Pride and Prejudice, a romance novel was written by Jane Austen, is one of the most perennially popular novels throughout centuries. It is also a representative masterpiece written by Jane Austen. Austen is one of the most prominent female writer, whose works have been recognized as “classics” and yet widely read by readers around the world. She came from a well-cultured, middle-class family and grew up in a small village in the southern English country of Hemisphere. As she wrote her novels, she published her works anonymously. Her writing features the realistic and the vivid and detailed portrayals of characters in simple, ordinary life. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen addressed the theme of women and femininity through the depiction of Elizabeth Bennet, …show more content…
Moreover, the reason why Jane Austen is still popular in nowadays is that her work, especially Pride and Prejudice, represents an advanced thinking that women should be independent and deserve the same rights and dignity as men. This novel mainly concludes the love between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge and misunderstand, then challenge and reconcile with each other showing that a perfect marriage must consist of material and morality. In the beginning of the novel, Darcy is introduced to the readers as “the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters” (Austen 5). This clearly reflects the belief of people in the ninetieth century that marriage correlates with money and social status, but not about love. In addition, Fitzwilliam Darcy is a young man, of high birth and wealth and makes him overly proud and arrogant with his upper-class social status. When Elizabeth first meets Darcy at a ball, he declines to dance with Elizabeth and coldly says: “She is tolerable; not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men” (Austen 13). This quote suggests Darcy’s tendency to judge hastily and