Female Silence and Resistance: Feminist Interpretation on Entailment of“Pride and Prejudice”

摘要

"Pride and Prejudice"is a classic masterpiece written by British female novelist Jane Austen.In this outstanding novel,Austen vividly portrays the romantic love stories among four young couples.They believe that being deprived of basic working right is the root cause of their dependence on their husbands.This paper analyses the complicated relations between Elizabeth Bennett and other main characters in the level of legislation to expose the reality of entailment and female’s discourse power loss and to promote new women images characterized by Elizabeth’s rebellious spirit towards unfair legal system.