Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride And Prejudice
by Jane Austen

Main characters in the novel

Mr and Mrs Bennet ----Mr. And Mrs Bennet lived in the village oflongbourn. They had five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Lydia. Being the mother of five daughters, Mrs Bennet was worried about the marriage of their daughters.

Elizabeth---She was the main character in this novel. She was the second daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was a very intelligent girl.

Darcy---He was also the main character in the novel. He was a rich, good-looking gentleman. He had proud of his property and wealth. He was a friend of Mr Bingley.

Mr Bingley--- He was an unmarried young man. He was very rich and gentle in his nature. He came to stay in Netherfield near to Longbourn. He was the lover of Jane, the eldest daughter of Mrs Bennet.

Jane---She was the eldest daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was a very beautiful girl. She was the beloved of Mr Bingley.

Lydia—She was the Youngest daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was the tallest of the all her sisters.

Pride And Prejudice......Summary

It is one of the best novels of Jane Austen. It is a very popular romantic novel. It was originally titled ‘First Impression’. Later It was published under the title‘Pride And Prejudice’. Jane Austen took this title fromFanny Burney’s novel Cecilia. The novel Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life. The story of this novel revolves around the Bennet family. The novel opens at Longbourn with the conversation of Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet. Mrs Bennet is a foolish and frivolous lady. She is a lady with a lack of self-awareness. Some time she behaves in an odd manner.

She lived in the village of Longbourn. She had five daughters to marry. They were Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, Lydia and Mary. The eldest daughter Jane was very beautiful. Her second daughter Elizabeth was very intelligent. She is the main character in this novel. Kitty always looked sick and kept laughing. Lydia was the youngest and very tall and Mary was very calm and cold in nature.

In this novel, Mrs Bennet always looks worried about the marriage of their daughters. She wanted to marry their daughters with rich and prosperous Young men. So that they could be settled in their life. Now her first two daughters had become young for marriage so she was very much worried about them. She always searches for handsome unmarried young men to marry her daughters. Being their mother, Mrs Bennet was quite worried about their marriage with rich young men of respectable families.

She once said to her husband,"If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.” Thus the only business of her life was to get her daughters married. For this reason, She mostly visits her neighbours, friends and relatives and searches a good match for her daughters.

One day Mrs Bennet told her husband about an unmarried young man, Mr Bingley who stayed at Netherfield Park near Longbourn. Mr Bingley came from the North of England.  He was a very rich Young man. Mr Bingley had inherited property from his father. So Mrs Bennet was so happy and excited to think about Mr Bingley. She thinks that the young man may fall in love with one of her daughters. So she requested her husband to invite Mr Bingley to their home. As Mr Bingley is their new neighbor.

On the invitation of Mr Bennet, Bingley came to their home to meet them. He also wanted to see their daughters about whose beauty he heard much. But he saw only the father because they were not there. He wore a blue coat and looking very handsome. Mr Bannet requested him to join them on dinner but he did not accept the offer because he had to go to the town for some important work.

Lady Lucas who was a neighbour of Mrs Bennet told her about a large party of Mr Bingley. The Bennet family was invited to the party. When the party started, Mr Bingley came there with his two sisters, the husband of the elder sister, and a handsome man Darcy, his friend and other family members. The Bennet family also arrived there to join the party and ball.

Mr Bingley danced with Jane who is a very pretty girl and he asked his friendDarcy to dance with Elizabeth, sister of Jane. But Darcy coldly said, “She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.” Since this moment, Elizabeth got prejudiced against Darcy and her fight against Darcy’s pride began. Here prejudiced means having a partial attitude.

Here Darcy declares thatElizabeth is not enough beautiful to impress him and she is not able to dance with him. After It, Elizabeth felt insulted and decided to stand against Darcy’s pride. It shows the significance of the title of the novel. Though the theme of the novel is very simple the complications in the story begin with the pride ofDarcy and prejudice of Elizabeth against Darcy. Thus it is a story of Darcy’s pride and Elizabeth’s prejudice.

However, Jane admired Mr Bingley and his sisters they behaved very politely with her. But on the other hand, Elizabeth did not like Mr Bingley’s sisters because she found them proud and self-conceited.

There was another family lived near Longbourn village. It was the family ofSir William Lucas. This family had family terms with Bennet family. His eldest daughter, Charlotte was also present in the ball. She also danced with Mr Bingley. When she met with Elizabeth in the morning, she told her that Mr Bingley was saying that Jane was the prettiest woman. And she further said that Mr Darcy is a very proud man because he is a very rich person. But Elizabeth replied that it was true about his richness and she could easily forgive his pride if he had not hurt her sense of pride.

After the party, Mr Bingley began to like Jane, and Darcy also started to see beauty in the black eyes of Elizabeth. But Elizabeth did not like Darcy. When in a party, she was requested by Sir William Lucas to dance with Darcy, She coldly rejected him. It was a big rebuke to Darcy.

Here Catherine and Lydia made frequent visits to Meryton to meet Mrs Phillips who is the sister of their mother. There they met with the military officers posted in Meryton. One day Bingley’s sister, Caroline invited Jane for dinner. Mrs Bennet sent Jane to Netherfield on a horseback but she got badly wet due to heavy rain on the way. She became ill and requested to stay there with the Bingley’s family that night. When Elizabeth got the news about Jane’s illness she reached Netherfield immediately on feet. Since Jane was very ill and has a fever so Elizabeth was advised to stay with her.

Next morning, Mrs Bennet also reached Netherfield with her two youngest daughters to meet Jane. When she knew about the wellness of Jane’s health, she made a plan to stay the longer there and she made excuses to stay longer there. Then she departed to their village with his two daughters. When Elizabeth stayed with Bingley’s residence, Darcy began to give more attention on her.

He always tried to look her. He was attracted to her. Miss Bingley had noticed it. So she got jealous of her. Miss Bingley wanted to keep Darcy away from Elizabeth so she always tried to impress Darcy with many ways. But Darcy always behaved rudely with her. The next evening, Darcy asked Elizabeth to dance with him but she declined.

Darcy accepted that he had faults in his behaviour. He said to Elizabeth that he is not perfect and next day Jane and Elizabeth returned to Longbourn but her mother was a mother was not happy to see them back to home. The next day, Collins, the heir of Mr Bennet ’s property arrived there to stay. One day he went to Meryton with four Bennet sisters to meet Mrs Phillips. There they met Wickham, a handsome Youngman. Once when Elizabeth met with Wickham at Meryton he told her how Darcy had cheated him and deprived him of his good living. He told her about Darcy’s jealousy for him.

Now Jane got one more invitation for a ball on Tuesday from Bingley and his sister. There at the ball, Elizabeth wanted to dance with Wickham but he was missing from the ball. So she danced with Collins. Then she danced with Darcy and Bingley while dancing with Jane, Bingley told her that Wickham had told her a lie about Darcy.

The next morning, Collins proposed Elizabeth for marriage but she declined the offer coldly. In the meantime, Jane received a letter from Miss Bingley saying that they had left Netherfield and will stay in London for the winter. And Bingley was hoped to get married to Darcy’s sister. This made Jane very sad.

After a few days, Collins was married to Charlotte Lucas, Mrs Bennet was very sad to think that her daughters were not engaged.

Hearing the news about Bingley’s staying in London and his marriage to Miss Darcy, Jane went to London to stay with the Gardiner’s.  From there Elizabeth went to Hansford with Sir William Lucas to meet Collins and Charlotte Lucas. There they met with Lady Catherine and her daughters also. Soon after, Darcy also arrived at Hunsford with his cousinColonel Fitz William to stay with Collins. Elizabeth told Darcy that Jane stayed in London but none of Bingley’s family came to meet her.

One day when Elizabeth was writing a letter to Jane, Darcy came into her room. She was surprised to see Darcy coming like this. At that time Mrs Collins and her younger sister came there and told her Darcy’s frequent journey to Hunsford. Meanwhile, Darcy’s cousin Colonel Fitz William told Elizabeth that Darcy had told him that he had saved Bingley from an unwise marriage. Hearing this Elizabeth became very angry. When she was lost in her deep thought, Darcy came into her room and expressed his love for her. Since she was very angry so she did not welcome it. She told him that he was a very proud man and he had arrogance, pride and disdain for the feelings of others. Hearing this Darcy was very disappointed and disturbed but he remained calm.

After this Darcy wrote a letter to Elizabeth in defence of his character and behaviour. He told her that Mr Bingley was not excited for Jane because she never expressed her feelings of love properly to Bingley. The fact was that it might be due to the low rank of the Bannets and the lack of good manners of her mother and younger sisters. He also wrote about Wickham that he is an Untrusting man.

After it, Darcy went fromHunsford and Elizabeth also went to London to meet Jane and from there both of them departed to their home. After reaching home, Elizabeth told Jane about her meeting with Darcy at Hunsford. She also told her about a conversation between her and Darcy at Hunsford. Hearing the whole conversation, Jane felt very sad and disappointed.

After going Wikham and the regiment, Elizabeth went to visit the Pemberley estate with the Gardiners and that time Lydia went to Brighton with Forester’s wife. After reaching Pemberley, Elizabeth met with Darcy and they both got more opportunities to know about each other more. Meanwhile, Bingley with his sister also reached there to meet with Darcy.

After it, one more incident happened. It was Lydia’s marriage with Wickham. Lydia eloped with Wickham and got married to him. After marriage, Lydia came to Longbourn to meet her family. Lydia told Elizabeth about Darcy’s presence at her wedding. When Elizabeth came to know about Darcy’s role and help in her marriage and how he has saved her sister’s life. She felt sorry for being so rude with Darcy in the past. Meanwhile, Mr Bingley and Darcy reached at Longbourn to express their love for their lovers.

Elizabeth thanked Darcy for helping in her sister’s marriage. When Lady Catherine came to know about the affair of Darcy and Elizabeth, she became very angry. Because she wants to marry her daughter with Darcy but Elizabeth did not pay any attention to her. Now Bingley and Jane got married gorgeously. They expressed their love for each other. And Darcy and Elizabeth also changed their thoughts to each other. They tried to understand each other well. They forgot their past thoughts and corrected their opinions about each other.

Now Elizabeth was not feeling prejudiced against Darcy and Darcy was also no more proud of his estate and riches. They both became polite and humble to each other. They also got married happily. Mrs Bennet was very happy to see her dream come true. Now her three daughters had got married happily and Mrs Bennet got three very good sons in law. She praised all her three sons in law highly. Thus they all started to live happily with each other.Pride And Prejudice....by Jane Austen

Main characters in the novel

Mr and Mrs Bennet ----Mr. And Mrs Bennet lived in the village oflongbourn. They had five daughters, Jane, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary and Lydia. Being the mother of five daughters, Mrs Bennet was worried about the marriage of their daughters.

Elizabeth---She was the main character in this novel. She was the second daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was a very intelligent girl.

Darcy---He was also the main character in the novel. He was a rich, good-looking gentleman. He had proud of his property and wealth. He was a friend of Mr Bingley.

Mr Bingley--- He was an unmarried young man. He was very rich and gentle in his nature. He came to stay in Netherfield near to Longbourn. He was the lover of Jane, the eldest daughter of Mrs Bennet.

Jane---She was the eldest daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was a very beautiful girl. She was the beloved of Mr Bingley.

Lydia—She was the Youngest daughter of Mrs Bennet. She was the tallest of the all her sisters.

Pride And Prejudice......Summary

It is one of the best novels of Jane Austen. It is a very popular romantic novel. It was originally titled ‘First Impression’. Later It was published under the title‘Pride And Prejudice’. Jane Austen took this title fromFanny Burney’s novel Cecilia. The novel Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life. The story of this novel revolves around the Bennet family. The novel opens at Longbourn with the conversation of Mr Bennet and Mrs Bennet. Mrs Bennet is a foolish and frivolous lady. She is a lady with a lack of self-awareness. Some time she behaves in an odd manner.

She lived in the village of Longbourn. She had five daughters to marry. They were Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, Lydia and Mary. The eldest daughter Jane was very beautiful. Her second daughter Elizabeth was very intelligent. She is the main character in this novel. Kitty always looked sick and kept laughing. Lydia was the youngest and very tall and Mary was very calm and cold in nature.

In this novel, Mrs Bennet always looks worried about the marriage of their daughters. She wanted to marry their daughters with rich and prosperous Young men. So that they could be settled in their life. Now her first two daughters had become young for marriage so she was very much worried about them. She always searches for handsome unmarried young men to marry her daughters. Being their mother, Mrs Bennet was quite worried about their marriage with rich young men of respectable families.

She once said to her husband,"If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing to wish for.” Thus the only business of her life was to get her daughters married. For this reason, She mostly visits her neighbours, friends and relatives and searches a good match for her daughters.

One day Mrs Bennet told her husband about an unmarried young man, Mr Bingley who stayed at Netherfield Park near Longbourn. Mr Bingley came from the North of England.  He was a very rich Young man. Mr Bingley had inherited property from his father. So Mrs Bennet was so happy and excited to think about Mr Bingley. She thinks that the young man may fall in love with one of her daughters. So she requested her husband to invite Mr Bingley to their home. As Mr Bingley is their new neighbor.

On the invitation of Mr Bennet, Bingley came to their home to meet them. He also wanted to see their daughters about whose beauty he heard much. But he saw only the father because they were not there. He wore a blue coat and looking very handsome. Mr Bannet requested him to join them on dinner but he did not accept the offer because he had to go to the town for some important work.

Lady Lucas who was a neighbour of Mrs Bennet told her about a large party of Mr Bingley. The Bennet family was invited to the party. When the party started, Mr Bingley came there with his two sisters, the husband of the elder sister, and a handsome man Darcy, his friend and other family members. The Bennet family also arrived there to join the party and ball.

Mr Bingley danced with Jane who is a very pretty girl and he asked his friendDarcy to dance with Elizabeth, sister of Jane. But Darcy coldly said, “She is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me.” Since this moment, Elizabeth got prejudiced against Darcy and her fight against Darcy’s pride began. Here prejudiced means having a partial attitude.

Here Darcy declares thatElizabeth is not enough beautiful to impress him and she is not able to dance with him. After It, Elizabeth felt insulted and decided to stand against Darcy’s pride. It shows the significance of the title of the novel. Though the theme of the novel is very simple the complications in the story begin with the pride ofDarcy and prejudice of Elizabeth against Darcy. Thus it is a story of Darcy’s pride and Elizabeth’s prejudice.

However, Jane admired Mr Bingley and his sisters they behaved very politely with her. But on the other hand, Elizabeth did not like Mr Bingley’s sisters because she found them proud and self-conceited.

There was another family lived near Longbourn village. It was the family ofSir William Lucas. This family had family terms with Bennet family. His eldest daughter, Charlotte was also present in the ball. She also danced with Mr Bingley. When she met with Elizabeth in the morning, she told her that Mr Bingley was saying that Jane was the prettiest woman. And she further said that Mr Darcy is a very proud man because he is a very rich person. But Elizabeth replied that it was true about his richness and she could easily forgive his pride if he had not hurt her sense of pride.

After the party, Mr Bingley began to like Jane, and Darcy also started to see beauty in the black eyes of Elizabeth. But Elizabeth did not like Darcy. When in a party, she was requested by Sir William Lucas to dance with Darcy, She coldly rejected him. It was a big rebuke to Darcy.

Here Catherine and Lydia made frequent visits to Meryton to meet Mrs Phillips who is the sister of their mother. There they met with the military officers posted in Meryton. One day Bingley’s sister, Caroline invited Jane for dinner. Mrs Bennet sent Jane to Netherfield on a horseback but she got badly wet due to heavy rain on the way. She became ill and requested to stay there with the Bingley’s family that night. When Elizabeth got the news about Jane’s illness she reached Netherfield immediately on feet. Since Jane was very ill and has a fever so Elizabeth was advised to stay with her.

Next morning, Mrs Bennet also reached Netherfield with her two youngest daughters to meet Jane. When she knew about the wellness of Jane’s health, she made a plan to stay the longer there and she made excuses to stay longer there. Then she departed to their village with his two daughters. When Elizabeth stayed with Bingley’s residence, Darcy began to give more attention on her.

He always tried to look her. He was attracted to her. Miss Bingley had noticed it. So she got jealous of her. Miss Bingley wanted to keep Darcy away from Elizabeth so she always tried to impress Darcy with many ways. But Darcy always behaved rudely with her. The next evening, Darcy asked Elizabeth to dance with him but she declined.

Darcy accepted that he had faults in his behaviour. He said to Elizabeth that he is not perfect and next day Jane and Elizabeth returned to Longbourn but her mother was a mother was not happy to see them back to home. The next day, Collins, the heir of Mr Bennet ’s property arrived there to stay. One day he went to Meryton with four Bennet sisters to meet Mrs Phillips. There they met Wickham, a handsome Youngman. Once when Elizabeth met with Wickham at Meryton he told her how Darcy had cheated him and deprived him of his good living. He told her about Darcy’s jealousy for him.

Now Jane got one more invitation for a ball on Tuesday from Bingley and his sister. There at the ball, Elizabeth wanted to dance with Wickham but he was missing from the ball. So she danced with Collins. Then she danced with Darcy and Bingley while dancing with Jane, Bingley told her that Wickham had told her a lie about Darcy.

The next morning, Collins proposed Elizabeth for marriage but she declined the offer coldly. In the meantime, Jane received a letter from Miss Bingley saying that they had left Netherfield and will stay in London for the winter. And Bingley was hoped to get married to Darcy’s sister. This made Jane very sad.

After a few days, Collins was married to Charlotte Lucas, Mrs Bennet was very sad to think that her daughters were not engaged.

Hearing the news about Bingley’s staying in London and his marriage to Miss Darcy, Jane went to London to stay with the Gardiner’s.  From there Elizabeth went to Hansford with Sir William Lucas to meet Collins and Charlotte Lucas. There they met with Lady Catherine and her daughters also. Soon after, Darcy also arrived at Hunsford with his cousinColonel Fitz William to stay with Collins. Elizabeth told Darcy that Jane stayed in London but none of Bingley’s family came to meet her.

One day when Elizabeth was writing a letter to Jane, Darcy came into her room. She was surprised to see Darcy coming like this. At that time Mrs Collins and her younger sister came there and told her Darcy’s frequent journey to Hunsford. Meanwhile, Darcy’s cousin Colonel Fitz William told Elizabeth that Darcy had told him that he had saved Bingley from an unwise marriage. Hearing this Elizabeth became very angry. When she was lost in her deep thought, Darcy came into her room and expressed his love for her. Since she was very angry so she did not welcome it. She told him that he was a very proud man and he had arrogance, pride and disdain for the feelings of others. Hearing this Darcy was very disappointed and disturbed but he remained calm.

After this Darcy wrote a letter to Elizabeth in defence of his character and behaviour. He told her that Mr Bingley was not excited for Jane because she never expressed her feelings of love properly to Bingley. The fact was that it might be due to the low rank of the Bannets and the lack of good manners of her mother and younger sisters. He also wrote about Wickham that he is an Untrusting man.

After it, Darcy went fromHunsford and Elizabeth also went to London to meet Jane and from there both of them departed to their home. After reaching home, Elizabeth told Jane about her meeting with Darcy at Hunsford. She also told her about a conversation between her and Darcy at Hunsford. Hearing the whole conversation, Jane felt very sad and disappointed.

After going Wikham and the regiment, Elizabeth went to visit the Pemberley estate with the Gardiners and that time Lydia went to Brighton with Forester’s wife. After reaching Pemberley, Elizabeth met with Darcy and they both got more opportunities to know about each other more. Meanwhile, Bingley with his sister also reached there to meet with Darcy.

After it, one more incident happened. It was Lydia’s marriage with Wickham. Lydia eloped with Wickham and got married to him. After marriage, Lydia came to Longbourn to meet her family. Lydia told Elizabeth about Darcy’s presence at her wedding. When Elizabeth came to know about Darcy’s role and help in her marriage and how he has saved her sister’s life. She felt sorry for being so rude with Darcy in the past. Meanwhile, Mr Bingley and Darcy reached at Longbourn to express their love for their lovers.

Elizabeth thanked Darcy for helping in her sister’s marriage. When Lady Catherine came to know about the affair of Darcy and Elizabeth, she became very angry. Because she wants to marry her daughter with Darcy but Elizabeth did not pay any attention to her. Now Bingley and Jane got married gorgeously. They expressed their love for each other. And Darcy and Elizabeth also changed their thoughts to each other. They tried to understand each other well. They forgot their past thoughts and corrected their opinions about each other.

Now Elizabeth was not feeling prejudiced against Darcy and Darcy was also no more proud of his estate and riches. They both became polite and humble to each other. They also got married happily. Mrs Bennet was very happy to see her dream come true. Now her three daughters had got married happily and Mrs Bennet got three very good sons in law. She praised all her three sons in law highly. Thus they all started to live happily with each other.