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学号 _2011013041____姓名___潘圣玲______ 班级___英语118班___专业____英语_________ 完稿日期_2012/12/8___成绩______________________
Title: Pride and Prejudice
I.Bibliographical information
Author(s):_ Jane Austen______Edition:_ 段鸿欣编译__________
Year of publication:____ 2010年6月_______________
Place:___ 北京复兴门外大街2号___ Publisher:___ 中国国际广播出版社____
II.Information about your reading
1.The reasons why you selected the book: (≥20words)_ because Jane Austen was hailed as a truly great British novelist by critics and literary historians in
twentieth century and the novel is regarded as the most claic sense of the novel.
2.The amount of time you spent reading the book:two weeks
3.If you finished reading the entire book, sign your name here:__潘圣玲
If you did not finish reading the book, how many pages did you read? ______
III.A brief summary of the book (≥150words)
Pride and Prejudice is the story of four marriages in British country of 18th century.Jane Austen shows the pictures of the current social life in Britain through the marriage matter, it also reflects her views on marriage.The book describes the
virtuous and emotional entanglements among the single young Darcy and the second Mi.Elizabeth, and the wealthy single Bingley and the eldest Mi.Jane.The most important love story naturally happens between Elizabeth and Darcy.There’re three marriages interspersed in it.Collins and Charlotte’s busine marriage just satisfies their dreams.Collins wants a wife, and Charlotte wants a husband.Wickham and Lydia’s frivolous marriage just meets their benefits.Lydia completes her “pursuit”, and Wickham gains some money.Bingley and Jane’s marriage is happy with true
feelings, like Darcy and Elizabeth’s.They have feelings for each other in the ball, and have deeper contacts with each other.But they two can’t determine the other’s mind; Bingley is persuaded by Darcy to give the affection and he leaves Jane.Jane lives in sadne.So does Bingley.He comes back to chase Jane and the lover immerses in the joy.They two are all gentle persons, so their marriage will be comfortable and filled with tender and sweet.
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IV.Comments on the book
1.What are the strengths and weaknees of the book? (≥50words)
Although Austen’s theme is narrow, the story is quite dull, but she is good at
shape distinctive characters in ordinary daily things.Whether Elizabeth and Darcy that the author thinks should be positive character, or Collins this kind of being the object of sarcasm, she presents themin a real way.At the same time, Austin’s language is after temper, she in a dialogue art exquisite humor, satire, often with funny witty language to foil character\'s personality.This kind of artistic
innovation made her works have their own characteristics
2.What is the part of this book that had the greatest impact on you? Why? (≥
50words)
With the revealing of the truth, Elizabeth’s prejudice on Darcy becomes deeper.Until when Elizabeth refuses Darcy’s long love letter, she experiences the fierce shock.After undergoing a period of painful and profound thought, she could not help but to shout how despicable she is。When we see the blame from heart, we find her
shortcomings and the courage that she could face herself directly.It is her bringing that plays a role; she starts to give up the bias caused by self-esteem, truly and seriously understand Darcy.Elizabeth wouldn\'t believe the shamele lies about
Darcy said by Han and eliminate the misunderstanding and prejudice.She finally falls in love with Darcy.
Is the writing effective, powerful, difficult, or beautiful? (≥50words)
I think it is helpful .The different treatments and attitudes towards these marriages reflect Jane Austen’s views on marriage.It’s wrong for marriage to pursue property,
money and high status.She strees the importance of an ideal marriage and takes the feelings of both men and women as the cornerstone of the ideal marriage.We also learn that pride and prejudice are the very common problems and weaknees in human’s personality.Everyone is easy to be driven by their own subjective
consciousne or other people’s wrong comments.It may cause a misunderstanding toward a thing or a person.What we should do is to avoid these weaknees and make them under good regulation.Everything must be based on objective sense and commented with a deeper understanding.
1.If you could talk to the author, what would you say? (≥50words)
In this great book, you amply demonstrates your point about love and marriage.And you let me know that at that time, according to the social conditions in
Britain, a good marriage for a young woman was critical.And in the 19th
century, women were not well respected compared with the ones in the present society.There was no equality.between woman and man.Women were
considered to be inferior to men in terms of intelligence and capacity.Now
through this book I find the courage to show ourselves.
What did you learn about yourself as a result of reading this book? (≥50words) Thank you .after reading your book I form a positive attitiud to the marrige.now, I thinklove and marriage only by appreciating the marriage founded on the basis of mutual understanding and true love, but also by satirizing the marriage founded on the basis of origin and desire.The marriage based on social position and money can’t bring happy life.
3.Note down five useful expreions you learned from your reading and make
on sentence for each expreion.
1) [Useful expreion] (p.6 ) She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.
[Sentence you made]: He is a man in poeion of a good fortune.
2) [Useful expreion] (p.4 ) ``My dear Mr.Bennet,\'\' replied his wife, ``how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.\'\'
[Sentence you made]: From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.
3) [Useful expreion] (p.60 ) ``Indeed I have, Sir,\'\' was her answer.``She is a great deal too ill to be moved.Mr.Jones says we must not think of moving her.We must trespa a little longer on your kindne.\'
[Sentence you made]: I will trespa on your hospitality
4) [Useful expreion] (p.124 ) ``I remember hearing you once say, Mr.Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable.You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created.\'’
[Sentence you made]: I remember hearing you once say , that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable
5) [Useful expreion] (p.292 ) Elizabeth could not repre a smile at this, but she answered only by a slight inclination of the head.
[Sentence you made]: However, because they don’t have the emotional tools to integrate the hurt caused by abusive adults, they often repre their feelings as their first line of defence.
General remarks: (≥200words)
The writer Jane Austen disclosed mid-cla young ladies’ different ideas of marriage and love through describing the different ways in which the Bennet girls doing with their marriage problems, and this undoubtedly shows the writer’s idea about love and marriage: it’s wrong to get married just for property, wealth and status while neither would it be without caring about those elements.Jane Austen just attached great
significance to marriage through her novel by telling people that marriage should be regarded carefully because it is not a game you could just enjoy without prudent
consideration.She also wanted to deliver information that marriage should be based on real love between the lovers.The female subject Elizabeth is a mid-cla girl, and Darcy proposed to her regardle of the gap between them, but Elizabeth refused
because of his pride had formed Eli’s prejudice.Cause Darcy’s pride was a suggest of status gap between he and Eli, he wouldn’t have the same thought with Eli and
consequently the ideal marriage.But later Darcy’s doings especially his change of the prideful manner eliminated Eli’s misunderstandings and prejudice about him, and Eli accepted his proposal.Those two opposite attitudes reflect females pursue of
independent personality and equality.I think Elizabeth has personality ethic which caused her independent idea about love and marriage and in consequence she earned a happy life.There’re also Eli’s sisters’ love stories served as contrasts to the female subject’s ideal marriage, such as Charlotte and Collin’s life: they do had a luxury life, but there’s noreal love between them and this kind of marriage is surely a tragedy of society.(_270_ Words)
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The undersigned hereby warrants that the reading report is original and that he/she is the author of the reading report.
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