On Jane Austens view of Marriage through Sense And Sensibility试论《理智与情感》中简奥斯汀的婚姻观开题报告

1. 研究目的与意义

Jane Austen was an outstanding novelist of realism in the history of English literature in nineteenth-century. Sense and Sensibility, the first novel she published, is one of her most humorous works rich in fun. In this work, Austen has shown vividly the conflict between reality and ideals, sense and sensibility. She has stressed that in the field of marriage and love, people who only act with prudence, will be happy, or at least succeed; being emotional will cause pain, rather than lead to the desired results.Jane Austen#8217;s views of marriage in Sense and sensibility is meaningful for people especially youngsters to combine sense and sensibility before they choose marriage.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

My paper will give a brief introduction of Jane Austen#8217;s views of marriage through sense and sensibility, based on the background of time when the author created sense and sensibility,and combined with Austen#8217;s own experience. This paper is composed of six parts.

The first part will give a brief introduction of the author, and some researches on the novel from different aspects. And the second part is going to give a sociohistorical analysis of Sense and Sensibility. In the third part, views of marriage in the novel, both different characters#8217; and the author#8217;s will be further discussed and the fourth part will dig into the root causes of Austin#8217;s views of marriage. Then the fifth part is to talk about the topic#8217;s significance and also some limitations in the real society. And sum up the whole paper in the last part.

3. 国内外研究现状

Sense and sensibility has attracted a large number of scholars since it was first published . Many people have done some researches on the novel from different aspects.For example.Zhou Qing said that Sense and sensibility was the most typical novel that revealed Austen#8217;s views of marriage and had realistic meaning in modern times.Liu Xiamin talked about the different characters of the Dashwood sisters when analyzing the art of characterization in Sense and sensibility.Elinor represented good sense while Marianne represented sensibility,but they could get along well with each other.

However,few people have directly talked about views of marriage Austen expressed in Sense and sensibility. The paper focuses on Austen#8217;s views on marriage in Sense and sensibility through analyzing Dashwood sisters#8217; complicated marriages, and describing the reasons leading to Austen#8217;s such views of marriage ,in order that people can know about this novel and marriage.I attempt to make a search on this topic to stress that a truly happy marriage exists only where sense and sensibility meet and mix in proper measure.Only in this way can everyone enjoy happy marriage.

4. 计划与进度安排

1.introduction

jane austen (1775-1817) is the one of the greatest british women writers.she had never gone to regular school and got proper education, but she read a lot of books, especially classical literature and popular books, with the help of her parents. because there weren#8217;t many big social contradictions in the small village, her works mainly described the rural life and the romance love between ladies and gentlemen in a relaxing and humorous style. her works are also called comic novel or comedy of manners. they are very popular at that time, and they all can claim to be classic works in british.besides, these six stories all end up with the hero and heroine getting married and living a happy life.

sense and sensibility is jane austen#8217;s first published novel, coming out in 1811.the heroines of sense and sensibility are elinor and her younger sister marianne. as the name of this book, the novel mainly accounted how elinor uses sense and marianne uses sensibility to deal with the problems and confusions they are facing, and then find their love and marry them through difficulties. in sense and sensibility, elinor stand for sense, marianne stand for sensibility.but she isn#8217;t the simple one who only has sense. she is a woman with rich thoughts and colorful characteristics. she has a clear idea of what one should hate or love. marianne is like elinor in many ways, but she is more enthusiastic, clever and active, certainly, more sensible, than her sister.

5. 参考文献

[1]austen, jane. pride and prejudice. oxford: oxford university press, 1983.

[2] sense and sensibility. oxford: oxford university press, 1994.

[3] sense and sensibility. trans. wu chonghan. shanghai: shanghai translation publishing house, 1996.