Elizabeth Smart

1775 and is today a big name in English literature. She finished writing her novel “Pride and Prejudice” when she was 21, the same age as the main protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet. The story revolves around her and her struggles towards marriage. However, though she is a fictional character, several hints can lead us to believe that Elizabeth might be a close representation of Jane Austen and that she was inspired by her personal life, personality and environment. Firstly, Jane Austen lived during…

Pride and Prejudice in Pride and Prejudice True to the title, Pride and Prejudice is filled to the brim with characters that exhibit those two flaws and many more. The main heroine Elizabeth to the imperious and powerful Lady Catherine to everyone in between, almost everyone in the novel shows some form of one of these flaws. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy is an important character in Pride and Prejudice. The nephew of Lady Catherine de Bourgh who could be considered the main antagonist of the novel,…

Wickham’s decision to marry Lydia seems like a very strange decision at first glance, as the Bennet family is definitely not powerful, nor is it ever shown that Wickham has any love for Lydia. However, Elizabeth eventually learns that Darcy actually financially bribed Wickham to marry Lydia. After Elizabeth reads the letter from Mrs. Gardiner, it is revealed that Mr. Darcy “was reduced to meet, frequently meet, reason with, persuade, and finally bribe, the man whom he always most wished to…

The Growth of Darcy and Elizabeth The key to understand characters such as Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is to understand what makes pride, and what makes a gentleman. Since, in the beginning of the novel Mr. Darcy shows his pride, in the middle he starts to reveal himself to some and what he is in the end, a gentleman. Being a gentleman is much more than being rich, or being born into a title. Being a gentleman is something that money cannot buy, such as being humble. The key…

because of the personalities that result in the actions of the two main characters, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett. Elizabeth Bennett, or Lizzie, is one of the five Bennett daughters, but is nothing like her other sisters. She completely refutes society’s ideas about a woman’s purpose and marriage. This often leads to her having more pride than the average woman of the Regency Period. Elizabeth does end up marrying the stubborn Mr. Darcy. Darcy is a younger, rich man who sticks to his…

According to the author, Ibsen, a woman cannot be herself in modern society. It is a male society alone, with laws made by men and with judges who evaluate female behavior from a man’s word. Women are perceived to be not as smart, less worried about an occupation, also concerned with their apparel, and more aware of theirs and others emotional reactions then men. Like Nora, in the Victorian era, women were evaluated on their family life and purity. Women were to be modest,…

considered uncommon. The women in the novel, each display their thoughts on marriage. However, Elizabeth Bennett, who is opinionated and passionate about her beliefs, is inclined to disagree with the norms of the society the most. While others believe that marriage is the key to happiness, she disagrees. She is not easily influenced by those surrounding her, even her family, and her honesty and…

Voltaire intentionally uses the characterization of Dr. Pangloss to poke fun at Leibniz’s philosophy. Similarly, to “Candide,” Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” also include characters who pride themselves in their logic, but are indeed blind. Elizabeth, the protagonist of the novel, let’s her prejudice blind her. In the first chapter of “Candide,” Voltaire introduces Candide as an innocent young person, who is naïve and easily influenced.…

he wanted his baby to have a cleared name. His wife Elizabeth knew nothing about her husband’s affair until he finally opened up and told her. Abigail Williams was the person he had the affair with, and she was once a servant of the Proctor’s. Abigail was obviously someone that was under the same roof as Elizabeth, it is amazing how Proctor was able to cheat on his wife with the same person that lived in their household. In addition, Elizabeth holds an everlasting funeral…

choices of Jane Austen and the characters themselves are the primary factors of there being only four happy marriages. Weinsheimer argues that the Darcy-Elizabeth relationship is the result of the events leading up to it. To explain, chance could not validate the fact that Darcy’s business leads him to Pemberley. Instead, this is the result of Elizabeth and Gardiner’s decision to go to Derbyshire, allowing the relationship between the too. Despite Austen’s logical flow of the story, she alludes…