Pride and Prejudice 1

"Pride and Prejudice" is the best known work of the mysterious Jane Austen. Woman letter of the early nineteenth century, Jane Austen is largely devoted to his novels, which she will draw his lifetime a certain celebrity. If there is little representation of her, you know she was not married. Yet marriage and social status are the main themes of this amazing novel.

The first title given to him was "First impressions" eloquent title if necessary. For the subject of the story is the discrepancy between the first impressions and knowledge, between prejudice and deepening, between pride and humility.

Elizabeth Bennet is the second daughter of a humble family of the London campaign. His life passes peacefully, punctuated by the ruckus of his four sisters, lively dances by the presence of officers whose battalion passage and visits between neighbors.

The book opens with a key event in the peaceful village, the arrival of a young man of good family, Mr. Bingley in a nearby property. If the heart of the older sister, Jane, once fighting for the handsome newcomer, Elisabeth remains more circumspect on the companion fop, Mr. Darcy. The cynical and caustic exchanges between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are, for the time, a certain modernism in the English novel.

If Elisabeth distrusts immediately casualness and nonchalance of Mr. Darcy, it also disapproves early potential alliance between the family of noble rank of his friend and the poor Jane. Packed woes of the Bennet family, their field male heir fault, promised an inheritance to a dark featureless cousin 'But the setbacks of the family never arrive alone and do not stop so easily.

Elisabeth, bruised his pride to see his rank underestimated by the gaze of Mr Darcy, begins itself to seek the attendance of his kin easier, and warned his father against the lightness of her little sister Lydia, whose frivolous behavior is already running many rumors'

Genuine pride and pride game, this novel summarizes a privilege century of codes and traditions it me highlight the pressure on women of the time to take a husband, and social pressure and the game ranks misalliances.

But the strength of the "first impressions", the refusal that was to move away, remains an eternal theme, Jane Austen deals with humor and talent. She walks her character, Elizabeth, from one extreme to another, in an age of convenience and contradictions. If Mr. Darcy is hostile to the marriage of his friend, it is the very first pages attracted Elisabteh and research his company. As for the little frivolous sister, Lydia, it will be eradicated from his unseemly situation than there being irreparably liée'Preuve that despite the yoke of traditions, a single response is not always available '

For the rest, we'll let you judge, read, or reread, with or without prejudice, this classic novel of English literature '

Emma Breton