Essay On The Relationship Between Elizabeth And Darcy In Pride And Prejudice

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Joshua Bozzacco
English IV Honors
Mrs. Schroeder
13 February 2018
Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy: P & P Essay
The relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy throughout this story, goes through many obstacles and controversies. Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy started of disliking each other tremendously, they basically did not have one single good thing to say about one another. Throughout the book their relationship evolves into something a reader would not have thought of or even expected in the beginning of this story. The author of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, did an extremely great job of giving the readers multiple hints and clues throughout the book about Elizabeth's and Mr. Darcy's relationship. No matter what, Elizabeth
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Darcy had told me, he tops it of by saying he only liked Elizabeth against his will. After this whole debacle and horrible proposal, things decided to took a drastic change within Elizabeth’s and Mr. Darcy’s relationship. Mr. Darcy decided to write a letter to Elizabeth, stating his reasons why he did what he did to break up Mr. Bingley and Jane. Also within this letter, he tells Elizabeth the truth about Mr. Wickham and what he did to his sister, Georgiana Darcy. After reading this letter, Elizabeth realized that her opinion towards Mr. Darcy had drastically changed. With clues and details given by Austen, the readers can now say that Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy actually like one …show more content…
Darcy had known about their love for eachother, there went a time period where they did not hear from one another. Austen did not give the readers much detail on why this happened, but then changed the outcome of the story after this time period of nothingness. Elizabeth received an invite to go to Derbyshire with her uncle and aunt Gardiner, hesitant to go, because Elizabeth knew Mr. Darcy has estate located in Derbyshire. Elizabeth agreed to go as long as Mr. Darcy would not be there and something unexpected happened while they were touring Pemberley, Mr. Darcy’s estate. Mr. Darcy came home a day early from his trip, Elizabeth extremely shocked, did not know what to say or do. Mr. Darcy ended up saying and doing everything right toward Elizabeth, he actually acted extremely kind and had great manners towards

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