Book report
July 14, 2009
ie1megumi
MLA citation
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice 1813, London: penguin, 1996
Introduction
Pride and Prejudice is written by Jane Austen. It is a fictional novel. She was endowed with the home environment where there was the quality of the literature, and she began creation from the teens. She draws the middle-class society of the country in England in the 19th century from the 18th century. She draws the private life of the woman with irony mainly on marriage affectionately, and her novel is a top of the British novel.
A main character of this novel is a young woman born as the second daughter of five sisters called Elizabeth Bennet. She meets Darcy who is very rich. At first, she has prejudice towards his arrogant manner, but they notice different essence each other and come to love.
Summary
Mr. Bingley who is a young capitalist moves near Mr. Benett’s house. Jane who is the eldest daughter becomes the love relationship with him. Because the words of Mr. Darcy hurt Elizabeth’s pride, she has antipathy towards him who is a close friend of the Bingley. In secret, Darcy begins to be attracted by intellectual charm to dwell in eyes of Elizabeth, but because of the height of the pride, he is not opened up with Elizabeth who is demotion than him. Bingley and Jane become closely, but Bingley returns to London suddenly. Elizabeth knew that Darcy let him leave to disturb Jane, and Elizabeth was taken by awful anger. In such a case, she is proposed to by Darcy. However, she refuses it because of about Wickham and Jane and his arrogant manner. Next day, a letter reached Elizabeth from Darcy. Apology and the pasts of Wickham were written in it. When she read, she notices that she had prejudice against Darcy. At last, Darcy and Elizabeth come together. They married and lived happily.
Analysis
This novel can analyze British background under the theme of property. In the novel, Elizabeth’s mother is desperate to marry a daughter off to a rich man. In the U.K. of the 18th century, it was considered to be the happiness of the woman to find the good marriage partner because there were few occupations that a woman could become independent. A good marriage partner is a rich man having a lot of property. Because there was not the right that a woman succeeded to property, the marriage was the problem that was more acute than the present. Now, we can marry favorite person freely. I think it is very fortune and happiness. It is good luck that one’s favorite person is rich like Elizabeth. However all people can’t be like her. It is sad to marry to get for property. I don’t want to get marry without the love.
Entry Filed under: blog
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>
Trackback this post | Subscribe to comments via RSS Feed
