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The discusses Jane Austen's text, "Pride and Prejudice" by examining the intentions and character of Mr. Darcy. An article by James Sherry is used as a springboard for thie discussion, with which the paper's author concurs. According to the paper, Mr. Darcy's seemingly snobbish reserve allows him to maintain dignity and is an example of how one should honor the inviolable individual private sphere, his aloofness also causes a great deal of pain that could have been avoided had he simply elected to engage himself more in the goings-on unfolding around him.

From the Paper
" The following paper will discuss Jane Austen's text, "Pride and Prejudice", by juxtaposing the essential argument raised by James Sherry in a thought-provoking 1979 essay with my conclusions about the intentions and character of Mr. Darcy. Although I believe that Mr. Sherry raises a number of excellent points and is quite correct in pointing out that Mr. Darcy's seemingly snobbish reserve allows him to maintain dignity and is an example of how one should honour the inviolable individual private sphere, his aloofness also causes a great deal of pain that could have been avoided had he simply elected to engage himself more in the goings-on..."

Tags:dignity, darcy, austen

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The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the courtship styles of Rochester in Charlotte Bronte's novel, "Jane Eyre," and Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". It shows that, although the style and tactics in courtship were wielded differently by Rochester and Mr. Darcy in their pursuit of the women that they loved, patience did play a large part in both men's characters.

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"Both Bronte's Jane Eyre and Austen's Pride and Prejudice are in the style of romance and naturally are based around the workings and events expressed within the romance. Bronte's Jane Eyre is a story of a young orphan who manages to find her way in the world because she was abused to the point of having nothing left but to stand up for herself and is a story of opposites such as would be ice and fire which are symbolized throughout the story. Austen's Pride and Prejudice is a story of several daughters of a 'near' upper class family whose estate will not stay with the daughters but revert to a cousin upon the death of their father."

Tags:courtship, styles, elizabeth, bennet

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The paper illustrates how the love that Elizabeth and Darcy feel for each other reflects a time in which rationality was of supreme importance, despite the historical setting of the novel. The paper explains that Elizabeth Bennett believes herself to be an intellectual, rational being. She does, in fact, gradually move along an intellectual path toward a desirable relationship with Darcy, based on intellect and mutual respect as well as on emotion. The paper discusses how it is the only kind of relationship that would have brought them together, based on the roles that Austen created for them.

From the Paper
"Elizabeth Bennett, of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is a rational woman. Locked into a middle class existence with no hope of inheriting their father's estate, she and her sisters resign themselves to the knowledge that the only way to avoid poverty is marriage. However, in Elizabeth's concern over her sister, Jane, making a happy marriage, she appears to miss the truth of her own emotions--that of her love for Darcy. Thus, the novel is both about the battle against the social constructs that lead to the titular pride and prejudice and Elizabeth's struggle to accept her emotions in favor of her reason. When Elizabeth and Darcy do recognize their love for each other, it is a different love than possible in the beginning of the novel."

Tags:austen, darcy, prejudice

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This paper first examines the differences between these two characters and then points out in which ways they are similar. It shows that Jane Austen is writing a romantic comedy, and Joseph Conrad has undertaken to write a philosophically-oriented story that explores the darker side of humanity. These two characters do have something in common, however. It explains that, in the process of the story, they both make significant changes to their personalities by way of their outlook on life. It is the capacity for serious self-study that makes it possible for Darcy to change, and it is Marlowe's inability to confront the reality of the world and himself that brings about the changes in his personality. Darcy overcomes the initial obstacle of pride through a process of acknowledgment, learning, and acceptance, whereas Marlowe chooses to define the world as a 'dream' and, as a result, falls into the "darkness".

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"The defining moment in Mr. Darcy's process of change seems to be at the point of his first proposal. His pride leads him to think (and undiplomatically state) that Elizabeth would be more than honored to have him as husband. She, of course, resents the implication that she had no better thoughts of her future than marriage to him. He is extremely surprised when she answers vehemently in the negative; in fact, he is "the last man in the world whom [she] could ever be prevailed upon to marry" (193). The proposal and subsequent rejection allows for the consideration of change to stealthily enter into his subconscious. The tension between them provides the energy and the refusal the impetus for change."

Tags:romantic, comedy, humanity

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This undergraduate level novel is an examination of the literal examples of pride and prejudice in Jane Austen's novel of the same name. It looks at the two primary characters of Elizabeth and Darcy. It observes that their relationship is tragically damaged by their inability to place passion and love above their need to be accepted within their society.

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A summary of chapter nine of the novel. The sisters and Mrs. Bennet are having breakfast at Mr. Bingley house. Mrs. Bennet contradicts Mr. Darcy over the merits of country life and town life, which reveal her own parochial attitude. Elizabeth is crucially embarrassed. This essay reflects on the development of the characters in this passage and the issues which are represented.

From the Paper
"In this short excerpt we find Mrs Bennet, her three daughters Elizabeth, Kitty and Lydia, Mr Bingley and his two sisters and Mr Darcy having breakfast in Netherfield. Elizabeth's comments are characterized by humor and irony. In this extract we are introduced to Elizabeth as 'a studier of character', as Bingley exclaims. This remark is in itself ironic, especially when we later find out that Elizabeth more than once analyzed characters completely wrong, for example in her judgment of both Darcy's and Wickham's personalities."

Tags:novel, character, personality, pride, prejudice

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"This study will examine and compare the views of male-female relationships and marriage in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Brett and Romero), Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (Clarissa and Richard), and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth and Darcy). The study will show that the Brett-Romero relationship is the most passionate, shallow and brief, while the Elizabeth-Darcy and Clarissa-Richard relationships are relatively without passion and yet will probably survive precisely because both partners seek a long-term union with stability and security rather than short-term passion. In all three relationships, the more fascinating and more fully examined member is the woman, with each reflecting a different level of passion, liberation, and self-knowledge.

Hemingway portrays the brief and sexually charged..."

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This paper suggests that there is a very complex nature to the idea of pride, as Jane Austen treats it and that in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" it can mean anything from a healthy self-esteem to a haughty disdain for the perceived inferiorities of others. It examines how the treatment of prejudice includes the notion that one can be prejudiced against but also prejudiced in favour of something or someone.

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"Other characters in the novel that parody Darcy's and Elizabeth's pride but to an extreme extent are firstly, Lady Catherine. Lady Catherine has pride in her superior social status and blood. Her pride is unlike Darcy's though which is straightforward and honest. Her pride is extreme, overbearing and puffed-up. She is a snob and tries to run the lives of all those who are under her, thinking that it's her God-given right. She is also prejudice to those who belong to an "inferior" class then herself. She has a preconceived idea about Elizabeth and her inferior upbringing."

Tags:social, status, lady, catherine, jane, bingley, collins

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This paper discusses how as a heroine surrounded by great want of marriage, Elizabeth in Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice" was quick to dispose of two proposals - that of Mr. Collins' and the first of Mr. Darcy's. The writer first analyzes the proposal by Mr Collins, his reasoning behind it and Elizabeth's curt response. The paper then examines Mr. Darcy's proposal and how she was even more severe in her refusal of him than she was with Collins, exclaiming that Darcy was the last man in the world whom she could ever marry.

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"The ethos of the awkward Mr. Collins is that his proposal to marry Elizabeth is in his better judgment (in sharp contrast to Mr. Darcy's proposal which he paints as against his), laying out the Lady Catherine's wishes for him, alongside the service he is doing the Bennet family in consideration of matters of the estate. Lizzy's slight idea of the proposal (she had a faint clue but refused to acknowledge until it was necessary to do so) allowed her to be generally civil in her refusal and, in fact, initially appreciative of the offer where she kindly expressed her gratitude for his attention ("I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals"). She even seemed rather amused by the idea (or perhaps by the silly demeanor of Collins), at least until he resorted to ill-humored insults, reminding her that her poverty and inadequacies in beauty and qualification shall fail her in soliciting another proposal from him or from any other man. Hilariously convinced that Elizabeth was simply playing coy and will thus eventually give in, he gave his most flowery speech yet, an over-explanation of the desirability of the union that ended up in an offensive more violent than what he ascribes to his affection ("violence of [his] affection."). "

Tags:Collins, Darcy, rejection

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This paper reviews Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" with an emphasis on how the element of mystery in it serves to give depth and development to the characters. It examines how the related mysteries of "Pride and Prejudice" are the Wickham-Darcy relationship and the "mystery of character." It is no mystery from the beginning that Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy are fated to be together, the mystery is their feelings and motivations and their characters, as they evolve and are revealed throughout the novel. It shows how, like many a mystery novelist, Austen leaves ample clues from which the reader could discern that all is not what it seems, which seem obvious only on a second reading.

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"There are two central and intertwined mysteries in the novel: the traditional mystery of Wickham's relationship to Darcy, and the more subtle mystery of Darcy's (and Elizabeth's) true character. The author's treatment of the Wickham mystery is not that of the conventional mystery story, as a modern reader might understand it. The clues Austen gives are not material to the direct verification of one sides or the other's story, but to the respectability and trustworthiness of Wickham and Darcy. We are not given, for example, accounts of Wickham's behavior in London while he is pretending to study law. It is only through an understanding of the two men's characters that we discover the truth of their relationship."

Tags:darcy, wickham, bennet, courtship, character, guilt, arrogance