Essay on the Deeper Meaning of Pride and Prejudice -- Pride Prejudice

The Deeper means of pridefulness and preconceived idea While Pride And Prejudice is demonstrably touch with the subject of erotic bonk, from Lydias physical passion for Wickham, through Janes slightly too affected role and undemanding feelings for Bingley, to Elizabeths final arrant(a) match with Darcy, it would be doing the novel and its generator a great injustice to assume that it is merely a love grade, and has no other purpose or design. The scope of the novel is and then much wider than a serious interest in who will tie who and who will have the manor that is worth the most money, or purge the less shallow subject of women trying, failing, and succeeding at finding their perfect mates on a romantic level. While the investigation of love in its many forms is by no means a completely trivial exercise in and of itself, Pride And Prejudice does non stay itself to that one topic, barely while presenting a story that details several(prenominal) love affairs and th e variously intelligent, mistaken, and idiotic views of diverse characters towards the subject, Jane Austen also gives the ref insight into issues that range from moral questions of pride and lack thereof, to individual and coterie prejudice, to the expected roles of women eighteenth and nineteenth century society. Whether we like it or not, she Jane Austen was... a moralist, writes Gilbert Ryle. ...she wrote what and as she wrote partly from a deep interest in some perfectly general, even theoretical questions about human beings personality and human conduct, (Ryle 106). This concept of Austen as moralist, but not, however, to say that she was a moralizer, (Ryle 106), is not one of the more common views, especially concerning Pride And Prejudice. The title itself, however, is a direct st... ... examination of social and moral issues, the deft touch of caustic remark and sincerity used in portraying not only Elizabeth, but her time and place, the attitudes toward her and towa rd people like her, make it a larger work. It whitethorn be overall a love story even when winning these into account, if one were to view it as Jane Austens love affair with the examination of human nature- but on no account can Pride And Prejudice be described as merely a love story given its scope, it isnt merely anything. Works Cited Austen, Jane. Pride And Prejudice. London Penguin, 1972. First print 1813. Ryle, Gilbert. Jane Austen And The Moralists. Critical Essays On Jane Austen. Ed. B.C. Southam. LondonRoutledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Wright, Andrew H. Feeling and Complexity in Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Donald Gray. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. 410-420.