Group Members :-

1-Hira Tariq
2-Amna Naseer
3-Muhammad Kamran
4-Manam
5-Mahrukh
Important
Themes:-
1-Pride and Prejudice.
2-Role of Wealth and
Reputation.
3-Right status and
Education of Women.
4-Personal Autonomy.
5-Love and Marriage.
6-Individualism VS
Society.
7-Virtue.
Jane Austen:-
Born on 16Dec
1775
Best known for her
social commentary I
novels .
Died on 18 July
1817
 pride

 Fitzwilliam Darcy
pride

 Pride plays a very important role in this Novel

 It’s a barrier between the marriage of the Darcy and Elizabeth
 Darcy doesn’t see why he should bother with people who aren’t rich ,
educated as he is
 He was well mannered but still he didn’t know how to treat with women
(lesser economic status)
prejudice

prejudice

Elizabeth
Prejudice

 Bad tendency to take thing at face value without any analysing any
deeper
 Immediately labels Darcy as a proud
 She brings two charge against Darcy:
1. tried to breakup her sister with her love
2. He treated the charming officer Wickham very poorly
Darcy Letter:-
shows that her judgment
were wrong.

Both Darcy and Elizabeth

learns humility by
accepting their own
weakness
Role of wealth and reputation

The role of wealth and reputation in a partnership that leads to marriage, but
in most cases have little to do with love.

Lady Catherine and Darcy upper class

1. In Jane Austen time marriage is an arrange affair done at an early age with
concise planning
2. Lady Catherine speaks to Elizabeth about Darcy engagement to her
daughter
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Both Darcy and lady Catherine

 Both are wealthy families
 The arrangement between the two families is one typical for the time.
 They two are cousins and though Darcy may have respect for his cousin, he
has no romantic feelings towards him
Lydia Reputation

 For instance when Lydia and kitty begin frequenting Meryton in pursuit of
flirting with soldiers . Mr Bennet refers to them as the silliest girls in the
country
 When Lydia eloped with Wickham , Mr Darcy forced the marriage that their
reputations were saved .
Other smaller instances of reputation can be
seen in Mrs Bennett's behaviour . At the
Neither field ball, Mr Bennet makes some
very serious social fauxpas, including talking
about Bingley and Jane wedding prospect
Personal Autonomy

 A related but distinct theme is that of personal autonomy .

 In many ways , Lizzy is a champion of individualism
 When Caroline Bingley derides her decision to walk three miles to Nether
field as showing “an abominable sort of conceited independence ,a most
country town indifference to decorum ,,
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 Similarly during the climactic final confrontation in which lady Catherine

attempts to dissuade Lizzy from marrying Darcy by appealing to “the claims
of duty , honour , and gratitude,, , Lizzy replies “I am only resolved to act in
that manner, which will , in my own opinion , constitute my happiness,,
?

 Lydia for that matter , is a monster of autonomy , whose

unrestrained pursuit of personal satisfaction ruins her own future and
nearly ruins her sister . Lizzy dispositional similarity to her father , and
the attraction to Wickham that she shares with Lydia , suggest that
she could fall into the errors of both .
 It is precisely her determination to rely on as she says to lady
Catherine – “her own opinion,, that initially blind her to Darcy virtues
The right , status and education of
women
 In pride and prejudice , the stakes of the marriage plot are high
 because Mr Bennet has been entailed away whereby only men may inherit
property . If the Bennet girls do not marry well , they will be almost penniless
when their father dies
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 At the time of the novel , the education of gentlemen was intended to

equip them of the be good wives, and it emphasized decorative arts and
household management Bingley mocking describes the conventional
accomplishments of women as painting tables and netting purses
Love and Marriage
Marriage for money.
Marriage because of impulsiveness and
imprudence.
Marriage for physical appearance .
Marriage for love .
People sometimes make impulsive or
imprudent decisions, this marriage proved
to be one!
Lydia was very young when she tied the
knot , Wickham being flertrish and a
lier,resulted in a huge mismatch , Lydia
actually eloped with a Wickham and it was
never to be taken as a marriage…
Marriage for physical appearance

Mr Bennet and Ms Bennet include in this ..

Although little is told of how Mr.Bennet and
Ms.Bennet got together .. Mr.Bennet had a
married a women he found beautifully and
sexually attractive without realizing she was
unintelligent women…
Marriage for Love.

Elizabeth with Darcy or Jane with Bingley

,both are examples of true love…as in this
novel out of five marriages only these two
succeeded and were prosperous , resulting
in a happy ending which brought utmost
happiness
Individualism VS Society
 Pride and Prejudice, Austen portrays a world in which society is
actively involved in the private lives of individuals.

A prime example is Darcy's guilt for not having publicly shamed
Wickham before he was able to elope with Lydia. Lydia's sin
threatens damage not only her family, but the community at large.
And yet Austen seems quite well aware of how easily public opinion
can change, as evidenced by the town's easily shifting opinions on
Wickham.

Elizabeth, meanwhile, is proudly independent and individualistic. She
possesses the ability to transcend her limitations .

However, her individualistic nature misleads her as she works through
her feelings for Darcy
virtue
 Austen's novels unite Aristotelian and Christian
conceptions of virtue.
 Austen's novels unite Aristotelian and Christian
conceptions of virtue. She sees human life as purposeful
and believes that human beings must guide their
appetites and desires through their use of reason. For
instance, Elizabeth almost loses her chance at
happiness because her vanity overcomes her
pragmatism. Lydia's lack of virtue is linked with her
inability to control her passion and desire
 . Darcy and Elizabeth, two of the only characters who
actually change in the novel, can only see past their
pride and prejudice with each other's help. In the end,
Austen links happiness to virtue and virtue to self-
awareness.