Abstract

Pride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austen’s works, it tells Elizabeth, her sister and her best friend’s love and marriage, reflecting the conservative and isolated country life in British towns and social interaction in that era. Meanwhile, by describing different treatments on marriage of the characters, Austen shows various attitudes towards love and marriage among middle-class girls in towns, which reflects her view on love and marriage. This paper aims to take three typical love views to analyze the characters in this book, uses Charlotte and Collins to talk about love based on money and benefit, Lydia and Wickham to discuss love based on vanity and impulse, Elizabeth and Darcy to mention love based on sense and true love, and associate these love views with today’s society, with the aim of letting the modern people learn from the love experience.

Key words: love views; material desires; perfect love

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1 Introduction.1

2 Charlotte and Collins’ love based on money and benefit.3

3 Lydia and Wickham’s love based on vanity and impulse.5

4 Elizabeth and Darcy’s love based on true love7

5 Conclusion.10

References .13