Abstract
：Pride and Prejudice is one of Austen’s greatest works. The novel reveals the views on marriage held by the majority of the people in the 19th century by displaying the different marriages in the novel. People in Austen’s age believed that money played an important role in marriage. Austen reflects the very idea in her novels. In Pride and Prejudice, it is not difficult to see that people’s discussions about marriages always happened in the circumstances, such as on the dancing balls and at parties. In their discussions, the author expresses that money is vital to a marriage and regarded as an important element influencing people’s thought when they talks about marriages. Obviously, the late 18th century and early 19th century witnessed the appearance of an economic determined world filled with cruel competitions in Britain. Therefore, Austen reflects the facts that money and social status determine the life, destiny and marriage of the people of her age. However, Austen still expresses her views on marriage in the Pride and Prejudice, which stresses that the essence of marriage is no more than the transaction of money and mutual benefits in spite of the importance of money in life. Based on Austen’s views on marriage, the thesis mainly discusses Austen’s understanding of marriage by analyzing three major marriages. Through the detailed analysis of the different marriages, the thesis points out that an ideal marriage should be based on true love and mutual respect in Austen’s opinion. 

Keywords: pride; prejudice; money; love; marriage

摘要：
《傲慢与偏见》是19世纪女作家奥斯汀的伟大著作之一。小说揭示了19世纪大多数人对于的在小说中展示的不同的婚姻的婚姻观。人们在奥斯汀的时代相信金钱在婚姻中扮演着重要的角色。奥斯汀在她的小说中反映着自己的想法。在《傲慢与偏见》中不难看出人们对婚姻的讨论总是发生在舞会和聚会这些情境中。在他们的讨论中，作者展示了金钱对于婚姻的重要性，而且表明金钱是一种重要的因素，它影响了人们对婚姻条件的考虑。显然，在十八世纪末和和十九世纪初，英国是一个由经济决定的世界，并且充满了残酷的竞争。因此，奥斯汀在小说中反映了金钱和社会地位对人们生活、命运和婚姻的决定作用。尽管如此，奥斯汀仍然在《傲慢与偏见》中表达了自己的婚姻观：婚姻的本质不仅仅是金钱交易和互惠互利。基于奥斯汀的婚姻观，论文通过分析三种不同的婚姻来展示奥斯汀的婚姻观。凭借对这些婚姻的分析，论文指出奥斯汀对婚姻的看法和观点：一段理想的婚姻应该建立在真爱和互相理解的基础上。

关键词：傲慢;偏见；金钱；爱情；婚姻

1 Introduction
1.1 An Introduction to Jane Austen
Born in 1775, Jane Austen was the youngest daughter of George Austen, rector of the village of Steventon in Hampshire. She received a good education at home and lived an uneventful life amid the provincial surroundings of the southern Britain. In the case of Austen, she got no experience about marriage because she remained unmarried for the whole life. Nevertheless, she was famous for her novels about marriages and life in the provincial surroundings which was familiar to her.