Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's novel Price and Prejudice is based in the 19th century centering around Elizabeth Bennet, her four sisters, and their quests to find love and more importantly to marry well. Mrs. Bennet's main goal in life is to find her 5 daughters well married and hopefully happy. Mr. Darcy, a handsome and proud aristocrat, falls in love with Elizabeth. He is attracted by her fine eyes, elegant figure, buoyancy of spirit, quick wit, and intelligence. Mr. Darcy hopes to win the love of Elizabeth, but she is offended by the pride and arrogance that he exhibits, along with her own prejudices. Pride and Prejudice was originally titled First Impressions. Both titles exemplify the main themes of the novel: how the first impressions and prejudices (especially those involving pride) of people can lead to wrong impressions. The judgments that the main characters in the novel made based on appearances and first impressions often proved to be wrong and their opinions of those people later changed. Elizabeth's initial judgments about both Wickham and Mr.
Her own pride also became involved in the matter when she overheard him say that "she is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt [him]" (7). [Elizabeth's] heart did whisper that he had done it for her" (235). Wickham's easy manner and good looks fool almost everyone at first, and he is thought to be a gentleman. Pride and Prejudice uses the theme of "fair is foul and foul is fair" from Macbeth. Darcy come not only from the arrogant pride he has exhibited, but also from the wrong information that she received from Wickham. Darcy to judge him as a proud and arrogant man. Elizabeth believes without question everything that he tells her about Mr. Darcy, on the other hand, appears to be "foul" and have too much pride, but inside he is an intelligent and honest man who truly cares about Elizabeth, which is his "fair" side.
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