Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

At a glance:

Author: Jane Austen
First Published: 1813
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Domestic realism
Time of Work: The early nineteenth century
Setting: Hertfordshire, Derbyshire, Kent, and London, England
Principal Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mr. Bennet, Mrs. Bennet, Jane Bennet, Charles Bingley, Charlotte Lucas, William Collins, George Wickham
Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners, Bourgeois fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, Parents and children, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Class consciousness, Manners or customs, England or English people, Sisters, Money, Soldiers, Conformity, Gossip, Pretensions, Dating
Locales: Hertfordshire, England

Pride and Prejudice is a novel about marriage. The author’s purpose is to make it possible for her two most interesting characters, Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, to be united. In order to accomplish the author’s purpose, they must overcome both external obstacles and the personal flaws suggested in the title of the book. Although he is attracted to Elizabeth, the proud aristocrat Darcy is prejudiced against her family because of their social inferiority, which is evident to him in the folly of Mrs. Bennet and her younger daughters, as well...

Pride and Prejudice | Pride and Prejudice

At a glance:

Form and Content

Join eNotes