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Money and Marriage——The matrimonial value orientation in Pride and Prejudice |
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时间：2009-8-8 16:59:05 来源：不详
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sp;Darcy’s duty and responsibility. Miss Bingley, who has a fortune of twenty thousand pounds and is in the habit of spending more than she ought, and of associating with people of rank, shows her great interest to Mr. Darcy, who has ten thousand a year. She also spares no effort to prevent the love affair between Mr. Bingley, her brother and Jane Bennet, Elizabeth’s elder sister, and hopes that her brother can marry Georgiana, Darcy’s sister. Only this can enhance his fortune and social position, and also the possibility of her herself marrying Mr. Darcy. Colonel Fitzwilliam, Darcy’s cousin, is a younger son of an earl, can inherit neither property nor official title. He acknowledges to Elizabeth that his habit of expense makes him too dependent and he cannot afford to marry without some attention to money. He also says that only Darcy can be out of the restraint of money to choose freely on marriage.
From the part of Mr. Darcy, though he need not marry a lady with property since he is in great wealth, he does experience long-time and fierce struggle in the process of acceptance of Elizabeth for her social position and low connections.
“He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her (Elizabeth) connections, he should be in some danger.”(24)
“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”(25)
“She attracted him more than he liked … He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him, nothing that could elevate her with the hope of influencing his felicity; … though they were at one time left by themselves for half-an-hour, he adhere most conscientiously to his book, and would not even look at her.”(26)
Mr. Darcy grows up in a strong awareness of rank and power from his very childhood, which makes him pride and conceited. When he comes to Longbourn, the persons there and the manners they take are far different from what he is familiar with. Though there are so many pleasant girls, “there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with.”(27) Even when he proposes to Elizabeth for his deep love (“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feeling will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”(28)), his sense of her inferiority – of its being a degradation – of the family obstacles which judgment has always opposed to inclination, are dwelt on with a warmth which seems due to the consequence he is wounding.
“I was in middle before I knew I had begun.”(29) Obviously, he once tries to take back his feeling when he finds&n上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] ... 下一页 >>
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