Pride and Prejudice (Project)

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Prof. (Dr.) Tanya Mander Anagh Kumar Tiwari

Group No.10 Roll no. 18203

1st semester 2018-2019

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
On fulfillment of this project it is my present privilege to recognize my genuine appreciation
and indebtness towards my educators for the significant recommendation and constructive
criticism. Their valuable direction and unwavering help kept me on the correct way all through
the entire venture and especially grateful to my instructor in control and undertaking
facilitators for giving me this relevant and interesting topic.

I wish to offer my earnest thanks to my educator Dr TANYA MANDER for her direction and
support in doing this project.

Anagh Kumar Tiwari

1st semester

2018-19

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Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab
Supervisors certificate
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National University of Law, Patiala in partial fulfillment of the requirement of the B.A.LLB
(Hons). Course is an original and bona fide research work carried out by Mr. Anagh Kumar
Tiwari under my supervision and guidance. No part of this project has been submitted to any
University for the award of any Degree or Diploma, whatsoever.

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 INDEX

Acknowledgement
1) Introduction

1.1 About the Author

1.2 Introduction To The Book
2) PLOT

3) CHARACTERS

 Elizabeth Bennet
 Fitzwilliam Darcy
 Jane Bennet
 Charles Bingeley
 Mr. Bennet
 Mrs. Bennet
 George Wickham
 Lydia Bennet
 Mr. Collins
 Miss Bingeley
 Woman Catherine De Borough
 Mr. Furthermore
 Mrs. Gardiner
 Charolotte Lucas
 Georgia Darcy

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4) Language, Themes, Symbols, Motifs

1. Language
2. Themes
3. Symbols
4. Motifs

5) Exposition and Criticism

6)Conclusion

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 1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 About the Author

Jane Austen was conceived in Steventon, England, in 1775. The seventh of eight kids, Austen
lived with her folks for as long as she can remember, first in Steventon and later in Bath,
Southampton, and Chawton. despite the fact that not rich, her family was all around associated
and knowledgeable. Jane's association with her sister was maybe the most grounded
association which existed in her life . Her various letters to and from Cassandra give the
premise to a great part of the information Austen researchers have gathered about Jane. Also,
this cozy relationship may have given the premise to the numerous books in which Austen
investigates the associations among sisters. Austen started composing stories at an extremely
youthful age and finished her first novel in her mid twenties. By the age of twenty-five, Austen
had effectively composed three books, however Sense and Sensibility, Austen's first novel to
be distributed, was not discharged until 1811. Every last bit of her work was distributed
namelessly, and couple of outside of her family knew about her written work. In the mid
nineteenth century, distributing was one of only a handful couple of ways white collar class
ladies could gain cash, and Austen utilized her unassuming profit to supplement her salary.
After two years, her second novel, Pride and Prejudice (1813) was distributed and turned out
to be to a great degree well known, finishing Austen's obscurity. Her next novel, Mansfield
Park (1814), did not offer too, and Austen tailed it in 1816 with Emma, the last novel to be
distributed before her initial passing. In coming up short wellbeing, Austen kept in touch with
her last novel, Persuasion, in less than a year. Influence and Northanger Abbey were
distributed after death in 1818, and together earned minimal more than 500 Pounds, a little
sum by the present guidelines, yet more cash than Austen herself at any point found in her
lifetime. The social milieu of Austen's Regency England was especially stratified, and class
divisions were established in family associations and riches. In her work, Austen is frequently
condemning of the suppositions and partialities of privileged England. She recognizes inner
legitimacy (integrity of individual) and outer legitimacy (rank and belonging). In spite of the
fact that she as often as possible caricaturizes big talkers, she additionally jabs fun at the poor
rearing and bad conduct of those lower on the social scale. By the by, Austen was from various
perspectives a pragmatist, and the England she delineates is one in which social versatility is
constrained and class-awareness is solid. Socially controlled thoughts of fitting conduct for
every sexual orientation considered into Austen's work too. While social headway for young
fellows lay in the military, church, or law, the main technique for personal growth for ladies
was the securing of riches. Austen kicked the bucket in 1817, at age 42.

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1.2 Introduction To The Book

Pride and Prejudice is a 1813 romantic novel by Jane Austen. It outlines the passionate
improvement of hero Elizabeth Bennet, who takes in the blunder of making hurried
judgments and comes to value the distinction between the shallow and the fundamental. The
comic drama of the written work lies in the portrayal of behavior, training, marriage, and
cash amid the British Regency time frame.

Mr. Bennet of the Longbourn home has five little girls, yet his property is involved, implying
that none of the young ladies can acquire it. His better half has no fortune, so it is basic that
no less than one of the young ladies wed well keeping in mind the end goal to help the others
upon his passing. Jane Austen's opening line, "It is a reality all around recognized, that a
solitary man possessing a favorable luck, must be in need of a spouse", is a sentence loaded
up with incongruity and fun loving nature. The novel rotates around the significance of
wedding for affection, not just for cash, regardless of the social weights to make a decent
(i.e., rich) match.

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 2. PLOT

The news that a rich youthful man of his word named Charles Bingley has leased the estate of
Netherfield Park causes an extraordinary blend in the adjacent town of Longbourn,
particularly in the Bennet family unit. The Bennets have five unmarried little girls—from
most established to most youthful, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia—and Mrs. Bennet
is frantic to see them all wedded. After Mr. Bennet pays a social visit to Mr. Bingley, the
Bennets go to a ball at which Mr. Bingley is available. He is taken with Jane and spends a
significant part of the night hitting the dance floor with her. His dear companion, Mr. Darcy,
is less satisfied with the night and haughtily declines to hit the dance floor with Elizabeth,
which makes everybody see him as haughty and unsavory.

At social capacities over ensuing weeks, in any case, Mr. Darcy winds up progressively
pulled in to Elizabeth's appeal and insight. Jane's kinship with Mr. Bingley additionally keeps
on expanding, and Jane visits the Bingley house. On her adventure to the house she is gotten
in a deluge and gets sick, compelling her to remain at Netherfield for a few days. Keeping in
mind the end goal to watch out for Jane, Elizabeth climbs through sloppy fields and lands
with a scattered dress, much to the abhor of the gaudy Miss Bingley, Charles Bingley's sister.
Miss Bingley's hate just increments when she sees that Darcy, whom she is seeking after,
pays a considerable amount of thoughtfulness regarding Elizabeth.

Whenever Elizabeth and Jane return home, they discover Mr. Collins visiting their family.
Mr. Collins is a youthful minister who stands to acquire Mr. Bennet's property, which has
been "involved," implying that it must be passed down to male beneficiaries. Mr. Collins is a
vainglorious trick, however he is very captivated by the Bennet young ladies. Soon after his
entry, he makes a proposition of marriage to Elizabeth. She turns him down, injuring his
pride. In the mean time, the Bennet young ladies have turned out to be well disposed with
volunteer army officers positioned in a close-by town. Among them is Wickham, a great
looking youthful trooper who is inviting toward Elizabeth and reveals to her how Darcy
remorselessly bamboozled him out of a legacy.

Toward the start of winter, the Bingleys and Darcy leave Netherfield and come back to
London, sadly. A further stun touches base with the news that Mr. Collins has turned out to
be locked in to Charlotte Lucas, Elizabeth's closest companion and the poor girl of a nearby
knight. Charlotte discloses to Elizabeth that she is getting more established and needs the
counterpart for money related reasons. Charlotte and Mr. Collins get hitched and Elizabeth

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guarantees to visit them at their new home. As winter advances, Jane visits the city to see
companions (trusting additionally that she may see Mr. Bingley). In any case, Miss Bingley
visits her and acts impolitely, while Mr. Bingley neglects to visit her by any means. The
marriage prospects for the Bennet young ladies seem hopeless.

That spring, Elizabeth visits Charlotte, who presently lives close to the home of Mr. Collins'
supporter, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who is likewise Darcy's close relative. Darcy
approaches Lady Catherine and experiences Elizabeth, whose nearness drives him to make
various visits to the Collins' home, where she is remaining. At some point, he makes a
stunning proposition of marriage, which Elizabeth rapidly won't. She discloses to Darcy that
she thinks of him as presumptuous and unpalatable, at that point admonishes him for guiding
Bingley far from Jane and excluding Wickham. Darcy abandons her however presently
conveys a letter to her. In this letter, he concedes that he asked Bingley to separate himself
from Jane, yet guarantees he did as such simply because he thought their sentiment was not
genuine. Concerning Wickham, he illuminates Elizabeth that the youthful officer is a liar and
that the genuine reason for their contradiction was Wickham's endeavor to run off with his
young sister, Georgiana Darcy.

This letter makes Elizabeth reconsider her emotions about Darcy. She returns home and acts
icily toward Wickham. The volunteer army is leaving town, which makes the more youthful,
rather man-insane Bennet young ladies upset. Lydia figures out how to get authorization from
her dad to go through the late spring with an old colonel in Brighton, where Wickham's
regiment will be positioned. With the landing of June, Elizabeth goes on another adventure,
this time with the Gardiners, who are relatives of the Bennets. The excursion takes her toward
the North and in the end to the area of Pemberley, Darcy's domain. She visits Pemberley,
subsequent to ensuring that Darcy is away, and has a great time the building and grounds,
while got notification from Darcy's hirelings that he is a superb, liberal ace. All of a sudden,
Darcy arrives and carries on cheerfully toward her. Making no specify of his proposition, he
engages the Gardiners and welcomes Elizabeth to meet his sister.

Presently, in any case, a letter touches base from home, disclosing to Elizabeth that Lydia has
stolen away with Wickham and that the couple is mysteriously absent, which recommends
that they might live respectively without any father present. Frightful of the disrespect such a
circumstance would expedite her whole family, Elizabeth rushes home. Mr. Gardiner and Mr.
Bennet head out to scan for Lydia, yet Mr. Bennet in the long run returns home with next to
nothing. Exactly when all expectation appears to be lost, a letter originates from Mr. Gardiner
saying that the couple has been found and that Wickham has consented to wed Lydia in
return for a yearly salary. The Bennets are persuaded that Mr. Gardiner has satisfied

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Wickham, yet Elizabeth discovers that the wellspring of the cash, and of her family's
salvation, was none other than Darcy.

Presently wedded, Wickham and Lydia come back to Longbourn quickly, where Mr. Bennet
treats them briskly. They at that point withdraw for Wickham's new task in the North of
England. Presently, Bingley comes back to Netherfield and resumes his romance of Jane.
Darcy goes to remain with him and pays visits to the Bennets however makes no specify of
his craving to wed Elizabeth. Bingley, then again, squeezes his suit and proposes to Jane, to
the joy of everybody except Bingley's haughty sister. While the family observes, Lady
Catherine de Bourgh visits Longbourn. She corners Elizabeth and says that she has heard that
Darcy, her nephew, is wanting to wed her. Since she considers a Bennet an unsatisfactory
counterpart for a Darcy, Lady Catherine requests that Elizabeth guarantee to deny him.
Elizabeth energetically cannot, saying she isn't locked in to Darcy, however she won't
guarantee anything against her own bliss. Somewhat later, Elizabeth and Darcy go out
strolling together and he discloses to her that his sentiments have not adjusted since the
spring. She delicately acknowledges his proposition, and both Jane and Elizabeth are hitched.

3. Characters
Elizabeth Bennet

The second little girl in the Bennet family, and the most canny and savvy, Elizabeth is the
hero of Pride and Prejudice and a standout amongst the most surely understood female
characters in English writing. Her praiseworthy characteristics are various—she is beautiful,
shrewd, and, in a novel characterized by exchange, she banters as splendidly as anybody. Her
genuineness, ideals, and vivacious mind empower her to transcend the babble and terrible
conduct that plague her class-bound and frequently resentful society. All things considered,
her sharp tongue and inclination to make rushed judgments frequently lead her off track;
Pride and Prejudice is basically the account of how she (and her intimate romance, Darcy)
defeat all hindrances—including their very own failings—to discover sentimental joy.
Elizabeth must not just adapt to a miserable mother, a far off dad, two severely acted more
youthful kin, and a few self important, irritating females, she should likewise beat her own
particular mixed up impressions of Darcy, which at first lead her to dismiss his proposition of
marriage. Her charms are adequate to keep him intrigued, luckily, while she explores familial
and social unrest. As she step by step comes to perceive the honorability of Darcy's character,
she understands the mistake of her underlying partiality against him.

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Fitzwilliam Darcy

The child of a rich, entrenched family and the ace of the colossal bequest of Pemberley,
Darcy is Elizabeth's male partner. The storyteller relates Elizabeth's perspective of occasions
more regularly than Darcy's, so Elizabeth frequently appears a more thoughtful figure. The
peruser inevitably acknowledges, in any case, that Darcy is her optimal match. Shrewd and
candid, he too tends to judge too hurriedly and brutally, and his high birth and riches make
him excessively glad and excessively aware of his societal position. In reality, his
haughtiness makes him at first fumble his romance. When he proposes to her, for example, he
harps more on how inadmissible a match she is than on her charms, excellence, or whatever
else complimentary. Her dismissal of his advances assembles a sort of modesty in him. Darcy
exhibits his proceeded with dedication to Elizabeth, regardless of his dislike for her low
associations, when he protects Lydia and the whole Bennet family from disfavor, and when
he conflicts with the desires of his haughty auntie, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by proceeding
to seek after Elizabeth. Darcy substantiates himself deserving of Elizabeth, and she winds up
apologizing her prior, excessively brutal judgment of him.

Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley

Elizabeth's lovely senior sister and Darcy's well off closest companion, Jane and Bingley take
part in a romance that involves a focal place in the novel. They initially meet at the ball in
Meryton and appreciate a prompt common fascination. They are talked about as a potential
couple all through the book, some time before anybody envisions that Darcy and Elizabeth
may wed. In spite of their centrality to the account, they are obscure characters, portrayed by
Austen as opposed to precisely drawn. To be sure, they are so comparable in nature and
conduct that they can be portrayed together: both are bright, amicable, and pleasant,
constantly prepared to think the best of others; they need totally the thorny egomania of
Elizabeth and Darcy. Jane's delicate soul fills in as a thwart for her sister's blazing, petulant
nature, while Bingley's excited benevolence appears differently in relation to Darcy's solid
pride. Their chief qualities are altruism and similarity, and the balance of their sentiment with
that of Darcy and Elizabeth is astounding. Jane and Bingley display to the peruser intimate
romance unrestricted by either pride or bias, however in their basic goodness, they likewise
exhibit that such an adoration is somewhat dull.

Mr. Bennet

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Mr. Bennet is the patriarch of the Bennet family unit—the spouse of Mrs. Bennet and the dad
of Jane, Elizabeth, Lydia, Kitty, and Mary. He is a man headed to irritation by his ludicrous
spouse and troublesome little girls. He responds by pulling back from his family and
expecting a disengaged state of mind punctuated by blasts of snide cleverness. He is nearest
to Elizabeth since they are the two most insightful Bennets. At first, his dry mind and
presence of mind notwithstanding his better half's craziness make him a thoughtful figure, at
the same time, however he stays agreeable all through, the peruser slowly loses regard for
him as it turns out to be evident that the cost of his separation is extensive. Segregated from
his family, he is a powerless dad and, at basic minutes, comes up short his family.
Specifically, his stupid liberality of Lydia's youthful conduct about prompts general
disrespect when she steals away with Wickham. Further, upon her vanishing, he demonstrates
generally incapable. It is left to Mr. Gardiner and Darcy to track Lydia down and redress the
circumstance. Eventually, Mr. Bennet would preferably pull back from the world than adapt
to it.

Mrs. Bennet

Mrs. Bennet is a phenomenally tedious character. Uproarious and stupid, she is a lady
devoured by the craving to see her little girls wedded and appears to tend to nothing else on
the planet. Unexpectedly, her determined quest for this objective tends to reverse discharge,
as her absence of social graces estranges the simple individuals (Darcy and Bingley) whom
she attempts urgently to draw in. Austen utilizes her constantly to feature the need of
marriage for young ladies. Mrs. Bennet likewise fills in as a white collar class contradiction
to such privileged stiff necks as Lady Catherine and Miss Bingley, showing that silliness can
be found at each level of society. At last, in any case, Mrs. Bennet demonstrates such an ugly
figure, lacking reclaiming attributes of any sort, that a few perusers have blamed Austen for
shamefulness in depicting her—as though Austen, similar to Mr. Bennet, enjoyed
unreasonable jabbing fun at a lady effectively disdained because of her evil reproducing.

George Wickham - A great looking, fortune-chasing civilian army officer. Wickham's great
looks and appeal pull in Elizabeth at first, yet Darcy's disclosure about Wickham's notorious
past enlightens her to his actual nature and all the while attracts her closer to Darcy.

Lydia Bennet - The most youthful Bennet sister, she is gossipy, juvenile, and self-included.
Not at all like Elizabeth, Lydia flings herself fast into sentiment and winds up running off
with Wickham.

Mr. Collins - A vainglorious, for the most part dumb pastor who stands to acquire Mr.
Bennet's property. Mr. Collins' own economic wellbeing is nothing to gloat about, however

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he makes careful arrangements to tell everybody and anybody that Lady Catherine de Bourgh
fills in as his patroness. He is the most exceedingly awful mix of pompous and submissive.

Miss Bingley - Bingley's vainglorious sister. Miss Bingley bears excessive abhor for
Elizabeth's working class foundation. Her vain endeavors to earn Darcy's consideration cause
Darcy to respect Elizabeth's aloof character much more.

Woman Catherine De Bourgh - A rich, bossy aristocrat; Mr. Collins' benefactor and
Darcy's close relative. Woman Catherine typifies class vainglory, particularly in her
endeavors to arrange the working class Elizabeth far from her all around reproduced nephew.

Mr. Furthermore, Mrs. Gardiner - Mrs. Bennet's sibling and his significant other. The
Gardiners, mindful, sustaining, and brimming with good judgment, frequently end up being
better guardians to the Bennet little girls than Mr. Bennet and his significant other.

Charlotte Lucas - Elizabeth's beloved companion. Down to business where Elizabeth is

sentimental, and furthermore six years more established than Elizabeth, Charlotte does not
see love as the most imperative part of a marriage. She is more inspired by having an
agreeable home. In this manner, when Mr. Collins proposes, she acknowledges.

Georgiana Darcy - Darcy's sister. She is hugely lovely and similarly as bashful. She has
awesome ability at playing the pianoforte.

4. Language,Themes,Symbols,Motifs

4.1 Language

Pride and Prejudice, as the vast majority of Austen's different works, utilizes the story
procedure of free roundabout discourse, which has been characterized as " the free
representation of characters speech, by which one means not words actually spoken by a
character but the words that typify the characters cards or the way the characters would think
or speak is she thought or spoke".

Austen makes her characters with completely created identities and special voices. In spite of
the fact that Darcy and Elizabeth are indistinguishable, they are likewise extensively
different.[26] By utilizing story that embraces the tone and vocabulary of a specific character
(for this situation, Elizabeth), Austen welcomes the peruser to take after occasions from
Elizabeth's perspective, sharing her partialities and misunderstandings. "The expectation to
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absorb information, while experienced by the two heroes, is uncovered to us exclusively
through Elizabeth's perspective and her free circuitous discourse is basic ... for it is through it
that we remain got, if not stuck, inside Elizabeth's misprisions." The few times the peruser is
permitted to increase encourage information of another character's emotions, is through the
letters traded in this novel. Austen is known to utilize incongruity all through the novel
particularly from perspective of the character of Elizabeth Bennet. She passes on the "harsh
principles of gentility that really command her life and work, and are secured by her flawlessly
cut trojan steed of unexpected separation."

4.2 Themes
Love

Pride and Prejudice contains a standout amongst the most esteemed romantic tales in English
writing: the romance amongst Darcy and Elizabeth. As in any great romantic tale, the
sweethearts must escape and conquer various hindrances, starting with the strains caused by
the darlings' very own characteristics. Elizabeth's pride influences her to misinterpret Darcy
based on a poor early introduction, while Darcy's partiality against Elizabeth's poor social
standing blinds him, for a period, to her numerous ideals. (Obviously, one could likewise say
that Elizabeth is liable of bias and Darcy of pride—the title cuts both ways.) Austen, in the
interim, presents endless littler impediments to the acknowledgment of the adoration amongst
Elizabeth and Darcy, including Lady Catherine's endeavor to control her nephew, Miss
Bingley's pomposity, Mrs. Bennet's incompetence, and Wickham's misdirection. For each
situation, tensions about social associations, or the craving for better social associations,
meddle with the workings of affection. Darcy and Elizabeth's acknowledgment of a shared
and delicate love appears to infer that Austen sees love as something free of these social
powers, as something that can be caught if just an individual can get away from the twisting
impacts of progressive society. Austen sounds some more pragmatist (or, one could state,
negative) notes about affection, utilizing the character of Charlotte Lucas, who weds the clown
Mr. Collins for his cash, to exhibit that the heart does not generally manage marriage. However
with her focal characters, Austen recommends that intimate romance is a power isolate from
society and one that can vanquish even the most troublesome of conditions.

Reputation

Pride and Prejudice delineates a general society in which a lady's notoriety is absolutely
critical. A lady is relied upon to carry on in certain ways. Venturing outside the social
standards makes her powerless against shunning. This subject shows up in the novel, when
Elizabeth strolls to Netherfield and touches base with sloppy skirts, to the stun of the notoriety
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cognizant Miss Bingley and her companions. At different focuses, the rude, ludicrous conduct
of Mrs. Bennet gives her a terrible notoriety with the more refined (and gaudy) Darcys and
Bingleys. Austen jabs delicate fun at the pretenders in these cases, yet later in the novel, when
Lydia absconds with Wickham and lives with him without any father present, the creator
regards notoriety as an intense issue. By turning into Wickham's sweetheart without advantage
of marriage, Lydia obviously puts herself outside the social pale, and her disfavour debilitates
the whole Bennet family. The way that Lydia's judgment, anyway appalling, would probably
have sentenced the other Bennet sisters to marriage less lives appears to be horribly
unjustifiable. For what reason should Elizabeth's notoriety endure alongside Lydia's? Darcy's
mediation for the Bennets' sake along these lines turns into simply more liberal, yet a few
peruses may detest that such an intercession was important by any means. On the off chance
that Darcy's cash had neglected to persuade Wickham to wed Lydia, would Darcy have still
hitched Elizabeth? Does his amazing quality of partiality broaden that far? The upbeat
consummation of Pride and Prejudice is surely candidly fulfilling, yet from numerous points
of view it leaves the subject of notoriety, and the significance set on notoriety, unexplored.
One can ask of Pride and Prejudice, to what degree does it evaluate social structures, and to
what degree does it essentially acknowledge their certainty.

Class

The subject of class is identified with notoriety, in that both mirror the entirely controlled
nature of life for the center and privileged societies in Regency England. The lines of class are
entirely drawn. While the Bennets, who are working class, may associate with the privileged
Bingleys and Darcys, they are obviously their social inferiors and are dealt with in that
capacity. Austen caricaturizes this sort of class-awareness, especially in the character of Mr.
Collins, who invests a large portion of his energy toadying to his privileged benefactor, Lady
Catherine de Bourgh. Despite the fact that Mr. Collins offers an outrageous illustration, he
isn't the just a single to hold such perspectives. His origination of the significance of class is
shared, among others, by Mr. Darcy, who puts stock in the poise of his ancestry; Miss Bingley,
who disdains anybody not as socially acknowledged as she seems to be; and Wickham, who
will do anything he can to get enough cash to raise himself into a higher station. Mr. Collins'
perspectives are simply the most outrageous and self-evident. The parody coordinated at Mr.
Collins is in this way additionally more unobtrusively coordinated at the whole social chain
of command and the origination of each one of those inside it at its accuracy, in entire
carelessness of other, more commendable ethics. Through the Darcy-Elizabeth and Bingley-
Jane relational unions, Austen demonstrates the intensity of adoration and satisfaction to beat
class limits and preferences, along these lines inferring that such biases are empty, merciless,
and ineffective. Obviously, this entire exchange of class must be made with the understanding

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that Austen herself is regularly condemned similar to a classist: she doesn't generally speak to
anybody from the lower classes; those hirelings she portrays are by and large content with
their parcel. Austen criticizes class structure however just a restricted cut of that structure.

4.3 Symbols

Pride and Prejudice is surprisingly free of express imagery, which maybe has something to do
with the novel's dependence on exchange over depiction. By and by, Pemberley, Darcy's
domain, sits at the focal point of the novel, truly and allegorically, as a geographic image of
the man who possesses it. Elizabeth visits it when her emotions toward Darcy are starting to
warm; she is captivated by its excellence and beguile, and by the pleasant field, similarly as
she will be enchanted, progressively, by the endowments of its proprietor. Austen makes the
association unequivocal when she portrays the stream that streams next to the chateau. "In
front," she states, "a surge of some normal significance was swelled into more prominent,
however with no counterfeit appearance." Darcy has a "characteristic significance" that is
"swelled" by his pomposity, yet which exists together with a honest to goodness
trustworthiness and absence of "fake appearance." Like the stream, he is not one or the other
"formal, nor erroneously enhanced." Pemberley even offers an image inside an image for their
maturing sentiment: when Elizabeth experiences Darcy on the domain, she is crossing a little
extension, recommending the wide inlet of misconception and class preference that lies
amongst them—and the scaffold that their adoration will work crosswise over it.

4.4.Motifs

Courtship

In a sense, Pride and Prejudice is the story of two courtships—those between Darcy and
Elizabeth and between Bingley and Jane. Within this broad structure appear other, smaller
courtships: Mr. Collins’s aborted wooing of Elizabeth, followed by his successful wooing of
Charlotte Lucas; Miss Bingley’s unsuccessful attempt to attract Darcy; Wickham’s pursuit
first of Elizabeth, then of the never-seen Miss King, and finally of Lydia. Courtship therefore
takes on a profound, if often unspoken, importance in the novel. Marriage is the ultimate
goal, courtship constitutes the real working-out of love. Courtship becomes a sort of forge of

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a person’s personality, and each courtship becomes a microcosm for different sorts of love
(or different ways to abuse love as a means to social advancement).

5.Exposition and Criticism

Pride and Prejudice, not only has a plethora of characters one can relate to, but also has so
many sub-plots going on besides the main one. Austen has beautifully written about so many
issues in the book- love, family ties, differences in children from the same parents, societal
differences and so on. The classic English setting renders it more beauty. To me, it’s a piece
of art! The main heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, is a fearless, witty, complex young girl. One can
look upto her. And Darcy! The alpha male, who has stood the test of time with people still
falling in love with his character. Their love story makes you believe in love. In addition to
this, you have the story of other sisters – the lovely, pure hearted Jane; wild Lydia.

6.Conclusion
The first marriage we encounter in Pride and Prejudice is Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s. These two
illustrate magnificently by negative example just how crucial respect for one another is to
marital bliss. Mr. Bennet treats Mrs. Bennet like the fool she assuredly is, and Mrs. Bennet, in
return, exerts the only authority she has: nagging. As readers, we may laugh with Mr. Bennet
(and the narrator) at Mrs. Bennet, but we don’t side with him entirely. Even Elizabeth, as much
as she loves her father and as much as he respects her, admits she “could not have formed a
very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort” based on her parents’
marriage.

We can’t help but wonder along with Elizabeth, who “had never been blind to the impropriety
of her father's behaviour as a husband,” if Mrs. Bennet might have grown into a better partner
and woman with more active loving-kindness from him. Instead, Mrs. Bennet fits the
description of what one marriage expert—Pat Ennis of the marriage-enrichment program The
Third Option—calls the “Critical Nag,” one who is never happy with how others do things.
Mr. Bennet, meanwhile, is the “Ridiculer-Name Caller,” the person who constantly puts others
down. Ennis says that respect is the bedrock of lasting love, wisdom the never-married Austen
recognized long before psychology, life coaches, and marriage retreats were invented....

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