captivated by the love story between Jane and Mr. Bingley as well of the love-hate
relationship between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. The strucutre of the novel is simple,
involving witty dialogue. The author has a keen eye for analysis of characters.
Befitting to its name, Pride and Prejudice is an analysis of simple
yet complex characters. Elizabeth is simply a character who knows what she doesn't. She
does not want Mr. Darcy or does she? Austen's love story evolves throughout the story.
What seems to be a simple matter of the heart becomes an analysis of complex themes such
as pride and prejudice. The title is well stated in that the complex themes of pride and
prejudice are conveyed through the simple
strucure:
The novel has a very simple structure
(basically the progenitor of the romance novel): two people should be together on the
first page and end up together on the last, with various complications to fill up the
rest of the book. It's in the complications where the qualities most come out that set
Austen apart from her latter-day followers: witty dialogue, a sense of the brutality of
individual character, and a keen, analytical eye for rivulets of emotion running through
the smooth-surfaced stream of everyday
events.
After reading Austen's Pride and
Prejudice, the reader is completely satisfied with the outcome, but it is the journey
that creates suspense for the reader:
Irony, or the contrast between the expected and
the actual, is the chief literary device Austen uses to comment on the small, enclosed
world of the English gentry in Pride and Prejudice. Her irony takes
different forms for different
characters.
Most
respectfully, Austen's writes about the simple theme of family life with all its
complexities:
Austen's works are models of restraint. Instead
of the wild forces of nature, Austen concentrates on family life in small English towns.
Instead of rampant emotionalism, Austen emphasizes a balance between reason and
emotion.
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