Examine what is shown about character and theme at the Netherfeld Ball
The Netherfield Ball shows many different characters and provides some interesting insights to the theme. Some characters are polite but certain characters do not seem understand what decorum means. At the Netherfield ball there is a lot of the plot you can pick up without reading on further although this sometimes comes true it does not always, unexpected things do happen, it also gives you an idea of what is going to happen during the rest of the book, who is going to marry who.
Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of the book, is often quite a good judge of character, even though she can show pride and prejudice at certain times not only to Mr Darcy. But in this scene she shows she can get some characters completely wrong. This is shown when Elizabeth is dancing with Mr Darcy. Elizabeth starts trying to sum up Mr Darcy’s character, this leads to a row, “We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak,” In this quotation Elizabeth is attempting to sum up not only Mr Darcy’s character but her own as well, saying there minds are alike, we can see this is true but Mr Darcy is furious, as anyone would. Elizabeth is also embarrassed not only by her own family but her own cousin who decides he is going to marry Elizabeth, so while they are at the ball he asks for the first two dances and proceeds to get them all wrong and Elizabeth has to correct him, this is consider a very bad thing to do and very embarrassing. Elizabeth doesn’t like Mr Darcy because of his behaviour at the first assembly. “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me;” Here Mr Darcy is saying that Elizabeth is not good looking enough to make him dance. Elizabeth has a very rude, abrupt and unrestrained manor when she is talking to some people, this is apparent when in conversation with Mr Darcy at almost every meeting she has with him. From the moment Elizabeth and Mr Darcy met Elizabeth has had a bad and unrestrained attitude to Mr Darcy, she does not care about how Mr Darcy feels. Even though he does not find Elizabeth attractive at first he does not try to deliberately insult Elizabeth, even though we can see Elizabeth is the heroine she does not behave like the typical heroine because she does some unconventional things. Mr Darcy could take great offence at the things he did but he did not he just liked her more and more.
