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What is love ? Passion, intimacy and commitment are inseparable. What is marriage? Marriage is essentially a contractual relationship involving ethics, customs, and laws. Going from romantic love to marriage should be the dream of all girls.
Two hundred years ago, there was a girl who bravely chose not to marry and became one of the more famous leftover women, because people compared her to Shakespeare. Although she has never been married in her life, she uses the pen in her hand to tell us what is the most beautiful love and marriage. She is the famous British female writer Jane Austen.
Jane Austen's masterpiece Pride and Prejudice has been a bestseller for two hundred years since its publication. In this novel, love, as a beautiful prelude, plays the most beautiful music of marriage. What does this leftover writer's love and marriage written at the end of the 18th century have for our modern marriage? Why do people like to read her work so much?
Jane Austen is good at writing about parents, but she leads the direction of English literature; she loves to write ball parties, social chats, but like two inches of ivory carving, enough to reflect social reality; the relationship between her characters is not complicated, mainly the relatives and friends of several families in the township farm, but they all have distinct personalities.
The women in "Pride and Prejudice", their fate is essentially similar to the women in "Dream of the Red Chamber", there is no independent economic foundation and social status, and the main role of women in marriage is to pass on the generations and teach their husbands and children.
At that time, marriage paid attention to the equality of the door, the interests were tied, and whether the man and the woman were in agreement was not considered. Therefore, in "Dream of the Red Chamber", the feelings of Bao Dai and Bao Dai are particularly precious, but the ending ends in tragedy, which makes the world sigh and wake up. In "Pride and Prejudice", the ending of the male and female protagonists is perfect, which is more in line with the expectations of the public.
A happy ending may not be in line with reality, but it can warm people's hearts. Jane Austen is an iconic figure in the field of British novel writing, and has a significance for the transition from Romanticism to Realism in British novel writing. The happy ending of "Pride and Prejudice" does not affect its realist characteristics.
In this novel, married or unmarried men and women have their own worth. Two gold bachelors, Darcy and Bentley, are worth £10,000 and £40,000 and £4,000 a year, respectively. The protagonist Elizabeth's mother heard that Bentley had moved in and they had become neighbors, and her eyes lit up with excitement.
Elizabeth's father and mother were fairly matched, Mr. Bennet had an annual income of two thousand pounds, and Mrs. Bennet had an inheritance income of four thousand pounds, but they could not match each other. Therefore, the intellectually inferior wife has become the object of her husband's teasing.
Elizabeth was her father's preferred daughter, who loved to read like her father, and was bright and knowledgeable. Elizabeth's eldest sister is a sweet lady, gentle in temperament, especially kind, and a big beauty. They also have three younger sisters. The five sisters are of the same value and will have only a few hundred pounds of inheritance in the future.
The five sisters are all looking forward to beautiful love, and do not have the utilitarian heart of the mother, because the eldest sister is just over 20 years old, and the younger sister is only fifteen years old, so they have no brothers, and the real problems such as property to be inherited by others are not within their consideration.
The sisters read, played the piano, sang, dressed up, went shopping at their aunt's house, went to the bookstore to buy books, and chatted with officers. They live happily under the care of their parents, and they are not as eager as their mothers for their life's events.
Elizabeth initially had no affection for Darcy, as darcy was an arrogant person. Elizabeth is optimistic and assertive, so she doesn't mind Darcy's refusal to ask her to dance: "I can forgive his pride, as long as he doesn't come to hinder me." 」
Unbeknownst to Elizabeth, Darcy soon developed a crush on her. Because he found that she had a pair of smart and beautiful talking eyes. When Elizabeth refuses to dance with Darcy, Darcy is not only not angry, but instead recalls the way she turned away.
Later, Darcy reined in his arrogance for his loved ones and became humble and courteous. Instead of rejecting the danger of embarrassment in Elizabeth's family, he secretly helped Elizabeth, marrying her sister to the man who eloped, and helping them preserve the family's reputation.
In the end, Elizabeth swept away the prejudice and saw the man's affection, and the lover eventually became a family member. In addition to depicting the enviable couple and their happiness and small troubles after marriage, the novel also writes about the marriage of Elizabeth's sisters and friends.
Silly white sweet sister Jane and rich and handsome Bentley are a beautiful marriage at first sight; sister Lydia and Wickham are irrational marriages swayed by lust; Elizabeth's friend Lucas and priest Collins are too rational marriages for long-term meal tickets.
Jane Austen uses her pair of eyes to observe life in detail, carefully carved, she analyzes a variety of marriages into three points, and portrays a variety of characters as Vimmo.
Jane Austen was born in that era and was fortunate to be able to remain celibate because she had a loving father and brother who loved him, encouraged her to keep writing, pampered her to live a well-off life, and ultimately helped her become a writer. Uncompelled by life, Jane Austen, like Charlotte Brontë, went to work as a governess in a wealthy home.
Her ability to live and write gracefully is perhaps the source of the light-hearted humor of her work style. Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, two female writers born on the front and back feet, both advocated equality between men and women, and both wrote their yearning for a perfect love marriage into their works.
The love marriage written by Jane Austen is more realistic and instructive. The ideal marriage she expresses is a marriage with rationality and sensibility. Unfortunately, how many people can be blessed to encounter such feelings? Jane Austen never married in her life is for this reason.
In December 1802, she rejected the marriage proposal of a quality man who, although he had a large estate to inherit, was not the object of her love. Jane Austen, as a demure and talented girl, has no shortage of suitors. Unfortunately, either the two families have a big gap, or the other party is not loved by her.
The men she once loved, the men who once loved her, including her loving father and brother, and the sweet life of the 18th-century English township became the background of her work- and the gentleman's pursuit of spiritually fit love.
Jane Austen lived out the pride of a modern urban woman. Although she is a leftover woman, she is not a young literary and artistic woman who is lonely and self-congratulatory, and she is not a nerdy intellectual woman. She is a woman who understands human nature and has social insight and wisdom.
Pride and Prejudice shapes ideas that are in line with modern thinking. Today, people's expectations of marriage are still not much different from that era, which is enough to prove the greatness of Jane Austen.
The love in the modern urban emotional drama "Why Sheng Zhen Mo" has touched countless people. The most moving thing about it is that the heroine "does not deceive the young and the poor", but with sincere love, believes in the excellence of the lover, and believes that he can create a better future.
The male protagonist uses the same affection, with seven years of lonely waiting, to repay the other party, and put the vows silently written in his heart into action, and finally let his girlfriend become a woman who everyone envies, a happy woman with vested interests and love.
As a modern woman, if she is not born in a rich family, instead of envying the marriage of the aristocratic era in the novel, it is better to face reality, polish your eyes, look for potential stocks like He Yichen, and create a better future with your lover, which may be the most reliable choice for most people.
How fortunate to be born in these days, especially women. Today, even ordinary people do not have much gap with the aristocrats of the past in the material level, except that there is no inferior service, and the living standards of most people are even worse than those of the nobles of the past. The bigger gap is in the spiritual dimension.
So why don't we pursue a little spiritual richness like the real nobility?
Some people say that marriage is the graveyard of love, and some people say that marriage is the spiritual union of two people. Shakespeare said: Sloppy marriages are less happy. Qian Zhongshu said: Marriage is a besieged city, people outside the city want to go in, people in the city want to come out.
Since marriage is a besieged city, it is risky to rush in, and it is even more difficult to rush out, or it is enough to stay outside the city and have love. If there is no love, it is actually safer to stay outside, at least have independence and freedom, do not have to consider the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, do not have to be tied up by children, and do not have to worry about children's education.
More and more modern women hold this view. This is an active choice, and the word "leftover" is not accurate. Jane Austen, the leftover female writer two hundred years ago, has explained to us what the most beautiful love and marriage should look like, and as a woman born in such a beautiful era, even if she is called a leftover woman, what is the harm?