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Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen (1775-1817): a quiet sunny little woman, alomost unmindful of the great world, was enlivening her father’s parsonage and writing about the clergy, the old maids, the short-sighted mothers, the marriageable daughters, and other people that figure in village life. Her main themes are love and marriage. Elizabeth Mr. Darcy The novel depicts four marriages: Jane Mr. Bingley Lydia Wickham elope Charlotte Mr. Collins The first two marriages are based on true love. The third on attractive appearance, and is not happy. The fourth is pragmatic, out of the consideration of age and other factors. The main characters: Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy, Jane, Mr. Bingley, other three daughters of the Bennets, Mr. and Mrs Bennet, Wickham, Collins, Charlotte Main Themes: 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 Darcys marriage. Darcys pride in his position in society leads him initially to scorn anyone outside of his own social circle. Elizabeth’s pride in her quick wit barricades herself against seeing Darcy clearly. Prejudice: Initially, Elizabeth has prejudice against Darcy, and having been brought up in a rich and aristocratic family, Darcy must overcome his prejudice against the lower class. Class: Considerations of class are omnipresent in the novel. The novel does not call for equality of all social classes, yet it does criticize an over-emphasis on class. Darcys inordinate pride is based on his extreme class-consciousness. Yet eventually he sees that factors other than wealth determine who truly belongs in the aris’tocracy.  Realism The terms can be used to refer to 1) a movement in the writing of nov