PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - JANE AUSTEN

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                          PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

                                                               JANE AUSTEN 


INTRODUCTION: 

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of

  a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”

                           The play ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was written by the famous English novelist “Jane Austen”.  She was born on 16th December 1775 Hampshire in England. She began her writing at the age of fourteen and her first novel is “First Impression “which was later altered as ‘Pride and Prejudice’. She wrote six novels in all and they are the most precious books in English Literature.

 They are

  • Sense and Sensibility

  • Pride and Prejudice

  • Mansfield Park

  • Northanger Abbey

  • Emma

  • Persuasion.

                          This novel explained familial relationships and marriages.

THE BENNET FAMILY:

“Happily ever after”

          The Bennet family at Longbourn consisted of Mr. and Mrs.Bennet and their five daughters. Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine and Lydia. Mrs Bennet’s eagerness to get daughters married oversteps the limits of property. For their daughter’s marriage, she makes friends with Bingley.

PRIDE OF BINGLEY:

‘’Nobody can go back and start a new beginning,

But anyone can start today and make a new ending’’

           Mr.Bingley, a rich Youngman, settled in the nearby mansion Nether field park, grew fond of Jane .But, his sisters and friends Darcy, disgusted with the vulgar behavior of some of the Bennet family, broke up. Bingley had an affair with Jane and took him back to London.

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love,

from love to matrimony in a moment “


COLLINS MARRIED CHARLOTTE:

          Mrs.Collins who was Rector of Hunsford under the patronage of Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Collins proposed to Elizabeth but was rejected by her. Elizabeth knew that he was a fool who, by the way , had immediately proposed to Elizabeth's friend Charlotte Lucas, married her and took to Hunsford. 

“Good looking and handsome with a pleasant countenance”

    PREJUDICE AGAINST DARCY:

“You have bewitched me in body and soul, and I love, I love you”

           Elizabeth was not without some affair. She dislikes Darcy from the beginning for his concerted ways. Another reason why Elizabeth hated Darcy was that she believed that Darcy cheated and ill-treated her friend Wickham, this makes Elizabeth all the more prejudiced against Darcy, but later she understood what a mercenary creature he (Wickham) was.

ELIZABETH REJECTED DARCY’S PROPOSES:

“While he admits to loving her, he also says many insulting things about      her family and social position”

           Elizabeth visited her friend Charlotte Hunsford, Darcy visited her there and proposed to her. She was surprised and believing that Darcy had stood in the way of Bingley’s love for her sister Jane promptly rejected him. The very next day, Darcy gave her a letter, defending his conduct and disapproving of the charges leveled against him by her .She felt sorry for her harshness towards Darcy.


ACCEPTANCE OF TRUE LOVE:

“All I know is every time I think of you; I want to be with you”

             Darcy has solid proof of his abiding love for Elizabeth when she visits his estate in the company of her aunt Mrs.gardiner. He was very polite and courteous towards them .He helped Lydia’s thoughtless elopement with Wickham. He also got a job for Wickham. Elizabeth realized Darcy's sterling character and no longer hated him. Darcy came to know about proposing to her for the second time and was accepted.


CONCLUSION:

           Mr.Bingley married Jane and settled down near Pemberley and Mr.Darcy married Elizabeth and settled near Pemberley. Wickham often gets financial help from Darcy. Mrs.Bennet was delighted to find out her daughters were happily settled.

“People themselves alter so much,

that there is something new

to be observed in them forever”

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