PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

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JANE AUSTEN BY-APARNA AGGARWAL PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a novelist. : 

She wrote 10 novels: Sense and Sensibility (published 1811) Pride and Prejudice (published 1813) Mansfield Park (published 1814) Emma (published 1816) Northanger Abbey (published after death) Persuasion (published after death) Juvenilia I, II & III ( short stories, published after death) Lady Susan (published after death) The Watsons (published after death) Sanditon (published after death) It was only after her death that she was known to be the author of these novels. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was a novelist.

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She was born in 1775 at the rectory of Steventon near Basingstoke as the daughter of a clergyman. She was well educated for a woman of her time. She lived a happy and eventful life. In 1801 her family went to Bath, where many scenes from her novels takes place. After the death of her father the family moved to Southampton and later to Chawton in Hants, where she wrote most of her novels. In 1817 a tendency to consumption manifested itself, therefore in May that year she moved to Winchester, where she could get some skilled medical attendance, but she died there 2 months later.

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This novel is about 5 sisters- Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine (Kitty), and Lydia Bennet – in Georgian Island. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood. Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife. The Bennet 5 daughters; the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Elizabeth is his favorite because of her level-headed approach to life when his own wife’s greatest concern is getting her daughters married off to well- established gentleman. only Jane, Elizabeth’s older sister, is as sensible and practical as Elizabeth, but Jane is also the beauty of the family and therefore, Mrs. Bennet’s highest hope for a good match.

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When Mr. Bingley, a young gentleman of London, takes a country estate near to the Bennet’s home. Mrs. Bennet begins her match- making schemes without any trace of subtlety or dignity. Despite Mrs. Bennet’s embarrassing interference, Mr. Bingley and Jane become fond of one another. Mr. Darcy, who has accompanied Bingley to the country, begins his acquaintance with Elizabeth, her family, and their neighbors with smug condescension and proud distaste for all of the country people. Elizabeth, learning of his dislike, makes it a point to match his disgust with her own venom. She also hears from a soldier that she has a fondness for that Darcy has misused the man. Without making through the story, Elizabeth immediately seizes upon it as another, more concrete reason to hate Mr. Darcy. She contradicts and argues with Darcy each time they meet, but somewhere along the way he begins to like Elizabeth.

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When Bingley leaves the countryside suddenly and makes no attempt to contact Jane anymore, the young woman is heartbroken. Elizabeth, who has thought well of Bingley, believes that there is something amiss in the way that he left Jane in the lurch. Only when Elizabeth goes to visit her friend at the estate of Darcy’s aunt does the mystery begin to unfold. After several encounters with Mr. Darcy while visiting her friend, Elizabeth is shocked when Darcy proposes to her. Elizabeth refuses him and questions him about the way that he misused her soldier friend and his undoubted role in the way that Bingley abandoned Jane. Darcy writes a letter to explain himself, and Elizabeth is embarrassed to learn that she had been mislead about Darcy’s character. Had she known the truth, she would have loved Darcy as he loved her. Darcy eaves that part of the country before she can sort out her feelings and make amends with him.

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Then she meets him again when she is touring the gardens of his estate with her aunt and uncle. Darcy treats her with kindness and she believes he may still love her, but before anything can be done about it, she learns that one of her younger sisters has shacked up with he very soldier who mislead Elizabeth and her family about Mr. Darcy. Elizabeth returns home immediately. When the indignity of her sister’s shot-gun wedding is straightened out, Elizabeth is surprised that Darcy returns to the country with Bingley. She expected that the same of her sister’s actions had ruined any chances of a relationship with Mr. Darcy, or Jane and Bingley. Elizabeth learns from her aunt that Darcy did a great part to help get her younger sister properly married to he infamous soldier. Jane and Bingley sort out the misunderstanding that drove him away before and get engaged. Then Elizabeth and Darcy work out their misunderstandings and agree to marry.