Art and Style | September 26, 2010 | 13 comments

Analyzing: Pride and Prejudice

JanforGore
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice while a fictional love story was also a realistic accounting of a woman's life during this time. Raised in the arts of drawing, dancing, piano playing and keeping house, a woman's aspirations were not encouraged beyond this, and her life was dependent on the man she eventually had picked for her to marry. In the case of Elizabeth Bennett however, she was not only brazenly independent but strong willed. She was actually the more liberated of all the Bennett sisters, even though it was thought that to marry was your ticket to freedom. The characters in this story are well defined and you truly get a sense by the end of the story that you lived their experiences along with them. As for the love story between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, well, we should all be so lucky to find such a love in our lives.
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  • EtVoila
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      EtVoila  

    • I've recently bought a large and very ornate volume of Jane Austen's complete works, and so far, I've only read Sense and Sensibility. I must honestly say that I did have a hard time getting through the book. That's not to say that Sense and Sensibility is not a great work of art. I just had a hard time remaining interested in the plight of the Dashwood sisters. This is perhaps because, to me, they lived such tedious lives.
      The well-off ladies of the 18th and 19th centuries, for the most part, sat around drawing, playing the piano, reading, drinking tea, talking about other women, scribbling verses, going on walks, and writing letters before they got married. After they got married, they did all of the above except with caring children added to the above activities. Boring, boring, boring.
      Though it is interesting to get a look into the lives of women back in these times, I can only read about their lives for a little while before becoming as bored with the tedium of their lives as they are. I'll be reading Pride and Prejudice soon, and hopefully I'll have a more enjoyable time of it.

      Thanks for the contribution!

    • 1 year ago
  • tylervictoria1
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • tylervictoria1:

      The music is amazing. This particular theme has so much emotion you can feel it down to your soul. I cannot watch the last scene of this movie without crying. And tell me what woman has not envisioned the man she truly loves coming to her in this way and saying, " You have bewitched me body and soul."

    • 1 year ago
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      ::::Sigh::::

      And another aspect of this I loved was that to Elizabeth Mr. Darcy's wealth was not even a consideration. She did not love him because he had wealth, but for who he was. That to me is true love.

    • 1 year ago
  • Einsam_Data_Old
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  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      Yes, I saw Becoming Jane and it was as you say a parallel between her life and the lives of the women in her books. Only, she was denied the love of her life and lived her life lonely. I think her books sought to reveal the life she also longed for with the man she loved. Oh and yes, Keira Knightley was outstanding. I really like her. Matthew MacFadyen as Mr.Darcy was also perfect for the role.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      Yes, it was a business transaction. If I had lived back then I would definitely have been an Elizabeth Bennett. And just to comment regarding the part when Mr. Collins came to the mother asking for the hand of her sister Jane, and her mother actually pushed him towards Elizabeth because they wanted Jane to marry Mr. Bingley... I find it so cold that parents had no real caring for the feelings of their own daughters in selling them off. I am sure they thought it was for their own good since otherwise to not marry would leave the woman without anything, but it was still cold to me. Fortunately, Elizabeth's father was not that way and sided with her in refusing Mr. Collins, which was rare.

    • 1 year ago
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NnmhkKsK1k

      A lot of those themes are universal like the love triangle. Even in the movie Bridget Jones diary they use some of the same ones as in Pride and Prejudice.

      For example the judgement based on hearsay and they even had a character named Darcy. So that Bridget also eventually learned that "their hearts are indeed their own, and that they should trust them and follow them"

      So it applies to women of all times.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Argon18:

      Well actually, it applies to women and men of all times. However, Bridget Jones lived in a more modern time where the family choosing the husband wasn't the norm, whereas in the time of Pride and Prejudice it was the norm which for me gives this story and the character of Elizabeth much more meaning.

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujCGRh4NeRs&feature=related

      The lesson Elizabeth learned about prejudging Mr. Darcy based on hearsay without facts (including Mr. Wickham) only makes her love for Mr. Darcy deeper. And their love is so pure and innocent, it is simply beautiful as love should be. It is a message sent by Jane Austen to women of the day that their hearts are indeed their own, and that they should trust them and follow them because she knew from her own life what it was to do the opposite.

    • 1 year ago
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