My Review of Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I am kind of surprised at how much I enjoyed this novel. Because I have read works of Jane Austen's before, and I have had to literally force myself to finish them because they were so boring. But Pride and Prejudice was completely different.



I have seen four different film adaptations of this famous novel, each different than the rest, with some similarities. I prefer the 1995 BBC version, because it's how I envision the Bennets and everyone else in the book.



As everyone pretty much knows (or should know), the Bennets are a respectable family that live in a village in England. The Bennets have five daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is eager to have her girls married off, and to wealthy gentlemen. News spreads through the village that a young single man with fortune is buying a home in the village, where he intends to live. This sets all the mothers with single daughters into fits, including Mrs. Bennet. She intends him for her eldest daughter, Jane, whose beauty is reputed throughout the area.



When they finally do get to meet Mr. Bingley, his sisters, and his close friend Mr. Darcy; they're taken by Bingley's nice personality. And appalled by Mr. Darcy's disdain for "country people." Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter, immediately takes a dislike to Darcy, because he insults her. And from this moment, Darcy and Elizabeth have a volatile relationship.



And the whole of this novel is the prejudices that Elizabeth and Darcy have for each other, and other people they encounter throughout it.



It's an incredibly engaging book, and I rather enjoyed the pace of it, even knowing what was going to happen in the end.



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