Pride and Prejudice: One of the Greatest Love Stories of All Time

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I fancy reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, her utmost brilliant novel, because she composed a story that is timeless and analogous to everyone who takes the time to read it. While reading this story you get sucked into the time period, the character's lives and you feel as though you are living it with them. The novel takes place in Longbourn, in rural England, some point during the Napoleonic Wars, 1797 to 1815. Virtually, the plot of Pride and Prejudice consists of Elizabeth Bennent and Mr. Darcy defeating all obstacles given to them, and finding true love in each other.

All of the characters in Pride and Prejudice are absolutely different, but in some way they are the same. Elizabeth Bennent, the protagonist, one of the most well-known female characters in English literature. The second daughter of the Bennet family, she is thought to be about 20 years old. Her honesty, virtue and lively wit enable her to rise above the absurdity that pervade her class driven society. She must reevaluate her prior impressions of Mr. Darcy, and find the truth, that she is completely and utterly in love with him. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Elizabeth’s male counterpart, the son of a wealthy, well-established family and the master of the great estate of Pemberley. Mr. Darcy comes off as haughty and proud, this results because of his high birth and wealth. When Elizabeth rejects his marriage proposal, it builds humility in him; because of this, he shows his true feelings when he rescues her sister and family from disgrace. Jane, Elizabeth’s sister and Charles Bingley, Mr. Darcy’s best friend, enter into a courtship that occupies the central place in the novel, they become a couple long before Elizabeth even thinks about Mr. Darcy. Jane’s gentlen...

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...r life and how it turned out, particularly Elizabeth and Jane. Pride and Prejudice was recently turned into a blockbuster film, the cast portrayed the character from the great novel extraordinarily. I saw the movie before I read the book, the movie was wonderful and I loved it. After I saw the movie I decided to read the book to see how it stacked up to the film, the book has greater detail than the film, but they are both excellent. Anyone who has seen the movie should definitely read the book.

Almost two hundred years after Pride and Prejudice was written it still remains one of the greatest books of all time. This novel is a must for anyone who loves a good love story, or someone who just wants to pick up a fabulous book. Pride and Prejudice has sold roughly 20 million copies, it is considered one of the greatest love stories of all time for a reason.

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