Resumo de Pride And Prejudice

The novel introduces its central theme, which is the main preoccupation of most of its characters, in the famous first line itself: marriage. What else could a novel centred around a family with five daughters ? all at a marriageable age ? possibly be about? Jane Austen uses subtle irony and humour to create a fine sketch of an entire social class ? the land owning gentry ? caught red handed in its furious scheming attempts at finding a suitable catch: an eligible propertied bachelor. Jane is the eldest daughter of the slightly eccentric Mr. and silly, emotional Mrs. Bennet. She is your ideal romantic heroine; serene sensible, good natured and beautiful. When an extremely eligible, wealthy young man Mr. Bingley moves into the neighbourhood, it is only natural that he should fall for and start courting her. Austen however sets up this perfect couple only as a foil to her real main characters: the intelligent, independent minded younger sister Elizabeth, and the haughty, stuffy, rude, and rich as Croesus, Mr. Darcy. The movement of the plot is helped along by the scheming of various interested parties, from the voluble, excitable Mrs. Bennet, to the disdainful Miss Bingley, herself aspiring to land Darcy. The couples move through their own trials and tribulations ? caused for Jane by the vacillating Bingley, easily swayed by his sister and his friend Darcy to stop courting her. Elizabeth is more largely responsible for her own grief: already prejudiced against Darcy for his haughty and curt manner, she is positively offended by his condescending profession of love, and doesn?t hesitate to tell him so. She later relents when she discovers him to be a much finer man than she had supposed, though diffident and conservative (Played to perfection by Collin Firth in the movie). The seriousness underlying all these frivolous games being Played by these young couples is brought home when the caricaturised, comic Mr. Collins, rejected by Elizabeth, is accepted by her friend Charlotte, who realizes that in her world, any husband at all is better than none. A crisis develops when the impressionable fourth sister Lydia elopes with the disreputable army officer Wickham, whose intentions aren?t honourable. However they are found in time by Darcy, whose young sister Wickham had once tried to involve in a similar escapade, and married off to each other. Darcy, what with this and his part in the reconciliation of Bingley and Jane, is now a much more acceptable suitor, and after all this ado, the novel does end in a series of marriages.

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