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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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bsp;he is in love with Elizabeth and has a strong conflict between sense and sensibility in his heart.
Such sense has a direct responsibility for his putting obstacles in the uneven marriage of Bingley and Jane.
“… he (Darcy) congratulated himself on having lately saved a friend from the inconveniences of a most imprudent marriage ” because “ there were some very strong objections against the lady”(30) and these strong objections are, “her having one uncle who was a country attorney, and another who was in business in London.”(31) Now it comes to the point. The low connections with small fortune and bad manners is the real cause that makes Darcy depress his own love for Elizabeth and thwart the prospective marriage between Bingley and Jane.
It seems that only the marriage case of Bingley-Jane involves the purest love but no money at all. Then, why is not Bingley penniless but a “young man of large fortune”?
In Pride and prejudice, Austen put marriage into all kinds of social and economic relationship from beginning to end, which makes the whole novel have great practical significance.
Conclusion
There are a lot of novels talking about marriage in Britain, but scarecely an author could be like Austen, exposing the money-essence of capitalism marriage system so deeply. In brief, it is money that determines everybody’s life and fate, especially marriage. As for it’s pragmatic meaning, it could be forceful and penetrating. No wonder that David Dax，a western Marxism critic said, in the aspect of exposing “the economics of human beings’ behavior”, Jane Austen, “to some extent, had been a Marxist before Marx’s being born.”(32)
Notes
(1) 潘维新 《奥斯丁作品中的妇女群像》 西南师范大学学报，1989年4月，P89, 91
(2) Tanner Tony Jane Austen P20
(3) 朱 虹（编） 《奥斯丁研究》 P178
(4) (5) (6) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19) (20) (21) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (27) (28) (29) (30) (31) Jane Austen Pride and prejudice P5, 5, 5, 10, 14, 16, 132, 31, 87-88, 98, 168, 123, 248, 143, 114, 118, 120, 187, 288, 43, 48, 49, 11, 147, 293, 145, 146
(7) 朱 虹 （编） 《英国小说的黄金时代》 P16
(32) Watt Ian (Editor) Jane Austen: A Collection of Critical Essays P11
Bibliography
Rubinstein Annette, 1967, Great Tradition in English Literature from Shakespeare to Austen, Monthly Review Press
Thornley G. C. and Roberts Gwyneth, 1984, An Outline of English Literature, Longman World Publishing Corporation
Sampson George, 1988, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, Cambridge University Press
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