PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
Elizabeth and jane are independent.
Pride and Prejudice is set in Regency England
pride and Prejudice is a light and witty comedy of
manners tale.
Both Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennet receive
marriage proposals from two different men. In
each case, one loves her and the other does not
Though different eras, each story shows the
restrictions under which women lived. They did not
have much by way of opportunities and were
generally considered to need men to provide for
them. Jane Eyre and Elizabeth Bennet were both
more independent than the times would suggest
and both were true to their own convictions.
Elizabeth is upper class, beautiful and outspoken.
Mr. Darcy is dashing and portrayal of a wealthy
man pride and a sense of obligation and
consequence.
the Bennett family is lower landed gentry who are
on the edge of poverty if one of their 5 daughters
doesn’t marry well. Mrs. Bennett’s whole goal in
the book is to marry off her daughters to men who
can handle their affairs as well as lift them up on Brontë depicts the masculine not as something
the social ladder.
Jane Eyre
but Jane is more independent than Lizzy. Jane
has virtually no family at all; Elizabeth does. Jane
finds her own job; Lizzy never has one. Jane tries
to become her own woman, temporarily leaving
Rochester and only returning once she has her
own fortune; that never happens with Elizabeth.
Jane Eyre in Victorian England
Jane Eyre is darker and has Gothic elements.
The male character in Jane Eyre is a tormented.
In Jane Eyre, Jane is poor and orphaned.
Mr. Rochester behaves inappropriately with the
governess, Jane, and holds nothing back. He
crosses a line when he decides to marry his
governess which leads them both heartbroken
and lost. Rochester is tormented by a secret he
must keep and yet he pursues Jane who seems to
be a relief from the monotony of high society.
Jane is orphaned and sent to a charity school at
the age of ten. She is forced to find work as a
governess. She later comes into an inheritance
from a long lost uncle.
heroic or beautiful, but gruff, mysterious, and ill-
tempered. Men are not supposed to possess
"beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination"; they
are meant to be mean, rough about the edges, a
challenge to unravel. To be beautiful, elegant,
and a male is to be "antipathetic", to cause
dismay, not be masculine. Brontë does not value
heroism in a man; instead she wishes him to be
rough around the edges, misshapen and ready to
be reformed. Men are not beautiful and
righteous; it is the women who must be so, as
counterpart to the men
Role of men in pride and prejudice
 Men earned the money for the family and held the most prominent positions in
society, while the women were subjected to the wishes of men.
 Men had many rights that women in society did not, including the right to own
property.
 Due to these reasons, the ideal man in the 1800s was seen as strong, independent,
and superior to the morally strong women at the time. novel Pride and Prejudice,
Jane Austen uses Mr. Bennet, Mr. Williams Collins, George Wickham, and Fitzwilliam
Darcy to display the ideal man as strong and independent in society.
 Mr. Darcy doesn’t feel like being introduced to ladies because he knows they heard
how wealthy he is and he knows their intentions.

More A05
 “I am single because, apparently, the only good men are fictional.” Jane, the
 protagonist of the 2011 Sundance audience favourite. It addresses the
concern that fictional portrayals of men, especially in romantic roles, is
affecting the expectations women have for the real men in their lives
 Karen Newman suggests Elizabeth’s love for Darcy is more consciously
economic than fits with modern tastes. The romance plot does not conceal
economic motivations; rather it is articulated with those motivations in a
manner that reveals how desire is mobilized by drive.
 Ma Jinhai(2006) analyzes the fighting between money and marriage in his
article. (Adams Margaret. (1976). Single Blessedness: Observations on the
Single Status in Married Society. New York: Basic Books)
 Austen has been described within the literature as a feminist; however this is
a contested claim. The only consensus among literary critics is that she had a
critical view of the world. Among her works, Pride and Prejudice is more often
cited by scholars as having a feminist perspective, and the feminist overtones
are prevalent in Austen’s heroine, Elizabeth (Monteiro, 2008: 109).
 The male characters in Pride and Prejudice are not omnipotent simply by
virtue of their superior economic and social statuses. Instead the men within
Pride and Prejudice are often portrayed as bumbling, as in the case of Sir
William Lucas; silly, such as Mr. Collins; or dependent on the opinions of
others to form judgments, as is Mr. Bingley (Newton, 1978: 32)
 Elizabeth’s criticism and mockery of men in the novel express her views on a
patriarchal society, explicated by Marxist Feminist theory. The concept of
Marxist Feminism, discussed by Donovan (1991), is based on a patriarchal
view of the world. The Marxist Feminist argues that dismantling capitalism,
 customarily governed by a patriarchal society, provides a way to free women
(Hennessy & Ingraham, 1997: 3).
 Newman notes that a close examination of Pride and Prejudice shows women
are at the mercy of “the male control of the means of production” (1983:
699). However, if one applies Jameson’s logic, the heroine, Elizabeth, fights
against this patriarchal society and is successful in persuading Mr. Darcy, a
powerful male figure, to alter his worldview (Sullivan, 1991: 571). Elizabeth’s
ability to impact Mr. Darcy’s perceptions is the reason Pride and Prejudice is
often proclaimed by scholars to be a feminist text (Bochman, 2005: 88).
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 Mr. Darcy bears a marked resemblance to what I shall call the "patrician
hero," Mr Darcy is sometimes compared to Richardson's patrician “villain-
hero," Mr B-. E. E. Duncan-Jones, in "Proposals of Marriage in Pamela and
Pride and Prejudice,"
 Loving at first sight of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth has a prejudice because of Darcy's
arrogant attitude and it makes each other’s emotions reach impasse. The
realization of the ego-ideal is often driven by the “id”, and is limited by the
“super-ego”. As Freud said, “the ego is driven by the id, and is constrained by
the super-ego, and is excluded by the reality, for struggling for the economic
task that is not completed, so that it can guide all kinds of power and influence
to achieve harmony”. The character Elizabeth is in pursuit of love, “which is
engaged in fierce struggle in her heart, and is finished although there are
under the rapid sublimation effect and the agreement”. Freud. (1967).
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 3 (ed. P. Edwards). Collier Macmillan. Freud,
Sigmund. (1923). "Neurosis and Psychosis". The Standard Edition of the
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XIX (1923–1925):
The Ego and the Id and Other Works, 147-154.
 Through the first line, Austen conveys Single men have distinct mobility and
personal power that daughters do not. Thus introducing a familiar distinction
between the economic restrictions of middle-class women and the economic
privilege of middle-class men, but it does so with an emphasis not
characteristic of the letters.
 Men, with all their money and privilege, are not permitted to seem powerful
in Pride and Prejudice, but rather bungling and absurd; and women, for all
their impotence, are not seen as victims of economic restriction. the most
authentically powerful figure in the novel is an unmarried middle-class woman
without a fortune-a woman, we may note, who bears striking resemblance to
Jane Austen. A male’s privilege makes men feel autonomus
 Real power in Pride and Prejudice, as is often observed, is to have the
intelligence, the wit, and the critical attitudes of Jane Austen; and Elizabeth
Bennet, as it is also sometimes observed, is essentially an Austen fantasy, a
fantasy of power.
  Her real aim is to resist intimidation, to deny Darcy the power of controlling
her through the expression of critical judgments: "He has a very satirical eye,
and if I do not begin by being impertinent myself, I shall soon grow afraid of
him" (p. 21). Elizabeth's habitual tactic with Darcy is thus to anticipate and to
deflate him in the role of critic and chooser but never to challenge the
privilege by which he is either one.
 Elizabeth as a power fantasy, is in some ways astoundingly modest. Elizabeth's
rebel energies retain a quality of force because, as I have noted, they really act
upon her world; they change Darcy, change the way he responds to his
economic and social privilege, change something basic to the power relation
between him and Elizabeth.
 Elizabeth alone is her own analyst, and in a novel in which Austen brilliantly
arranges for intelligence to mitigate the force of economics and of social
position, Elizabeth emerges for the readers as the most powerful because she
is the most intelligent and self-directing character in her world.
 Austen's commitment to the economic inequities of women's and of men's
lives permits her no other happy ending, but there is, of course, a major
difficulty in Elizabeth's reward. For marriage in this novel, as in life, involves a
power relation between unequals, and that is hardly a fitting end for a fantasy
of power.
 It is not, of course, that the fantasy of Elizabeth's power leaves us with any
real hope for the majority of women-how many Elizabeths, how many Jane
Austens are there? But what Pride and Pref-udice does do is to give us a
heroine who is at once credible, charm-ing, and the deepest fulfillment of a
woman's intelligent desire for autonomy. And that is more than most
women's fiction has been able to accomplish. Most women in women's fiction
pay a price for autonomy-madness, for example, or death by drowning but
Elizabeth does not. The brilliance, perhaps, and certainly the joy of Pride and
Prejudice is that it makes us believe in her.

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A03

1. The author met her young love, Tom Lefroy, in 1795 but couldn’t afford to be wed.
He soon lost interest, but all hope of marriage was not lost when she met her next
 suitor, Harris Bigg-Wither. He proposed and Jane accepted, but she changed her
mind the next morning.
2. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was written during the Georgian era (1714–1837) into which
Jane Austen was born into. It was a period of transition along with Britain’s constant
warfare abroad.
3. The Regency era marked the beginning of the industrial revolution. Changes in
manufacturing processes would soon bring sweeping social and economic changes to
England. Because of changes in the country's economic structure, more people had
the opportunity to become truly wealthy through manufacturing and trade.
4. Austen gave her novels everyday settings and characters who lead relatively normal
lives. Her protagonists struggle with real problems—usually involving courtship and
marriage—through trial and error. Her genius lay in her use of satire to ridicule the
follies and vices of early 19th-century English society. The lively dialogue, sharply
drawn characters, and observations in Pride and Prejudice have entertained
generations of readers, and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy remain among the most
beloved couples in literature.
5. men controlled all land while women had little to no control over anything in their
lives and Austen uses this law to set her novel into action, as the Bennets have five
daughters they must marry off because the women had no claim over the property.
Marriage was the only thing possible for women. They were encouraged to show off
her “accomplishments” referring to the charismatic skills that made them more
desirable. Women were not given a role in society, other than being a wife.
6. Those who did not marry were called spinsters and were often deemed burdens to
their families since they were their only source of income. Jane Austen herself had to
rely on the income of her brothers after her father passed.
7. Jane Austen had five brothers they had what she didn’t; freedom to work, access to
the inheritance and access to independence.
8.
9. A realistic novel with a carefully developed plot and happy ending. The narrative
point-of-view moves between the omniscient narrator, Elizabeth's consciousness
and character interactions through dialogue. – Form
10. Words are not always adequate. Body language (looking up or looking away, moving
closer or drawing back, changing colour) expresses powerful, inarticulate emotion.