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Pride VS Prejudice, Love is Winner ——review about Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is Jane Austen’s earliest work whose original title is First Impreions, and in some sense it also one of her most mature and popular novels.The novel opens with a conversation at the Bennets’estate, about the arrival of Mr.Bingley, “a single man of large fortune,” to Netherfield Park, a nearby estate.Mrs.Bennet is anignorant, snobbish and noisy woman, whose obseion in life is to find husbandsin poeion of a good fortune for her five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia.Therefore, Mrs.Bennet regards Mr.Bingley as a potential suitor of her daughters.The Bennets’first acquaintance with Mr.Bingley and his companions is at the Meryton Ball.Mr.Bingley is amiable and approachable, twice dances with Jane and shows obvious affection to Jane.However, Mr.Darcy, Mr.Bingley’s friend, seems arrogant.Within Elizabeth’s hearing, Bingley suggests Darcy to dance with Elizabeth, but Darcy refuses, saying, “She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.” Besides, he proceeds to declare that he has no interest in women who are “slighted by other men.” Thus, Elizabeth takes an immediate disliking to Darcy.The relationship between the two protagonists begins in the first impreion with pride and prejudice.After further interactions, however, Darcy is gradually attracted by Elizabeth, and falls in love with Elizabeth.The main plot of the novel follows the bumpy roads of love between Elizabeth and Darcy because of their pride and prejudice.As said in the words of Mary at the beginning of the Chapter 5 in the novel, “human nature is particularly prone to pride”.In the novel, pride as well as prejudice prevents the characters from distinguishing right between wrong, and from achieving happine in the life.Pride is one of the main barriers，creating obstacles to Elizabeth and Darcys’ love.Darcy, a handsome but arrogant aristocrat, has been brought up in such a way that he initially to scorn all anyone outside of his own social circle.However, Darcy is deeply attracted by lively and intelligent Elizabeth, and falls in love with her.On the road to win Elizabeth’s heart, what he has to face are the barriers and struggles with conflicts, including Elizabeth’s vulgar and frivolous mother, Wickham’s libel to him, and even the prejudice against him from Elizabeth.In fact, his pride is also the main cause of the failure in the proposal for the first time.When he proposes to Elizabeth, for instance, he dwells more on how unsuitable a match she is than on her charms or anything else complimentary.He lists his pain of Elizabeth’s inferiority, of its being a degradation，of the family obstacles which judgment has always opposed to inclination.He considers himself is paionately pouring out his heart and love but it seems that what he says is wounding Elizabeth intentionally.As can be expected, Elizabeth changes color with anger, replying, “I might as well inquire, why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you choose to tell me that you like me against your will, against your own reason, and even against your own character?” However, without regret, Darcy says, “But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence.Nor am I ashamed of the feelings I related.They were natural and just.Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?” So it is sentenced to his proposal can't succeed.Although Darcy is rejected by the Elizabeth, he loves Elizabeth as before.The accident that Lydia elopes with Wickham is an important transition.Darcy properly helps to handle the scandal, protecting the Bennets from a serious disgrace.Darcy proves to Elizabeth his true love, also let Elizabeth realize his noble character.In Pride and Prejudice, one cannot equate Darcy with pride, or equate Elizabeth with prejudice.As far as I am concerned, pride and prejudice are intimately related in the novel.As one critic comments, “Darcy’s pride of place is founded on social prejudice, while Elizabeth’s initial prejudice against him is rooted in pride of her own quick perceptions.” Elizabeth, a girl setting many advantages in herself, she is proud.From the beginning of the novel, Elizabeth prides herself on her keen ability for perception.Yet this supposed ability is often lacking, as in Elizabeth’s judgments of Darcy and Wickham.Additionally, her sharp tongue and tendency to make hasty judgments often lead her astray.“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” Because of the neglect by Darcy, Elizabeth has prejudice against him, and when the “personable” Wickham woos her, she is prone to listen to his shamele slander about Darcy, which further deepens her prejudice against Darcy.Elizabeth’s vanity clouds her judgment, making her prone to think ill of Darcy and to think well of Wickham.She must also overcome her own mistaken impreions of Darcy, which initially leads her to reject Darcy’s proposal of marriage for the first time, and even expre an outspoken rebuke to Darcy, “from the very beginning, from the first moment I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impreing me with then fullest belief of your arrogance and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were so much as to form that groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike.”I thought, since then, they will never be a couple, but in fact they can sincerely face with each other miraculously.To our comfort, fortunately, Elizabeth’s thoughts are fit enough with Darcy’s, and Elizabeth’s charms are sufficient to keep Darcy interested, while she navigates familial and social turmoil.As she gradually comes to recognize the nobility of Darcy’s character, she realizes the error of her initial prejudice against him.In the end, she apologizes to Darcy with self-accusation that the reason why she does such a stupid thing completely is out of vanity.The fact proves that “first impreion” is unreliable and prejudice seems more terrible than ignorance.During Elizabeth looks after Jane at Bingley’s home, Darcy and Elizabeth have a heated discuion on vanity and pride.Darcy believes that vanity is a weakne indeed, but pride, where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.“Your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.” said Elizabeth.“And yours,” Darcy replied with a smile, “is willfully to misunderstand them.” In my opinion, I am favor of the view that Mary has once expreed.“Pride,” observed Mary, “is a very common failing I believe.By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary.A person may be proud without being vain.Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves;while vanity to what we would have others think of us.” Because of love, the two protagonists overcome their “common failing” together.Elizabeth’s rebukeof Darcy helps him to realize his fault and to change accordingly, and it can be demonstrated in his genuinely friendly treatment of Elizabeth’s aunt and uncle, the Gardiners, in his estate, Pemberley.Besides, Darcy’s letter makes Elizabethrealize that her judgments against him in the past were wrong and she comes to realize that they were based on vanity, not on reason.When the second proposed to Elizabeth, Darcy erased pride, and Elizabeth also removed the prejudices.“Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth!What do I not owe you!You taught me a leon, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous.By you, I was properly humbled.I came to you without a doubt of my reception.You shewed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.” said Darcy.Elizabeth accept Darcy’s proposal.Finally, the lovers hand in hand enter into the hall of marriage.“Prejudice let you can't accept me, and pride let me can't love you”said Darcy.Perhaps, Pride causes prejudice, but pride can be defeated by true love!Fortunately, misunderstanding disappeared;and fortunately, love is still there.Even though deep and broad gap of Pride and prejudice lies between Darcy and Elizabeth, they use strong love to build up a bridge and approach to each other, to happine!
