Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is about a young middle-class woman named Elizabeth Bennet who falls in love with a wealthy man named Mr. Darcy. Unfortunately, her prejudice influences her to develop a negative first impression of him due to his excessive pride. As Mr. Darcy overlooks Elizabeth Bennet’s lower social status, she learns to overcome her prejudiced personality. In turn, they get married after finally accepting one another’s strengths and weaknesses. I enjoyed this novel because it makes me aware of the social issues that no longer exist in our generation. An obvious one would be the strict social class that separates the wealthy from the less fortunate. I find it unfortunate that the main worry of most women in the first decades
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In the novel, the main theme of social class relates directly to my question as it discusses how social class is a common factor that influences one to misperceive others based on their status. After analyzing the character’s beliefs and actions, it seems that only a few of the characters are successful with overcoming prejudice towards others of a different class. By examining the differences in those who do not use social class as a barrier and those who simply find true love without being influenced by financial expectations, it is clear that marriages should not be treated like business transactions. Relating my question back to the novel, Austen demonstrates to readers that social class should not be a barrier between two soul mates as demonstrated by the consequences of Elizabeth’s prejudice and Darcy’s pride. It seems that women shared a fear of having an unstable life as they did not inherit much money and property. Unfortunately, this led them to sacrifice the opportunity to find true love. It is a disappointment that woman did not believe that their choice of marrying for wealth is a cost of their happiness. Therefore, my inquiry question ponders society’s judgments of one another based on social class and whether these judgments should be avoided, as they are a disadvantage to ones …show more content…
As this is a classic novel first published long ago in 1813, the process was quite tedious because there were numerous websites to choose from, as my novel was written long ago. It was definitely time-consuming to go through pages of different websites to check which ones are credible sources. Not only that, I found myself more successful with finding websites by bloggers or websites like GradeSaver and Shmoop. Besides the never-ending unreliable websites that should not be used for my annotated bibliographies, browsing the books was also a struggle. Jane Austen is a well-known author that has written many other books such as Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Hence, the books I found were usually not just on Pride and Prejudice. Instead, they were novels comparing all of Austen’s novels, so I had to skim through every novel seeking for direct references to only Pride and Prejudice. Therefore, though there was some difficulty in finding reliable sources, I was still successful with finding enough sources for my annotated
In the novel, the main theme of social class relates directly to my question as it discusses how social class is a common factor that influences one to misperceive others based on their status. After analyzing the character’s beliefs and actions, it seems that only a few of the characters are successful with overcoming prejudice towards others of a different class. By examining the differences in those who do not use social class as a barrier and those who simply find true love without being influenced by financial expectations, it is clear that marriages should not be treated like business transactions. Relating my question back to the novel, Austen demonstrates to readers that social class should not be a barrier between two soul mates as demonstrated by the consequences of Elizabeth’s prejudice and Darcy’s pride. It seems that women shared a fear of having an unstable life as they did not inherit much money and property. Unfortunately, this led them to sacrifice the opportunity to find true love. It is a disappointment that woman did not believe that their choice of marrying for wealth is a cost of their happiness. Therefore, my inquiry question ponders society’s judgments of one another based on social class and whether these judgments should be avoided, as they are a disadvantage to ones …show more content…
As this is a classic novel first published long ago in 1813, the process was quite tedious because there were numerous websites to choose from, as my novel was written long ago. It was definitely time-consuming to go through pages of different websites to check which ones are credible sources. Not only that, I found myself more successful with finding websites by bloggers or websites like GradeSaver and Shmoop. Besides the never-ending unreliable websites that should not be used for my annotated bibliographies, browsing the books was also a struggle. Jane Austen is a well-known author that has written many other books such as Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Hence, the books I found were usually not just on Pride and Prejudice. Instead, they were novels comparing all of Austen’s novels, so I had to skim through every novel seeking for direct references to only Pride and Prejudice. Therefore, though there was some difficulty in finding reliable sources, I was still successful with finding enough sources for my annotated