A Reading Report of Pride and Prejudice

Class 7 ,20xx

BOOK INTRODUCTION

Pride and Prejudice is one of the representative works of Jane Austen, first published in 1813. It's very popular among modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of most loved books and has been produced into movie form. The latest movie version of 20xx won over 100 million booking office.

The author ,Jane Austen，English writer, was the seventh of eight children and she was born in the village of Steventon in Hampshire in 1775 and died in 1817. Jane Austen accept her education at home and begin to write at her early age. Austen was widely read in her lifetime,and wrote many novels.In 1793,Jane Austen began to write Elinor and Marianne,a novel later reworked into Sense and Sensibility.Three years later,she wrote first Impressions,which was an early version of her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice.In 1797,she wrote Susan, later it become Northanger Abbey. In 1811, she wrote Mansfield Park.She wrote Emma in 1814 and Persuasion in 1816. Clarity, economy, skillful, use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen's style.There is always a neat, round and rather satisfying completeness to her plots. Besides, she is possessed of a neat humor and a satirical touch.

Although the most urgent preoccupation of her bright, young heroines is courtship and finally marriage, Austen herself never married. Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women."

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Pride and Prejudice has been considered the most important and famous novel among all her works.

The narrative begin with Mr Bingley, a wealthy, charming and social young man moving into Netherfield house in the neighborhood of the Bennet family which has five marriageable daughters. The first scene is at a ball after Mr Bingley's arriving.At ball the daughters are introduced to the new comers. Mr Bingley singles out Elizabeth's elder sister, Jane, for particular attention, and it soon becomes apparent that they have formed an attachment to each other.However,Mr Bingley's friend, Mr Darcy makes a less favorable first impression by appearing proud and condescendin. Especially, Jane really get a revolting feeling on him. Mrs bannet want Jane to pay a visit to Mr Bingley's sister,in order to increase come-and-go. Unfortunately, Jane is caught in a heavy downpour, catches cold, and is forced to stay at Netherfield for several days. Elizabeth arrives to nurse.Every coin has two sides,all this unfortunate create an opportunity for the two sisters to get closer to two man. The relationship between Mr Bingley and Jane has been improved,while that of Jane and Mr Darcy make no difference as before.

Latter, Mr Collins, a clergyman, pays a visit to the Bennets to choose a wife from among the Bennet sisters and Elizabeth has been singled out. Mr Collins proposes marriage to Elizabeth, who refuses him, much to her mother's distress, because she dislikes his greasiness for the upper class. Mr Collins recovers and promptly becomes engaged to Elizabeth's close friend Charlotte, a homely woman with few prospects. Elizabeth forms an acquaintance with Mr Wickham, a militia officer who claims to have been very seriously mistreated by Mr Darcy, despite having been a ward of Mr Darcy's father. Therefore Elizaberth's attraction to Mr Wickham, adds fuel to her dislike of Mr Darcy. Moreover, Mr Bingley leave for London without saying farewell to the Bannets and Elizabeth is convinced that Mr Darcy and Mr Bingley's sister have conspired to separate him from Jane.Jane is heart-broken and Elizaberth becomes more dislike Mr Darcy.

In the spring, Elizabeth visits Charlotte and Mr Collins in Kent. Elizabeth and her hosts are frequently invited to Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mr Collins sponsor as well as Darcy's aunt. Darcy come across Elizaberth again and finds himself attracted to Elizabeth since their first meet and impetuously proposes to her. However, Elizaberth has just

learned of Darcy's role in separating Mr Bingley from Jane from his she charges him with destroying her sister's happiness, with treating Mr Wickham disgracefully, and with having conducted himself towards her in an ungentleman behavior. So Mr Darcy is rejected. Mr Darcy, shocked, ultimately responds in a gentleman way with a letter giving a good account of (most of) his actions Elizabeth later came to acknowledge the truth of Darcy's assertions. The prejudice of Elizaberth against Darcy's pride disappeared.

Turning point Some months later, Elizabeth and her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner visit Pemberley, Darcy's estate, during his left . He returns unexpectedly, and he treats the Gardiners with great civility; he introduces Elizabeth to his sister, and Elizabeth begins to realise her attraction to him.Their reacquaintance is cut short. Then Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, has run away to elope with Mr Wickham.Mr Darcy take the responsibility to find the couple and to negotiate their marriage—at great expense to himself. Elizabeth is shocked but does not dwell further on the topic due to Mr Bingley's return and subsequent proposal to Jane, who immediately accepts.

However, Lady Catherine de Bourgh later bursts in on Longbourn, intending to thwart local rumour, she warns Elizabeth against marrying Mr Darcy. Elizabeth refuses her demands. Disgusted, Lady

Catherine leaves and drops by to inform her nephew on Elizabeth's abominable behaviour. However, this lends hope to Darcy that Elizabeth's opinion of him may have changed. He travels to Longbourn and proposes again; and now Elizabeth accepts.

Four youth finally find their true love and marry them. The narrative meets the happy ending.

Pride and Prejudice are two common weak points usually seen in our daily life.Humans are easily be trapped by the appearance of the thing . Different classes with the discrepancy of wealth have their social disease-the upper class with good wealth sometimes behave indifferent to the poor and pride of themselves,while the poor form a prejudice to the upper class in order to protect their self -esteems.

 

第二篇：读书报告 傲慢与偏见 英文

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学号 _20xx013041____ 姓名___潘圣玲______ 班级___英语118班___ 专业____英语_________ 完稿日期_20xx/12/8___ 成绩______________________

Title: Pride and Prejudice

I. Bibliographical information

Author(s):_ Jane Austen______ Edition:_ 段鸿欣编译__________

Year of publication:____ 20xx年x月_______________

Place:___ 北京复兴门外大街2号___ Publisher:___ 中国国际广播出版社____

II. Information about your reading

1. The reasons why you selected the book: (≥20words)_ because Jane Austen was hailed as a truly great British novelist by critics and literary historians in

twentieth century and the novel is regarded as the most classic sense of the novel.

2. The amount of time you spent reading the book: two weeks

3. If you finished reading the entire book, sign your name here:__潘圣玲

If you did not finish reading the book, how many pages did you read? ______

III. A brief summary of the book (≥150words)

Pride and Prejudice is the story of four marriages in British country of 18th century. Jane Austen shows the pictures of the current social life in Britain through the marriage matter, it also reflects her views on marriage. The book describes the

virtuous and emotional entanglements among the single young Darcy and the second Miss. Elizabeth, and the wealthy single Bingley and the eldest Miss. Jane. The most important love story naturally happens between Elizabeth and Darcy. There’re three marriages interspersed in it. Collins and Charlotte’s business marriage just satisfies their dreams. Collins wants a wife, and Charlotte wants a husband. Wickham and Lydia’s frivolous marriage just meets their benefits. Lydia completes her “pursuit”, and Wickham gains some money. Bingley and Jane’s marriage is happy with true

feelings, like Darcy and Elizabeth’s. They have feelings for each other in the ball, and have deeper contacts with each other. But they two can’t determine the other’s mind; Bingley is persuaded by Darcy to give the affection and he leaves Jane. Jane lives in sadness. So does Bingley. He comes back to chase Jane and the lover immerses in the joy. They two are all gentle persons, so their marriage will be comfortable and filled with tender and sweet.

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IV. Comments on the book

1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the book? (≥50words)

Although Austen’s theme is narrow, the story is quite dull, but she is good at

shape distinctive characters in ordinary daily things. Whether Elizabeth and Darcy that the author thinks should be positive character, or Collins this kind of being the object of sarcasm, she presents themin a real way. At the same time, Austin’s language is after temper, she in a dialogue art exquisite humor, satire, often with funny witty language to foil character's personality. This kind of artistic

innovation made her works have their own characteristics

2. What is the part of this book that had the greatest impact on you? Why? (≥

50words)

With the revealing of the truth, Elizabeth’s prejudice on Darcy becomes deeper. Until when Elizabeth refuses Darcy’s long love letter, she experiences the fierce shock. After undergoing a period of painful and profound thought, she could not help but to shout how despicable she is。When we see the blame from heart, we find her

shortcomings and the courage that she could face herself directly. It is her bringing that plays a role; she starts to give up the bias caused by self-esteem, truly and seriously understand Darcy. Elizabeth wouldn't believe the shameless lies about

Darcy said by Han and eliminate the misunderstanding and prejudice. She finally falls in love with Darcy.

Is the writing effective, powerful, difficult, or beautiful? (≥50words)

I think it is helpful .The different treatments and attitudes towards these marriages reflect Jane Austen’s views on marriage. It’s wrong for marriage to pursue property,

money and high status. She stresses the importance of an ideal marriage and takes the feelings of both men and women as the cornerstone of the ideal marriage. We also learn that pride and prejudice are the very common problems and weaknesses in human’s personality. Everyone is easy to be driven by their own subjective

consciousness or other people’s wrong comments. It may cause a misunderstanding toward a thing or a person. What we should do is to avoid these weaknesses and make them under good regulation. Everything must be based on objective sense and commented with a deeper understanding.

1. If you could talk to the author, what would you say? (≥50words)

In this great book, you amply demonstrates your point about love and marriage. And you let me know that at that time, according to the social conditions in

Britain, a good marriage for a young woman was critical. And in the 19th

century, women were not well respected compared with the ones in the present society. There was no equality. between woman and man. Women were

considered to be inferior to men in terms of intelligence and capacity. Now

through this book I find the courage to show ourselves.

What did you learn about yourself as a result of reading this book? (≥50words) Thank you .after reading your book I form a positive attitiud to the marrige.now, I think love and marriage only by appreciating the marriage founded on the basis of mutual understanding and true love, but also by satirizing the marriage founded on the basis of origin and desire. The marriage based on social position and money can’t bring happy life.

3. Note down five useful expressions you learned from your reading and make

on sentence for each expression.

1) [Useful expression] (p. 6 ) She was a woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper.

[Sentence you made]: He is a man in possession of a good fortune.

2) [Useful expression] (p. 4 ) ``My dear Mr. Bennet,'' replied his wife, ``how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.''

[Sentence you made]: From the fact that after 100,000 years or a million years or whatever it is, eventually life would grow tiresome, that hardly shows that life has grown tiresome after 50 years or 80 years or 100.

3) [Useful expression] (p. 60 ) ``Indeed I have, Sir,'' was her answer. ``She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness.'

[Sentence you made]: I will trespass on your hospitality

4) [Useful expression] (p. 124 ) ``I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created.'’

[Sentence you made]: I remember hearing you once say , that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable

5) [Useful expression] (p. 292 ) Elizabeth could not repress a smile at this, but she answered only by a slight inclination of the head.

[Sentence you made]: However, because they don’t have the emotional tools to integrate the hurt caused by abusive adults, they often repress their feelings as their first line of defence.

General remarks: (≥200words)

The writer Jane Austen disclosed mid-class young ladies’ different ideas of marriage and love through describing the different ways in which the Bennet girls doing with their marriage problems, and this undoubtedly shows the writer’s idea about love and marriage: it’s wrong to get married just for property, wealth and status while neither would it be without caring about those elements. Jane Austen just attached great

significance to marriage through her novel by telling people that marriage should be regarded carefully because it is not a game you could just enjoy without prudent

consideration. She also wanted to deliver information that marriage should be based on real love between the lovers. The female subject Elizabeth is a mid-class girl, and Darcy proposed to her regardless of the gap between them, but Elizabeth refused

because of his pride had formed Eli’s prejudice. Cause Darcy’s pride was a suggest of status gap between he and Eli, he wouldn’t have the same thought with Eli and

consequently the ideal marriage. But later Darcy’s doings especially his change of the prideful manner eliminated Eli’s misunderstandings and prejudice about him, and Eli accepted his proposal. Those two opposite attitudes reflect females pursue of

independent personality and equality. I think Elizabeth has personality ethic which caused her independent idea about love and marriage and in consequence she earned a happy life. There’re also Eli’s sisters’ love stories served as contrasts to the female subject’s ideal marriage, such as Charlotte and Collin’s life: they do had a luxury life, but there’s no real love between them and this kind of marriage is surely a tragedy of society. (_270_ Words)

Author’s Statement

The undersigned hereby warrants that the reading report is original and that he/she is the author of the reading report.

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