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English Literature in the Romantic
Period
Ⅰ
. Essay
questions.
1.
In
Pride
and
Prejudice
,
Jane
Austen
explored
three
kinds
of
motivations
of
marriage the middle-class people had in
the second half of the 18
th
century. Try to
make a brief discussion
about them with specific examples from the novel.
Make
comments on Austen’s attitude
towards these motivations.
2. What are the general features of
English Romanticism?
3. Tell the story
of
Pride and Prejudice
and
make a comment on it.
4. Make a comment
on Wordsworth concerning his contribution to
poetry.
5. Irony abounds in Jane
Austen’s novel
Pride and
Prejudice
. Please illustrate it with
reference to some examples.
6. Make a general comment on Walter
Scott.’
Ⅱ
. Define
the following terms.
1.
Romanticism
2. Ode
3.
Byronic hero
4. Ottava rima
5. Terza rima
6. Irony
7. Lyric
8. Motif
9. Theme
10. Symbol
11. Imagery
12. Foil
13. Synaesthesia
14.
Character
15. Flat character
16. Round character
17.
Negative capacity
Ⅲ
Fill in
the blanks.
1.
As
an
age
of
romantic
enthusiasm,
the
Romantic
Age
began
in
1798
when
______and
______published _______ and ended in 1832 when
______died.
2. In the Preface of the
2
nd
and
3
rd
editions of __________,
Wordsworth laid down the
principles of
poetry composition.
3. The English
Romantic Age produced two major novelists,
_________ and ______.
4. _____,
________, and_________ are referred to as the
“Lake Poets” because they
lived in the
Lake District in the northwestern part of England.
5.
In
1805,
Wordsworth
completed
his
long
autobiographical
poem
entitled__________.
6.
Scott’s historical novels depicted Scotland,
England, and the Continent covering a
period ranging from _______ up to, and
including, _______.
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7. _______ mourned for _______’s
premature death in
an elegy “Adonais”,
writing
“He is made one with
Nature.”
8. “Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by ________.It
contains four
cantos in the_______
stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed
ababbcbcc
, in which
the first eight lines are in iambic
pentameter while the ninth in iambic hexameter,
9.
_______
is
Byron’s
masterpiece,
written
in
the
prime
of
his
creative
power.
He
called it an “epic
satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state
of society.”
10.
The
great
novelist
in
the
Romantic
period_______
marked
the
transition
from
Romanticism to the period of Realism
which followed it.
11.
The
plot
of
Shelley’s
lyrical
drama
Prometheus
Unbound
is
borrowed
from
_______, a play of the Greek tragedian
Aeschylus.
12. In “To Autumn”, Keats
writes,” Season of mists and me
llow
fruitfulness, / Clise
bosom-friend of
the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to
load and bless /
With fruit the vines
that round the thatch-
eves run; / …”
The figure of speech used
in the lines
is _______.
13. “Ode to a Nightingale”
expresses the
contrast between _______
and _______.
14.
The
unifying
principle
in
Don
Juan
is
the
basic
ironic
theme
of
_______,
i.e.,
what things seem to be
and what they actually are.
15. Byron
employed _______ from
Italian mock-
heroic poetry. His first experiment
was
made in
Beppo
. It was
perfected in
Don Juan
in
which the convention flows
with ease
and naturalness.
16._______ was
memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts”
after his death.
17. Many
critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of
all English poets. They point
especially to his_______.
18. Romanticism was in effect a revolt
of the English _______against the neoclassical
_______, which prevailed from the days
of pope to those of Johnson.
19.
_______ are generally regarded as Keats’s most
importa
nt and mature works.
20. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the
contrast between _______and _______.
21. Among the Romantic figures,
_______has a fundamental conviction of the health
of the social
system, of
its
ability to
reform
itself, and of the
assurance
of
social
well-being and the likelihood of a
reasonable personal happiness.
22.
Scott is considered “the father of _______” which
open(s) up to fiction the rich
and
lively realm of history.
23. Two
prevailing themes of
Pride and
Prejudice
are _______ and _______.
24. _______ was composed in a dream
after the poet Coleridge took the opium.
25. All such works of Coleridge as “The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable”
and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen
interest in_______,
26.
_______ is regarded as a “worshipper of
nature”.
27. “I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”, “My Heart
Leaps up” and
“Tintern Abbey” are all
masterpieces on _______.
28.
The main idea running through the dramatic poem
Prometheus Unbound
is that
of
_______.
29.
_______,
with
a
triumphant
praise
of
the
imagination,
highly
exalts
the
role
of
poetry, thinking that
poetry alone could free man and offer the mind a
wider view
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of
its powers. He holds that poetry “is a more direct
representation of the actions
and
passions of our intern
al
being”.
30. The Romantic
period is an age of poetry. The major Romantic
poets such as Blake,
Wordsworth,
Coleridge,
Byron,
Shelley
and
Keats
started
a
rebellion
against
the
neoclassical literature,
which was later regarded as _______.
31. _______ and _______ gave great
impetus to the rise of the Romantic Movement.
32.
_______
is
a
great
critic
of
the
romantic
period
on
Shakespeare,
Elizabethan
drama, and English poetry. He is also a
maser of the familiar essays.
33. With
_______, the essay is no longer chiefly a mode of
intellectual inquiry and
moral
address.
Rather,
the
essay
becomes
a
medium
for
a
delightful
literary
treatment of life’s
small pleasures and reassurances.
Ⅳ
. Choose the best answer
1. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is
an epigrammatic line
by _______.
A. Kohn Keats
B. William Blake
C.
William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
2.
William
Wordsworth,
a
romantic
poet,
advocated
all
of
the
following
EXCEPT
_______.
A. Normal contemporary speech patterns
B. Humble and rustic life as subject
matter
C. Elegant wording and inflated
figures of speech
D. Intensely
subjective feeling toward individual experience
3. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla
Khan”, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves
of ice “_______.
A. Refers to the palace where Kubla
Khan once lived
B. Vividly
describes a building of poor quality
C.
Is the gift given to a beautiful girl called
Abyssinian
D. Symbolizes the
reconciliation of the conscious and the
unconscious
4. _______is one of the
first generation of English Romantic poets.
A. Keats
B.
Shelley
C. Byron
D.
Wordsworth
5. “If winter comes, can
spring be far behind?” is taken from
_______.
A.
The
Solitary Reaper
B.
Ode to the West Wind
C.
To
Autumn
D.
Song to
the Man of England
6.
_______is NOT among the
representative essayists in the romantic times.
A. Charles Lamb
B. William
Hazlitt
C. Thomas De Quincey
D. Walter Scott
7.
In_______,
_______set
forth
his
principles
of
poetry,
“all
good
poetry
is
the
spontaneous overflow of powerful
feeling”.
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A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads;
Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A
Defence of Poetry”; Shelley
D. “Lectures on the English Poets”;
Hazlitt
8. _______is NOT a
lyric written by Wordsworth.
A. My
Heart Leaps Up
B. Intimations of
Immortality
C.
Love’s
Philosophy
D. I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud
9. All the poems were
written by Byron EXCEPT_______.
A.
Childe Harold’
s
Pilgrimage
B.
Don
Juan
C.
The Isle of Greece
D.
The Masque of
Anarchy
10. Keats wrote five
long poems. _______ is NOT among them.
A.
Endymion
B.
Isabella
C.
The Eve of St.
Agnes
D.
Annabel
Lee
11. It is said that all
Keats’s personality seems to be breathed into his
odes, of which
the
more
famous
odes
are
“de
to
Autumn”,
“Ode
on
Melancholy”,
”Ode
on
a
Grecian
Urn”
and
“Ode
to
Nightingale”,
all
with
the
praise
of
_______
as
their
general
theme.
A. love
B. beauty
C. nature
D. art
12. The first poem in The Lyrical
Ballads is Coleridge’s
masterpiece_______.
A. The
Prelude
B. Kubla Khan
C. The
Time of the Ancient Mariner
D. Tintern
Abbey
13.
_______can be
found among Shelley’s love lyrics.
A.
One Word is Too Often
Profaned
B.
When
We Two Parted
C.
A Red, Red Rose
D.
Song to Celia
14. Among the following, _______is an
elegy.
A.
Lamis
B.
Isabella
C.
Adonais
D.
Queen
Mab
15. _______is NOT a
historical novel written by Scott.
A.
Rob Roy
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B.
Ivanhoe
C.
Marmion
D.
Waverly
16. In
Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the
mariner suffers the horror
of death,
because _______.
A. He experiences a
shipwreck
B. He is tortured with
starvation
C. He undergoes much
suffering
D. He kills an albatross
17. _______ is the poetic drama written
by Byron.
A.
Hours of
Idleness
B.
Prometheus
Unbound
C.
Cain
D.
Oriental Tales
18. The following statements are about
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Among them
which one is NOT true?
A. It
is about a young aristocrat whose
“world
-
weariness” bespeaks
his loathing for
English high society.
B. Besides Harold’s impressions of the
countries he visits, the poem is interspersed
with Lyrical outbursts which give
utterance to
the poet’s own
philosophical and
political views.
C. The first canto deals with Albania
and Greece.
D. The last canto sings of
Italy and the Italian people who have given the
world
great writers and thinkers like
Dante.
19. All the following are novels
written by Jane Austen EXCEPT_______.
A.
Mansfield Park
B.
Shirley
C.
Emma
D.
Persuasion
20.
Which one of the following statements about Don
Juan is true?
A. Byron began its
writing in Italy in 1818, and finished it in 1823.
B. It is in 10 cantos.
C.
The story of the poem takes place in the latter
part of the 16
th
century.
D. It displayed Byron’s genius as a
romanticist and a realist
simultaneously.
21. In 1843,
_______was made poet laureate.
A.
Southey
B. Shelley
C.
Wordsworth
D. Keats
22.
The
revolutionary
Romantic
poet
went
to
Greece
to
help
that
country
in
its
struggle for liberty and
died of fever there.
A. Shelley
B. Byron
C. Keats
D. Burns
23.
is
Shelley’s
well
-known
political
lyric,
which
calls
upon
the
working
class
to fight against their rulers and exploiters.
A.
Don Juan
B.
The Cenci
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C.
Prometheus Unbound
D.
Song to the
Men of England
24.
is
Byron’s
poetic
drama
with
the
material
taken
from
Biblical
story
or
stories.
A .
Cain
B.
Don Juan
C.
Song for the
Luddites
D.
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
25.
’s
poetry
is
always
sensuous,
colorful
and
rich
in
imagery,
which
expresses the acuteness
of
his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent,
taste and
feeling are all taken into
give an entire understanding of an experience.
A. Keats
B. Shelley
C.
Wordsworth
D.
Byron
26.
All
the
following
statements
about
“Ode
on
a
Grecian
Urn”
are
true
EXCEPT
.
A. In this poem Keats shows the
contrast between the permanence of art and the
transience of human passion.
B. The poem presents Keats’ ambivalence
about time and the nature of beauty.
C. It has often been celebrated,
together with “Ode to a Nightingale”, as the
height
of Keats’ achi
evement
in poetry.
D. In this poem, the poet
spoke as bitterly of human woes as he did in “Ode
to a
Nightingale”.
27.
Pride and
Prejudice
is noted for its vividly
depicted characters who are revealed
through
comparison
and
contrast
with
each
other.
Among
the
following
pairs
of
characters
are
NOT in contrast.
A. Darcy and Wickham
B. Elizabeth and Charlotte
C. Elizabeth and Jane
D.
Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins
28.
At
the
beginning
of
Pride
and
Prejudice
,
the
attitude
of
Darcy
and
Elizabeth
toward each other is that of
.
A.
mutual affection
B. mutual repulsion
C.
mutual hatred
D. mutual indifference
29. All the sonnets were written by
Keats EXCEPT
.
A.
London
1802
B.
When I Have Fears
C.
Bright Star
D.
On the Grasshopper and
Cricket
30.
The
Romantic
Movement
expressed
a
attitude
toward
the
existing
social
and
political
conditions
that
came
with
industrialization
and
the
growing
importance of the bourgeoisie.
A. negative
B. neutral
C. positive
D.
indifferent
31. The prevailing tone in
Pride and Prejudice
is
.
A. bitter satire
B. mild satire
C. strong approval
D. strong disapproval
32.”Ode to the West Wind” is concluded
with
mood.
A.
triumphant and hopeful
B. pessimistic
and skeptical
C. desperate and sad
D. indifferent
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33.
Which
one
of
the
following
does
NOT
describe
the
characteristics
of
Scott’s
writing?
A. The central heroes of his novels are
young men of valor, who, taken as a whole,
are
rather
superficial,
lacking
in
virility
and
lacking
depth
of
psychological
characterization.
B. His
works display his marvelous command of the
Scottish dialect.
C. His plotting is
often closely knitted.
D. He has an eye
for the telling detail.
34. Of the
following statements about
Lyrical
Ballads
, which is NOT true?
A.
The
poems
are
noted
for
the
uncompromising
obscurity
of
much
of
the
language.
B. The poems show the strong sympathy
not merely with the poor in general but
with particular, dramatized examples of
them.
C.
The
poems
Wordsworth
added
to
the1800
edition
of
the
Lyrical
Ballads
are
among the best of his
achievements.
D. The natural
description and expressions of inward states of
mind fused into one
in most of the
poems.
35.”You and the girls may go, or
you may send them by themselves, which perhaps
will be still better, for as you are as
handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might
like
you
the
best
of
the
party.”
The
figure
of
speech
used
in
the
sentence
is
.
A.
simile
B. irony
C.
antithesis
D. metaphor
36. All the following about Romanticism
are true EXCEPT
.
A. Where their
predecessors saw man as a social animal, the
Romantics saw him
essentially as an
individual in the solitary state.
B.
Where the Augustans emphasized those features that
men have in common, the
Romantics
emphasized the special qualities of each
individual’s mind.
C.
Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from
attention to the inner world
of human
spirit to the outer world of social civilization.
D.
Romantics
also
tended
to
be
nationalistic,
defending
the
great
poets
and
dramatists of their own
national heritage against the advocates of
classical rules
who tended to glorify
Rome and Rational Italian and French neoclassical
art as
superior to the native
traditions.
37. The Romantic period is
a great age of all literary genres EXCEPT
.
A
.poetry
B. prose
C.
drama
D. novel
38.
Romantic
writers
employ
all
the
following
EXCEPT
as
their
poetic
materials.
A. the
commonplace
B.
the natural
C. the simple
D.
the abstract
39. Jane Austen’s view of
life is a totally
one.
A. romantic
B. sentimental
C. realistic
D. pessimistic
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40.
is
NOT the essay written by Charles Lamb.
A.
Dream Children
B.
The Praise of Chimney
Sweepers
C.
A
Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behavior of Married
People
D.
Characters of Shakespeare’s
Plays
Ⅴ
. Short-
answer questions.
1.
Explain
and
comment
on
the
sentence
with
respect
to
its
function
in
the
novel
where it is taken
from,” It is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in
possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a
wife.”
2. To Shelley, what
kind of noble qualities does the image of
Prometheus unite?
3. State briefly the
artistic features of Jane Austen.
4
. Tell about the theme of
Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
5. Name five representative essay
writers of the romantic period.
6.
How
is
Shelly
’s
Prometheus
Unbound
different
from
the
traditional
Greek
interpretation? What is the
significance of this difference?
7.
Tell in a few words the theme of
Don
Juan
.
8
. Name
five of Keats’s immortal odes.
9. Name the first and second
generations of the Romantic poets.
10.
Why is Keats, unlike the radical Shelley and
Byron, among the active Romantic
poets?
11
. Tell the theme of “Ode
to the West Wind”.
12
. What is the symbolic
meaning of “the west wind”?
13
. Tell about Coleridge’s
artistic ide
as.
Ⅵ
. Answer the questions
according to the followings passage.
Passage 1
O wild West Wind,
thou breath of Autumn’s being
Thou from whose unseen presence the
leaves dead
Are driven like ghosts from
an enchanter fleeing,
Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic
red,
Pestilence-stricken multitudes! O
thou
Who chariot test to
their dark wintry bed
The winged seeds, where they lie cold
and low,
Each like a corpse within its
grave, until
Thine azure sister of the
Spring shall blow
Her
clarion o’er the dream
ing earth, and
fill
(Driving sweet buds like flocks to
feed in air)
With living hues and
odours plain and hill;
Wild
spirit, which art moving everywhere;
Destroyer and preserver hear, O hear!
Questions:
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1. What is the title of the poem? Who
is the poet?
2. What is the rhyme
scheme of the poem?
3. What
figures of speech are used? Give examples.
4. What do
“Pestilence
-
stricken
multitudes” refer to?
5.
Give
examples
to
illustrate
the
life
and
death
images
employed
in
this
excerpt.
Comment briefly on them.
6.
Why is the West Wind called “Destroyer and
preserver”?
Passage 2
It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a single man in
possession of a good
fortune, must be
in want of a wife.
However little known
the feelings or views of such a man may be on his
first
entering a neighbourhood, this
truth is so well fixed in the minds of the
surrounding
families, that he is
considered as the rightful property of some one or
other of their
daughters.
“My
dear
Mr.
Bennet,”
said
his
lady
to
him
one
day,
have
you
hea
rd
that
Netherfield Park is let
at last?”
Mr. Bennet replied
that he had not.
“Do not you want to
know who has taken it?”cried his wife
impatiently.
“You want to
tell me, and I have no objection to hearing
it.”
This was invitation
enough.
“Why, my dear, yo
u
must know, Mrs., Long says that Netherfied is
taken by a
young man of large fortune
from the north of England; that he came down on
Monday
in a chaise and four to see the
place, and was so much delighted with it that he
agreed
with
Mr.
Morris
immediately
that
he
is
to
take
possession
before
Michaelmas,
and
some of his servants are to be in the
house by the end of next week.”
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he
married or single?”
“Oh!
Single,
my
dear,
to
be
sure!
A
single
man
of
large
fortune
four
or
fi
ve
thousand a
year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
“How so? How can it affect
them?”
“My
dear
Mr.
Bennet,”
replied
his
wife,
“how
can
you
be
so
tiresome!
You
must know that I am
thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“Is that his design in settling
here?”
“Design! Nonsense,
how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he
may fall in
love with one of them, and
therefore you must visit him as soon as he
comes.”
“I can see no
occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or
you may send them
by themselves, which
perhaps will be still better, for as you are as
handsome as any of
them, Mr. Bingley
might like you the best of the party.”
“My dear, you flatter me. I certainly
have had my share of beauty, but I do not
pretend
to
be
any
thing
extraordinary
now.
When
a
woman
has
five
grown
up
daughters, she ought to
give over thinking of her own beauty.”
“In such cases, a woman has
not often much beauty to think of.”
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Questions:
7.
This excerpt is taken from the novel entitled
_______ by_________.
8. Comment on the
characters of Mr., and Mrs. Bennet.
9.
What methods are used to depict the character of
Mr., and Mrs. Bennet?
10.
This
except
is
taken
from
a
chapter
that
has
been
highly
praised
as
an
opening
chapter. Do you
consider such praise justified? Give reasons for
your answer.
Passage 3
Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
That these stingless drones
may spoil
The forced produce of your
toil?
Have ye leisure,
comfort, calm,
Shelter, food, love’s
gentle balm?
Or what is it
ye buy so dear
With your pain and with
your fear?
The seed ye sow,
another reaps;
The wealth ye find,
another keeps;
The robes ye weave,
another wears
The arms ye forge,
another bears.
Sow
seed,
—
but let no tyrant
reap;
Find
wealth,
—
let no impost or
heap;
Weave
robes,
—
let not the idle
wear;
Forge
arms,
—
in your defence to
bear.
Questions:
11. What is the title of the poem this
excerpt is taken from?
12. Who is the
writer of this poem?
13. What do “Bees
of England” and “these stingless drones” refer
to?
14. What is the possible
theme of this poem?
Passage4
I
wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats
on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars
that shine
And twinkle on the Milky
Way,
They stretched in
never-ending line
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Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand say I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in
sprightly dance.
The waves
beside them danced; but they
Out did
the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet
could not but be gay,
In such a jocund
company;
I
gazed
—
and
gazed
—
but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I
lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Questions:
15.
What is the recurrent central image in this poem?
16. What does the persona feel at the
end of the poem?
17. Explain “What
wealth the show to me had brought”.
18. Explain in a few words “that inward
eye / Which is the bliss of solitude”.
19.
This
poem
is
considered
by
many
the
most
anthologized
poem
in
English
literature, and one that
takes us to the core of Wordsworth’s poetic
beliefs. How is
the core manifested?
Passage5
Fade
faraway, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never
known,
The weariness, the fever, and
the fret
Here, where man sit and hear
each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a
few, sad, last grey hairs,
Where youth
grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be
full of sorrow
And lead en-eyed
despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her
lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them
beyond tomorrow.
Away!
Away! for I will fly to thee,
Not
charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But
on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though
the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
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And haply the
Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster’d around by all her starry
Fays;
But here there is no
light,
Save what from heaven is with
the breezes blown
Through verdurous
glooms and winding mossy ways.
Questions:
20.
Which poem is this excerpt taken from?
21.
“Tender
is
the
Night”
has
been
taken
and
used
as
the
title
of
a
novel
written
by
.
22. Explain the first
stanza of the excerpt.
23. What does
the poet express in the poem?
Keys
Ⅰ
. Essay
questions.
1.
In
this
book,
three
kinds
of
motivations
of
or
attitudes
towards
marriage
are
presented for manifestation.
First, there is marriage
merely for fortune, money and social rank. This is
to
be found in Miss Bingley’s pursuit
of Darcy, Lady de Bourgh’s
intention to arrange a marriage between
her daughter and Darcy, and in Charlotte
Lucas’
marriage
to
Mr.
Collins.
The
snobbery
and
vanity
of
the
rich
and
the
practicality of the poor gentry women
are fully accounted for.
The
second
is
the
tendency
to
marry
for
beauty,
attraction
and
passion
regardless of
economic conditions or personal merits. This is
generally known as
“love at first
sight”. Typical examp
les are found in
the marriages of the skeptical
Mr.
Bennet and Mrs. Bennet who has a beautiful face
but an empty head and of
their
youngest
daughter
Lydia
to
the
handsome,
charming
but
morally
weak
and
penniless Wickham. The
terrible aftermath of such marriage is only too
obvious in
the marriages of the two
generations of the Bennets.
Lastly
comes the ideal marriage, which is a love match
with considerations of
the lover’s
personal merits and economic conditions. Such
perfect happiness is to
be found in the
marriage of Darcy and Elizabeth and that of Mr.
Bingley and Jane,
although the
satisfaction of both the personal and economic
conditions like this is
really a bit
too idealistic.
What Jane Austen tries
to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money
or for
beauty, but it is also wrong to
marry without consideration of economic
conditions.
Of the three types, she
prefers the last one. And in the last type, she
seems to give
her particular preference
to the marriage of Darcy and Elizabeth.
2.(1)
Expressi
veness:
Instead
of
regarding
poetry
as
“a
mirror
to
nature”,
the
romantics
hold
that
the
object
of
the
artist
should
be
the
expression
of
the
artist’s emotions, impressions, or
beliefs. The role of instinct, intuition, and the
feelings
of
“the
heart”
is
stressed
instead
of
neoclassicists’
emphasis
on
“the
head”, on regularity, uniformity,
decorum and imitation of the classical writers.
Romantic
poets
describe
poetry
as
“the
spontaneous
over
flow
of
powerful
feelings”.
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