Pride and prejudice and A Dream of Red Mansions almost exist in the same time, although their authors belong to different countries. With the development of the history, the two works attract more and more people.
1.1 The Basic Relationship of Pride and Prejudice
Pride and prejudice’s author would like to choose the daily life as the material, which is in stark contrast as for the popular sentimental novels and the affectation of writing methods. It vividly reflects the late 18th century to the early 19th century in a conservative and occlusion of the British town life and the world. This classic story about love and misunderstanding happened in the end of the 18th century in hierarchical British (Chen …show more content…
He was born in the feudal aristocracy, and he was the only boy in his generation. Of course he could enjoy the love from almost everyone in this big family. Many people admired his life that he was rolling in luxury and didn’t know what the hunger was. However, he was along before Lin Daiyu came to his world. They lived in the complicated family and had the same inward world. These laid the foundation of their love story. In the chaotic stream of daily life, they were the special couple.
As far as we are concerned, the love of Jia and Lin is nice. But in that era, choosing one's spouse freely is not recognized and accepted. So, it is doomed to a …show more content…
He exposed the dark court officialdom and the decadent feudal aristocracy. More of the imperial examination system, the marriage system and the slave system, hierarchy and spleen and their corresponding traditional ideological system that are the doctrine of Confucius and Mencius and ethics, and they are deeply criticized. It is the same in Pride and Prejudice that the novel is in two inches of ivory size and volume of works, through a vivid way to illustrate the love and marriage related to many problems (Xu Chunye, 2015: 3). In the capitalist society, it was based on money and property, which caused the economic problems having become the main contradiction. And Austen sharply criticized the marriage without love, and the marriage based on money. Although the styles of the two novels are different from each other, they are all about the trivial things and people and things in their daily life. They all adopt realistic writing techniques and the characters and scenes are vividly portrayed, delicate and touching, so they have achieved the same level of