The Main Cosmo: The Audience’s Underlying Assumption
About the Human Relationships
Between Characters
Walt Disney, a famous American film producer, once said, “There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the ‘“tough breaks”’ which are certain to come to most of us from time to time”. This quote demonstrates the importance of human affairs and the struggle to sustain them because of hardships. There is a great emphasis on the importance of human relationships in the novels Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, 1984, by George Orwell, and the play Hamlet, by Shakespeare. The different time period of these works help the audience understand the significance of relationships. These three works of literature portray the audience’s beliefs on the importance of human relationships.
In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, there is a prominent significance on the importance of love and relations. Elizabeth Bennet, the novel’s protagonist, develops a strong relationship with Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy gentleman. At the begging of the novel, Elizabeth develops a strong disliking for Darcy after he refuses to dance with her. As time moves on and the novel begins to develop, Elizabeth’s feelings towards Darcy begin to change and evolve into a desire for marriage. Wickham, a former suitor for Elizabeth, tells Elizabeth that Darcy is a pompous man who cheated him out of his inheritance. However, Elizabeth overhears Darcy’s servants praising his gentlemanlike qualities. Marriage is of great concern for the women of this time, especially for Mrs. Bennet, Elizabeth’s mother. Although Darcy is viewed as an arrogant man in the begging of the novel, Elizabeth’s views dramatically change once she discovers he paid Wickham to marry her sister Lydia even though their marriage is out of wedlock. Darcy knows the damage living out of wedlock can cause a family, so...