Pride and Prejudice | Characters
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...
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