文档介绍：Marriage and Love in Emma
《爱玛》中的婚姻与爱情
(文学院英语系英语专业吴萌)
(学号:1999013201)
内容提要:本文旨在论证简·奥斯汀反映在其杰作《爱玛》中的婚姻与爱情观:美满
相称的婚姻建构于成熟爱情,真诚体谅,经济保障和相当的社会地位基础之上。通过对小说
中几对不同的爱情婚姻关系的分析,尤其是对主人公爱玛的爱情和婚姻分析,本文探讨了
简·奥斯汀时代婚姻的社会,经济和心理基础以及婚姻在社会地位和经济保障方面,对于处
于依附地位的女性阶层的重要意义。
关键词:婚姻, 爱情, 成熟爱情,门当户对,经济保障,社会地位
教师点评:本论文对英国 19 世纪著名女小说家简·奥斯汀的名著《爱玛》进行了较详细
的分析。在熟读原著的基础上, 论文作者探讨了《爱玛》中的几对婚姻及其经济、社会和
心理基础,着重探讨了主人公爱玛的恋爱与婚姻,指出幸福的婚姻必须建立在成熟爱情、真
诚理解、经济安全和社会稳定之基础上。本论文立论有据,论证有力,语言流畅,层次分明,
逻辑性强,对于英语本科生来说,达到了较高水平。(点评教师:阮炜职称:教授)
Emma is the climax of Jane Austen’s genius and the only one of her novels that has for its title
a person’s name. According to Mr. Lionel Trilling, ‘Of Jane Austen’s six great novels, Emma is
surely the one that is most fully representative of its author.’ i Pride and Prejudice is of course
more popular, however, Reginald pares its effect with that of Pride and Prejudice:
‘While twelve readings of Pride and Prejudice give you twelve periods of pleasure repeated, as
many readings of Emma give you that pleasure, not repeated only, but squared and squared again
with each perusal, till every fresh reading you feel anew that you never understood anything like
the widening sum of its delights.’ ii
‘ I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.’
--Jane Austen iii
Emma stands apart from the other novels in at least one respect: wherea