【标题】傲慢与偏见中的人物刻画 【作者】周勤丹 【关键词】人物刻画傲慢与偏见简.奥斯丁 【指导老师】张亚军 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1. IntroductionJane Austen is a distinguished female novelist at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is indeed so fine an artist. She is credited with having brought the English novel to its maturity. Austens strength lies in her realism, concrete society. This pretty young lady has charmed us for more than one and a half centuriescharmed away dull hours, created vivid and lively characters, bestowing happiness and harmless mirth upon generations to come.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen manages to give us such a vivid account of her aim to create the most characteristics of the characters. This thesis means to make a tentative study of her characterization and writing techniques employed in the novel.1.1 Jane Austens life and EducationJane Austen was born on December 16. 1775. Jane Austin had more than common varied contact with the limited world of provincial gentry because her father was a country clergyman, the rector of Steventon in the country of Hampshire in South-central England. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After her fathers death in 1805, she moved around with her mother, and finally in 1809 they settled in Clawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visit to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on July 18, 18171.Though she was away from home many years for company of her eldest sister Cassandra in two boarding schools, returning home at the age of nine only, she had the advantage of growing up and studying in an educated family. Some time was probably devoted to the utility of“improving conversation”. In addition, the Austen was a novelreading family. Though she was completely isolated from literary friendship, and never in touch with professional writer or critics, Jane Austens compensations were almost unique. Inheriting the culture of the classics and a respect for style from generation of distinguished university men, she grew up in the midst of her fathers pupils and a family in which all loved books, some of them were fluent penmen, sharing her thoughts, her interests, and ambitions, above all, blessed with a sense of humour and the love for life. But for the novelist she was to become, hereducation was totally in the provincial community in which she came to maturity and of which she was to remain ever fond, as both a place to live and a scene to delineate.1.2 Jane Austens Literary Life and Achievement1.2.1 Jane Austens Literary WorksJane Austen, in her life span of only 42 years, composed a large number of literary pieces. As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Four novels were published during her lifetime. They are Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma2. Her brother, Henry Austen, published two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion posthumously in 1818 with a biographical notice the first formal announcement of her authorship. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel The Watson. At the time of her death she was working on a new novel Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives.1.2.2 The Subject Matter of Jane Austens NovelsJane Austens novels are restricted to a very limited worlda confined sphere made up of a few families of relatives with their friends and acquaintance. She has depicted, with enormous wit, tenderness and humour, the lives and thoughts of the middle class. The plots of her novels revolve around the intricacies of courtship and marriage between members of the class. She was aware, of course, of worldly happenings: the distant thunder of the American and French revolution, the rise of Napoleon, the industrial revolution, the overdone peculiarities of Gothic and sentimental novels, the new emotional quality of Romanticism. But most of these historic fluxes did not come even as close as blank margin of her pages. Instead, she concentrated upon eternal mixed qualities of humanityof human relationshipsexemplified in the provincial society about her. It seems to be the result of Jane Austens conscious decision to limit herself to what she knew intimately, and not the result of any abnormally narrow understanding or lack of interests in the outside world.In commenting on the narrowness of her literary world and vision, some critics wonder if novels of such small scope can truly reflect the human condition. However, Jane Austens talents are uniquely suited to her subject. Although she chooses as her subject the people she knows best, she illuminates in their characters the follies and failings of men and women of all times and classes. Though the domain of Austens novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made