Write 6 page essay on the topic Jane Austen's book, Pride and Prejudice. describe in detail how the themes of pride,family,money,humor,and prejudice among class.Download file to see previous pages...

Write 6 page essay on the topic Jane Austen's book, Pride and Prejudice. describe in detail how the themes of pride,family,money,humor,and prejudice among class.

Jane Austen’s views about marriage and married life are conveyed effectively through the characters she introduced. The influence of pride and prejudice in the familial relations and how family controls the society and its norms above all how the self realization leads to recognize the true love etc are magnificently woven in the novel. Thus the novel is a social commentary. The novel starts with ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a god fortune must be in want of a wife’(p 5). Austen exposes the main idea of the novel, loveless marriage in this context. The characters Austen uses to expose this idea are Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy. It is evident that Elizabeth Bennet is a tool in the hands of Austen to reveal her own ideas about marriage. Elizabeth is freer than anyone to break the societal conventions and accept a man whom she likes. She stresses the point that marrying for reasons other than ‘love is ridiculous’ . Elizabeth considers Mr. Collin as “conceited, pompous narrow minded, silly man (P115). This reaction is beyond the concepts of the then society. Darcy reveals his sense pride and authority when Bingley suggests to dance with Elizabeth. He says “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me and I am in no honor at present to give consequences to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me” . But later in the novel we could see the happy union of Elizabeth and Darcy. We could see Darcy recognized his own appreciation towards Elizabeth. He approaches her with his open heart ,”In vain I have struggled ,it will not do. My feelings will not be repressed you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire you and love you”(P 157). The exposure of the real mindset happens here when Elizabeth starts to see him in a new light. Thus prejudice in Elizabeth and that of Pride in Darcy begin to drop. The true vision of Austen about marriage is the keynote of the novel. The marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth is based on true love. It is not the love at first sight. It needs appropriate circumstance to develop. Here Darcy understands that Elizabeth is his fittest choice in life. It is the advice to the readers that the real relation must be established on love, not on external beauty. Proper understanding of both the partners is necessary lead a happy married life. The life of other lovers like Wickham and Lydia Mr. and Mrs Bennet, Charlotte and Mr. Collins is portrayed to delineate what she was specifying in the relation of Darcy and Elizabeth. The life without enough understanding will definitely end in chaos and anarchy. The life of Lydia and Wickham shows this inexperience and ignorance. Lydia gives importance to money and status . Wickham also has the same ground. When Lydia announces her love immediately Wickham was ready to accept her as his wife. Thus Austen presents loveless marriage in contrast to true marriage successfully. Familial relations in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet is explained by Austen as “he had very early in their marriage put an end to all real affection for her. Respect esteem and confidence had vanished for ever(194).