How Does Elizabeth Bennet Change Throughout Pride And Prejudice

“Pride and Prejudice” and its interesting characters caught my attention from the beginning. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of education, manners, upbringing, and marriage in her society. It was oddly relatable to our society today. People in the book are often quick to judge like Elizabeth Bennet when she met Mr. Darcy, she took an immediate dislike to him. And Mr. Darcy was quick to look down on those who are “inferior” to him. You shouldn’t be so quick to judge anyone because opinions can change and so can people. In the beginning of the book Elizabeth is very stubborn and quick to make judgements. In the beginning of the book she disliked Mr. Darcy immediately because of a remark he made about her. Which do you mean?'' and turning around, he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said, `She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are …show more content…
Elizabeth is very intelligent, but she is too quick to let her own opinions and prejudices get in the way of her understanding other people and their situations. Elizabeth doesn’t understand this until later, she realizes that her misconceptions mislead her ideas of Mr. Darcy. She wants to change how she has been looking at people and how she has been judging them so quickly. 'How despicably have I acted!’ she cried. ‘I, who have prided myself on my discernment! Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself” (chapter 36). She still wants to remain herself by being open and honest but she wants to learn to not go overboard with what she