Essay on Prejudice and Pride in Pride and Prejudice -- Pride and Preju

prepossession and insolence in self-complacency and Prejudice In any literary work the title and introduction nock at least some allusion to the important events of the novel. With conceit and Prejudice, Austen takes this convention to the extreme, intent all of the first and some of the second half of the novel after(prenominal) the title and the first sentence. The concepts of pride, prejudice, and universally acknowledged truth (51), as hygienic as the interpretation of those concepts, ar the commutation focus of the novel. They dictate the actions of approximately all the major characters (not just Darcy and Elizabeth), and foreshadow all of the major events in the novel, especially in the first few chapters, involving the first ball at Netherfield. While Darcy comes to represent pride, and Elizabeth prejudice, all of the characters in Pride and Prejudice are impacted by both pride and prejudice, and their scorn towards the two central characters in the novel becomes only hypocritical. While e rattlingone (at first) scorns Darcys excessive pride, that very identical pride in self and family effects the actions of many of the characters. Pride in her daughters makes Mrs. Bennet confident that they will soon be married off. It is very likely, she tells her husband, that Bingley may fall in love with one of them (52). Pride makes the wee Darcy cold and disrespectful, and Miss Bingley haughty, jealous, and spiteful. The Bingley sisters were in fact very fine ladies...but towering and conceited. They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town, had a fortune of twenty thousand pounds...and were therefore in every respect entitled to think well of themselves, and meanly of others (63). Pride drives Mr. Col... ...Donald Gray. raw York Norton and Co., 1993. Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. Oxford. Claredon Press, 1975 Harding, D. W. Regulated Hatred An Aspect in the Work of Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen. Ed. Donald Gray. New York Norton and Co., 1993. pp. 291-295. Jane Austen, Discovering Authors Modules, http//galenet.gale.com/a/acp/netacgi/nphrs?d=DAMA&s1=bio&s2=Austen,+Jane&1=50&pg1=DT&pg2=NM&p=17 Johnson, Claudia L. Pride and Prejudice and the Pursuit of Happiness. Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen. Ed. Donald Gray. New York Norton and Co., 1993. pp. 367-376. Mudrick, Marvin.Irony as Discovery in Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice. By Jane Austen. Ed. Donald Gray. New York Norton and Co., 1993. pp. 295-303. Sherry, Norman. Jane Austen. London. Montegue House, 1966