Essay on the Deeper Meaning of Pride and Prejudice -- Pride Prejudice

The Deeper Meaning of Pride and Prejudice charm Pride And Prejudice is demonstrably concerned with the return of love, from Lydias physical warmth for Wickham, through Janes slightly too patient and undemanding feelings for Bingley, to Elizabeths final accurate match with Darcy, it would be doing the novel and its author a great seediness to assume that it is merely a love story, and has no other object or design. The scope of the novel is indeed much wider than a grave interest in who will marry who and who will have the manor that is worth the most money, or tear down the less shallow subject of women trying, failing, and succeeding at finding their perfect mates on a romantic level. While the investigation of love in its many forms is by no means a completely trivial exercise in and of itself, Pride And Prejudice does not confine itself to that one topic, but piece presenting a story that details several love affairs and the diversely intelligent, mistaken, and idioti c views of diverse characters towards the subject, Jane Austen also gives the reader insight into issues that range from honorable questions of pride and lack thereof, to individual and class prejudice, to the expected roles of women eighteenth and ordinal century society. Whether we worry it or not, she Jane Austen was... a moralist, writes Gilbert Ryle. ...she wrote what and as she wrote partially from a deep interest in some perfectly general, even theoretical questions about human nature and human conduct, (Ryle 106). This concept of Austen as moralist, but not, however, to say that she was a moralizer, (Ryle 106), is not one of the more commons views, especially concerning Pride And Prejudice. The title itself, however, is a direct st... ... examination of brotherly and moral issues, the deft touch of satire and sincerity used in portraying not only Elizabeth, but her time and place, the attitudes toward her and toward people like her, make it a larger work. It may be ov erall a love story even when taking these into account, if one were to view it as Jane Austens love affair with the examination of human nature- but on no account can Pride And Prejudice be described as merely a love story given its scope, it isnt merely anything. kit and boodle Cited Austen, Jane. Pride And Prejudice. capital of the United Kingdom Penguin, 1972. First published 1813. Ryle, Gilbert. Jane Austen And The Moralists. Critical Essays On Jane Austen. Ed. B.C. Southam. LondonRoutledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Wright, Andrew H. Feeling and Complexity in Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Donald Gray. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. 410-420.