very negatively on his family if he were to marry someone as "low class" as Elizabeth. So even one's family is willing to break up "true love" in order to maintain rank. This theme runs throughout the entire story and really destroys the entire thing. Other stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, have the same sort of "forbidden" marriages, and since those arrive out of real situations, they add more interest to the story. Here, it is simply prejudice by rich people against poorer people, which only detracts from the writing. So while this theme may have existed in reality during Jane Austen's lifetime, it should not have been included in the story.
             Jane Austen demonstrates in Pride and Prejudice through Elizabeth and Darcy that in man's pursuit of the joys in life, those who stick too strictly or not at all to the
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