Pride and Prejudice (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Austen
- First Published: 1813
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Setting: Rural England
- 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
Characters Discussed
Elizabeth Bennet, a spirited and intelligent girl who represents “prejudice” in her attitude toward Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she dislikes because of his pride. She is also prejudiced against him by Mr. Wickham, whose false reports of Darcy she believes, and hence rejects Darcy’s haughty first proposal of marriage. Yet Wickham’s elopement with her sister Lydia brings Elizabeth and Darcy together, for it is Darcy who facilitates the legal marriage of the runaways. Acknowledging her mistake in her estimation of Darcy, she gladly accepts his second...
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