The Growth of Darcy and Elizabeth
The key to understand characters such as Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is to understand what makes pride, and what makes a gentleman. Since, in the beginning of the novel Mr. Darcy shows his pride, in the middle he starts to reveal himself to some and what he is in the end, a gentleman. Being a gentleman is much more than being rich, or being born into a title. Being a gentleman is something that money cannot buy, such as being humble. The key to understanding Elizabeth is to understand prejudice, which is much more than just a general dislike of people. It is holding on to a dislike of someone so strong that the judgement one has for someone else can be fuel very easily. The person with prejudice is willing to believe anything that puts that person into a deep hole of misunderstanding and disgust. Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy grow past their misunderstanding and faults by the end of Austen's novel. Mr. Darcy, a very wealthy, very handsome man. From the beginning Darcy was known as a gentleman, he was admired by man and woman alike, but that admiration at the ball only lasted “For about half the evening” (Austen 5) after he opens his mouth and proves a bit snobbish. No one is perfect, but his vanity makes it appear that to himself …show more content…
Collins on the basis of gaining material security, Elizabeth can’t admit that Charlotte would be even remotely happy with him. “And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she has chosen”(Austen 132). Even though it may be true that Mr. Collins is just a stupid and pretentious as Elizabeth views him to be she does not even take a moment to think of her friend, Charlotte’s, point of view and appreciate how her friend would act if Elizabeth was in the same situation that she is
The key to understand characters such as Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is to understand what makes pride, and what makes a gentleman. Since, in the beginning of the novel Mr. Darcy shows his pride, in the middle he starts to reveal himself to some and what he is in the end, a gentleman. Being a gentleman is much more than being rich, or being born into a title. Being a gentleman is something that money cannot buy, such as being humble. The key to understanding Elizabeth is to understand prejudice, which is much more than just a general dislike of people. It is holding on to a dislike of someone so strong that the judgement one has for someone else can be fuel very easily. The person with prejudice is willing to believe anything that puts that person into a deep hole of misunderstanding and disgust. Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy grow past their misunderstanding and faults by the end of Austen's novel. Mr. Darcy, a very wealthy, very handsome man. From the beginning Darcy was known as a gentleman, he was admired by man and woman alike, but that admiration at the ball only lasted “For about half the evening” (Austen 5) after he opens his mouth and proves a bit snobbish. No one is perfect, but his vanity makes it appear that to himself …show more content…
Collins on the basis of gaining material security, Elizabeth can’t admit that Charlotte would be even remotely happy with him. “And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she has chosen”(Austen 132). Even though it may be true that Mr. Collins is just a stupid and pretentious as Elizabeth views him to be she does not even take a moment to think of her friend, Charlotte’s, point of view and appreciate how her friend would act if Elizabeth was in the same situation that she is