Drifting Catkins in a Chaotic World-A Discussion on the Enlightenment of Love Amidst the Interweaving of Sorrow and Joy in Love in a Fallen City

In the novel Love in a Fallen City,Bai Liusu and Fan Liuyuan realize the enlightenment of love in the situation of conflicting values and creation.It is an important turning point for the change of their self-consciousness and social cognition.

The Youth’s View of Marriage in Chinese Mainstream Media Discourse-A Corpus-assisted Three-dimensional Discourse Analysis

The rising of aging and the declining of birth rates have forced the public to focus on the youth’s view on marriage.Based on critical discourse analysis and combined with Fairclough’s three-dimensional discourse analysis model,this paper builds a“Chinese media News Report Corpus on the topic of‘marriage’”whose news are collected from China Daily.It is found that the discourses are neutral and objective with regard to the advantages and disadvantages of marriage,but in general,it is still a traditional view of marriage that is inevitable and closely related to fertility.Although this is controlled by the policies and the social reasons including declining fertility rate,it deviates from the current view of the youth towards marriage,resulting in many serious consequences such as young people’s rejection.In addition,this research found that male and female have great differences in their views on marriage,and men’s resistance to marriage is far greater than that of women,which is departure from the public’s cognition.The reasons behind this need to be explored in order to solve the marriage and love problems of young people in today’s era and realize the healthy development of young marriage.

Money and Happiness——Views on the Marriages in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen,a famous woman realistic novelist of the 19th century with her own opinions about marriage,in Pride and Prejudice, through her description of four women's marriages,expresses such views: a marriage based on love is a happy one; a marriage either for money or for lust is an unhappy one,which are still of realistic significance.

Marriage View of One-Child in China——Comparing with the Matrimonial Value Orientation in Pride and Prejudice

This paper illustrates a social burning issue : the marriage view of one-child generation in China. Nowdays money plays a key role in their marriage life and determines their matrimonial value orientation.The Matrimonial Value Orientation of most young people in China was getting familiar with most characters in Pride and Prejudice. In this paper the writer makes use of Narration Research to illustrate the role of money in marriage life, It can stimulate the young people to take further into consideration the relationship between money and marriage. At the same time,the writer also expects young people to take right attitude towards their love and money.

On the Feminist Comparative Study of Views on Marriage Between the Early Nineteenth Century and Modern Times—Taking Pride and Prejudice for Example

Marriage is a theme influenced by cultural progress. Economic factor is one of the main elements that people of the early nineteenth century considered when deciding a marriage. The pursuit of economic interest results in the advent of some tragic marriages while now it is a side reason. However, women today have made great advancement in education background, employment situation and social status. Women gradually have their economic ability, autonomy and social status. Hence, they began to lay emphasis on the equality and sense of happiness. This is why the views on marriage vary in different eras. This paper, based on the view of marriage from the nineteenth- century English novel Pride and Pejudice, is dedicated to elucidating the changes and improvements of view on marriage from feminist perspective via comparing and contrasting the similarities and the differences of people's view on marriage between the early 1800 s and modern times, and then draws a conclusion that the women's degree of receptive education can influence their social status and view on marriage. In modern times the view on marriage based on equality attribute to the sense of happiness of a family and the degree of satisfaction of marriage.

The Chinese Concept of Love and Marriage

Marriage plays an important role in people’s life,especially in a familycentered society such as China.Chinese people consider marriage as one of the most important events for an individual and for his or her family.As the Chinese traditionally place family interests in a vital position,family

Views on Marriage and Happiness in Pride and Prejudice

At the very beginning of the book-Pride and Prejudice,the author said"It is universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be want of a wife."From this line,we can find that marriage is the most important thing to women.Sometimes it even equals to men's career at that time.It seems like once a woman married to a rich single man,she succeed in her lifetime"career".The question is what is the standard of that"succeed"? Married to a rich man,or the man you really love,or a man you had a crush on? Everyone keep these questions in mind since very early time,and different people have different opinions.In her short life,Jane Austin,the great novelist,composed six novels and created lot of female characters.Women in her novel had different attitudes toward marriage.Speaking of marriage,Pride and Prejudice must be the most representative work of it,and it is also Jane's masterpiece.Through the different type of marriage of Mr.Bennet's daughters,we can find the Jane's atti tude towards marriage.In this article the author will discuss this issue based on Pride and Prejudice.

Love,Marriage and the Equality of Human Dignity

This essay aims to discuss and analyse Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester's attitude towards love and marriage. Struggling for theequality of human dignity crosses through their love from beginning to end. Therefore, we can draw a conclusion--True love and happymarriage are based upon the equality of human dignity between a couple.

On Jane Austen's Views on marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Marriage and love are eternal topics in our society.Among these works,Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen is welcomed all over the world.In this novel,Jane Austen expresses her own opinions about this problem through the description of four couples'marriage,that is:marriage should not be determined by property and family status.It is unwise to marry without money,but it is also wrong to marry for money.The marriage settled by love is happy and ideal.Her views on marriage have great realistic significance to the modern society.This paper sums up Jane Austen's views on ideal marriage and its great realistic significance to the modern society from the analysis of four different types of marriage in the novel.

Struggle and Succeed in the battlefield of marriage—Anne Elliot from Persuasion

Anne is a heroine from Persuasion. Anne and Captain Wentworth once fell in love with each other. But under the persuasion of her family, Anne gave up her love. After as long as eight years and a half, Anne became mature and her own merits made Captain Wentworth love her again and marry her. All in all hardship is a blessing in disguise.

On Wilde's View of Love from The Picture of Dorian Gray

The picture of Dorian Gray is the classic work of Oscar Wilde, the representative personage of Aestheticism. Since the novel was published in 1891, scholars have been studying it from various perspectives. Wilde expressed plentiful epigrams about love by conversations in the novel, and he once compared himself with characters in it, which provides possibility and clues for probing into his view of love through the novel. Starting from the description of women characters, Dorian's relationship with Basil and Henry, and some stories of marriage in the novel, the paper analyzes Wilde's aesthetic and pessimistic view of love and his advocacy for Greek love based on the British society then and Wilde's own experiences.

The View of Marriage in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been controversial fiercely since it first published in 1928. In the novel the author calls for a complete emancipation of sex between man and woman, which is the ideal balance of human being. Systematically and comprehensively, my essay will analyze the characters' marriages, including Connie's parents, her sister, Clifford and Connie, Mellors and his wife, and the ideal couple — Mellors and Connie. Through them, the essay will explore D.H. Lawrence's view of marriage and finally judge the view.

Character reflects one's marriage or attitude towards love-four different marriages in austen's "pride and prejudice"

Marriage is a very important part in everybody's life. Different attitudes towards marriage and differ-ent concepts of marriage result in different marriages. Thus, some marriages are happy, some are sweet, some are bitter and some are despicable. This paper aims to give an account that character reflects one's marriage or attitude towards love, by making a comparison of the four different marriages in "Pride and Prejudice" .

Love or Fortune—Analysis of Marriage, the Theme of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice, the masterpiece of the British writer Jane Austin of the late 18 th century and early 19 th century,mainly deals with the theme—marriage. This paper discusses the four types of marriage—realistic, blind, moral and perfect mar-riages. It focuses on the marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth, which is based on true love and sexual equality as well as fortuneand social status, and is what we human beings are always pursuing.

Analysis on the Orientation of Marriage Value in the 18th-19th Century of England through Pride and Prejudice

"It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune,must be in want of a wife." Almost two centuries later,the deep impression on readers left by the opening sentence of Pride and Prejudice has not decreased because of their changing literary taste.Jane Austin,the author of Pride and Prejudice,was one of the famous realistic writers in English literature in the nineteenth century.Pride and Prejudice is Austin's representative work.There were no earthshaking events,no dreadful disasters,no sharp contradictions and no romantic legends in Authin's novels.Time and space were small in her novels.She wrote how a marriageable woman could find a satisfactory husband.She described many kinds of love and marriage of different women.She expressed her own original views of marriage in her works.In Pride and Prejudice Austin wrote four marriage types: ideal Elizabeth and Darcy,realistic Charlotte and Collins,felicitous Jane and Bingley,unhappy Lydiard Wickham.She pointed out emphatically economic consideration is the bonds of wedlock and love.She said marriage is not determined by property and family status.It is unwise to marry without money,but it is wrong to marry for money;the marriage settled by love is happy and ideal.The thesis explicates that Austin's view of marriage was progressive,advocated by her focus on the equality between men and women.She emphasized marriage should be of equal importance both by love and by economic consideration,but love plays the guiding role.She revealed the connotation of marriage.She also analyses the marriage value in the 18th-19th century.Her exposure is of great realistic significance to the society today.

On Marriage Standards in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice enjoys a worldwide appreciation for its readers. By showing different notions held by people in getting married, the author mainly intends to evoke the moral standards and principles beyond simple love stories and instruct people's prudence in getting married.

Love and Marriages in Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece by Juan Austen.Generally,Austen is considered one of the two major novelists of the Romantic period in the history of British literature,the other is Walter Scott.But her view of life is totally realistic.She shows the readers the daily life of middle class.This paper investigates different kinds of love and marriages in Pride and Prejudice with feminism,and comes to the conclusion that Jane Austen is a romantic writer as well as a realistic writer.

A Tentative Comparison on the Heroines of Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre

The two famous Britain female writers, Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, published their famous works-Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre respectively in 1813 and 1847. These two novels are popular and in great demand at all times since then. Although the two novelists belong to the Romantic Period and the Victorian Period in English literature, their novels mentioned in this thesis are both mainly focus on the heroines'(Elizabeth Bennet and Jane Eyre) attitudes towards love, marriage and life. The thesis applies the approaches of comparison and analysis with the reference of the backgrounds of the two novelists and the social milieu in which they lived. The authors express their own attitudes towards love and marriage through the words of the heroines. We come to the conclusion that both of Elizabeth and Jane have their own independent opinions on love and marriage, but they show their equality and independence with men in different ways.

An Analysis of Jane Austen's Outlook on Marriage in Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen,one of the most influential female novelists in the history of world literature,is the first female to break up the monopoly of male writing.Her famous work Pride and Prejudice was created in 1813,which gained her lasting fame and popularity.In this novel,the characters of the four ladies are impressive:Jane is mild;Charlotte is mediocre;Lydia is ignorant;Elizabeth is wise.Different characters result in different marriages which are moral marriage,utilitarian marriage,sex-oriented marriage and perfect marriage.Through the analysis of the characters and these four marriages,this thesis aims to conclude Jane Austen’s Perception of Marriage,that is,character determines marriage.