Change In Pride And Prejudice Analysis

Pride and Prejudice is a novel written by Jane Austen. The book portrays the social class at the time and how it affected the people’s lives and their actions. The novel consists of two main characters, Elizabeth and Darcy. During the course of the story, both Elizabeth and Darcy go through changes in the way that the think and act. The author, Jane Austen does this in the hope to send her readers a message through the change between the characters.

Throughout the course of the novel Elizabeth undergoes a series of changes. At the beginning of the novel, when Elizabeth first meets Darcy, she is openly disgusted by his pride and his arrogant behaviour towards her. The reason why Darcy has this sort of persona to him is because of his …show more content…
His first proposal marks a point of change in the novel. From then onwards, Elizabeth starts to feel great and resounding sense of regret. Her change in personality is seen very well in her response to Darcy’s letter. Elizabeth felt that she had behaved in a ridiculous manner and began to feel very humiliated of her actions. In her response to Darcy she agrees with Darcy and acknowledges he as telling the truth when he had brought up the behaviour of her mother and sisters. “How despicably I have acted! I, who have prided myself on my decrement! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! Who have often disdained the generous candour of my sister, and gratified my vanity in useless or blameable mistrust! How humiliating is this discovery! Yet, how just a humiliation! Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned. Till this moment I never knew myself.” By the time Darcy had proposed to Elizabeth for a second time, he had wished that he had never written a letter in the first place and that the letter he had wrote should be burned. With time, Darcy’s immeasurable attraction towards Elizabeth made him question his own behaviour and just like …show more content…
She began to realise the absurdity in her family’s and her own behaviour and had greatly regretted it was very embarrassed of the way that she had acted. She eventually rejected her provoking and aggressive behaviour and given up her prejudice against others. She stopped blaming others but herself for her misfortune and instead accepted responsibility for her actions, which caused her a great deal of regret. Darcy just like Elizabeth underwent a great deal of changes throughout the novel. He at first always put himself first and thought that everything had revolved around him. However, with time he began to see things differently and started to accept the fact that Elizabeth was correct and supported her in her criticism of him. He even dedicated a great amount of his time to change into a man that Elizabeth would appreciate and respect. Pride and Prejudice, Darcy was the pride and Elizabeth was the Prejudice.

To conclude, it’s clear that In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice the social class of that time period played a key part in the way people had acted and who they chose to be with. Despite all of this, the characters in the novel overcome the barriers of the social class set at the time and changed their ways. Jane Austen’s message throughout the novel is that love should have no boundaries or barriers of whatever sort and that socials class should not matter whether two people should be together