What Is The Theme Of Prejudice In Pride And Prejudice

Marriage is a commitment that will last a lifetime, so does one marry for love, or for money? Elizabeth Bennet, in the book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, faces this obstacle while looking for the man for her. The aspects of both pride and prejudice affect the relationship that Elizabeth is fighting to overcome. Elizabeth encounters many problems while looking for a husband including a very jealous woman, that wants to be with the man that could possibly be
Elizabeth’s new husband, Darcy being prejudice towards Elizabeth and how he believes that she is entirely too underclass for him, and Elizabeth, herself, judging off of first impressions.
Mr. Darcy also has a lot of prejudice towards Elizabeth. He believes that Elizabeth is too
“underclass”

This is showing that Mr. Darcy is judging Elizabeth off of looks rather than personality and that he has too much pride to engage with her first. Mr. Darcy looks at Elizabeth as too poor for him, this causes a lot of problems between them because she believes that marriage does not rely on how wealthy one is, rather if the two truly love each other or not. Throughout the book we see that later on Darcy overcomes these prejudices and decides to ask Elizabeth for her hand in marriage, but since the first time they met each other he was quite rude, she quickly declines his hand in marriage. When she declines, Mr. Darcy is shocked that she declines and in turn, “His

Johnson 2 complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance off his mind was visible in every feature” (Austen, 2398). This shows that Darcy still believes that Elizabeth should be accepting so that she will no longer be underclass and that he was very shocked that she would turn him down. Elizabeth believes that one should marry for love so Darcy having a lot of money has no impact on her decision to Mr. Darcy’s

Mr. Darcy later asks her if her feelings towards him have changed, and she admits that they do. Darcy takes a bold move and proposes again, and
Elizabeth accepts the offer. When Elizabeth goes to tell her oldest sister, Jane, about the how she has just gotten engaged to the man she once said no too, Jane asks Elizabeth, “... are you quite certain that you can be happy with him” (Austen, 4713). Elizabeth responds saying, yes that she

Johnson 4 is truly happy with Mr. Darcy. Her feelings towards him have changed completely since she now sees the true gentlemen in him. Jane is quite surprised and does not believe Elizabeth at first, but as they continue talking she is very happy for her sister.
Overall, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy overcome their differences. Elizabeth now sees the true side of Mr. Darcy even though his first impression came off as very rude and arrogant.
Mr. Darcy has gotten over the fact that Elizabeth is not the wealthiest person, but she is a very respectable woman and wants to be with her forever. Although Miss Caroline Bingley tried to get in the way of their relationship and Darcy had a lot of trouble getting over the fact