.Four marriages in total are mentioned in the novel and they share the same theme.If we consider the marriage of hooligan Wickham and silly Lydia as the outcome of the mere pursuit of money, then the one between Charlotte and Mr.Collin is a good example for girls in poor condition to gain social security.Clever as Charlotte, though not that handsome but she knows to seize every
chance to improve her life.Their marriage contains no love, but it doesn’t matter.And on the contrary they may well spend the rest of their life respectfully and peacefully, which seem ideal for lots of country girls.Then let’s look back at the two main couples.Jane and Bingley, both innocent and kind, have the only obstacle for their marriage----the disapproval of Bingley’s sisters and his friend.But given the fact that Bingley is a mature adult inherited a large fortune on his own, who has the power to stand in the way of his marriage when the man himself does not care about the girl’s family background? As we can see in the book, the two are in deep affection with each other from time to time, making it at least possible for them to get together in real life.But things are quite different and more complex for Elizabeth and Darcy.Their social stratums are in great disparity and there are strong objection from Darcy’s aunt.Then there is Lydia’s elopement adds to the family’s ill-reputation.Even their relationship is not that stable.Both of their pride and prejudice have blocked their
comprehensive understanding towards each other.Actually, what Darcy comments initially at Jane reveal his sense: “With parents like that, the girl’s chance of a good marriage is materially lessen.” Darcy, as a noble gentleman, always behaves accord with his dignity.We should not blame him for his natural concern towards the vulgarity of Elizabeth’s family.On the other hand, Elizabeth, who is brought up in the lower class, cannot hide her disgust for Darcy’s cold and proud nature.Consider the huge divergence of the two, it’s not quite possible for them to get married in reality.However, their love “outweighs” all the obstacles and “betrays my sense” as Darcy puts it.Finally they get together in the fairytale ending.But, does love really have that great power? Or is it as a prank joke? Actually Jane Austen had just written such a fairytale to please us but to stab a trenchant into the unreasonable social
institution at the same time.It seems that the happier the ending is, the sharper it criticizes to the society.The truly civilized society should enable women’s happiness by providing a tolerable
atmosphere regarding possession and ranking but not to pin their hope on “love”.After all, not all men are as affectionate as Mr.Darcy.
第二篇：傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记
傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记
《傲慢与偏见》讲述了19世纪初期英国的乡绅之女伊丽莎白·班内特五姐妹的爱情与择偶的故事。下面是小编为大家整理的傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记，希望大家喜欢。
傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记1 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.(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.傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记2 ride and Prejudice is a novel written by the famous English writer, Jane Austen, who was the sixth children in a family of seven and was born in the village of steventon in Hampshire in 1775 and died of Addison’s disease in 1817.The book first published on 28 January 1813 by the bookseller Thomas Egerton who had also published Sense and Sensibility, the original version of the novel was written in 1796-1797 under the title First Impressions.Pride and Prejudice is a love story, mainly tells the love between Elizabeth and Darcy.It divided into 2 volumes and is composed of 42 chapters altogether.The major characters are Mr.Darcy, A rich and proud young man.Elizabeth, the second eldest daughter of Mr.and Mrs.Bennet.Mr.Bingley , A rich young bachelor.Jane, the first daughter of Mr.and The story begin with Bingley’s arrival.One day when hear Bingley has taken Netherfield, a house near her’s.She is so happy and arranged one of her five daughters marriage with him.At a ball, luckly, Bingley and Jane fall in love at the first sight.Darcy, a friend of Bingley’s , was attracted to Elizabeth, a lively and spirited girl.But Darcy greatly offends her by his supercilious behavior and this dislike is increased by Wickham, a dashing young militia officer of the unjust treatment he has met with at Darcy's hands.One day when Darcy and Bingley’s two sisters disgusted with the vulgarity of Mrs.Bennet and her two youngest daughters, effectively separated Bingley and Jane.Meanwhile, Collins, a cousin of Mr.and Mrs.Bennet, married charlotte, a friend of Elizabeth’s, for Elizabeth’s refuse to marry him.But One day Darcy send Elizabeth a letter, in which he justifies the separation of his friend Bingley and Jane and make it clear that Wickham is.So Elizabeth changed her opinions and ideas toward him.Once when Elizabeth visited her uncle and aunt in the north of England, she met Darcy there and witnessed his changes through series of behaviors, no longer pride and become gentle and attentive, all these made their marriage arranged, and they also suitably provided for Bingley and Jane’s reunited and engaged.The story ends with both their happy marriages.My point of view towards the masterpiece of Jane Austen’s is that this novel reflects the English human sentiment of the end of 18th century and the early of 19th century under the circumstance of conservative，and tells us the difference ways and attitudes to marriage of Mr.and Mrs.Bennet’s five daughters’.Thereby reveal the author herself attitude towards marriage, that is love and marriage based on money, property and social status is not perfect, but it is also stupid Without considering all of these.There, the author emphasize the importance of ideal marriage, meanwhile, to be opposed to love & marriage based on money or property and to be opposed to people’s laugh love & marriage off.The author takes the affection/love as the cornerstone of ideal marriage between male and female.Elizabeth as the leading character in this novel, was born in the family of squireen’s, and is loved by Darcy.Darcy propose marriage to her in spite of difference in the possession of property and social status, but is refused byElizabeth for his pride , the novel demonstrate that if the pride of Darcy’s existed，there will be no love and also happy marriage between Elizabeth and he, it is really nice that Elizabeth witness the changes of Darcy’s through series of behavior in the following days.viewing that he is no longer pride and then eliminating her prejudice to him, finally engaged with him and leading a happy marriage.The author described that female is in pursuit of independent personality and equal right through several different attitudes of Elizabeth for Darcy’s propose marriage.Meanwhile, demonstrate Elizabeth’s independent understanding for a happy marriage.In this article, the writer described several unperfect marriages of Elizabeth’s sisters and close friends, aimed at making a sharp contrast with Elizabeth’s beatific marriage and revealed that marriage without love but base on social status and property actually is a kind of public tragedies.Humorous, ironical, polished language and real storyline is also occurred in this article.
第三篇：傲慢与偏见英文读书笔记
Reading Notes of Pride and Prejudice
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This beginning sentence of the book seems to tell us the main story of the book is about the marriage of rich men.The heroine of the book is Elizabeth and at the chapter One, we are told that the father Mr.Bennet prefers Elizabeth among his daughters, in this case, Elizabeth must be a girl who is more special and intelligent.The story is about love and marriage.Charlotte married Collins because his fortune and she feels nervous about her age even the man is so old-fashioned and ingratiating.However, their marriage is about money and they do not get the real happy.The other man Wickham is a handsome but a man who is a liar.He lies to Elizabeth to gain her appreciation.And his love with Lydia is shallow and about appearance.The love of Jane and Bingley has a better ending.They have love in the relationship and appreciate each other because of the deeper virtue.But they do come through a lot because the misunderstanding they had before.The love of Elizabeth and the hero of the book Darcy responses the title Pride and Prejudice.In the eye of Elizabeth, Darcy is no doubt pride and arrogant.Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth and proposes marriage to her, but he is still very arrogant so Elizabeth refuses him directly.Darcy
feels hard hit and regrets of being arrogant.However, Elizabeth has a prejudice about Darcy at the very beginning and mistaken believes in Wickham but she finally knows the truth and feels shame of her family.Darcy moves Elizabeth with his pleasant virtue in the end.
第四篇：傲慢与偏见读书笔记英文
In this term,I read a book which named
.The author is Jane Austen,.When I first knew this art work, because I watched the movie acted by Kara Knightly and so many famous stars.But this term I read the original work.And I realize the difference between them.After I briefly knew the author-Jane Austen.About her life ,her experience.I found she was an sensitive,strong in mental ,maverick and independent woman.I do really admire her.In 1775 December she birthed to this world.She has eight brothers and sisters.Her father,who had served in that area for forty years,and he also was a encyclopedic clergyman.And the same her mother ,came from an welfare family,she also had certain cultural accomplishment.Therefore, even though Jane hadn’t go to the official school,because of the great family condition and the environment of reading books.All of those give her the chances to learn by herself and then build up the interests about writing.When she was only thirteen or fourteen years old,she stared to writing something she liked.This showed her talent about her language expression.In the1800,her father retired,and they moved to somewhere,but Jane didn’t like there.At there,Jane refused the marriage from a teenager who will inherited a large fortune,just because she didn’t like him.The gods throw out the questions ,we human need to find ,to choose the answers by ourselves.The answer from this problem is probably not “no” to us now.Although our hearts still have some expectation for love, we believe that love is sacred.But gradually, like wealth, background, politics, more and more things go beyond love, above all else, to our life,to our heart.In 1796 ,at 20 she met Lefroy.She fall in love with this clever young Irish lawyer.However, the pastor's family-Jane’s father wanted the son-in-law would have the financial strength in the future but at that time lefroy was a poor boy.Lefroy’s family who had six children, was also determined to marry with a wealthy family, so he was asked to return to Ireland.They never saw each other again.In Jane’s letter to her sister Cassandra, said: "Finally, the day has come, and I will say goodbye to Tom Lefroy.And when you get this letter, it's all over.I can't help but cry at the thought.Her unforgettable first love was forced to break up,she chose never marry for the whole life,and put the all emotions and feelings devoted to the literary creation.What make me impressively is her attitude to the people ,world,and to herself.The world and people hurt her ,break up she and her lover,make her never marry,but she still keep her mind to the world,put all her love to the literary creation,write the sweet,profound work for the people.To tell them ,among the millions of people in the world, it likes a miracle to meet someone you love who loves you as much as you do.And do not cherish this person is how ignorant and pitiful.A person may be arrogant but not vain.In most cases, pride is nothing more than what we think of ourselves ,but vanity refers to how we value other people’s evaluation of us.In fact, there are few people I really like.The more I look at the world, the less satisfied I am, and the more I believe that every day, I believe that all kinds of people are capricious, and that the good things what appeared on the surface are untrustworthy.But then I can't tell you exactly when, where, what kind of style , what kind of talk I heard, which all of those made me fall in love with you gradually.It was a long time ago.When I find myself beginning to fall in love with you, I've been half way.This book was wrote the story about later of 18th,at that time the England acting the industrial revolution.And there are many contradiction between the various social classes,but Jane described every characters’ impression ,what they talking and what they considered,She telling us the contradiction which happened in the small environment-the England countryside rather than writing revolution to express the change to the people and the whole society form the industrial revolution.She wrote four marriages to express her own view of marriage and to show social contradictions through the impact of economic interests on people's love and marriage.What makes me the most impressive is that selfish Mrs.Bennett said a lot of beautiful,sweet words to Bingley to make him happy at the beginning.She didn’t care about the spirits,quality ,appearance,knowledge what kind of people he is and if he has a heart which is full of love to her daughter.She just be excited about his annual income of 5000 pounds.What a ridiculous thing!And there are so many tiny things,all of them can deeply reflect the bad atmosphere of the money supremacy of the society at that time.After I finished reading this book,I have a question :Why Darcy is so pride?On the surface,because he birthed with a golden spoon which has great background,and his v is pretty high.But I think,.This is determined by the class contradiction at that time.At the first dancing party,Darcy wouldn’t like to dance with countryside girls.He looked down on the girls any of them,even beautiful Elizabeth was also rejected.In the later Darcy and Bingley's sister ,they prevented to Jane and Bingley ‘s marriage and autocratic, egoistic Mrs.Catherine on Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage obstruction.What is called’ Upper class society”to the middle class which lived in the countryside discrimination.Especially Collins talked a lot of beautiful words,he was stupid ,false.He acted obsequiously,and he is very affected..All of them reflected the deep impression form the class disparity.The writer Jane Austin herself is a member of the middle class in England, and she is unmarried all her life.The social life state described in the book is a true portrayal of her own life.With distinctive times.The social life state described in the book is very interesting.And all characters’ have various of personality on their own.Those personalities are distinct with others and vivid.Elisabeth is the most character what I like.She is the most perfect female in the author’s mind.Though her appearance is not very beautiful to her sister Jane ,she has a great courage and courageous spirit.In order to get heritage of the Benet ,Collins seek marriage to the beautiful Elizabeth, Elizabeth judged her emotions intellectually and refused to seek marriage decisively.When Mrs.Catchline came to ask the details about the marriage with Darcy, she was not afraid about the disparity between the classes and the difference between background.She expressed her mind bravely.All these situations made me like her gradually.But,there is no doubts that her prejudice made some difficulties for her and Darcy either.We often say: you can't look for people.But ti is very hard to do perfectly in our daily life.Just as the same as Elizabeth has some prejudice to Darcy.Wick ham officer, handsome, elegant and unconventional，stately and handsome also humorous, amiable and easy of approach.Compared with Darcy ,looked like Darcy is more prejudiced and be poor at speech.Wickham officer is much better on the surface.But who can imagine that the handsome officer is bite the band that feeds one and he also a rascally gambler,but Darcy looked like fish-blooded,indifferent actually he is a warm kind gentleman?Even smart Elizabeth was cheated with beautiful surface by Wickham either,believe the lies also produce prejudice to Darcy.This also teach us a truth that ,when we make friends with others,we couldn’t get puzzled by the beautiful appearance,we have to know their personality deeply.It is not always true to know from a third party that you know your friends in many directions and ways ,so that,you have to feel them yourself.The hero of this story-Darcy,he is totally an individual man.He got well education from he was a boy.He is generous,and he is willing to help others.He is the model of England nobility.He has indifferent face but he has a warm heart,though he looked fish-blooded,but actually his heart is full of love ,kind and peace.When Wikham wasted his heritage and wanted to abduct his sister to run away home and live money.Darcy still forgive him understandingly.At the same time,he also give him money.It is a very humane thing to do.When he was rejected by Elizabeth ,he knew that Ridiya would like to run away form home with Wikham ,and at the dangerous time that the Benet faced the difficulties,he throw the rancor all he should have go to Landon to find Elizabeth’s uncle finding Lidiya together and discussing the trouble solve them in person.But all of these things ,he never told Elizabeth,it is this love-never ask return what make me impressed.As the saying goes,no one is perfect.Pride is his biggest disadvantage.When I closed the book,I felt a lot of emotion,I realized the meaning of the live and how we be a good person on our best.
第五篇：傲慢与偏见读书笔记
What makes a successful marriage?719
The success of Jane Austen’s representative work “Pride and Prejudice” lies not only in its vivid characters, the natural development of plot and the use of satire and wit, but also its influential power whichprovokes people to rethink what are the essential elements of a happy marriage.Is that money or possession, appearance or superficial qualities?Written in the eighteenth century, the book enlightens us on marital choice in the modern society.The novel revolves around the marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth, which proves to be successful and everlasting.The other three couples, including Jane and Mr.Bingley, Carroline and Mr.Collins, Lydia and William, also play a part in the novel.Though Elizabeth is born in the little landlord's family, unlike her snobbery mother--Mrs.Bennet, she is clever and sharp-eyed.When she first meets Darcy in a party, who is an aristocrat and appears to be proud, arrogant and somewhat forbidding, she has a negative impression towards him.On Darcy’s side, he is attracted by Elizabeth’s beauty and her
intelligent manner.At this time, Mr.Bingley, Darcy’s best friend, falls in love with Elizabeth’s sister Jane who is a simple, innocent and beautiful girl.In order to put Bingley out of the dangers of an impulsive
commitment, Darcy and Bingley's sister contrive to persuade him leave his country and go to London.Then Jane lapses into a deep depression.Elizabeth attributes her sister’s misfortune to Darcy’s persuasion, so the prejudice against Darcy is deepened.At this time, Mr.Collins, a far relative of Bennet family, comes and proposes marriage to Elizabeth which she refuses.Soon Mr.Collins finds another woman, Carroline, to marry.They move to a big house which is near to Darcy’s house.After the wedding, Elizabeth is invited to their home, and there she is
reacquainted with Darcy.Out of strong affection for Elizabeth, Darcy proposes marriage to her — presented in such condescending, denigrating fashion that Elizabeth flatly refuses him.Then the meeting with William, a penniless handsome army officer, further increases her distaste for
Darcy because William distorts all the facts about Darcy and portrays him as hypercritic.The transition comes when Elizabeth’s sister, Lydia, a superficial girl who follows exotic things and handsome man, elopes with William.Mr.Bennet pursues the errant Lydia and her suitor, and obliges them to marry — at the cost of paying off all of Wickham's outstanding debts, and, in addition, giving the couple the substantial sum of ten thousand pounds.Elizabeth discovers that the amount was actually paid by Darcy.Upon learning of Darcy's extraordinary generosity, coupled with the utmost discretion, Elizabeth's inclinations towards him change.When the love between Jane and Mr.Bingley blossom, Darcy also approaches Elizabeth, and this time his love is returned in kind.It’s obvious that Elizabeth and Darcy are distant from each other because of their prejudice.The series of events which they both
experienced give 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 knowing one's partner before marriage.Moreover, despite the difference in social position, wealth, they give priority to their emotions and choose to follow their intrinsic feelings.They put away earthy prejudice and give no thoughts to external conditions.All these ensure a successful marriage.In contrast, the
marriage of Carroline and Mr.Collins can never be a happy one because it is based on economics rather than emotion.And Lydia and Wickham's marriage is an example of bad marriage because it based on superficial qualities which are sure to fade away with the passage of time.In present-day society, though we lay less emphasis on economic elements, status and appearance, we are easily induced by them when considering a marriage.Often we neglect the purist feeling and choose to yield to money, rank or public opinions.We may even select our spouse in hasty, knowing little about his true character.All such behaviors will lead to an unsatisfying marriage later.Taking all these into consideration,I come to the conclusion that we should always put emotion first and be responsible for our selection.
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