Pride and Prejudice is about love and nothing else! How far do you agree with this statement?
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English Essay
By Romana Ating’a
Pride and Prejudice is about love and nothing else! How far do you agree with this statement?
Word count: 1,339
The novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen is a love story that is both serious and entertaining. However the story is not all about love, there are other themes that arise as the story develops. Some of themes that can be seen can be derived from love such as marriage.
To some extended one can say that Pride and Prejudice is all about love and nothing else. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to the Bennet, the Bingley siblings and Mr. Darcy who play a key role in making this novel all about love.
During the first ball in the story where Mr. Bingley is introduced to the Bennet sisters, we see that Mr. Bingley falls in love with Miss Bennet, the eldest of the Bennet sister. In chapter three Mr. Bingley tells Mr. Darcy that Miss Bennet is the most attractive person he has ever seen, ‘”Oh! She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!”’ this statement shows how much Mr. Bingley was captivated by Miss Bennet’s beauty and the exclamation marks shows how excited he was to tell his friend. We can see that this feeling is mutual as after the ball when Miss Bennet was alone with her sister Elizabeth, she praised Mr. Bingley and told Elizabeth how much she admired him. In conclusion we see that straight from the beginning of the story that an atmosphere of love is created hence the idea that Pride and Prejudice is about love and nothing else can be agreed upon.
As the story continues we see that Miss Bingley is attracted to Mr. Darcy, this gives as more evidence that Pride and Prejudice is about love. In chapter eight we are told that ‘Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy’ the word ‘engrossed’ conveys the idea that the whole of Miss Bingley’s attention was given to Mr. Darcy. Over the course of the next chapters we see that Miss Bingley is always trying to start a conversation with Mr. Darcy by asking what he is doing or she is trying to get him to agree to a remark that she made. In chapter eight after dinner we see that Miss Bingley starts commenting on the state Elizabeth was in when she arrived at Netherfield. She describes Elizabeth with total disgust and after she after which she says to Mr. Darcy ‘You observed it, Mr. Darcy, I am sure. This shows us how much Miss Bingley is attracted to Mr. Darcy as she always has a keen interest as to what Mr. Darcy is doing, when he was writing a letter to his sister she seemed very and she even commented on the way he writes letters.
