Pride and Prejudice-

Title: Pride and Prejudice-
Category: Literature / English | Words: 469 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)

Pride and Prejudice-

Pride and Prejudice- The passage which best relates the theme of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin, is on page 125, in the middle of the page. This is where Mr. Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth, and is informing her of the inferiority of her family and connections. This passage is significant because it is one of the few times where the characters openly acknowledge that the sole purpose of a person's life is to achieve …showed first 75 words of 469 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 469 total…story and really destroys the entire thing. Other stories, such as Romeo and Juliet, have the same sort of "forbidden" marriages, and since those arrive out of real situations, they add more interest to the story. Here, it is simply prejudice by rich people against poorer people, which only detracts from the writing. So while this theme may have existed in reality during Jane Austen's lifetime, it should not have been included in the story.

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