The Relationship Between Money And Marriage——From Pride and Prejudice--开题报告

1. Purpose and significance of writing this paper

As time flies, someone or something has gone away in our life, but still have somethings give us profound impression. For example the pride and prejudice, in which the relationship of the money and Marriage. Money is playing an important role in our daily life, especial in 1813 , women didn’t own position and right in social and family, even they had no right to inherit. Women had to get married with a rich man in order to improve their life, however, the man who was rich or with high level of social status , regardless of handsome or not handsome , he wanted to get married with a women who was beautiful or equal social status with him, this resulted in the money and social status,instead of love were the top priority items that the people considered .Back to our modern ,women can live by themselves in most countries, even some women can work better than man in some areas, So we should cherish the opportunity, and choose a partner who can live with us together until old age in modern times.

2. Main plot of the Story

There are four couple stories described in this book. The first story is the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy,whose marriage was considered the most perfect marriage under  money and social status. Although Elizabeth was born in a family of middle class with not much money, but she is honest to people ,lively in life and be well educated person; The Darcy was born in a rich family ,he look down upon the person who is lower than him. they had opposite economic status and character , finally they reduce the demands of economic status and corrected their character of pride and prejudice respectively for the love ; The second story is the marriage of Charlotte and Collins, whose marriage was considered the trading between money and marriage. Charlotte get the money and the social position that she want. Collins’s pride also was so fully satisfied, but between them just no love except money. The third story is the marriage of Bentley and Jane, whose marriage also was considered the perfect marriage under the money and marriage, they had different economic status ,but with similar character, they got a successful marriage.their marriage was based on love rather than money.The fourth story is the marriage of Lydia and Wickham, whose marriage was considered the worst marriage under the money and marriage.Lydia who has no money and is reckless to people and ignorance, Wickham who also have no money and is cunning to people and shallow, Their marriage was based on the beautiful face and the lust, which must be destined to failure. Among this four couple stories under the money and marriage , only the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy is the author agree with.

3.The realism of the marriage 

There no romantic love in Jane Austen`s composition, in which they always put the Marriage problems on social and economic, the love of what they write most was related with the economic problem and survival problem; The marriage did not exist as the result of Love, but exist as the need of economic. Which reflected the real life of the people`s inner world and the relationship between people and people in different times and different countries

Many young people get marry for the love in modern times, regardless of the economic conditions of couple and object of the family. As time goes on , They have to consider living essentials in order to live, as the growth of the Children,the house become more and more small ,in order to solve the problem of crowd,They need buy a big house,when money played important roles. The couple in order to get more money, they must to be hard work under presser, under these circumstances, the marriage of couple have no quality. So i think that if you want to get a marriage of long-term and well quality, which Must be built on the basis of enough material.

4.Existing researches on Pride and Prejudice

Recently, there are many researches about Pride and Prejudice from all aspects.For example,fenyi liu analyzes that the pride and Prejudice is the most popular novel by Jan Austin,The features of the British society at Late 18th and Early19th Centuries were vividly reflected by comparison and satire.In Britain in the 19th century, the famous historian, poet and political writer Thomas Maclay analyzes that the pride and Prejudice is not only discussed the big point of view from small thing , and observed a large range from a small angle,but also are vividly portrayed for the lives of ordinary people.I think that Pride and Prejudice is the most satisfactory in all the novels of Jane Austen.The above are only part of the researches on this novel,and of course, there are many other researches make analysis from other perspectives.So different idea comes from different people.

5.Prototype of Pride and Prejudice 

Pride and prejudice is Jane Austen the earliest completion, she began to write in 1796, named first impression,completed August 1797.Her father was moved after  looking,Deliberately let Thomas Camille del published,but the other party refused, makes them very disappointed, Later, she rewrote the "first impression" and changed its name to "pride and prejudice" and meantime was published in January 1813.

Outline

Introduction

1.1. Background of the novel and brief introduction of writer Jane Austen

1.2. Main contents of the story

2. The relationship between money and marriage of the four couple

2.1.The relationship between money and marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy

2.1.1 The analysis of the family conditions and the Character of Elizabeth and Darcy

2.1.2 The analysis of the relationship between money and marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy

2.2.The relationship between money and marriage of Charlotte and Collins

2.2.1 The analysis of the family conditions and the Character of Charlotte and Collins

2.2.2 The analysis of the relationship between money and marriage of Charlotte and Collins

2.3.The relationship between money and marriage of Bentley and Jane

2.3.1 The analysis of the family conditions and the Character of Bentley and Jane

2.3.2 The analysis of the relationship between money and marriage of Bentley and Jane

2.4.The relationship between money and marriage of Lydia and Wickham

2.4.1 The analysis of the family conditions and the Character of Lydia and Wickham

2.4.2 The analysis of the relationship between money and marriage of Lydia and Wickham

3.Conclusion

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