The bible plays a huge part in the development of literature. The bible is a resource that can be compared no matter the language barrier or time period. A biblical allusion adds to a novel substantially as “The story ceases to be locked in the middle of the twentieth century and becomes timeless and archetypal” (Foster 51). To simply put it, the story of the bible “never grows old” (Foster 51). A comparable biblical allusion is evident within Pride and Prejudice, “All Meryton seemed striving to blacken the man, who but three months before, had been almost an angel of light” (Austen 280). This quotation emphasizes the fact that Wickham was a wanted man in Meryton, and that people wanted to expose the man for his wrongful ways. The use of the
