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Pride and Prejudice

Written by famous British writer Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece that vividly shows us the country life between the late 18th century and the early 19th century. Different from the other books in that time, the author picked out the material from her daily life and told us a wonderful story.

The book portrays the emotional entanglement between an arrogant

single young man Darcy and a smart lady Bennet Elizabeth. In our

opinions, there is no doubt that P&P is a romantic and realistic love story. The hero Mr. Darcy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth

is a handsome rich young man with an appearance of the cold and

internal enthusiasm. The excellent environment not only cultivates his savoir-vivre and graceful behavior but also cultivate his pride nature. Comparing with his outspoken friend Bingley, Darcy is more

complicated.

The heroine Elizabeth is beautiful lady with black hair and red lips.

She is proud, smart, farsighted, and meditative. All of these make her charming and attractive.

When Darcy first met Elizabeth in a ball, he said, Elizabeth is not

very beautiful which made her angry and made a misunderstanding between them. From then on, Darcy is an insolent, supercilious young man in Elizabeth’s eyes. Although they left a bad impression to each in

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the first time, at the second time, Darcy noticed Elizabeth’s virtue that made him wanted to get more understanding about her, even be careful to listen to her speaking. With appreciation, Darcy observed Elizabeth carefully. He found that although Elizabeth was not very beautiful, but she was smart and never echoed others’ words. Although her figure was not his ideal, but she was lively and light-heeled. All of these made him realized that Elizabeth is so charming and different from the other girls that made him being attracted.

In our daily life, we have the same experience. Once we have a good impression of somebody, but we don’t know him very well yet. We would observe him furtively to know what kind of person he is, and

whom he is getting along with, instead of being close to him prematurely. After we get a basic understanding about this person, we would try to approach him and to make friend with him. Mr. Darcy also took this strategy.

But these were the thought in Mr. Darcy’s mind, Elizabeth knew nothing about it. The misunderstanding still kept on.

When Mr. Darcy tried to be close to Elizabeth, she thought he was trying to found her faults to mock her so as to destroy the image of her in others’ hearts. So she still felt annoy with Mr. Darcy, and did not be in close touch to him. That was prejudice. But, we all know that, Elizabeth

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was so clever that she won’t be a slave of prejudice. What made her recognized the fact was the sense.

I have mentioned that, Elizabeth was a smart lady, she was good at observing and thinking, and she never echoed others’ words. Even if Wickham slandered Mr. Darcy on purpose several times, she could see the real fact, and correct the wrong view about Mr. Darcy. I appreciate Elizabeth’s courage admitting her own faults and correcting them right away.

5 daughters of Bennett’s have different marriage view. Marrying for property, money, and status is wrong; however, don’t consider the above is also stupid. Thus, Elizabeth neither supported marrying for money, nor careless about the marriage. She emphasized the importance of an ideal marriage, and thought the love between two people as their base of marriage. Although Darcy and Elizabeth loved each other, Elizabeth refused Darcy’s proposal several times because of they had disparities in society status, property and other aspects. But Elizabeth saw what Darcy had done, and what he had changed, she changed her mind, eliminated the misunderstanding and prejudice and married him. The different attitudes of Elizabeth actually reflected the women’s pursuit of independent personality and equal rights. Thus reflected the author’s spirit and pursuit.

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