The Artistic Value Of Letters In The Novels Of Jane Austen

Letter is an important part of the Jane Austen’s novels. Austen use her own superb artistic talent to carry out the innovation of epistolary style, and successfully make letter glow with new life and luster in her novels. Her dig out the epistolary unique artistic charm, and creatively combine epistolary narrative and third-person narrative together which provides new methods and perspectives for the creation of her novels. In Jane Austen’s novels, the letters have a key role in the formation of Austin’s unique artistic style and artistic personality.This little guy named letter has great wisdom. The letter is good at performing the characters thoughts and feelings and has a unique advantage in shaping the image of character. The letters shows the true feelings of the characters’inner moral world, fills the image of protagonist, highlights the image of the supporting role, all sidelly enrichs the characters in the depth and breadth of humanity, and helps authors to create a series of lifelike characters. The letter themselves have the function of transmitting information and promote the development of the plot of the novel. The emergence of the letters create the dramatic effect of discovery and suspense in the novel, make the original dull story becomes the ups and downs, lively and interesting, and enhance the novel interesting and attractive. In addition, the emergence of the letter accelerated the formation of author’s unique artistic style. Letters simplify the description of the novel, avoid duplication and cumbersome, and promote a novel simple. Since taking into account the external real and inner truth of the novel, the letters reinforce a real life in novel, enhance the irony of the novel, and complete the integrity and unity of the plot of the novel. Letter plays a key role for the success of the novel.This thesis tries to select a new perspective of the artistic value of letters in the novels to re-interpretation Austen’s novels. I hope that it is able to bring readers feelings and a new way of thinking.