characters
Mr.Bennet — An English gentleman with an estate in Hertfordshire.
Mrs.Bennet — The querulous wife of Mr.Bennet.Her main concern in life is seeing her daughters married well.
Jane Bennet — The eldest of the Bennets\' five daughters and the one considered the most beautiful.
Elizabeth Bennet — The 20-year-old second sister, and the protagonist of the story.
Charlotte Lucas — Elizabeth\'s close friend and daughter of a neighbouring landowner.
Darcy — Mr.Bingley\'s close friend, an intelligent, wealthy and reserved man, who often appears haughty or proud to strangers.
William Collins — A clergyman and cousin of Mr.Bennet.Mr.Collins, as the closest male relative, stands to inherit the Bennet estate.
Summary
Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among
English gentility during the Georgian era.It is universally acknowledged that the eternal theme of this novels is the choice people make for marriage partners.Mrs.Bonnet had no other wish if her five daughters could get married as soon as poible with someone wealthy.At a dancing ball, it is obvious that Mr.Bingley could not help falling in love at the first sight with Mi Jane because of her stunning beauty.
Elizabeth Bennet is at first determined to dislike Mr.Darcy, who is handsome and eligible.This misjudgment only matched in folly by Darcy\'s arrogant pride.Mr.Darcy offered the money and did everything departing from his will just because he loved Elizabeth so much.
This plot is the c limax of the novel as the prejudice of Elizabeth to Mr.Darcy was exposed and removed since then.And the combination of the two young couples, Jane and Bingley, Elizabeth and Darcy came at last.
Reporting
Many people simply regard Pride and Prejudice as a love story, but in my opinion, this book is an illustration of the society at that time.She perfectly reflected the relation between money
and marriage at her time and gave the people in her works vivid characters.The characters have their own personalities.Mrs.Bennet is a woman who makes great efforts to marry off her daughters.Mr.Bingley is a friendly young man, but his friend, Mr.Darcy, is a very proud man who seems to always feel superior.Even the five daughters in Bennet family are very different.Jane is simple, innocent and never speaks evil of others.Elizabeth is a clever girl who always has her own opinion.Mary likes reading claic books.Actually i think she is a nerd.Kitty doesn’t have her own opinion but likes to follow her sister, Lydia.Lydia is a girl who follows exotic things, handsome man, and is somehow a little profligate.When I read the book, I can always find the same personalities in the society now.That is why I think this book is indeed the representative of the society in Britain in the 18th century.
The family of gentleman in the countryside is Jane Austen’s favourite topic.But this little topic can reflect big problems.It concludes the stratum situation and economic relationships in Britain in her century.There, the author emphasize the importance of ideal marriage, meanwhile, to be opposed to love & marriage based on money or property and to be opposed to
people’s laugh love & marriage off.
Elizabeth as the leading character in this novel, was born in the family of squireen’s, and is loved by Darcy.Darcy propose marriage to her in spite of difference in the poeion of property and social status, but is refused by Elizabeth for his pride , the novel demonstrate that if the pride of Darcy’s existed ， there will be no love and also happy marriage between Elizabeth and him, it is really nice that Elizabeth witnees the changes of Darcy’s through series of behavior in the following days.viewing that he is no longer pride and then eliminating her prejudice to him, finally engaged with him and leading a happy marriage.
In modern society, although the marriages of economic needs have decreased rapidly, the concept of “money determines everything” is still rooted in some people’s mind.A lot of parents try hard to interfere their children’s marriages.Education background, poeions, jobs remains the main reason that may influence one’s marriage.Marry for money is still a big problem in our society.We can’t help thinking: can money determine everything?
