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Pride and Prejudice is one of the most best love stories. the marriage between Darcy and Elizabeth. As in any good love story, the lovers must compromise and overcome several obstacles, beginning with the stress caused by the lovers’ own personal life's. Elizabeth’s pride makes her misjudge Darcy on the lines of a poor first impression, while Darcy’s prejudice against Elizabeth’s poor social standing blinds him, for a time, to her many upsides.They begin then to look past each others outside appearance and overall social status and fall madly in love.
On the other hand, expert Natasha Duquette states, "Prejudice is a problem for Lizzy, who has been set against Darcy by something she heard him say in an unguarded moment, and is unwilling to see him in any other light than the one she casts on him herself until she reads his letter at Hunsford." I highly disagree with this comment. I do no believe that Lizzy has any problem with prejudice. It is Darcy. In my opinion, Lizzy has every right to judge him as he did her the first time he saw her. All Darcy did was talk about how she did not meet up to his "standards". Lizzy had the problem with pride because her pride is what kept her from falling for him right away.

Setting

So far in my novel I have learned quite a bit about the time period the setting was placed in. The belief is still that woman are born to marry off rich. The parents set them up with a man who is more wealthy so that the man will fall in love with her and she will be better off in the future. So far I am very interested in this theory to see how far it is taken into the novel but I don't like it. I think it is sexist and wrong. I believe maybe Jane Austen put this in the novel to show her true feelings about it. That maybe she is trying to show that women need to step up and fight against. I'm not sure I will find out farther hopefully.

The setting currently in my novel is in Hertforshire. It states, "The evening was spent chiefl in talking over Hertfordshire news, and telling again what had been already written." By this being said I can know where the setting is because they are talking over that news and it gives us a place. The time period as was said in the beginning was placed in a very old time. It has not come out and said what time period it is but it has said thing to show that it is old, for example, Mrs.Bennet says, "Mr. Bingley is single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" Also they use a lot of old language as also seen in that sentence. This should make for a good novel because I can read about things that I don't have a good knowledge of.

Why Pride and Prejudice

I chose the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen because it looked like a very interesting novel.The battle of the sexes, the purpose and meaning of love and marriage, and the boy meets girl plot are my favorite types of novels. I love to read about conflict and people searching for love.

Mr.Darcy vs. Mr. Bingley

Two characters in my novel, Pride and Prejudice, that are very well contrasted to each other would have to be Mr.Bingley and Mr.Darcy. The way I know this is because both men were at a ball and both were very handsome. "Mr.Bingley was good-looking and gentleman-like; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy unaffected manners." Mr. Darcy was declared to be much handsomer than Mr.Bingley by all the ladies. The only thing that was difference from the two were their choice of manners. As stated, Mr. Bingley had a great amount of manners while, on the other hand, Mr. Darcy did not. "He was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased." Mr. Darcy was one who was too proud to be caught "mingling" with lower class. He did not try to hide it either. During the ball, Mr. Bingley had went over to Mr. Darcy to see if he wanted to dance. He replied, "I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this, it would be unsupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand with." Then Mr. Bingley began gesturing towards Elizabeth Bennet, stating that he should dance with her, the rude man replied, "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence 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." He did not care that Elizabeth was in eat distance to hear the crude remarks. Mr. Bingley, though almost just as rich as Mr.Darcy, was extremely social. He immediately left him and he danced with almost every girl in the room and did not care to do it twice. He chatted and mingled with anyone in sight. This was true proof of compassion and friendliness.

I believe Jane Austen, the author, probably put this in the novel because she intended to show how amazing Mr. Bingley truly was. He was the new guy in town and the most eligible bachelor. Everyone was so ready to show off their daughter to him. To show how perfect he was, Jane Austen showed how rude Mr.Darcy was. I think she did an excellent job because it starts out having the two very much alike by their looks and social class but yet so different by their personalities.