Elizabeth Bennet, a character in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has a reputation as a beautiful girl who is intelligent and is raised from a family of five sisters. Her reputation comes from her family, in which she is mostly influenced on shaping her identity and who she really is. However, later in her life, her dignity and inherited reputation are changed by external influences. Fortunately, her change by external sources were positive. On the other hand, a celebrity, Britney Spears, had her reputation ruined through her drunkenness and lewd acts. These actions that she has brought upon herself have affected her and people who love her. Let alone, her actions led her to act like that, but she was genuinely a kind-hearted person, and
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In this village, everybody knows who is who and what they do for a living. Since the village is quite isolated, having a good family background and a well-established reputation are very important."Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few neighbourhoods larger. I know we dine with four-and-twenty families" (Austen 52). As stated in the quotation, reputation is relied on a person’s action, judgement, and trust. In the book, every action has affected a person’s status and reputation. As mentioned above in the introduction, people in this village have their own ways to build up their reputation. For example, dining with numerous families in a person’s neighborhood can help and raise a person’s image. The people often times gather information from different families and prejudge based on the information they gather. Furthermore, Darcy, a haughty landowner who falls in love Elizabeth later in the book, was judged throughout the village. His arrogance and his dour personality was something everybody could gossip, judge, and begin a rumor. The people in the village are judgemental that it is essential for a person to gain people’s trust and to focus on his/her reflection shown to other
In this village, everybody knows who is who and what they do for a living. Since the village is quite isolated, having a good family background and a well-established reputation are very important."Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few neighbourhoods larger. I know we dine with four-and-twenty families" (Austen 52). As stated in the quotation, reputation is relied on a person’s action, judgement, and trust. In the book, every action has affected a person’s status and reputation. As mentioned above in the introduction, people in this village have their own ways to build up their reputation. For example, dining with numerous families in a person’s neighborhood can help and raise a person’s image. The people often times gather information from different families and prejudge based on the information they gather. Furthermore, Darcy, a haughty landowner who falls in love Elizabeth later in the book, was judged throughout the village. His arrogance and his dour personality was something everybody could gossip, judge, and begin a rumor. The people in the village are judgemental that it is essential for a person to gain people’s trust and to focus on his/her reflection shown to other