Resumo de Pride And Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a love story that is both humorous and deeply serious. It is primarily concerned with the Bennets, a family with five daughters ranging in age from twenty-two to fifteen. The family children live well but know that when their father dies they will lose their home and property to their cousin Mr. Collins, simply because the family has no male heir. Mrs. Bennet, a comically deluded woman, believes that her main business is to arrange for her children to marry rich or, at worst, reputable gentlemen. Her husband, a genial wit, refuses to support her schemes but...

Jane Austen is a keen observer of human behavior. She shows that while men and women often think too highly of themselves, deceive or flatter others, and act stupidly, they are also capable of love, kindness, and moral growth. With this mingling of positive and negative traits, her heroes and heroines seem deeply human.
The novelist is reputed to have considered Elizabeth Bennet her favorite creation. Indeed, the twenty-year-old possesses brains, beauty, musical talent, confidence, and?for the era? rare independence. At every turn Elizabeth displays the latter trait: she walks several... The chief protagonists in this story are Fitzwilliam Darcy, the rich but aloof inheritor of Pemberley, and Elizabeth Bennet, the liveliest and wittiest of five daughters of a country gentleman of limited means. Their halting progress toward love, hindered by traits of personality and misunderstanding, is played out against the backdrop of late-eighteenth-century English country society, where several other couples act as foils for their relationship. The primary foils are the marriage of the senior Bennets, the Lucas-Collins marriage, the Jane-Bingley courtship, and the notorious...

The pursuit of a loving and prosperous marriage, and the ability of such unions to benefit all of society?despite contrary impulses and forces?is the central theme of all of Jane Austen's novels. Pride and Prejudice remains one of her most popular, as indicated by the number of attempted literary sequels (six) and film versions, perhaps because the two main characters are so evenly matched: flawed but strong individuals, witty, and basically good-hearted. However, within this major framework, there are other themes and sub-themes that show a great variety in the workings of human...

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