Love And Love In Mr. Darcy And Elizabeth

Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth have one of the most interesting and possibly most frustrating relationships in all of literature. The postponement and delay of their mutual attraction and engagement throughout the novel easily irritates the readers while grasping their attention with suspense at the same time. Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth’s feelings grow for each other in the first half of the novel, but in different directions: love and hate. Elizabeth and Darcy go on an incredible journey from where their feelings toward each other begin to where they finally end. As truths become unveiled and misunderstandings become clear, Elizabeth and Darcy’s relationship finally realizes its true potential.
Elizabeth’s first encounter with Mr. Darcy fails to give …show more content…
Collins, at Kent. Lady Catherine de Burgh, a neighbor and patron of the Collins, also happens to be Mr. Darcy’s influential aunt. During Elizabeth’s visit, she believes that Darcy visits aunt coincidentally at the same time she visits the Collins; however, Mr. Darcy’s actually intends to observe Elizabeth as a potential wife. Mr. Darcy meets with Elizabeth many times to walk with her, which confuses her original opinion of him as a proud and rude man. One day it was not Mr. Darcy that joined her, but his friend, Colonel Fitzwilliams. What began as a pleasant walk turned sour when Fitzwilliam spilled that Mr. Darcy recently split up his good friend Bingley with a girl of which he did not “approve.” As Elizabeth puts the pieces together, realizing that Darcy destroyed Jane and Bingley’s relationship, she was shocked and outraged. Her hatred toward Mr. Darcy could not possibly get any …show more content…
Darcy. He shows up in an anxious manner as he declares his love for Elizabeth, “In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you(ch. 34 .)” Elizabeth, bewildered, can not wrap her brain around the fact that the man she has sworn to hate loves her. She endeavors to politely decline his offer of marriage, although it becomes much harder as her shock turned into anger. Mr. Darcy, who is quite confident of a positive response, can not believe what he hears and asks for an explanation. Elizabeth can not hold her true loathing in any longer as she accuses him of the terrible things she believes he did both to Wickham and her sister, Jane. Extremely offended, Darcy makes some sarcastic remarks to these accusations, but was deeply upset that her opinion of him came from these untrue