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1 1 Introduction Jane Austen is an earliest and most important woman novelist in English from the style of Walter Scott’s kept her eyes steadily upon the people and incident ahout her, and write about the small world she lived in.”She was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middleclass people and of which there are many fine examples in later English fiction.”(Wu 123)”She herself pared her work to a fine engraving made upon a little piece of ivory only two inches square.”(Liu 371)Her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice is just one of this kind of novels.”It is very thin plot, but around it the authoress has woven vivid pictures of the everyday life of simple country society.”(Liu 372)English novels describe marriage and family in that society too much all different from the mon novels ,it reflects the life of middleclass in capitalist society through the description of marriage problem.”The British Critic said that Pride and Prejudice was ‘far superior to almost all the publication of the kind which have e before us.”(Lefory 107)The authoress Jane Austen describes four couple’s marriages mainly in attitudes towards marriage are pletely different .Through the life of middleclass in the middle of 18th century, the four couples’ joys and sorrows affect me, especially Elizabeth and Darcy, Lydia and are more representative than the others. So I choose two couples to pare. The heroin Elizabeth is intelligent, lively and has strong human refuses the proposal of Collins who is rich but she don’t love,refuses steadily rich young noble Darcy’s proposal because Elizabeth thinks Darcy is condescend and pride, she can’t domineering Lady Catherine wants to interfere with the freedom of her marriage,she doesn’t promise and give the impression last Darcy’s false Pride is humbled and he helps her family in ’s prejudice is dissolved and she receives Darcy’s marry and live a happy life. Linda is uncontrolled, fearless. She enjoys searching of the officers in is one of can’t resist Wickham’s sweet words and runs away with Darcy’s help,they marry formally,but they live a dependent life of which always needs the help of the analysis of the two couples’marriages,I find that Elizabeth and Darcy are much happier than Lydia and Wickham,because the marriage between Elizabeth and Darcy is based on independence and equality,but the marriage between Lydia and Wickham is , we can say 2 the love of independence and equality is the main melody in happy marriage. II A Comparative Analysis on the Independence and Equality in the Two couples’ Love and Marriage From the studying of the two couples, it is not difficult to find out that the marriage of Elizabeth and Darcy is perfect because they possess independence and Lydia and Wickham doesn’t possess them. Let’s pare with the two couples from two aspects :the love of independence and equality in love and marriage. 1. Different Ways of Showing Independence Elizabeth and Darcy are independent not only in thought and personality,but also in economy. But Lydia and Wickham lack of independent factors which the above you believe what I said?Now, please continue to read. In Thought Elizabeth and Darcy are independent in thought while Lydia and Wickham are possesses the quality of strong reason and keen has her own attitude towards marriage. She knows the happy marriage should be based on true love and should chose mate carefully and seriously.(Yu 800)She ignores money and refuses C