How Is Prejudice Change In Pride And Prejudice

In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth and Darcy show many changes in characteristics as the novel progresses. In the beginning of the novel, the two characters have a great dislike for each other. However, as the story continues they realize their faults and change their character. By the end of the book, the two have fallen in love with each other and are married.

Elizabeth is the second daughter in the Bennet family, and is the most quick witted and intelligent of her sisters. She also is able to rise above the bad behavior and nonsense seen in people in her class-bound society. Even so, her tendency to make hasty judgments and her sharp tongue often lead her awry. When she first encountered Mr. Darcy at the Meriton Ball, she immediately …show more content…
Darcy is the son of a well-established family and the master of the Pemberley Estate. Darcy, like Elizabeth, has a tendency to judge hastily and harshly, and his high place in society makes him overly proud and aware his social status. “He was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.” His pride results in Elizabeth’s prejudices against him and prevented him from explaining his side in the quarrel between himself and Wickham. During Elizabeth’s time at Netherfield taking care of Jane, Elizabeth manages to make Darcy fall in love with her. Later, in his proposal to Elizabeth at the Collins’s, Darcy’s pride in himself caused him to propose in a rude manner, explaining how unsuitable a match Elizabeth is in status and family. He chooses to focus on the reasons why it is a unsuitable match between the two, rather than focusing on Elizabeth’s positive qualities and why he is in love with her. Elizabeth’s rejection of his proposal was very shocking to him and forces him to see his excess pride and sparks changes in his …show more content…
Elizabeth has realized the need for her to contain her remarks and not judge people quickly based on initial interactions. On the other hand, Darcy saw how his pride easily offended many people and caused many problems for himself. After Elizabeth’s rejection of his first proposal he began to change into a much more polite and careful in his judgements of others. These changes helped for the two of them to see each other in a much more agreeable light and eventually fall in love with each other and