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Pride and Prejudice adopted the love and marriage of the youth as its subject. However, the difference is that the main route is the complication of love between the hero and the heroine. The story described four different kinds of morality and standard. The latter two pieces of marriage are contrast to the former two. Following the four marriage, the story is full of complication, misunderstanding, conflicts and doubt. The plot of the story is whirling but sometimes comes to a dead end; it winds through high peaks, but sometimes it goes through dense willow trees and reaches bright flowers. By the way, the author’s description is humorous and objective, which makes me simmer with laugher.

The story mainly described the marriage of Bennets’ several daughters. Through the description of the four different marriages, it showed several different ideas about marriage. In love, what should we put at the first place, appearance, wealth, status or love itself? The author did not clarify his own opinion by the way of argument, but he described several different marriages to let the readers think by themselves.

Although the story described many people, the author arranged ingeniously, so it made clearly the main roles and the secondary roles. The main roles are Elizabeth.Bennet and Darcy . Elizabeth is an enthusiastic and active countryside young lady, but she did not lack pure. She did not know how to scheme against each other, how to distinguish truth and false, so prejudice appeared in her mind. Darcy is a nobleman in upper society. His celebrated status made him feel proud, so that people ignored he tall and strong figure, his bright eyes and graceful eyebrows, his graceful manners. No matter how wealthy hi is, people around only think that he has a high opinion of himself and cares for nobody. What comforts us is that contradiction between Elizabeth and Darcy dissolved at last. But if Darcy did not pay court to Elizabeth or he did not clarify after being refused and humiliated, and gave up seeking love, so what result will it be? It will

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be a tragedy. Maybe the inflexible love between Jane and Mr.Bingley will be destroyed on one day. Maybe Lydia’s rash and unconsidered actions will bring to the family shame. However, all these did not happen. Because Darcy saw innocence by his reasonable sight. Among the main roles and the secondary roles, except for Elizabeth , Mr.Darcy and Mr.Bingley , all the rest almost have many shortcomings, but because of the description of these less important people, we feel of the truth of it. Because in our real life, in fact we act these inglorious roles in some aspects. Such as selfishness, snobbishness and unconventional attitude in Mrs.Bennet ; returning kindness with ingratitude in Wickham ; dishonesty, foolishness in Collins ; indulge in arbitrary decisions and peremptory actions in Catherine .Certainly, people in the story are not all of wretched appearance. Jane is the eldest young lady in the family. She is beautiful and of a good temper, even a little naïve. She never thinks others as evildoers—even though she knows that someone is cheating her.

A major theme in much of Jane Austen’s work is the importance of environment and upbringing on the development of young people’s character and morality. Social standing and wealth are mot necessarily advantages in her world, and a further theme common to Austen’s work is ineffectual parents. In Pride and Prejudice, the failure of Mr. and Mrs. Bannet as parents is blamed for Lydia’s lack of moral judgment; Darcy, on the other hand, has been taught to be principled and scrupulously honorable, but is also proud and overbearing.

Pride and Prejudice employs the narrative technique of free indirect speech. By using narrative which adopts the tone and vocabulary of a particular character, the author invites the reader to follow events from Elizabeth’s viewpoint, sharing her prejudices and misapprehensions.

After reading the story, I deeply realized that we should not classify people as valuable or humble according to their wealth. Nobody should be prejudice because of his wealth or status Also, before we know the truth, we should not believe in something rashly. What counts the most is that love itself is the most valuable, and it has nothing with wealth or status or appearance.