Pride and Prejudice
by: Jane Austen
Terri Thampan 804
I have recently read the book "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. It's one of the classics, and I only read it because I heard it was one of the best romances ever, and since young females such as myself are pretty much "fangirling" over famous, not well written romances, ahem Twilight, I decided to read a supposedly well written romance.
I absolutely love this book! The main character is a girl, well woman, name Elizabeth Bennet, and she is of the age where getting married should soon happen before she becomes a "old maid", so like, in her early twenties. She is a very smart, witty, polite, and humorous woman. The book itself is about how she and Mr. Darcy fall in love. I think the romance in the book was very well written as right from the beginning Elizabeth sort of hates Mr. Darcy, but over time and the course of the book learns to love and respect him. This really does show off love to me as most of the time, isn't love kind of unexpected? Love doesn't happen so quickly like what happens it today's romance novels, and it takes time to be a strong bond. Most books today are very fast paced, and the events usually happen very quickly, but in this book it went like how time usually can go, it goes by quickly yet slowly, and not everything has to do with the love interest. This passage of time made the love grow more gradual, and seem very, very realistic.
I also liked the character of Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth''s father. He is the one whom Elizabeth takes after in personality. I think this is why she (Elizabeth) is his favorite daughter. I found his character amusing, as I think he's the type of man who thinks of others as purely something for entertainment. He is entertained by them, and so he doesn't truly care about anything else. But that also makes me think of his marriage. It was said in the book that the mother's idiocy was what caused the little sense of affection he had for her (the mother) to disappear early in their marriage. I think he really sort of stayed with the mother as she made him amused with her stupidity, and maybe he liked her beauty. I think that the marriage was really bad, both to Mr. Bennet and his daughters. At one point, Elizabeth is pretty much humiliated at the fact that her Father just lets her mother and 3 other sisters besides her oldest sister, Jane, run amok and not really discipline them in the ways to behave, thus reflecting badly on her (Elizabeth) and her family.
Wow, this is a pretty short blogpost considering the fact that your blogposts are usually like 2 pages long lol. Anyways, one question; Why do you think most books have very fast-paced relationships? I agree with you, love doesn't happen all of a sudden it of course takes time.
ReplyDelete- Jennifer Zhumi (Jo :3)
Great blog post! I really liked how you said that it was more realistic when love grows slowly over time. I completely agree because I think that "love at first sight" is not true and also not possible. I like it when characters dislike each other in the beginning but throughout the book grow to love each other. How old is Mr. Darcy? Again, great post!
ReplyDeleteI've read Pride and Prejudice a billion times (the results of having a mother and grandmother obsessed with masterpiece theater)and I really liked what you said. The relationship between Lizzy and Mr. Darcy is super famous,so I like how you compared them with other couples (Edward and Bella) and that dearly proves a mighty text to world connection. Also, I like what you said on the Bennet family's relationships. It is said in the book that Mr. Bennet married her 'cause she was beautiful, and didn't know her true character. And there weren't really too many divorces back then. Oh dear!
ReplyDeleteMIGHTY post, indeed!