Is Pride And Prejudice Still Relevant In Today's Times?

The arrogance and cockiness of wealthy people have been relevant throughout all times but the reason why they were arrogant or cocky during Jane Austen’s time is altogether different from the twenty-first century. Pride and Prejudice is a book written by Jane Austen that is set in the early 19th century. One of the main themes of this book is wealth and social class differences that has a huge impact on all of the problems that occurred during the book. In the book, there were many scenes where the rich or high class people turn their nose up at lower class people just because they had more money. To answer the question, “Is Pride and Prejudice still relevant in today's times?’ on the topic of social class and wealth. I chose the article, What The Middle Class Doesn't Understand About Rich People, written by Steve Siebold to be compared with Pride and Prejudice. In the article, Siebold states that wealthy people do not act arrogant just because they have money and wealth but because they have the ability to.

In the book, Pride and Prejudice (Austen, 1919), Austen did not use many persuasive techniques to persuade readers that the rich are arrogant just because …show more content…
In the article, the author believed that rich people are not arrogant or cocky but just confident in their abilities to do anything, he believed the reason why rich people have inner circles that is difficult for lower class people to get into is because they are on the same level on certain topics. For example: lower class people may be talking about what they had for dinner while higher class people might be talking about the latest business news. In modern times, everyone thinks being rich is a good thing but to be rich involves endless work and planning and have to endure the pain and negative remarks from people who are envious. Those who can push forward are rewarded with riches for the rest of their