Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. Pride and Prejudice is firstly a novel about surpassing obstacles and finding true love and happiness. The story follows the emotional development of the main character Elizabeth Bennet, one of the five daughters of Bennet family, who has the tendency to judge too quickly. As the story progress, Elizabeth learns the difference between the superficial and the essential, throughout her relationship with Mr. Darcy. So, it's undoubted that First Impressions play an important role in Pride and Prejudice. In fact, Jane Austen entitled initially the book “First Impressions” instead of Pride and Prejudice.
The main characters, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, have both misunderstood …show more content…
Jane Austen has created a story which indicates how first impressions can be wrong. A typical example is Mr. Wickham. He is a handsome militia officer, who attracts Elizabeth initially with his charm and his kind manners. Elizabeth describes him like this: “The officers of the-shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk.” It is also mentioned that Mr. Wickham dislikes Mr Darcy because of an old quarrel between them. Given that Elizabeth is attracted to Mr. Wickham, she is influenced by his opinion for Darcy and her dislike to him grows bigger. As the story goes on, it is revealed that Mr. Wickham is not the kind man that everyone believes. If anything, he is gambler and he has huge debts. That's why he pursues a good marriage and he eventually entices Lydia, Elizabeth's younger sister, to marry …show more content…
Jane Austen gives a cross section of how first impressions affect people in social life. That's why she first entitled the book “First Impressions”. Given all these examples of how the characters misunderstand each other, at a first sight someone would think that this title suits perfect. However, in my point of view the title of a book shouldn't reveal such a large part of its main themes to the readers. Before the reader reads the book is already expecting by the title that first impressions are going to prejudice the characters and lead them to misjudgments. In contrast, the title “Pride and Prejudice”gives to the reader only a slight taste of what he is going to read. In addition, this title creates to the readers a dilemma. Until the end of the book, it is not clear if the element of pride is Elizabeth's or Darcy's characteristic. So, I think Austen's decision to change the book's title was
The main characters, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, have both misunderstood …show more content…
Jane Austen has created a story which indicates how first impressions can be wrong. A typical example is Mr. Wickham. He is a handsome militia officer, who attracts Elizabeth initially with his charm and his kind manners. Elizabeth describes him like this: “The officers of the-shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk.” It is also mentioned that Mr. Wickham dislikes Mr Darcy because of an old quarrel between them. Given that Elizabeth is attracted to Mr. Wickham, she is influenced by his opinion for Darcy and her dislike to him grows bigger. As the story goes on, it is revealed that Mr. Wickham is not the kind man that everyone believes. If anything, he is gambler and he has huge debts. That's why he pursues a good marriage and he eventually entices Lydia, Elizabeth's younger sister, to marry …show more content…
Jane Austen gives a cross section of how first impressions affect people in social life. That's why she first entitled the book “First Impressions”. Given all these examples of how the characters misunderstand each other, at a first sight someone would think that this title suits perfect. However, in my point of view the title of a book shouldn't reveal such a large part of its main themes to the readers. Before the reader reads the book is already expecting by the title that first impressions are going to prejudice the characters and lead them to misjudgments. In contrast, the title “Pride and Prejudice”gives to the reader only a slight taste of what he is going to read. In addition, this title creates to the readers a dilemma. Until the end of the book, it is not clear if the element of pride is Elizabeth's or Darcy's characteristic. So, I think Austen's decision to change the book's title was