Pride and Prejudice (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
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
Form and Content
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...
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