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1、AppreciationofJaneAusten‘sArtinPrideandPrejudice○ZhongFei(Hunanvocationalcollegeofforeignlanguages,Changsha,Hunan,410000) [Abstract] JaneAustenisthefamouswomannovelistofBritaininthe19thcentury.Irony,asthemoststrikingfeatureinhernovels,isalsotheartisticessenceofPrideandPrejudi
2、ce.Throughanalysisofstructureandtypicalcharacters’speechandacts,theartofironyinPrideandPrejudicecanbeappreciated.[Keywords] JaneAusten; PrideandPrejudice; Irony[中图分类号]I106.4 [文献标识码]A [文章编号]167228610(2010)0220031202I.IntroductionJaneAustenistheoutstandingwomannovelistofBritain
3、inthe19thcentury.Herworksdisplaysuchshrewdwit,delicateirony,andaccomplishedcharacterizationsthatJaneAustennowranksasamasteroftheEnglishnovelandcontributesalottoliteraryworld.Ironyisabroadtermreferringtotherecognitionofarealitydifferentfromthemaskingappearance.Itisacontrastora
4、differencebetweenthewaythingsseemandthewaytheyreallyare.Thatistosay,onesaysathingbutmeanstheopposite.Thereisalwaysagapbetweenwhathesaysandwhathemeans,betweenthesurfacemeaningandhisrealintention.IronyisthemoststrikingfeatureinJaneAusten’snovels.Asaningeniouswork,themasterieceo
5、fJaneAusten,PrideandPrejudiceemploystheironictechniqueincharacterizationandstructure,whichhasmadeagreatrealisticcomicworkofthenovel.Ⅱ.AppreciationofIronyinStructureTheopeningsentenceofthewholenovelproclaims,“Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledgedthatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfo
6、rtunemustbeinwantofawife.”[2]1However,thenovelisabouthowyoungladieshunthusbands.Inthe18thcenturyinEngland,becausehandicraftindustrywasreplacedbymachinebuilding,women’ssocialpositionshaddroppedtoanenormousextent.Marriage,whichwastakenasameanstochangewoman’sposition,becamemosti
7、mportantintheirlife.[3]60-63InPrideandPrejudice,Mr.andMrs.Bennethavefivedaughters.Unfortunatelyfortheirdaughters,Mr.Bennet’spropertyis“entailedindefaultofheirsmale,onadistantrelation”.[2]23Thatmeanstherewillbenootherguaranteefortheirdaughters’futurelives,buttheirperspectivema
8、rriages.So,theso-called“asinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortunemustbein