Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Prince Charming and his low class Princess

Elizabeth Bennett and Darcy the two main characters of Pride and Prejudice fall in love yet their character roles and places in society are of wide ranges. Elizabeth Bennett the second daughter out of five, portrays many different roles as well as skills that differ from others in her family as well as others that are a part of this era. For example, Elizabeth Bennett often shows her intelligence, honesty, and cleverness. In addition, the context of Elizabeth's words have came to show numerous times that Miss Bennett has the qualities and skills to converse, although often times examples have shown that her conversing can be sharp to judge others. As Elizabeth soon falls in love with Mr. Darcy, a character who portrays many different interest, she is forced to change her life style and make adaptions.

Darcy on the other hand is a character of higher social class and has a different basis of character. Mr. Darcy is the son of a wealthy family and has been brought up in different ways than Miss Bennett. Although of different class Darcy is the match for Elizabeth because like Elizabeth he possess many admired qualities and traits. These traits include, intelligence as well as cleverness. In addition, Mr. Darcy often has the tendency to judge people too quickly, just as he had done with Elizabeth.

Although the social status of a family plays a major role in this era, Elizabeth's and Mr. Darcy, have many character traits that are similar. As they begin to fall in love they learn to make adjustments with era of society as well as social status upbringings. Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth learn to put their Prejudice aside that they had both felt for each other when first meeting at the ball. In the end is it our Pride and Prejudice that leads us to a peaceful, happy, and gainful life?

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