Why pride and prejudice is a good book

Anne recommends that he read more prose. This conversation with Benwick helps Anne to gain the critical distance she needs to perceive her own situation more accurately. In so doing, she finds happiness at last. In contrast to her pedantic sister Mary, who is so absorbed in scholarly books that she is ill-adjusted to the real world, Elizabeth understands that reading, though worthwhile, is no substitute for living.

Thus, when Mr. Yet despite being a perceptive and careful reader, Elizabeth needs improvement. I'm a BookTuber from India. I make videos related to books, productivity, and student life! This blog is on point. Lizzy has always been one of the strongest characters and also my favourite!

Very well written Helly! And I loved Point 1 and 5 the most…! After reading this article I m in love with this story. This is so purely returned article which can argue interest in any story……. A Big thank you to Ms. Helly Chatterjee For writing this piece of art so visually and easy to understand….

I loved this. I read the novel as it was in my syllabus and I was overwhelmed to find out a character like Elizabeth who differed from other women through her courage, wit, readiness and she placed true love over any compulsion or the basis of settlement. Hey Helly..! The points you mentioned behind the success of the novel were absolutely correct..

Keep going.! Your email address will not be published. Skip to content. It is a novel about reading One of the biggest focuses of the novel is how reading can impact someone tremendously. Though much of the story is delivered from Elizabeth's perspective in Austen's free indirect style, the second-eldest Bennet sibling is not immune from criticism and self-criticism, continually being forced to revise her self-regard.

Nor is Darcy ever a completely despicable or completely admirable figure, either before or after his resurrection. While it's easy to see the novel's double-barrelled title as assigning one quality to Elizabeth and the other to Darcy, the deeper truth is that both are prideful in their own way and both are guilty of prejudging at times.

Indeed, pride and prejudice are rife in their social circles. It is difficult to find anyone in the novel not so afflicted to some degree.

Elizabeth, mediated by the author, is continually commenting on every person's "character" and "disposition"—two words that run throughout Pride and Prejudice. They seem to indicate Austen's philosophy of human nature, that everyone's nature is set in certain patterns. Whether it is set by upbringing and social status, or by some inner chemistry, may be an open question though Austen seems to accept the former.

But only extraordinary efforts by extraordinary people can change it. For most people, finding a compatible life-mate thus means finding someone whose character and predispositions not to mention affluence and social status already suit one's own. Eldest sister Jane is a sweet, placid character, suited perfectly for the attentions of good-natured, pliant Bingley. Collins is a pompous, obsequious ass with a wealthy patron and is lucky to find a mate in Elizabeth's friend Charlotte who cares naught for love, only for security.

Bennet have, as mentioned, well-matched complementary characters. The frivolous, flirtatious rascals Lydia and Wickham are peas in a pod though perhaps too similarly self-centred to last as a couple, it is hinted.

Though far less catchy, it does convey perfectly Austen's important message: First impressions are often wrong. For example, Darcy's little sister is often mistaken for proud when she's simply painfully shy.

Other first impressions are dangerous. Hypocrisy is always good for a laugh. Some of Austen's funniest and sharpest scenes involve hypocrites. There's Mr. Collins, the clergyman. Upon learning that his teenage cousin Lydia is living in sin, this man of God writes a letter to Mr. Bennet, noting that "the death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison" and closes by urging, "Let me then advise you, dear sir, to console yourself as much as possible, to throw off your unworthy child from your affection forever, and leave her to reap the fruits of her own heinous offense.

Bennet embarrasses her family with her loud voice and silly ways, she's Emily Post compared with the snobbish Lady Catherine de Bourgh, the novel's rudest character.

Technology might change, but human nature remains the same. Give cellphones to the youngest Bennet daughters — the boy-crazy shopaholics Kitty and Lydia — and they would fit right in at any high school.

Their father is every Baby Boomer dad ignoring both his upside-down mortgage and his out-of-control kids. The one homely Bennet female, Mary, is the 19th-century version of an insecure, overachieving nerd. In the end, although Austen crafted her characters with a quill pen dipped in ink, they have remained fresh, instantly recognizable and fascinating for years.

Darcy won Elizabeth Bennet, will, no doubt, continue to captivate readers for another two centuries. Facebook Twitter Email.