Pride and Prejudice

1. Prepared by- HiraL kashyap
Batch-2020-22 (MA sem-1)
Paper –Literature of the romantics
Roll No-09
Enrollment No-3069206420200010
Email id - hkg779@gmail.com
Submitted to-S.B. Gardi Department of
English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. Pride and Prejudice as a Timeless story

3. Why is Pride
and
Prejudice timel
ess?
The external plot drivers may be
contemporaneous and no
longer relevant to us today, but
Jane Austen had a profound
understanding of human nature,
and human nature hasn't
changed much in 200 years.

4. People still prejudge each other, project their own
insecurities and issues onto one another, fret about
whether their new man or woman truly loves them,
etc. People are still embarrassed by their relatives.
Some people are snobs and some people are
dishonest, reckless, stupid, silly, you name it. Jane
knew them all and drew timeless characters who
illustrate equally timeless truths of human nature
and human relations

5. Jane austen at first wanted to name it
“First impression”, but thought against it
and used “Pride and Prejudice” instead.
This title basically sums up the novel.
Mr. Darcy says that he'd never want to
be blinded by prejudice while Lizzy
hates Mr. Darcy for acknowledging her
status and her place in society which
hurt her pride.

6. As Mrs. Reynolds says,
people who are good and
kindhearted young grow up to
be so and people that are not
flashy are not always proud.
And last but not the least,
Darcy’s words “A man who
might have felt less might
have said more”

7. Elizabeth Bennet is by far the
most modern in outlook of all
Austen’s heroines. She is
independent-minded in a world
where independence was not
permitted for women of modest
means. She wishes to marry for
love, which is borderline radical in
her world. And she has no
patience for disguising her true
inclinations or her intellect in
order to make herself more
pleasing to a man who would be
put off by her authentic self.

8.  Darcy, although his level of wealth and
status would not be so emphatically
important in our world, is socially
awkward and confused when he
encounters Elizabeth. She is so
different from all the other women he
has met, shows him no special attention
or deference, and never seeks his
approval. He responds strongly to her
appeal but has no idea how to establish
any kind of understanding with her. All
you have to do is read questions in the
“Dating and Relationships” topic on
Quora for a few hours to understand
how timeless these challenges are.

9.  The characters and situations reflect universals.
We’ve all met Mr. Darcy, superbly confident in
his position, entirely (he think) in control of his
emotions, but at the same time an entirely
decent and thoughtful man. We’ve all met
independent-minded women like Elizabeth
Bennet. I don’t see her as modern; in the
previous century, there were many notable
independent-minded women, but she certainly
had, like her creator, a series of definite ideas of
how and when she might wish to marry. I think
that Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 better describes
her than to say she wants to marry for love; that
might describe Marianne in Sense And
Sensibility. Elizabeth seeks “the marriage of true
minds.” We have certainly met some variation of
Lady Catherine, and (unfortunately) Mr.
Wickham—and Kitty.

10.  Don’t judge a book by it’s cover - Both Darcy
and Elizabeth make snap judgements about
eachother and others around them, and find
they were completely incorrect
 Jane Austen was good at writing about people,
relationships, and community dynamics.
Despite the significant differences between
Austen’s historical reality & our contemporary
realities, the real human dynamics are relatable.
 We can learn from the mistakes made by the
characters, as well as sympathize with them. We
can visualize having similar dynamics play out
in our modern eras, and there’s also an exotic
quality of being completely consumed by a
detailed portrayal of life during another era.

11.  Although Austen wrote in a very
different time period where marriage
being women's way oo fortune and
security, unless already a part of the
upper class, there are many aspects to
the plot and themes still relevant to
today's society.
 Women are still not equal to men and
there is still great inequality in fortune in
Britain today, People are still cut out of
wills due to love choices that their
families may not agree with, which can
be due to the perceived social standing
of their chosen partner.

12. Conclusion
 A classic novel is one which deals with
universal themes, such as love, death,
friendship, betrayal or struggle. Its appeal
withstands the test of time - readers a hundred
or more years apart can find meaning or beauty
in it. It also has some artistic merit, beauty,
power, style so that it compels or holds
attention.
 On a relatively more controversial note, it seems
to me that Austen never wrote the type of blind,
passionate, unrealistic love so prevalent from
the beginning of fiction and throughout times.
When it is present, such as in Jane and
Bingley's plot, its very existence
is questioned by their friends and family For
most readers, this more
complicated, realistic approach to love is very
attractive and identifiable.