KWB207 Lecture Notes - Pemberley, Mr. Darcy, Jane Austen
5 Jul 2013
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Pride and prejudice is a regency romance by jane austen. It tells the story of the bennet family. Bennet has 5 daughters, but according to english primogeniture laws, he could only pass his manor on to sons, and his daughters are not prepared to join the working classes. Hence, the girls" main goal is to find husbands. Jane finds a husband early on, mr. bingley, but elizabeth gets proposed to by the rich, handsome, and arrogant mr. fitzwilliam darcy. She refuses, but he keeps courting her anyway. Mr. wickham, a friend of darcy"s, runs off with the youngest bennet daughter, lydia, which provides much scandal and opportunities for sarcasm. In the end, elizabeth falls for darcy, and they get married, leaving elizabeth very wealthy (darcy"s salary would put him, if he were real, in the top. 400 richest men in england at the time). The novel deconstructs the idea of love at first sight, and is still immensely popular.
