Thinking activity : Pride and Prejudice

 Thinking Activity 

                               Pride and Prejudice 

 

            This Blog is in response to the Thinking activity . I am going to write a blog on a very famous novel "Pride and prejudice”.  In this  blog I am answering some allotted questions on the basis of my understanding. This blog is inspired by Yesha Ma'am, The Department of English. 

                    

About the Author 

      

                                 

               

                    Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 and died on 18 july, 1817. She was the greatest novelist of English Literature. In those  times, no women writer published her work but Jane Austen published her work and also wrote domestic type of novels. Jane Austen was born in a middle class family and she had also one handed experience of middle class families , their customs and problems . so that we can see the issue of middle class family and problems of women in her time. 

• Her notable works: 

    Six major novels of Jane Austen are as here :

1.  Sense and Sensibility

2. Pride and Prejudice

3.  Mansfield Park

4. Emma

5. Northanger Abbey

6. Persuasion

 

                 Jane Austen vividly depicted the English middle class life during the early 18th century. She published four novels during her lifetime and two other novels were published after her death. 

 About the Novel  

                                     

                   " Pride and Prejudice " is a well known and romantic novel written by Jane Austen. It was published in the year 1813. The entire novel follows the character development of ‘Elizabeth Bennet'. This novel was published anonymously in three volumes. It contains 61 chapters. Pride and prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by joe wright. 

             This movie is based on Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" which was published in 1813. This film featured five sisters from an English family, and they portrayed that they deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions, Keira Knightley was in lead  role of Elizabeth Bennet, and Matthew MacFadyen plays her romantic interest Mr. Darcy.

      Que.1 :  Which version of the novel is more appealing? Novel or Film (adaptation ) why? 

 

               According to me , novels are more appealing than movies. Because, the main reason behind that is that the movie only gave us an outlook view. While, reading gave us the entire view. But Original text is better than the movie. It helps us to make good people. 

                    Que.2 : Character Of Elizabeth Bennett.

                                     

            Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist in the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She is often referred to as Eliza or Lizzy by her friends and family. Elizabeth is the second child in a family of five daughters. 

                Elizabeth Bennet is an unfailing attractive character. She is described as a beauty and has especially expressive eyes, but what everybody notices about her is her spirited wit and her good sense. Mainly because of that good sense, Elizabeth is her father's favourite child and her mother's least favourite. Her self-assurance comes from a keen critical mind and is expressed through her quick-witted dialogue.

               The second daughter in the Bennet family, and the most intelligent and quick-witted, Elizabeth is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice and one of the most well-known female characters in English literature. Her admirable qualities are numerous. She is lovely, clever, and, in a novel defined by dialogue, she converses as brilliantly as anyone. Her honesty, virtue, and lively wit enable her to rise above the nonsense and bad behavior's that pervade her class-bound and often spiteful society.

              Elizabeth is the protagonist of "Pride and Prejudice" and she is one of the most well known female characters in English literature. She has many qualities like she is lovely, clever and in a novel defined by dialogue, she converses as brilliantly as anyone.

             Que.3 : Character of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy

                                      

                                            

           

           Mr. Darcy (Fitzwilliam Darcy) is one of English fiction’s top romantic heroes.  Jane Austen’s best realized male character, he displays all the worst, and the best, qualities of gentlemen at the upper end of the landed gentry class.

                Mr. Darcy was a gentleman at the time in which Pride and Prejudice is set and the last decade of the 18th century. He has a specific meaning. Darcy is, of course, of the gentleman class, but when the community of mainly females first meet him they do not rate him highly as a gentleman, in spite of his ten thousand pounds a year and the rapidly circulating reports of his magnificent stately mansion, Pemberton: he does not behave in the way they expect a gentleman to behave. Manners are so important that they seem almost more important than the wealth of this single young man.

 

          Jane Austen focuses on females in her novels and there is a heroine in each one who commands the point of view. As the female perspective is explored the male characters tend to be less developed.

Mr. Darcy is the exception. In this case, while still focusing on the heroine’s progress, Jane Austen engages in a parallel process. The novel explores Darcy’s developing yet conflicted feelings about Elizabeth as he struggles with his attempts to either forget her or secure her affections. His haughty, arrogant manner, instilled in him through his upbringing by aristocratic parents, misses the expected gentlemanly mark. It struggles against his deeper and truer decency and obscures his generosity and nobleness of character.

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