奥斯丁是浪漫主义时期的代表作家,她进行文学创作的年代正是英国社会的转型时期———激进与传统相冲撞的18世纪末。那个时代,整个社会都是以男性为中心构建的,女性的价值是从男性的利益出发被评定的。面对妇女的地位、职能被严重贬低的状况,不可能所有女性就此沉默,文学界涌现出一批女性作家,她们借助自己的笔来揭示男女的不平等,反对男性文学乃至整个社会对女性的桎梏,就这样,她们开始了对妇女的自我探索及对自身价值的肯定。奥斯丁就是其中典型的作家之一。她的作品《傲慢与偏见》充分体现了女性自我意识的觉醒。 Austin was a representative writer in the Romantic period. Her writing of literature was at the turn of the British society - the late 18th century where the radical and tradition collided. At that time, the whole society was constructed from the male as the center, and the value of the women was assessed from the male’s interest. In the face of the status of women and the serious demeaning of their functions, it is impossible for all women to be silent on this. Literary circles have emerged as a group of female writers who use their own pens to reveal inequalities between men and women and to oppose male literature and even society as a whole So, they started their self-exploration of women and affirmed their own value. Austin is one of the typical writers. Her work “Pride and Prejudice” fully embodies the awakening of women’s self-awareness.