摘 要：简·奥斯汀是一位19世纪的英国女作家。作为一位批判现实主义的女作家，她以独特的女性视角进行写作，而她最著名的作品之一就是《傲慢与偏见》。奥斯汀以细腻的文笔，从女性内心世界出发，描述了乡绅之女伊丽莎白·班内特的爱情故事。本文主要以生态女性主义的角度分析小说的写作背景和人物形象。同时，通过对当时年代和环境的分析，以及对奥斯汀本人的分析，研究小说中的女性意识。

关键词：奥斯汀；生态女性主义；傲慢与偏见；女性意识

Abstract：Jane Austen is a British woman writer in the 19th century. As a critical realist writer, one of her most famous works is Pride and Prejudice. With a delicate style of writing, Austen proceeds from the inner world of women to describe the love story of the squire’s daughter Elizabeth Bennet. From the perspective of eco- feminism, this paper focuses on the analysis of the characters and the author’s writing style. At the same time, by analyzing the social environment and Austen herself, this paper presents the female consciousness during that era.

Key words: Austen; eco feminism; Pride and Prejudice; female consciousness

Interpretation of Pride and Prejudice in the Ecological Feminism

Contents

摘 要 i

Abstract ii

I. Introduction 3

II. About Pride and Prejudice 4

III. Feminism Theory 7

3.1 The Development of Feminism in Literature 7

3.2 Austen and Her Contemporary Female Writers 8

3.3 Feminism in Austen’s Works 9

IV. Feminist Images in Pride and Prejudice 10

4.1 The Image of Elizabeth 10

4.3 The Image of Mrs. Bennet 11

4.4 The Image of Charlotte 12

4.5 The Image of Lydia 12

V. Conclusion 13

Bibliography 13

Acknowledgements 15

I. Introduction

Jane Austen is a famous British female novelist. Her works popularly focus on the marriage life of female in squire family. She uses unique female observation to depicts many vivid characters and draw a real picture of the world around her. Jane Austen lived during the period of Britain’s Industrial Revolution which was not only the flourishing Period of the industrial bourgeoisie but also an era of social transition. Her novels, such as a popular anti-traditional romance novel or a 18th century Gothic fiction, focused on describing the daily life of the middle class and the performance of social values from trivial matters. Austen created 6 novels during her career as a writer, most of her novels were about the British decent people’s marriage at that time. Also, these novels emerged personality, and independent thinking of the new women. When reading Austen’s novels, it is not difficult to find that she projects her shadows on characters and events and some circumstances were happened in Jane’s own  family. She gave the heroine wisdom, thought and dignity. We can believe that was the desire of the author and other women in that era.

Austen’s works attract many comments. Some are praise, some are critical. Her work didn’t sell well when they were published. However, with the time going on, Austen become more and more important in English literary history. She broke the situation of man’s dominating in literary creation in a long period. Thomas Babington Macaulay in A History of England said that: “Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second. But among the writers who, in the point which we have noticed, have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen, a woman of whom England is justly proud.”(73)He gave Austen a great evaluation. Another praise was from Alfred Tennyson, who wrote “¬Miss Austen understood the smallness of life to perfection. She was a great artist, equal her small sphere to Shakespeare. ” (201)in his work In Memoriam. Still there were many writers highly appreciating Austen, such as Walter Scott, Troy Rop, George Eliot, Coleridge and Mrs. Browning. Of course, there were also some critics disliking Austen, such as Charlotte Bronte and Mark Twain. There is a reason that causes Austen couldn’t be loved during the period which man dominating everything, she is a female writer.