【正文】 to Elizabeth, and it was soon done done while Mrs. Bennett was stirring the fire.” (Wang Chuang﹠Wang Liping，1998). Before Elizabeth opens his mouth to speak, Mr. Collins declares the reasons why he decides to get married in one breath —one of which was to please his lady Catherine,“ it is the particular advice and remendation of the very noble lady whom I have the honor of calling patroness.” (Wang Chuang﹠Wang Liping，1998)—till he guarantees “I shall be uniformly silent, and you may assure yourself that no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are married!” (Wang Chuang﹠Wang Liping，1998)Although Elizabeth refuses him with the clearest words, Mr. Collins firmly believes: “because I know it to be the established custom of your sex to reject a man on the first application, and perhaps you have even now said as much to encourage my suit as would be consistent with the true delicacy of the female character.” (Wang Chuang﹠Wang Liping，1998)While Mrs. Bennett was even more inconceivable which daughter dared to disobey her and refuse his proposal. So these two perverse fools congratulated to each other. Isn’t this a perfect irony? Character creation with satire in The Man that Corrupted HadleyburgIn this novel, we do not always know actually what kind of person the stranger is and we have no idea of what the 19 prominent residents, including Mr. Richards and his wife look like, but the author depicts distinctive and rounded characters one by one through vivid and detailed description of the action and the penetrating psychological portraits. Mrs. Richards receives a sack and a paper attached to it. Out of curiosity, “she went straight to the sack and brought away the paper.” After reading the paper, “Mrs. Richards flew to it all trembling and locked it, then pulled down the windowshades and stood frightened, worried.” Later, she thought of “But it is gambler money! The wages of sin: we could not take it。s whereabouts and also troubled by her daughter’s wedding clothes. She is tortured by this two intertwined feelings in turn. “As soon as Jane had read Mr. Gardiner’ hope of Lydia’ being soon married, her joy burst forth, and every following sentence added to its exuberance. She was now in an irritation as violent from delight as she had ever been fidgety from alarm and vexation. To know that her daughter would be married was enough. She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct。In The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, the author exposes the bourgeois’ hypocrisy and greediness incisively and vividly. The darkness of capitalist society and the shameless and greediness of bourgeois is in contrast with their superficial gentleness and moral integrity. This sharp contrast exposes their hypocrisy more deeply. The nineteen prominent residents and their wives represent the ruling class. On the surface, they are honest, upright and generous. But before gold, they all show their desire for money, greedy, shameless and cheating with each other. The most prestigious residents of the nineteen prominent residents, Mrs. Richards, lays bare the truth with one remark. “it is artificial honesty, and weak as water when temptation es,… It is a mean town, a hard , stingy town…”(Xian Yijing，2001)Here, Mark Twain’s humor is very natural. The satire naturally permeates into the lines. In fact, the most possible person who really helps the stranger may be Goodson. He has already been dead at the beginning of the story. And he is hated by the residents because he is only person who tells the truth about the town. Until his death, he “said it right out publicly….. The village was honest, narrow, selfrighteous, and stingy.” (Xian Yijing，2001)The author deliberately reverses beauty and ugliness , uprightness and hypocrisy. As for the nineteen prominent residents, the author’ purpose is to debase them, but he praises them firstly. Similarly, the author wants to praise Goodson, but he debases him at first. These sharp contrasts can make readers see their sanctimonious behaviors more clearly and understand capitalist society’s hypocritical humanity corroded by money more deeply.4. Features of Satire in Pride and Prejudice and the Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg Portrayal(Xian Yijing，2001) But the residents of Hadleyburg see their virtues tested when a sack of gold worth﹩40,000 arrives. The sack of gold with a note attaching on it is delivered by a stranger. The notes say that it is repaying for a loan of 20 dollars from the town. And the gold will be the Hadleyburg citizen who once helped a poor stranger passing through a town. Whoever can write down the exact words uttered to that poor stranger wins the sack of gold. The temptation proves too great for most Hadleyburgers. With the temptation of the sack of gold, none of the “honest upright residents, especially the nineteen prominent residents, can resist the temptation. In order to strive to be the winner of the bag, they are ignorant of their conscience to deceive and fabricate evidences. A series of farces are put on, leading to the notoriety of the “honest”, “upright” Hadleyburg. Stylistic Features in the Man That Corrupted Hadleyburgs death, their estate and property would be passed on by law to his closest relative: his cousin, William Collins, who is a fatuous, tactless and pompous man. In order to make amends for inheriting the family’s estate, William Collins proposes to Elizabeth. Of course, he is refused by the rational and wit girl. Later on, Charles Bingley’s friend, Darcy is attracted by Elizabeth’s charm and intelligence. So he proposes to Elizabeth too. But Elizabeth has prejudice against him, so she rejects him at the beginning. After many twists and turns, misunderstanding between them disappears and they are united happily. In this novel, there are also Elizabeth’s sisters’ romantic adventures. This story shows that at Austen’ time, there were a lot of different attitudes toward