I have read the book named Pride and Prejudice, written by Jane Austen. The book is published by Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc. New York. It was first published in 1813, pride and prejudice has consistently been Jane Austen's most popular novel.
This book has been translated into many different languages and also has been simplified or abridged. It’s still popular even 200 years have been past.
This story happened in Longbourn, it is a real place, which belongs to Hertfordshire, in the southeast of England, to the north of London. The story reflects late 18th century and early 19th century’ values and tastes.
Jane Austen’s radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. The most important characters she had set up is Elizabeth and her proud beau, Darcy. The book portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy. It also has referred Elizabeth’s sisters and friends’ marriage, but they are all foils to Elizabeth and Darcy.
The story of Pride and Prejudice took place in the time of the Regency in Britain. At that time, Britain was at the period of transition from the earlier stage of Capitalism to Capitalist Industrialization. At the very first, Mr. Bingley appeared in the small town as the Bennets’ neighbor. He is a bachelor who owes large fortune, and almost everyone in the small town want to marry their own daughter to him. And soon Mr. Bingley fell in love with Jane, Mr. Bennet’s old daughter after a ball. Then came to the haughty man named Darcy, we first see Mr. Darcy at the ball, “He soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien---and the report which was in general circulation with five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a-year.” From the descriptions above, that Darcy indeed had the qualification to look down upon others. And at first he was really pride but later on he created good feelings to Elizabeth and asked her for dancing on another ball, but he was refused because Elizabeth was an unyielding girl and she had overheard Darcy’s impolite words, so she hated his pride and can’t get rid of prejudice. Darcy felt humiliated.
The next summer, Elizabeth came to Darcy’s manor with her aunt and uncle. When she saw Darcy, she felt greatly surprised at his changing. She found that he is politeness and respectable, the prejudice against Darcy had gradually disappeared. But then her youngest sister Lizzy’lover, William appeared. He once worked for Darcy and he said a lot of untrue words to Elizabeth, he defamed Darcy with sharp words and Elizabeth raised her prejudice against Darcy again. That make Darcy’s another proposal failed. Later she got the information that Lizzy, and Sir William Lucas had got away from home, she felt worried and humiliated. Darcy paid back the money for William without saying a word to Elizabeth, and helped them get married. From then on, Elizabeth dumped all the prejudice and fell in love with Darcy with all her heart.
The other clue, Jane and Bingley also clarified all the misunderstandings and got married soon. Darcy and Elizabeth after experiencing so many biases finally found true love. But in other marriage cases in this novel, we can see that if money and love can’t be held together in one marriage, love would always make a concession to money because of the special social background. Still remember William Collin? He and Charlotte’s marriage was completely set up on money. Without love, of course they won’t get happiness.
The characters have been set up by the author, have their own features. Elizabeth is an independent, intelligent woman. She is respectable and upright, she hates authorities and never submit to anything, she pursues true love and never attach importance to property. Darcy is a noble man and his class has given him a born pride, but he changes his manners and finally gains Elizabeth’s love, he is also a man who pursues true love.
Pride and Prejudice depicts a society in which a woman’s reputation is of the utmost importance. A woman is expected to behave in certain ways. Stepping outside the social norms makes her vulnerable to ostracism.
At last come to my own conclusion. Pride and Prejudice was the representative work of Jane Austen. It gives a vivid expression_r of the reactionary and traditional country life and people’s minds during 18th centuries and 19th centuries in Britain to us. This great novel not only attracted thousands of readers in Austen’s time, but also gave a special feeling to today’s people. I like this book very much, when I was a 6 year-old girl I read it. I always thinking why the title is Pride and Prejudice, I have been confused for a long time, but now I understand. Pride refers to Darcy’s behavior, and prejudice links with Elizabeth’s view on Darcy. Pride produces prejudice, and prejudice almost makes their love pass by.
.Elizabeth is intelligent, vivacious, humorous, perceptive and quick-witted, and she has a strong sense of personality and dignity. But Darcy at first is a pride and rich man; he looks down upon all the people who come from different classes. Also Mrs. Bennet has said: “He is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and conceited that there was no enduring him!” But just the two totally different people walk into a marriage, they have experienced hatred, prejudice, misunderstanding, self-respect and they reach the final understanding. The way lead to their love is complicated.
There are a lot of novels talking about marriage in Britain, but scarcely an author could be like Austen, exposing the money-essence of capitalism marriage system so deeply.
Pride and Prejudice is the most enduringly popular novel written by Jane Austen. It talks about trivial matters of love, marriage and family life between country squires and fair ladies in Britain in the 18th century. The plot is very simple. That is how the young ladies choose their husbands. I appreciate Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel, flatly rejected William Collins’ proposal, who is the heir of her father’s property and manor, and refused the first proposal from the extremely wealthy nobleman Fitzwilliam Darcy later. All the facts and plots make it clear that Elizabeth seeks no fame nor fortune, but self-important and high mental outlook.
Love is really a wonderful thing; if you pursue a true love you can never give up or submit to anything, stick to your principle and don’t be afraid of misunderstanding. I believe one day happiness will come true.
Mr. Darcy: An extremely wealthy aristocrat, Darcy is proud, haughty and extremely conscious of class differences at the beginning of the novel. He does, however, have a strong sense of honor and virtue. Elizabeth's rebukes after his first proposal to her help him to recognize his faults of pride and social prejudice. It is, in fact, precisely because Elizabeth is not so awed by his high social status as to be afraid to criticize his character that he is attracted to her. The self-knowledge acquired from Elizabeth's rebukes and the desire to win Elizabeth's love spur him to change and judge people more by their character than by their social class.
Fitzwilliam Darcy
The son of a wealthy, well-established family and the master of the great estate of Pemberley, Darcy is Elizabeth’s male counterpart. The narrator relates Elizabeth’s point of view of events more often than Darcy’s, so Elizabeth often seems a more sympathetic figure. The reader eventually realizes, however, that Darcy is her ideal match. Intelligent and forthright, he too has a tendency to judge too hastily and harshly, and his high birth and wealth make him overly proud and overly conscious of his social status. Indeed, his haughtiness makes him initially bungle his courtship. When he proposes to her, for instance, he dwells more on how unsuitable a match she is than on her charms, beauty, or anything else complimentary. Her rejection of his advances builds a kind of humility in him. Darcy demonstrates his continued devotion to Elizabeth, in spite of his distaste for her low connections, when he rescues Lydia and the entire Bennet family from disgrace, and when he goes against the wishes of his haughty aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by continuing to pursue Elizabeth. Darcy proves himself worthy of Elizabeth, and she ends up repenting her earlier, overly harsh judgment of him.
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