Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Love and friendship


Jane Austen is one of the most known authors of English and world literature. Her most famous novel is Pride and Prejudice but also Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park as well. All her novels are full of romances and family intrigues. Some of it describes facts of her life.
Pride and Prejudice is a very absorbing and marvelous book to read. The novel concentrates on realities of 19th century and describes in general a style of life middle and high class families. Jane Austin, in chronological details, entangles a romantic course of events between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy and their friends as well.
Pride and prejudice are words that appear very often in the book. Mostly they describe the first impression the main characters feel about each other.
Miss Elizabeth Bennet, called by her family members Lizy, is the wisest girl of all her 4 sisters she has. She comes from a middle class family as a second daughter in Bennet’s family. Lizzy is an admirable person of honest and true virtues. She usually conducts smart and pleasant conversations but can be sharp towards those who she finds unfriendly. Her character is definitely the most visible along the novel because she is the one who tries to cope with her impossible and discouraging mother, father who is not interested in family affairs and badly behaved younger sisters, except her favorable and eldest Jane. She has to cope with many obstacles before she finds the true virtues of Mr. Darcy who did not make a good impression at the beginning of their relation.
Fitzwilliam Darcy comes from much more wealthy family than Elizabeth. He is an owner of marvelous property Pemberley in England. Darcy is a wise man who from the beginning seems to be an enigma. He seems to be much stiffed person who has only black or white point of view. At the beginning Darcy is noticed by Elizabeth as rather arrogant and not sympathetic person of unpleasant manners and pride. He is of course judged too fast by Elizabeth and later on she is also mistakenly informed of his past.
In the first thirty chapters Elizabeth Bennet does not even try to discover Dacry. She is more focused on the relation between her sister Jane and Charles Bingley. She is worried that her sister will not get marry soon and her feeling toward the man is hopeless due to his departure to London. Much trouble also brings the younger sister, Lydia who is a selfish and vain girl looking for entertainment and young man to play with. She finds Mr. Wickham, an enemy of Mr. Darcy and a man who takes advantage of others, as an object of love. That causes the Bennet’s family a big trouble.
Love, friendship and behaviors are the main themes of Pride and Prejudice and thanks to it the novel has an interesting plot that is hard to put away.

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