PRIDE AND

PREJUDICE
by Jane Austen

Presented by: Ankit Mishra ,11-B

BOOK COVER
 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist
whose works of romantic fiction, earned her a place as one of the most
widely read writers in English literature.

• She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as
through her own reading. Her works include Sense and
Sensibility(1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield
Park(1814) and Emma (1816).

• he earned little fame during her lifetime but the publication in 1869 of her
nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public and it
was by 1940s that she became widely accepted in academia as a great
English writer.
 BOOK REVIEW
• FULL TITLE: Pride and Prejudice
• AUTHOR: Jane Austen
• TYPE OF WORK: Novel
• GENRE: Comedy
• LANGUAGE: English.
• TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN: England, between 1796 and 1813
• DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: 1813
• NARRATOR: Third-person omniscient
• MAIN CHARACTERS: Elizabeth and Darcy
• ANTAGONIST: Snobbish middle class
• SETTING (TIME): During the Napoleonic Wars (1797-1815)
• SETTING (PLACE): Longbourn, in rural England •
• POINT OF VIEW: The novel is primarily told from Elizabeth Bennet's
point of view.
• TENSE: Past tense TONE: Comic-or, in Jane Austen's own words.
• THEMES: Love; Reputation; Class, Courtship.
SETTING
• Following are the places discussed in the novel

• Longbourn: The Bennet family estate near the town of

Meryton. It will be inherited by Mr. Collins when Mr. Bennet
dies.
• Netherfield: Bingley's estate near Longbourn and near the
town of Meryton. Meryton: Town near Longbourn where
Mrs.Phillips lives and the soldiers are.
• Rosings: Lady Catherine De Bourgh's estate in Hunsford. Mr.
Collins has a parish near this estate, and Elizabeth visits
Rosings while she is visiting Charlotte.
 PRIDE
• In the novel, pride prevents the characters from
seeing the truth of a situation and from achieving
happiness in life.

• Pride is one of the main barriers that creates an

obstacle to Elizabeth and Darcy's marriage.
Darcy's pride in his position in society leads him
initially to scorn anyone outside of his own social
circle.
PREJUDICE
• Pride and prejudice are intimately related in
the novel. As critic A. Walton Litz comments,
"in Pride and Prejudice one cannot equate
Darcy with Pride, or Elizabeth with
Prejudice; Darcy's pride of place is founded
on social prejudice, while Elizabeth's initial
prejudice against him is rooted in pride of her
own quick perceptions."
 WOMEN AND MARRIAGE
• Austen is critical of the gender injustices present in
19th century English society.

• The novel demonstrates how women such as Charlotte

need to marry simply in order to gain financial
security.

• The entailment of the Longbourn estate is an extreme

hardship on the Bennet family, and is quite obviously
unjust.
FAMILY
-Austen portrays the family as primarily
responsible for the intellectual and moral
education of children. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's
failure to provide this education for their
daughters leads to the utter shamelessness,
foolishness, and immorality of Lydia.
CLASS
• Darcy's inordinate pride is based on his extreme
class-consciousness. Yet eventually he sees that
factors other than wealth determine who truly
belongs in the aristocracy.

• Considerations of class is present in the novel.

TOPIC #3CHARACTERS
ELIZABETH BENNET
• The novel's protagonist.

• second daughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Bennet.
• most intelligent and sensible
Her realization of Darcy's
essential goodness eventually
triumphs over her initial
prejudice against him
FITZWILLIAM DARCY
• He is Bingley's best friend and the nephew of Lady
Catherine de Bourgh. He is a very wealthy,
handsome, and proud bachelor.

• He is viewed as rude and conceited by all the

inhabitants of Meryton.

• He is intelligent and honest but his pride causes him

to look down on his social inferiors.
 JANE BENNET
• -The eldest and most
beautiful Bennet sister.
• Jane is more reserved and
gentler than Elizabeth.
• -She is later married to
Mr.Bingley
 CHARLES BINGLEY
• Mr. Bingley is a wealthy, young bachelor who
moves into the Bennet's neighborhood.

• -His purchase of Netherfield, an estate near the

Bennets, serves as the momentum for the novel.

• -His friendly nature contrasts with Darcy's

initially rude behavior.

• -He is uncaring about class differences.