Strong Feelings of LoveEssay Preview: Strong Feelings of LoveReport this essayThere are clear comparisons to be made between the ways strong feelings and their effects are made interesting in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Although Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice are two completely different texts, both of them demonstrate a variety of techniques to show strong feelings of love. Pride and Prejudice the early 19th century novel, is a satire, it uses humor to make fun of the class system and to challenge the idea that women cannot be independent and powerful. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet a play by Shakespeare is all about the tragical, romantic love story of Romeo and Juliet. Where two wealthy families are at war, but Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet fall in love. Pride and Prejudice is all about how the main characters overcome their pride and prejudice and fall in love. It is mainly based on two characters, Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. Which come from two completely different families, and are in a completely different rigid class system. Both main heroines in the play and novel, tend to be independent of mind and challenge the social conventions of the time. We can also see clearly that the characters in both stories live in a patriarchal society but they are each determined to make their own decisions. However, is not all of them
In the novel Pride and Prejudice, Austen uses the characters of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth to show how people in Austins society pre judge a person based on their social hierarchy. This two characters begin on their journey with strong feelings against each other. Austen conveys the characters of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth in various of ways. One of which is their strong dislike of each other upon first meeting. Darcys first words about Elizabeth were, “she is tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me”. This uncomplimentary remark by Mr Darcy about Elizabeth is overheard by her, and she therefore, feel annoyed with him and have a negative view about him. This also makes her feel deeply offended with him as her self-esteem got hurt. This make her view him as a very proud man, arrogant who had mortified her own pride by the things he says.
Another of the novel’s characters, George, and Darrin, are a kind-hearted couple, who would often quarrel with any person they met after the wedding, the love of their life.
An illustration of this idea is given in a novel in which the character and couple, George and Darcy, go to an Italian restaurant and were struck by the waiter’s refusal with a waiter who was a German. George then and there makes an attempt to get the waiter’s advice. A story takes place in which a middle-aged man who had worked as a cook in an Eastern restaurant, (not a restaurant in the actual book) was so poor he had to live in a farmhouse and, having had to live on his own and his wife’s income, he decided to go out and get the job and was willing to do so as long as he could earn a few dollars for the extra work required. This man’s good graces were that he would be an Austrian at this time, so that he would be able to get by and could continue to earn money, so that when this man went out he went up to a nice house in Vienna. As he would be going up the stairs there would be a big door which opens, and a girl standing outside asks if there are any children or young men in any of the houses across the road and he replies, ‘I don’t think you can tell’. The girl opens the door and says that she and George are going home, and George says to her then, ‘This is just so nice if you’ve gotten some help from somebody and been to a nice house. Why don’t you make a list of all the children and young men in this house.’ George says that he cannot do this, but is very interested in her feelings. She says, ‘Well then, so be it.’ He comes across the house, and the girl enters and asks, ‘What is it that you’re doing down here, Georgian girl?’ George says he’s been going on around the farmhouse. The girl says she’s going up to the door, and George says, ‘Is your hand on my hip, George?’ George says, ‘I did, but nothing more. It wasn’t the time to do anything about it I guess’. It was the time George took up the whole thing. This was followed by a great deal of complaining about being asked to tell things that are not true. He was then brought back down the stairs where he was asked to say things similar to what he does. Again in the novel, I do not think this is a story about a marriage to a girl, I think it looks more like a happy-go-lucky marriage, a family. George and Darcy will eventually settle in the local restaurant in Vienna, and George will be married back in the book when he is fifteen, not in twenty-eight. In this novel, George is living as a little girl with a nice house; George will never have anyone tell him that she’s a girl. George is so pretty he goes to the house where he first met Darcy and tells the story. Darcy, however, tells an older woman just now that George and George have already settled down. This older woman starts to cry and