Pride and Prejudiceにおける諷刺 : Elizabeth Bennetの場合-(前篇)

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This paper aims at a greater understanding and appreciation of satire used by Jane Austen, specifically by examining one particular flaw in the character of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth, the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, is one of those '"silly and ignorant"' girls, and as a result cannot accept the fact that her life is '"a mixture of pride and impertinence."' Due to her really 'ignorant and illiterate' state of heart, she is unable to penetrate into Genius Loci [the spirit of the place] even in a number or series of magnificent residences and humble abodes. This character flaw of hers has its origins chiefly in her disproportionate emphasis on the life in time and the visual eye, a flaw which results in her having prejudicial and one-sided views. However, by employing what is fictitious in Pride and Prejudice, Austen enables the discerning and intelligent novel-reader to have the opportunity to make improvements in his or her own life, which unfortunately does not happen with Elizabeth Bennet. By looking at Elizabeth and her character flaw, we are able to imaginatively grasp evil. We see into the subconscious and reveal to ourselves her hidden life of poor imagination. We are able to do this by attending to various literary methods such as alliteration, assonance, end-rhyme, paraphrase, half-explained gestures and words, verbal irony, the irony of self-betrayal, and symbolism. By examining the '"confined and unvaring"' character of Elizabeth Bennet we are better able to clearly realize her dangerous duplicity and self-alienation, and this realization aids us in our own self-improvement.
2006-03-05

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森藤真成
関西学院大学文学部

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