Pride and Prejudice´s Analysis

1. The novel background and the environment influence

Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen published in 1813. It’s

considered a classic novel in English literature. The aspects that influenced to write
in the novel were the society where associated the female's entrance into the live
public with a reprehensible loss of femininity. So, for that reason, she published in an
anonymous way to preserve her privacy. But I think the most important reason to
published her works in an anonymous way was the repression from Napoleonic Wars
(1800-1815) that threatened the safety of monarchies in Europe and government
censorship of literature proliferated. Another aspect, the society was stratified and
class divisions were rooted in family connections and wealth and that is noticed when
Elizabeth´s parents are worried about finding a good match for their daughters. And
also, there was an appropriate behavior for each genre, that say, young men could
achieve a good position on the society thanks, to military life, church or law, but to
women war by the acquisition of wealth through successful marriage.

2. Characteristics in relation to romanticism

There are same romanticism features on this fabulous play. As we know,

French Revolution had three postulates and I think liberty is one of the novel´s feature
because Elizabeth was free to say what she thought, in some opportunity, she told
Darcy something that embarrassed him. Another characteristic was a great valuation
of the own personality and it is followed when Elizabeth’s father did not give
Elizabeth´s hand to Mr. Collins and “her mother was furious by her daughter’s
independent behavior” p.68. Further, on p. 13 say: “she was very independent and
followed her own mind far more than those of the people around her. There are
another, valuation of the sentiments because at the end love and romance are
victorious between Elizabeth and Darcy. En also there is the presence of melancholy
when Jane received a letter from Mr. Bingley’s sister saying that her brother will
marry Miss Darcy. We can

3. Main characters
 Elizabeth Bennet: She is the novel’s protagonist. She is the second
Bennet´s daughter, Elizabeth is the most intelligent and sensible of the five
 Bennet sisters. She is well read and quick-witted and he told what she
thinks about everything but for her own good. At the beginning, she had a
prejudice against Mr. Darcy but finally, she loves him.
 M. Darcy: He is a wealthy gentleman and the nephew of Lady Catherine
de Bourgh. Though Darcy is intelligent, honest and a respectable man, but
his excess of pride causes him to look down on his social inferiors. Over
the course of the novel, he tempers his class-consciousness and learns to
admire and love Elizabeth for her strong character and for her intelligence.
He is charmed by Elizabeth’s beauty.
 Lady Catherine de Bourgh: She is a rich and bossy noblewoman; She
was Mr. Collins’s patron and Darcy’s aunt. Lady Catherine epitomizes
class snobbery, especially in her attempts to order the middle-class
Elizabeth away from her well-bred nephew.
 Jane Bennet: The eldest and most beautiful Bennet sister. Jane is more
reserved and gentler than Elizabeth. The easy pleasantness with which she
and Bingley interact contrasts starkly with the mutual distaste that marks
the encounters between Elizabeth and Darcy.
 Charles Bingley: Darcy’s considerably wealthy best friend. Bingley’s
purchase of Netherfield, an estate near the Bennets, serves as the impetus
for the novel. He is a genial, well-intentioned gentleman, whose easygoing
nature contrasts with Darcy’s initially discourteous demeanor. He is
blissfully uncaring about class differences.

Settings:

 Longboard: Where Elizabeth lived with his parents

 Netherfield: It was the Mr. Bingley Recidence.
 Pemberley: Darcy´s Property.
 Rosings: owned by Lady Catherine

4. Plot: Initially Elizabeth hated Darcy because he was proud and them she judged
him because apparently, he made separate his friend Bingley from Jane, her sister,
and for his reprehensible treatment of Wickham but she accepts that she made a
bad judged when reading Darcy´s letter. Finally, they got married in true love.
Main Theme: True love triumphed over pride and prejudice.
5. Paragraphs’ analysis of the main and secondary theme.
 Love
Then Elizabeth explained how she gradually came to appreciate all

the good quality in Mr. Darcy. She told Jane how deep and strong her love

was for him. Chapter 23, page. 227.

She accepted Darcy’s proposal immediately As Elizabeth allows

herself to admit that her love has supplanted her long-standing prejudice

and Austen suggests that true love is a force separate from society and one

that can conquer even the most difficult of circumstances.

 Pride:

The gentlemen thought Darcy was a splendid looking man, and the ladies

thought he was even better looking than Mr. Bingley. That was until he

revealed his bad manners. Mr. Darcy suffered from the sin of pride.

Chapter 1, page. 11.

Mr. Darcy seemed a good men but then he was considered the

proudest and most disagreeable man in the world because he refused to

dance with the ladies in the party and looked down on his social inferiors

 Prejudice:

“It did. It helped remove my prejudice about you. But please don´t torture

yourself any longer,” she said. “Think only of past memories that give you

pleasure”Chapter 23. P.226

 Elizabeth made judgments against Darcy by his bad manners, then

she thought that he apparently attempt to her sister´s happiness and he had

a bad treat with Mr. William.

6. This play for me was a very motivator and an important lesson. For true love, there

aren't obstacles that could fight against it when there is true love always will be

good. True love can overcome the most unpleasant sentiments. I think we might

look for mainly the true love instead of money y the wealth because it can finish

off and we couldn't judge anybody and anything without first meeting well the

person or situation because we do not know the purpose of the actions.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1. The novel background and the environment influence.

It is a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, published is 1886. It was wrote during the

Victorian Age and also it reflects the duality that was inherent in London life included in

England. The social duality arising from the incursion of the country people to the city.

That story was affected by conditions of life in London mainly for upper classes and the

poor classes where the upper classes had his focus on cushioning life with home comforts

meanwhile the lower classes had been forced to live into cities where their focus was try

to survive the bed conditions prevalent in all England. Another thing, The middle and

upper classes was extremely focused in moral certitude and religious form which was the

result of the Benthamism and evangelicaslim and we can see once again the duality.
 2. Characteristics in relation to Victorian Age

In the Victorian age the codes of morality had been well established but meanwhile,

people purported to conduct themselves according to such rules the immorality behavior

lurked beneath the surface because we can read the respectable doctor changed into

savage murderer. And also, the Victorian Age was a period of improvements technologies

and science and that is showed on that novel. Dr. Jekyll was a laboratory and was

influenced by the advent of Darwinism and geology and Jekyll made mention about his

science in the chapter 10 and he said: And it chanced that the direction of my scientific

studies, which led wholly towards the mystic and the transcendental, reacted and shed a

strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.

3. Main characters
 Dr. Henry Jekyll: a well-known London physician who was born into a

wealthy family. Jekyll largely appears as moral and decent, engaging in

charity work and enjoying a reputation as a courteous and genial man.

Jekyll intent of purifying his good side from his bad with same experiment

but he ended up separating the bad alone and that was Mr. Hyde.

 Edward Hyde: he appeared when Dr. Jekyll drank the poison. Hyde

gradually comes to dominate both personas, until Jekyll takes Hyde’s

shape more often than his own. Gabriel John Utterson describes him as

pale and dwarfish, with a smile that is a murderous mixture of timidity and

boldness.

 Gabriel John Utterson, a good friend of Dr. Jekyll, a lawyer with a

rugged face that seldom smiles. He consistently seeks to preserve order

and decorum, does not gossip, and guards his friends’ reputations as

though they were his own.

  Dr. Hastie Lanyon, a well-known and highly respected physician and the

oldest friend of Utterson and Dr. Jekyll. Having seen the transformation

of Jekyll into Hyde, he is shocked beyond recovery and dies soon after.

 Settings: Victorian Age and London.

4. Plot

Dr. Jekyll who was a respectable man and enjoying a reputation as a

courteous and genial man want to separate his good side from his darker

impulses but he discovered a way to transform himself periodically into a

deformed monster free of conscience, Mr. Hyde, who had the most dark

personality of that person. He also, the bad person finally dominated both Dr.

Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Main Theme: That show the human duality.

5. Paragraphs’ analysis of the main and secondary theme.

 The human duality: it was showed on page 55 and 56 when Dr. Jekyll

explain his motives and it make us understand the human being had two

way of being and he is dominated by one them:

“It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any

particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with

even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those

provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature”

(page 55)
 I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I

have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly

one, but truly two.(page 56).

 Repression: Mr. Hyde is capable of repressing his emotions and

impatience in order to achieve his objectives anr it is showed in the next

lines:

I beg your pardon, Dr. Lanyon," he replied civilly enough. "What you say

is very well founded, and my impatience has shown its heels to my

politeness. I come here at the instance of your colleague, Dr. Henry

Jekyll, on a piece of business of some moment; and I understood ..." He

paused and put his hand to his throat, and I could see, in spite of his

collected manner, that he was wrestling against the approaches of the

hysteria—"I understood a drawer ..." (page 53)

6. Initially, I did not want to read this play but finally, it made me reflexion about

mainly my life, because the thing good have a fight with our bad manners, but I

think each one is responsible about his life and his desition and only depend of us

doing the well all the time.