Pride and Prejudice
In Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen show us how two very different people can overcome society, other people opinions and even their own first impressions to find love. She introduces the charters Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet at the Assembly Ball. Mr. Darcy feeling out of place and put out because the country people wear acting in a way he found too familiar for his station was overhead by Elizabeth to say about her “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; (Austen p 13).” Later in the book we find Elizabeth talking over the events of the ball with her good friend Charlotte and tells of the comment she hear “…I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine (Austen p 21).”
At Longbourne we see a much bolder Mr. Darcy. At first he watches, seeing qualities that he had overlook on their first meeting. “But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes (Austen p 24).” I have found that the more we get to know a person the more their inner appearance shows through wither making them seem either more or less attractive. As the night goes on Miss. Bennet is able to express some of her pent up anger at Darcy by sparing with him verbally. Mr. Darcy is not put off by this wordplay. In a sense it is almost like they are flirting.
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Eliza accepts an invitation to visit her friend Charlotte and her husband. When she gets there an invitation to dine at Rosing comes almost at once. When she goes to dinner Elizabeth is surprised to find that Mr. Darcy is staying with Lady Catherin. After the meal Lady de Bourge asks Eliza to play piano for them. As she plays Mr. Darcy leers over her in a way that seems intimating. Eliza is not thrown off by Darcy’s aggressive manner and confronts him directly by saying”There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others (Austen p 173).” Mr. Darcy tells Eliza that he cannot chit chat whit people he does not know well. You can feel in their interactions that something is starting to come out in Mr. Darcy.
A small time later Mr. Darcy is overcome by powerful emotions for Miss Bennet, that he does not fully understand himself and proposes mirage to her. The way he does this is unconventional in that he insults her family and friends. Eliza is totally unprepared for this and being so caught off guard tells him the unflattering things she has learned. She tells him that she found out from Mr. Wickham that Darcy cheated him out of his inheritance. She also lets him know that she found out he was the one who broke up Mr. Bingley and her sister Jane. She then goes on to tell him how much she lathes him and that she would not marry him if he was the last man on earth.
Mr. Darcy, who is still smitten with Eliza, wrights a letter, explaining why he did the things he did. Eliza at first does not believe what he says but after a time Mr. Darcy’s story seems to check out. “…but as much as Elizabeth wishes the contents of the letter to be false she shows herself, even at first reading, to begin to accept their unpleasant truth (passage of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice).” By the time Elizabeth gets home she has read the letter over several times and thinks that her option of Darcy may have been all wrong.
Mr. Darcy from this point on in the book is a changed man. He does a number of extraordinary things to prove by his actions that he is a good man worthy of Eliza’s love. When he learns of Lydia Bennet’s elopement to Mr. Wickham, he sets off to find them in London. When he does he settles all of Wickham’s debts so that George and Lydia can marry. He convinces Mr. Bingley to go back to Netherfield Park so he can ask Jane’s hand in marriage. Mr. Darcy proposes marriage to Eliza a 2nd time and this time she accepts.
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ter> Overcoming Pride and Prejudice through Maturity and Self- Understanding Jane Austen, born in Steventon, England, in 1775, began to write the original manuscript of Pride and Prejudice, entitled First Impressions, which was completed by 1797, but was rejected for publication. The work was rewritten around 1812 and published in 1813 as Pride and Prejudice. During Austens career, Romanticism ...
In Pride and Prejudice their wear many things keeping Mr. Darcy and Eliza apart. There was the different in their class, how much money each had, and how their families behaved. Mr. Darcy’s mistake was that he believed all the great things people said about them and took great pride in those things without examining them. Eliza’s was that she was prejudice agents people who were snobbish. In the story both Eliza and Darcy grew to see these faults through the other person’s eyes. In doing so they both learned something about the other; that they brought out the best in each other and this let the love that they were holding back blossom.
Works Cited
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics 2003. Print.
Analysis of passage of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. CheatHouse.com: Web. March 6, 2010
