Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, which is first published in 1813. This is the story about the Bennet family, which composes of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. They are living outside the London. In this place, they have the law of the land, which all the property could be, inherited by a male heir but the Bennet family has no sons. This cause makes Mrs. Bennet really fearful that if Mr. Bennet is died, she will be rejected from the house. She has to find a man for her daughters as soon as possible before her husband died.
The main characters in the story are Elizabeth Bennet (the heroine) who is the 2nd daughter of the Bennet family, Mr. Darcy (the hero) who is wealthy, aristocratic, and arrogant, Jane Bennet (the 2nd heroine) who is Elizabeth’s older sister and she will come to marry with Mr. Bingley (the 2nd hero) who is a new favors wealthy young gentleman neighborhood and a friend of Mr. Darcy.
The story start with Jane who falls in love with Mr. Bingley but Mr. Darcy and Caroline disagree with Mr. Bingley’s behavior and they think this is too quick. Then invent to have Mr. Bingley go to London. Then Mrs. Bennet makes a plan to send her daughter to visit her uncle and aunt in London.
Elizabeth doesn’t like Mr. Darcy for the first time when she meets him. She thinks Mr. Darcy is really arrogant Elizabeth begins a friendship with Mr. Wickham who is the enemy of Mr. Darcy. The story are more complex when of Mr. Collins who is Mr. Bennet’s clergyman cousin comes to stay with the Bennet family. He tries to propose marriage to Elizabeth but she is refused. From a disappointment, Mr. Collins turns to propose Charlotte (Elizabeth’s friend) marriage and she is accepted.
In London, after Mrs. Bennet sends Jane to visit her brother then Jane meets with Mr. Bingley, she also send Elizabeth to Mr. Collins’s house to meet with Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Then Mr. Darcy comes to tell his feeling to Elizabeth. Then she learn to know more about Mr. Darcy day by day and she has a good new impression with him.
Elizabeth received a letter about her young sister Lydia that she has run away with Mr. Wickham. She really worries about them because both of them don’t have any money. Then she has to leave from Mr. Darcy.
Elizabeth found that Mr. Darcy is the one who responsible for founding of Lydia and Mr. Wickham. He arranges both of them to get marriage and prevent her family reputation form shameful.
In the final, everything becomes better. Mr. Bingley proposes marriage to Jane and move from Netherfield to located near the Darcys in Derbyshire. Elizabeth accepted Mr. Darcy’s proposal, and two become engaged. For the first time Lady Catherine doesn’t like Elizabeth much but over time the relationship becomes better. They live happily ever after.
Reflection
In my opinion, this story has a very classic plot, which is interesting. The conflict between the characters are reasonable. The story's hitch are not complicated, quite easy to understand.
For language, I think it's not too hard and not too easy. I still need to open a dictionary to find the meaning of the words. But I can guess the meaning from the context.
Actually this is not my favorite genre of novel. I don't like to read the romantic-drama novel because I prefer to read the fantasy novel such as Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, but after I read this book, I might change my mind because this kind of story can happen in real life and I can also adapt some consideration point with my life. It might be useful someday when I grow up.
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