Pride and Prejudice - Based on a True Story

Pride and Prejudice - Based on a True Story

Pride and Prejudice is a novel based on a true story. It explores relationships between young men and women two hundred years ago. It is a story not only about a love lost and found, with a happy ending, but it also tells us a lot about the society at the time. The society at that time contrasts with today's values and behaviors. In particular the role of women then was very different to the role of women in the present day. Pride and Prejudice is mainly focused on the women of a particular social class. The Bennet family is not poor, they are above the working class, but they are not extremely rich either. Jane Austen explores the position of young women in this situation by telling a story about what seems to be love, but is actually a novel also about the role of women and how they used love and marriage in life to get what they wanted.
Pride and prejudice is about Elizabeth Bennet, a country gentlemen’s daughter, in the nineteenth century in England. She is one of five daughters and Elizabeth is her father’s favorite because of her level-headed approach to life. His wife’s main concern is getting her daughters married off to a well established gentleman. Mr. Bingley, a young gentleman of London, takes a country estate near the Bennet’s home and Mrs. Bennet starts her match making. At a ball Mr. Bingley and Jane become very fond of each other. Mr. Darcy, Mr.Bingley’s friend, has a proud distaste for the Bennets and their neighbors.
When Mr. Bingley leaves the country side suddenly and makes no attempt to contact Jane anymore, Jane is heartbroken. Elizabeth who had thought well of Mr. Bingley, believes that there was something or someone that had gotten in the way of Mr. Bingley and Jane from being together. Elizabeth goes to visit her friend in the estate of Darcy’s aunt and the mystery begins to unfold. After several encounters with Mr. Darcy while visiting her friend, Elizabeth is shocked when Mr. Darcy proposes to her. Elizabeth refuses him...

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