Hoe Darcy Affect Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice

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How Darcy Affects Elizabeth In Pride And Prejudice

Harrison Maxwell 10.2

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In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy’s love affair is the centre point of the story. Elizabeth (Lizzy) is one of the four daughters of Mr and Mrs Bennett.  She is the protagonist of the novel.  Elizabeth is considered witty and sarcastic with her own streak of pride. Darcy, on the other hand, is a wealthy man from Derbyshire who first comes across as a rude and unpleasant fellow, full of pride and ill will but eventually comes to love Elizabeth and change his manners for her.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

When one first reads Pride and Prejudice, Darcy is the first character in the novel that one would hate.  Elizabeth takes an immediate and understandable disliking to Darcy. Because of Darcy’s comments and refusal to dance with anyone not rich and well bred, the neighbourhood takes a similar dislike.

“She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me”

As the book progresses, Darcy begins to feel an attraction to Elizabeth. He begins listening to her conversations at parties, much to her surprise. Darcy tells Bingley’s unmarried sister that “Miss Elizabeth Bennett” is now the object of his admiration.

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"The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which tuned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend"

At the ball at Netherfield, Elizabeth ...

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