pride and prejudice — jane austen

5 stars

Eliz­a­beth Ben­net (the pride char­ac­ter) lives with her fam­ily on a hum­ble estate in Eng­land. When she meets Mark Darcy (the prej­u­dice char­ac­ter) her world isn’t the same any­more. Mr. Darcy is rude, incon­sid­er­ate, unpleas­ant etc, but still she feels an attrac­tion towards him she can’t explain. Mark Darcy has the same feel­ing; Ms. Ben­net is “poor”, doesn’t want to please men just for the sake of it, never takes part in con­ver­sa­tions when she ought to etc., and yet he wants to be with her. So Eliz­a­beth has to learn how to be hum­ble and Mark has to learn to be less judg­men­tal. In the mean­time both are very hard try­ing to ignore the feel­ings they have for each other out of.….….pride and prejudice.

This story was writ­ten almost two cen­turies ago, but is still one of the most (if not the most) roman­tic story I’ve ever read. Although the lan­guage is often out­dated and the world described is totally dif­fer­ent from ours, the mean­ing of love, the feel­ings and emo­tions are still the same. I think that’s why this book is still one you can read with­out the feel­ing you’re read­ing a “very old” book. The strength of the book is shown if you con­sider all the books and movies that are based on this very story, for instance Brid­get Jones’s diary.

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March 26, 2007 – 10:13 | by eb | posted in chick-lit, classics, humor, into movies, recommendations, romance | tagged , , , , , , | 863 views comments (6)

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