Pride and Prejudice--How Romance Genre Represents itself.

ely to have romance happened in big cities. Although the whole story happens in the rural area, it is still possible for romance to take place due to the balls. Males and females get to know one another by attending the balls.
             There are some important houses in the film and greatly reflect their owners respectively. Bennet¡¯s house in the small village, Longbourn, is just a comfortable family house with no particular pretensions to anything. Hunsford is a small, modest house with pretensions to grandeur, and with a certain amount of fussiness about it, just to reflect Mr. Collins. Rosings is very flamboyant, large but over the top and its owner, a character we do not like so much. As for Pemberly, it ostentatiously shows great taste, history and a lineage that goes by. It is supposed to really be the epitome of all that is good about the aristocracy at that time.
             Journeys of the main protagonist¡ªElizabeth:
             Nearly every scene in Pride and Prejudice takes place indoors and the action centers around the Bennet home. Nevertheless, journeys¡ªeven short ones¡ªfunction repeatedly as catalysts for change. Elizabeth¡¯s first journey, by which she intends simply to visit Charlotte and Mr. Collins, brings her into contact with Mr. Darcy, and leads to his first proposal. Her second journey takes her to Pemberley, where her affection for Darcy grows rapidly. The third journey, meanwhile, sends various people in pursuit of Wickham and Lydia, and the journey ends with Darcy tracking them down and saving the Bennet family honor, in the process demonstrating his continued devotion to Elizabeth.
             The social background of Austen¡¯s England was particularly stratified, in which social mobility is limited and class-consciousness is strong, and class divisions were rooted in family connections and wealth. The lines of class are strictly drawn.
             In the story we can see how social classes influences the way people act toward o...

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