Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Austen she is a famous british novelist born in 1775. His novel Pride and Prejudice First published anonymously in 1813, it is his most famous and internationally acclaimed work. It was not until later when the name of the author of her could be known and could therefore, take the deserved merit of her. In a PROFESSOR we would like you to know a little more about her so we have prepared this lesson for you with a summary of Pride and Prejudice.

It is a personal development novel, a romantic comedy that hides many reflections and perfectly reflects the rural aristocratic English society of the time. It focuses on the importance and difficulty of knowing the other person, which is called "recognition drama" where the main characters must leave behind their great values ​​or defects: pride on the part of an upper-class man and the prejudice on the part of a woman of rural life, to know each other from truth.

Jane Austen she was one of the authors of romanticism in world literature most prominent. With Pride and Prejudice, she created a work that today has become a classic. Before moving on to the summary of

Pride and PrejudiceIt is convenient to make a brief introduction about the characters and the plot of the work in order to get a general idea before going deeper and understanding everything better.

The main characters are Elizabeth bennet -one of the daughters of the Bennet family- and Fitzwiliam Darcy, an upper-class aristocrat. The plot revolves around the efforts made by father and mother Bennet, who do not have a position as well off as they would like, for marrying her daughters to richer men to ensure their future. A situation that occurred long before and that reflects the society of that time, full of beliefs and prejudices. From this situation it will be like the daughters will meet Darcy and other characters, much more affluent, with whom each of them will have different relationships and will end up in different ways.

At first the sisters are characterized by possess strong personality traits as well as high values ​​and prejudices, but throughout the novel we see how they develop in a positive way and are shedding some of those prejudices that do not allow them to see things differently. This is why it is considered "Pride and Prejudice" like a novel by Personal development where its protagonists mature and advance as the plot unfolds.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel that is framed in the literary romanticism. It is not divided into parts but into various chapters. It all starts when Mrs. Mrs. Bennet -the mother of all sisters- she announces to her husband about the arrival of Mr. Bingley, a wealthy man, to his place of residence: Netherfield. She will ask her husband to do what he can to organize a meeting with this man, so that she can meet her daughters and maybe fixate on one of them for a future wedding.

The arrival of Mr. Bingley makes it celebrate a dance at the place, where Mr. Bennet will get his daughters to come and present themselves to the wealthy man. Meet and quickly Bingley falls in love with one of his sisters, Jane. Elizabeth, the protagonist, will not only go unnoticed by Bingley but she will be rejected by Mr. Darcy, a man who accompanies Bingley and who seems serious, quiet and proud and who goes so far as to point out that Elizabeth's beauty is not enough for him.

Elizabeth, she knows the General Wickham, who happens to know Mr. Darcy and talks about him as a selfish being that he wanted to keep all the money that his father's inheritance had left for the general. Elizabeth here begins to increase bad thoughts towards Darcy and confirms that he is a bad person. On the other hand, Jane and Bingley start dating And when everything seems to be going well they walk away. Elizabeth is quick to consider guilty darcy of these events.

From this meeting and the unfortunate comment that Elizabeth manages to hear, it will be when she begins to form a very ugly opinion about Darcy. Fate, however, will make the two meet again during a visit to the city. Elizabeth goes to eat at Catherine De Bourghher, who will turn out to be Darcy's aunt and soon her mother-in-law as well, since she had gotten Darcy to promise marriage to her daughter.

Confession of love

In this meeting, things will be very different. Darcy will be amazed by Elizabeth's beauty and her way of being, as he will demonstrate courage, intelligence and personality. He will end by confess your love but because of what had happened the first time, Elizabeth rejects him and assures him that he will be the last man she could marry. She accuses him also of being guilty of the separation of Jane, the sister of her, and Bingley as well as it tells what he knows about the money that was left of the general.

Injured, Darcy decides to leave leaving a letter where he tells Beth her disappointment and the true reasons why he has committed everything she accuses him of. This is how Elizabeth learns that things are not as she thought at first and that Darcy is a much better person than she thinks and it is the general who had been lying to her. From here, Darcy begins to occupy the thoughts of her, who you feel guilty that you rejected him.

New meeting

When winter arrives, there is a new meeting between the two. To her surprise Elizabeth notices a change of attitude in him, who seems to behave in a much more polite and sensitive way regardless of his social status. This is where Elizabeth begins to confirm her feelings for Darcy: she is in love.

In the midst of all this Lydia, one of Elizabeth's sisters, decides run away with the general, who now she knows he's not an honest man and that he has cheated on Lydia. Darcy sees her cry and decides to help the Bennet family, but she does it in a way that Beth doesn't understand. He offers money and helps the two get married. This will make her to think that she hasn't changed anything at all.

During the summer Next, things begin to clear up, Jane begins to see Bingley again and the truth about Darcy and the way of being of him, who is a good and honest man, is discovered. He breaks off his engagement to Catherine and ends up marrying Beth, with whom she is in love. Lydia bennetshe, who because of her immaturity ends up marrying a man she does not love, serves as an example for the rest of the sisters who decide not to copy their actions and focus on studies and home.

This is how Elizabeth manages to overcome her prejudices and move forward with Darcy as well as he achieves put aside your pride to marry her and love her.