Abstract: As a man, Austin's view of love coincides with his view of literary creation. This paper attempts to analyze Austin's three representative works from the view of love embodied in the film Jane Austen.
The film Becoming Jane tells the story of Jane Austen's love, feminist thought, persistence in literature and the hard course of becoming a literary master. Her attitude towards love is inextricably linked with her literary creation.
Jane Austen J. was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England in June, 65438 +0775+February, 65438. She is the second daughter in her family. She is one of the few famous female writers in the world, a "little painter" and a "family novelist" between neoclassicism and romanticism. In the eyes of literary critics, she can be compared with Shakespeare. In addition, Austin was the first novelist who made her novels have a distinctive modern nature by describing ordinary people in daily life, and her creation opened the climax of realistic novels in the 1930s. 1796, she fell in love with Tom Lefroy. Because Tom's uncle didn't agree, they ran away from home regardless of secular opposition. Later, I thought that because of elopement, Tom would lose everything and could not support the whole family, so he had to give up his happiness. At that time, Jane was writing her first novel, First Impression, which was rewritten more than ten years later and became a permanent masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice.
She fell in love with Tom Lefroy because Jane thought that true love should be mutual appreciation, not compromise. She believes that love can bring happiness. This is reflected in Pride and Prejudice. In the work, Bingley and Jane are lovers who fell in love at first sight, and they finally came together. Elizabeth and Darcy had great prejudice against each other at first. Elizabeth ignored the arrogant Darcy at first, and then listened to the words of police officer Wickham, thinking that Darcy's personal inheritance rights made him even more disgusted. Darcy couldn't help liking Elizabeth and proposed to her, but his attitude was still so arrogant. Elizabeth firmly refused. This blow made Darcy realize the consequences of conceit for the first time. He left her in pain, leaving a long letter with several explanations: he admitted that Bentley left without saying goodbye because he was dissatisfied with Mrs. Bennet's frivolity and vulgarity; Wickham told a lie. The fact is that Wickham squandered his inheritance and tried to lure Darcy's sister to elope. Elizabeth felt very sorry after reading the letter. She felt guilty about blaming Darcy and ashamed of her mother's behavior. She gradually changed her view of Darcy. After all, Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy turned into sincere love. Lady Catherine, who wanted her daughter to marry Darcy, rushed in and arrogantly asked Elizabeth to promise not to marry Darcy. Elizabeth flatly rejected this unreasonable request.
This matter spread to Searle. He knew that Elizabeth had changed her mind and sincerely proposed to her again. At this point, a pair of lovers who postponed their marriage because of arrogance and prejudice finally got married. The love between Darcy and Elizabeth is the embodiment of the love between Jane Austen and Tom Lefroy. Jane Austen didn't get along well with Tom because she gave a speech to her sister at the engagement ceremony. However, no discord, no concord, this unpleasantness provided them with an opportunity to get to know each other. Tom sincerely apologized to Jane. Jane was moved by his handsome appearance, witty and sharp conversation and positive attitude towards life, and they sincerely loved each other. Jane Austen recognizes true love and scoffs at those who make sacrifices for material pursuits. In Pride and Prejudice, Collins, a distant relative of Elizabeth, is vulgar and ignorant, but he is good at drifting and becoming a priest. He proposed to Elizabeth, and after being rejected, he immediately married Elizabeth's girlfriend Charlotte, who was equally vulgar and ignorant. The author showed great disdain for both of them.
Sense and Sensibility once again embodies the author's view of love. Through the development of the two heroines' mate selection activities, this paper tries to reveal the ugly fashion that women regarded marriage as a bad habit to seek economic security and improve their economic status, and attached importance to family status without considering women's feelings and human rights. The heroines in the novel all pursue equal exchanges and communication with men's thoughts and feelings, demand equal rights in social status, and insist on men's freedom of independent observation, analysis and choice. In Britain at that time, it was almost a cry of resistance.
As reflected in the title of the book, the story focuses on the contradiction between reason and emotion. The characters represented by Marianne are irrational and emotional; The figures represented by Mr. and Mrs. John dashwood are more rational than emotional; The characters represented by Willoughby are hypocritical emotionally. They look emotional on the surface, but in fact they are ruthless and selfish. In the story, the author praised those who cherish their feelings. Although he satirizes these people's lack of rationality from time to time, he looks down on those who lack feelings and are only rational or hypocritical emotionally. The author finally appreciates the heroine Eleanor because she is emotional and rational. This shows the author's ideal on this issue, that is, people can't live without feelings, but feelings should be restricted by reason. The views in the work coincide with those of Jane Austen. Austin believes that personal happiness should be created by oneself, not just inherited from parents and relatives. Because of her poor family, she received a lot of cold reception and encountered many obstacles in choosing a spouse. Tom Lefroy's uncle was very dissatisfied with her. Not only was she born in poverty, but even her career was criticized. Later, after Tom eloped with Austin, she gave up her happiness for fear of affecting Tom's future. In the contest between emotion and reason, the latter won. When Mr. Harris Bewitt first proposed to Jane, she refused without hesitation because she thought he was a coward, despite his steady income and huge family business. Later, forced by family and secular pressure, she agreed to propose, but later broke off the marriage relationship. Because she has always believed that love should not only consider family status and economic status, but also consider whether it is really two of a kind. Jane retorted to her face when Bigwitt's aunt mercilessly belittled Jane.
Jane Austen's view of love is idealistic. Her brothers are very handsome, and because of the influence of the people around her, she has high standards in choosing a spouse, which is one of the reasons why she has never been married. Due to poor family conditions, her marriage was greatly restricted. Therefore, in her works, she always tries her best not to let them suffer this kind of trouble again, and tries her best to describe the love life of the middle class. This is reflected in Pride and Prejudice and Emma.
Emma is a girl of noble birth, beautiful and cheerful. Her mother's death and her sister's marriage made her the hostess of the family prematurely. She likes to fix other people's marriage and love, because she thinks she is a woman of her own mind. As soon as she introduced the governess to Weston, she encouraged her new friend Harriet to refuse the courtship of farmer Martin, haha1! Ye is an orphan, with a poor family, shallow knowledge and little money; In fact, farmer Martin is her first choice to be a good husband, and Martin loves her very much. But this girl obviously has no opinion. Emma, a serious matchmaker, persuaded her to marry Mr. Elton, a priest. However, during a driving trip, Reverend Elton made a warm courtship to Emma, and Emma refused on the spot. At the home of Miss Bates, an old girl, Emma met her niece Jane and Frank, Weston's son, so Emma tried her best to improve her relationship with Frank. Soon, Elton married a vain and snobbish woman. Emma felt that she was not sincere enough to Frank, so she went back and tried her best to repair the relationship between Harriet and Frank. Finally, at a picnic, Emma learned to her chagrin that Frank was secretly engaged to Jane, but she kept it a secret for fear of opposition from menstruation. To Emma's annoyance, Harriet fell in love with her friend Mr Knightley. Emma realized that Knightley had broken into her heart. After a series of misunderstandings, Nantley won Emma's heart and Frank married Jane. And Harriet finally found a satisfactory home from Mager.
This book is a meticulous ukiyo-e painting of the life of the middle class in rural England, and it is also the best, most mature and representative novel of Jane Austen. It takes a funny and tortuous plot as the protagonist and tells the story of how a wayward and conceited woman finds true love around her. Most of the heroines in Austen's novels are enthusiastic, intelligent, independent, witty and humorous, and they are inextricably linked with modern women's psychology ... The great moral enthusiasm in this novel, like her other novels, undoubtedly comes from Jane Austen's understanding and feelings about women's problems in society at that time. This concern for women's status makes her view on marriage unique and convincing. This concern is realistic, not romantic, and destructive by orthodox standards.