In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen illustrates and describes how people lived in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Austen portrays what was important to people in those days. Back then the ladies were on the hunt to find a handsome wealthy man, and the man was looking for a handsome young lady. It was all about the first impression. How one looked, had a critical effect on the first impression and then came one’s character. If they were rather fancy in their tone and seemed rich, then it was a positive towards the man or woman in finding their significant other. Prior to the title, Pride and prejudice, the title of the novel was first named, First Impressions. One could believe the reason for Austen wanting to call the novel First
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If it was kept as the initial title of, First Impressions, then readers would not need to think deeper into the characters characteristics and then it would not be as interesting. The meaning of the whole novel is not about first impressions and characters meeting each other, there is much more detail than that. Pride and Prejudice makes the reader think of more in detail about the characters and how they would gradually change throughout the story, what were they prideful about, and to whom they were prejudice towards or how. The title gives a minor insight and a boundary of what the book is going to be about and if the title was the initial then it would change the reading by taking the suspense out of it compared to the new title where the reader could ask how is a character prideful or prejudice; keeping interest in the reading. Truthfully, to most readers, the older english language in the book is very difficult to follow and most readers would have trouble following what is going on in the book if it is not …show more content…
It could have changed how one read the novel by having readers looking for the wrong idea in the book and later causing boredom to its readers due to predetermined thoughts of what it would be about just from the title. Throughout the story is a lot of judging books by its cover and in this case that is almost exactly what is going on towards the title. One can judge the book by its cover and after reading a small amount of it can destroy the suspense. Austen changing the title gave the novel more edge and suspense in to
If it was kept as the initial title of, First Impressions, then readers would not need to think deeper into the characters characteristics and then it would not be as interesting. The meaning of the whole novel is not about first impressions and characters meeting each other, there is much more detail than that. Pride and Prejudice makes the reader think of more in detail about the characters and how they would gradually change throughout the story, what were they prideful about, and to whom they were prejudice towards or how. The title gives a minor insight and a boundary of what the book is going to be about and if the title was the initial then it would change the reading by taking the suspense out of it compared to the new title where the reader could ask how is a character prideful or prejudice; keeping interest in the reading. Truthfully, to most readers, the older english language in the book is very difficult to follow and most readers would have trouble following what is going on in the book if it is not …show more content…
It could have changed how one read the novel by having readers looking for the wrong idea in the book and later causing boredom to its readers due to predetermined thoughts of what it would be about just from the title. Throughout the story is a lot of judging books by its cover and in this case that is almost exactly what is going on towards the title. One can judge the book by its cover and after reading a small amount of it can destroy the suspense. Austen changing the title gave the novel more edge and suspense in to