Pride and Prejudice Book Review by Coralann Rebello - 44- S.Y.B.ED 2019-21

 

Pride and Prejudice Book Review by Coralann Rebello  - 44- S.Y.B.ED 2019-21

 

Pride and Prejudice is a well known romantic novel, written by the well known novelist Jane Austen.  A very well known personality of her time. She has written many novels like Emma, Sense and Sensibility,  Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield park, Becoming Jane and many more of which Pride and Prejudice is the most famous.  Her novels mainly focus on the life of the British in the 18^th Century. Her novels are mainly based on the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of social and economic stability.

 

In the well known novel Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen  has given us very strong women protagonists through the character of Elizabeth Bennet. The story revolves mainly around the life of  the Bennet  family. Since they belong to a lower strata of society the Mother is always worried to settle of her daughters to well off families.  Elizabeth Bennet however seems to be the most sensible and strong character who knows what she wants in life and in that era rejects proposals from the male sex.  She very strongly puts up her point to the man whom she doesn’t love. She is then introduced to Mr. Darcy who is a bit allof and doesn’t mix about much with people. He later gets attracted towards Elizabeth and can’t resist proposing Elizabeth but Elizabeth rejects it. Darcy kept helping Elizabeth even though she rejected him . What will her decision be will she accept the proposal?

 I love the way the women in that era were bold enough to keep up to their  etiquette’s and very strongly decide who is the perfect match for them.

 

The novel primely focuses on the idea that you should marry a person for love and not social status.

 

I would like to conclude with the words of Jane Austen

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

 

Austen, J. (1991). Pride and prejudice. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proquest.com