Pride And Prejudice Compare And Contrast Essay

Opposites Attract in Pride and Prejudice The story Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy and how they fell in love despite being opposites. This paper will look at how opposites attract and how Elizabeth’s feelings shifted from contempt to love, as well as Mr. Darcy’s initial feelings for Elizabeth. In the book the five Bennett sisters are looking for husbands. This is because the family is having financial problems and marrying men of standing and wealth would help the family’s position in society and would allow them to regain their finances. The family’s money was lost because their father was irresponsible and did not provide for his wife or his daughters. This is because he made a stipulation that he is unable to revoke that says that his money must go to a son and since he only has daughters they cannot inherit his estate. This means that once their father is dead the girls will be in poverty unless they marry men of means. Their only other chooses in life are to be companions to the wealthy or governesses.
Her father also shows his unwillingness to fully accept the society in which he lives by not realizing the serious damage his daughter Lydia has caused to the …show more content…
The pride that both of them had made it difficult for them to connect and to fall in love. This was because neither was willing to forego emotional power and to be honest and vulnerable with the other about their feelings. Nonetheless, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy do not seem to be so much opposites as mirror images of each other. This is seen in the way that they both reflect the other’s pride and prejudices. This reveals that opposites are able to attract each other when the other has qualities that one is missing and desires in oneself. Therefore, when the couple gets together they end up complimenting each other’s missing