Pride and Prejudice Character Analysis Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen has been a popular book poking its head around literature classes for over a hundred years. Along the way the book has sold countless copies and even had multiple filmmakers try and perfect the well renowned book to the big screen. One example is Joe Wright’s 2005 version starring the well-known Kiera Knightley as the main character Elizabeth Bennet. The film did an amazing job transferring most of the material from the book to the big screen. Although, there did seem to be a few remarkable changes they seem to have made to our main character Elizabeth Bennet; with her family, attitude, and even love life. I will discuss how book Elizabeth is different from the movie
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Of course, she is more outspoken than anyone else in the book; which is why she is the main character of the novel. She just seems to be more daring and care free about it in the novel. A prime example of this would be when Lady Catherine de Bourgh visits the Bennet estate. She comes barging into the Bennet house and is very rude to the whole family; even with the family being as courteous as can be. She then demands to talk to the Elizabeth and again could not be ruder to her. She basically tells her not to marry Mr. Darcy and how she does not deserve to anyways. Insulting her and her family even more along the way. In the book she does fire right back at her saying, “to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me” (Austen 351). In the movie she keeps her calm but does not seem to hold back as much on Lady Catherine. They go back and forth and after Elizabeth refuses to listen to Lady Catherine’s order to not marry Darcy even says, “I must ask you to leave immediately”. This may not seem like much but saying that to something of Lady Catherine’s class was very insulting back in that time period. She stood up for not only herself but her family and that just made her even more likeable to the
Of course, she is more outspoken than anyone else in the book; which is why she is the main character of the novel. She just seems to be more daring and care free about it in the novel. A prime example of this would be when Lady Catherine de Bourgh visits the Bennet estate. She comes barging into the Bennet house and is very rude to the whole family; even with the family being as courteous as can be. She then demands to talk to the Elizabeth and again could not be ruder to her. She basically tells her not to marry Mr. Darcy and how she does not deserve to anyways. Insulting her and her family even more along the way. In the book she does fire right back at her saying, “to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me” (Austen 351). In the movie she keeps her calm but does not seem to hold back as much on Lady Catherine. They go back and forth and after Elizabeth refuses to listen to Lady Catherine’s order to not marry Darcy even says, “I must ask you to leave immediately”. This may not seem like much but saying that to something of Lady Catherine’s class was very insulting back in that time period. She stood up for not only herself but her family and that just made her even more likeable to the