Letter Writing In Jane Bingley's Pride And Prejudice

The art of writing letters has existed as long as human existence. People may not have always written on paper with pens to each other but maybe on stones with carvings. As long as people have lived, communication has occurred. It has evolved over the years to emails and then texting. The significance of writing a personal letter will never top sending a quick text however. Writing a letter holds more significance and personal gratitude then a text message ever will. Writing styles vary more and people can gather more of a sense what person feels when they write to another person rather than reading something in the same text on a screen. Over the years technology has become simpler and people have gotten lazier which makes it more convenient for people to send a text rather than people taking the time to sit down and write a heartfelt letter. In the book Pride and Prejudice letter writing takes place all throughout the book. The characters all show different styles and

In this era everyone wrote letters, usually in the morning before the day actually started and when someone received a letter they usually read and kept it private. The characters writing styles reflected greatly on them as people. Miss. Bingley used very nice hot-pressed paper which showed her wealth and her writing style which showed her higher education. Jane cared about people and always saw the best in everyone no matter the situation and this showed very clearly in her letter to Elizabeth about their sister running off with Wickham. Mr. Collins in his writing style showed a selfish “all about me” attitude and perspective and that is how he acted in real life too. Each character had different writing styles that went right along with how they actually acted in the book which is not surprising because a person cannot change who they are and how they act in a just by