Pride and Predudise
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ROLE OF FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Pride and Prejudice is, first and foremost, a novel about surmounting obstacles and achieving romantic happiness. For Elizabeth, the heroine, and Darcy, her eventual husband, the chief obstacle resides in the books original title: First Impressions. Darcy, the proud, prickly noblewomans nephew, must break free from his original dismissal of Elizabeth as “not handsome enough to tempt me,” and from his class-based prejudice against her lack of wealth and family connections. Elizabeths first impressions, meanwhile, catalogue Darcy as arrogant and self-satisfied; as a result, she later accepts slanderous accusations against him as true.
Elizabeths first impression of Darcy at the ball is very bad , she takes him to be a proud arrogant and self-centered man. This is mainly because of the comments made by other people about Darcy , Darcy only to have danced with 2 ladies who were from his company and the comment on Elizabeth by Darcy saying she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me. This leads Elizabeth to believe everything bad anyone said about Mr. Darcy even though it was not true. She would not even believe her own sister s justification of Darcy. Which leads her to believing in Wickhams story causing many obstacles between Darcy and her.
While on the other side Elizabeths first impression of Wickham was very good. She took Wickham to be a hardworking, charming and sensible soldier. Which was not true and this also leads her to believe that Darcy has deprived him of his rights to become a clergyman.
The book is mainly about the obstacles created by first impressions in a love story and how the main characters come over these problems and get married. The novel shows us the way people judged new people they meet by their wealth. the novel shows that if a young man with a large fortune into the neighborhood ,the first impression on people of the society was that he is very successful and in need of a wife. They believed the man to be the property of one of their daughter.
MISUNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN ELIZABETH AND DARCY AND HOW THEY REACH ACCORD
This is a love story about Elizabeth and Darcy the way they fall in love. But it is not straight forward in the beginning the reader doesnt even suspect that Darcy will fall in love with Elizabeth. it seems more like Darcy is the villain but as the story develops the main characters come together and fall in love. But there are many problems they face some of them include:
The first problem is the behavior of Mr. Darcy and the wrong impression created by it on everyone especially Elizabeth. First of all Elizabeth is very happy to meet new and rich young men at the ball but later at the ball she and