Учебная презентация предназначена для мультимедийного сопровождения интегрированного урока (литература +английский язык) по роману  Джейн Остин "Гордость и предубеждение". В презентации представлена краткая биография писательницы, дана характеристика главных героев произведения, основные конфликты, затронутые в  романе, приводятся рекомендации для прочтения книги.

Jane Austen was born in 1775 in Steventon where she spent the first twenty-five years of her life.

The last few years of Jane’s life were affected by the development of the disease from which she died in 1817, at the age of forty-one.

Austen began writing the novel in 1796. The book was originally titled  «First Impressions».

The most important characters of the book are

v   Elizabeth Bennet

vMr. Fitzwilliam Darcy

v Mrs. Bennet

vJane Bennet

vCharles Bingley.

The second of Bennet daughters is Elizabeth Bennet. She is twenty years old and she is intelligent, lively, playful, attractive and witty but with a tendency to judge on the first impression.

Mr. Darcy is the male protagonist of the novel. He is 28 years old and unmarried man, tall and intelligent, but rather antisocial. He makes a poor impression on strangers, such as the landed gentry of Merytone, but he is valued by those who know him well.

The major conflicts of the novel are

vMrs. Bennet’s desperate attempts to find suitable husbands for her marriageable daughters

vMr. Darcy’s attempts to win Elizabeth’s love.

When you first read Pride and Prejudice, you are absolutely captivated by the story.  This story  gets better every time you read it. It is worth reading!

 Fragments from the film «Pride and Prejudice, 1995  and  «Autumn Wals» by Fryderyk Chopin

are used in the presentation.