Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice deals with issues of upbringing, marriage, morals and education. At the cente of the story are themes of how the rituals of courtship led to marriage in upper class society during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The heroine of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet, is a spirited young woman from a privileged family who meets an eligible man; Fitzwilliam...more

Pride and Prejudice deals with issues of upbringing, marriage, morals and education. At the cente of the story are themes of how the rituals of courtship led to marriage in upper class society during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The heroine of Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet, is a spirited young woman from a privileged family who meets an eligible man; Fitzwilliam Darcy, and is at first blinded to his better qualities. Reading this book made me wonder if elements Austen’s work could have influenced the framework for the Mills and Boon type romantic fiction I once had to read for a Media Studies assignment at University.   hide