-范文最新推荐-1 / 11曼斯菲尔德庄园英国道德观_英语论文AbstractJane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.This thesis aims at analyzing morals of the early 19th Century Britain reflected in Mansfield Park. It is worth noting that the amateur theatre gives us a good show about different people’s morality. From the acting that seems to be absurd it is easy to infer different people’s character, whether they mate their words to his deeds or not, and their standard to judge between right and wrong. The story happened in the 19th century Britain when western world was under the material benefits of slavery and imperialism. During the period of transition from agricultural society to industrial society the economy of Britain made great progress, which led to a big gap between the rich and the poor. Social morals were dearly influenced under the background, which were reflected in Mansfield Park.Morals of the early 19th century Britain lie in hierarchical social consciousness and the love concept of money first. Most people are judged according to their social status and wealth. Those rich men who look decent possibly have skeletons in the closet. From the character sketch and psychological description in Mansfield Park, Jane Austin aims to express the importance of traditional virtues. She thinks that people’s love should be based on reason accompanied with excellence of heart. The author hopes through Mansfield Park to express a kind of positive spirit -范文最新推荐-3 / 11arousing people’s moral consciousness.The thesis is pided into four parts. The first part serves as an introduction. The second part aims at analyzing the morals of the 19th century Britain reflected in Mansfield Park. The third part attempts to analyze the realistic significance of the morals in Mansfield Park. The last part functions as a conclusion. 2.1 Fanny Price’s Character and the Formation of Her Morals92.1.1 Fanny Price’s Character.92.1.2 The Formation of Her Morals92.2 Morals Reflected in the Mansfield Theatricals112.2.1 Different Attitudes and Behaviors Reflected in the Theatricals112.2.2 Morals Embodied in the Theatricals.133 Realistic Significance of the Morals in Mansfield Park164 Conclusion17Bibliography281 IntroductionMansfield Park is the most controversial of Austens major novels. Austens works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th -范文最新推荐-5 / 11century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.Jane Austen feared that economic considerations would overcome moral considerations in human conduct. In Austens works, the most amoral characters are the most economically motivated. While the connection between amorality and economic considerations is fairly clear, the relationship between personal appearance and moral worth, which was common in 18th-century novels, is more ambiguous. Moral improvement in Austens works is not only for the characters but also for the readers. Her novels are intended to instruct and to refine the emotions along with the perceptions and the moral sense.” (Jan, 1983: 3 ) Believing in a complex moral conscience rather than an innate moral sense, Austen felt that it was necessary to inculcate readers with proper virtues by portraying morally ambiguous characters from which they could learn. This thesis will focus on the people’s attitudes and behaviors in Mansfield Park to analyze the morals of the early 19th century Britain and take some of the details -范文最新推荐-