Book Review: Pride And Prejudice

Jane Austen was an English writer. A novelist who has written tremendous works like Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and more; she was among the first women to convey humour, moral issues, wit and intelligent matter through her beautiful works. She inspired women to make an extra effort and do what they love doing. Her novels depict eighteenth-century England with realism and Victorian Literature as well. Here's a book review of the novel which is undoubtedly considered the best work of Jane Austen — Pride and Prejudice. 

The novel focuses on romance, family, relationships, love, affection and misconceptions. It describes the life of the upper class during the Victorian era. 

It is a romantic comedy about the pride of a man and the prejudice of a woman. The protagonists of the story are Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman Mr Benett, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a prosperous aristocratic landowner.

The story revolves around Elizabeth and her Benett family. Mr and Mrs Benett have five daughters and no son so Mrs Benett wishes to have her daughters married to well settled and financially stable men.

Elizabeth is generous and lively and she favours her father’s hatred for the conventional notions of society regarding the importance of prosperity and status. She is thus originally unfair and prejudiced against the noble hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy, in whom she sees exaggerated pride and arrogance.

On the other hand, Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy is a proud and arrogant man, specifically to those that he assumes of inferior social status.

But later he falls in love with Elizabeth and it's a happy ending of the story.

It is a very unique novel with a touch of romanticism. It is worth reading and one can feel the characters and events as the tale proceeds. 

Happy reading!