“One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. Darcy’s demeanor was a result of his upbringing. Darcy to the Bennets, especially to Elizabeth.
In Chapter 5, Charlotte Lucas defends Mr. “They were in fact very fine ladies not deficient in good humour when they were pleased, nor in the power of making themselves agreeable when they chose it, but proud and conceited.” Chapter 4 “He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.”Įlizabeth’s opinion of the Bingley sisters is not favorable. Bingley’s lively and unreserved nature to that of Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned 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.”Īlso, in Chapter 3, the residents of Meryton contrast Mr. Darcy in Chapter 3, we learn this of the man: “The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. When the reader is first introduced to Mr. Darcy is too “Proud.” But is Darcy the only character who is too Proud in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” And are there different types of “Pride”?
If you have ever read Jane Austen’s masterpiece, you are aware that Mr. So here’s another of my meticulous posts where I count the use of key words in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” I hope you enjoy this one.
In fact, numbers and statistics are a hidden pleasure. You’ll find me solving word puzzles and sodokus equally. As most of you are likely to realize by now, I am a “whole brained” individual, which means that although I adore the fine arts, I still possess a very analytical brain.
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