Author | Fan Deng Reading · Old music
Anchor | Fan Deng Reading · Xia Han
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Good evening to all book lovers, welcome to the reading column "Encounter" produced by Fan Deng Reading.
Today, I would like to interpret the masterpiece of British novelist Jane Austen - "Pride and Prejudice".
The famous critic Edmund Wilson once commented on the author:
"The revolution in English literature affected the prestige of almost all writers, but Shakespeare and Jane Austen endured."
The famous American thinker Emerson said:
"At the end of the day, love is a reflection of one's self-worth in others."
Love has always been a thousand faces.
Some people think that love is two loves, some people think that love is a life-saving straw, and some people think that love is to live together.
Whichever you think it is, it will eventually appear in front of you with the face you want.
"Pride and Prejudice" tells the story of love more than 200 years ago, and everyone has different choices and harvests different results.
Love that is confused by appearances is difficult to hide the broken heart
Mr. Bennett, an ordinary head of the family.
Like to read, like to be alone, indifferent in nature, but smart and wise, penetrating people's hearts.
But the young Mr. Bennett was also rash, and because he was obsessed with the youthful beauty of Mrs. Bennett's youth, he even married her without further understanding.
Mrs. Bennett was "an intellectually poor, uninformed, moody woman."
As a mother of five daughters, her major life event is to turn "rich bachelors" into the "legal property" of her daughters;
"The joy of her life is to visit relatives and friends and inquire about news."
Mr. Bennett is not accustomed to the way his wife is social in order to marry his daughter, and often sneers at her;
He even joked that she might as well visit her young neighbor herself, "As soon as you go, he will look up to you." ”
Because of his wife's boredom, he didn't even bother to maintain her decency in front of his daughters.
Only indulging in the beauty of the countryside and reading, and getting pleasure from it, his wife is just the object of his usual pleasure.
If Mr. Bennett is simply missing a soul mate, then his daughter Lydia, because of ignorance and vanity, enters a vain married life.
Lydia, the Bennetts' fifth daughter.
As the youngest daughter in the family, she did not inherit her father's wisdom, but under the influence of her mother, she did not learn any skills, and was madly obsessed with her handsome young soldier brother in a red uniform.
So, when Wickham, a "relationship liar" with a good appearance and good conversation, extended an "olive branch" to him;
She immediately threw herself into her arms, even knowing that Darcy had bought Wickham an official just to help her out of her predicament, and she was proud of her good luck and became an official wife.
After the marriage, the couple who did not want to make progress soon fell into embarrassment again due to profligacy and had to rely on the help of their sister Elizabeth.
The marriage of the Bennetts and Lydia began with the pursuit of a love affair with beautiful appearances and touching words;
However, once this shallow love fades away the gorgeous coat, there is only a chicken feather left for the marriage.
Mr. Bennett only wants a beautiful wife, and he gets it, but she cannot be his confidant;
Lydia liked the handsome husband she got, but he only loved the possessions she brought.
Appearance is often a prerequisite for making a first impression, but if you define a person by appearance alone, you are doomed to find a soul-matching love.
Life-saving straw love, the price may be the loss of self
Lucas Charlotte, the eldest daughter of the Lucas family and the girlfriend of the heroine Elizabeth, is a 27-year-old "old girl".
She is not amazing, has never received attention at home, nor has she been favored by men;
But she was clever and calm, and found a way out for herself early, and in her opinion", "for a young woman who is well educated but has little property, marrying someone is the only decent way out." ”
When this "decent way out" came, Charlotte didn't hesitate to catch it.
Collins, Elizabeth's cousin, was not well educated;
But he was given the position of parish priest at a young age, and he was the legal heir to Elizabeth's father's family property.
For Charlotte, Collins was a life-saving straw that could quickly help her get out of her life's predicament.
So even though she knows very well that she is just an "alternative" to Collins, she knows his bad character;
"It is not reasonable and unlovable, it is really annoying to get along with him, and his love for her must be mirror flowery."
She still accepted his marriage proposal.
Can the straw really save lives?
After marriage, Charlotte lived in a big house, a big garden, a neat home, and exquisite furniture.
But you must also endure your husband's arrogance in front of his friends and family, pretend not to hear, and even maintain his husband's "face" in a timely manner.
Someone once said:
"A woman who accepts too much help from a man invisibly puts her position very low."
This is probably the price of marrying a life-saving straw, right? You have to sacrifice your self-esteem, be emotionally inferior, and even become a vassal of the other person.
Charlotte, who regards love as a life-saving straw, gets the "decency" of life, but loses her own "decency", but this is the love she wants, and she gets it.
In pursuit of soul-matched love, you and I stand shoulder to shoulder
Elizabeth was the second daughter of Bennett's family, and she was not the most beautiful daughter, but the most intelligent girl.
For marriage, she was like her father said:
"Unless you really respect your husband, unless you think he's superior to you, you won't feel happy or decent."
Despite her mother's objections, she refuses a "long-term meal ticket"—the self-righteous cousin of Collins;
Without hesitation, she rejected Darcy's first marriage proposal, which she thought was "degraded":
"I never hoped to win your favor...
Why did you offend me so blatantly, insult me, and tell me that you liked me against your will, your intellect, and even your personality? ”
But when she truly got to know Darcy and fell in love with him, she was not afraid to come forward and try to make her take the initiative to abandon Darcy's Lady Catherine:
"I just made up my mind, thinking that what to do will make me happy, I will do it, you can't control it, no one who has nothing to do with me can't control it." 」
Darcy, intelligent and kind, well educated, deeply in love with elizabeth, who has a cheerful personality, kindness and intelligence.
From a wealthy family, he began with an arrogant and pretentious personality, and did not pay any attention to Elizabeth, who was not amazing.
But as he grew acquainted with the intelligent woman, he found himself in love with her, but he was caught in a dilemma because the other party's family was not well off.
What made him wake up was when he finally plucked up the courage to confess to Elizabeth;
When he said that he would rather ignore her "family obstacles" and was willing to marry her "condescendingly", he thought that the other party would accept it gratefully, but he was rejected on the spot.
This made him reflect on his words and deeds, realizing that he had "spoiled his parents since childhood" and made him "except for his own family... Look down on all the people in the world."
He took the initiative to write a letter to explain the misunderstanding between the two, helped Elizabeth's sister regardless of the past, and sincerely thanked Elizabeth for her blunt words:
"You taught me a lesson... You have made me understand that since I have decided that there is a girl who deserves my pleasure, I should never pretend to please her. ”
Because of his integrity and sincerity, he finally won the girl's heart.
Both Elizabeth and Darcy pursue soul co-feeding, and this affection allows them to break the worldly view.
After marriage, Elizabeth did not feel inferior because her family was inferior to her husband, Darcy "became the object of her public jokes", and she was the only one who could "indulge" Darcy.
Shu Ting said, "If I love you, I am by no means like the Ling Xiaohua who climbs to help, and I borrow your tall branches to show off myself... I must be a kapok near you, standing with you as the image of a tree. "
Elizabeth married Darcy, not because of the other's wealth and status;
She follows her inner "self-esteem", is emotionally equal to the other person, is on a par with the other person in personality, and they are a real partner, not an appendage of the other party.
Pursuing soul-matched love, to make herself stronger, to endure loneliness, and even to face criticism, Elizabeth wanted, and she got it.
In Pride and Prejudice, everyone asks for kindness and gets the love they want.
Probably every kind of love needs to pay a price, some people give up self-esteem for love, others want to improve themselves for love, everything is just a choice, and your choice determines your love.
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Author | Lao Le, a university teacher who loves to watch idle writing gossip.
Column Director | Come slowly
Typography | Zheng to the north
Image | The pictures in this article are from the stills of "Pride and Prejudice", which was invaded and deleted
Music | "E8r Piano Song" on the shores of Lake Baikal