Pride And Prejudice By Jane Austen

 


Reviewing few masterpiece-classics is like undermining them. I was assiduously searching through my pile of treasured-classics to pick up one to re-read. Re-reading helps me to exponentially increase my thirst for books and quench it at the same time (helps me with my vanity, hope not sounding like Mr. Darcy 😊)

 

This novel is not only about sweet-romance between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, but it also helps transporting the reader to the Jane Austen(Regency Era) times, savour the culture, and brims with wit and humour. There are suggestible & obvious differences between  Victorian Era and Regency Era culture settings, and I relish both!

 

The Bennet couple is simply adorable. Mrs. Bennet is just like any mother of olden or modern times, eagerly seeking a suitable groom for her daughter, and she has five lovely daughters :)

 

Mrs. Bennet is hyperbolic. Austen has been scorned for portraying her the way she was, but I assume at all levels of society irrespective of the era, we see many Mrs. Bennet(s).

 

Mr. Bennet is chilled-out but maybe not detached, and is sarcastic to the core. His humour (though insulting at times) is like a whiff of liveliness!

Elizabeth is quick, sassy, intelligent and ofcourse "prejudiced"! Many girls correlate with her! She is searching for someone worth her time and is commonsensical. When she meets Mr Darcy, his pride and rudeness, makes Elizabeth to write him off instantly! Her constant rejections for his advancements build a humility in him and attraction for her.

What you give, you get back, is the chemistry we witness between them majorly!

Mr. Darcy in reality is the sweetest, considerate, standoffish (illustrates himself with pride due to fear of falling in the wrong) but is mistook. His character-presentation is totally contorted, and I strongly feel this divergence of his character-portrayal is what makes "Pride and Prejudice"!

 

We have the sweetest romance, culture depiction, sarcastic humor and much more. Everytime I savour it, I decipher new meanings based on what my soul quenches for, from this bundle of cutest-love. I literally shout-out when I read through all the love-scenes between Elizabeth and Darcy, literally obsessed :D

 

There are tons of impactful quotes, so hand-picking few wasn’t easy, but mentioning “a few” in no-chronological order:

 

"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love."

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

 

Doesn’t allow more than 5-stars, but infinite stars for this classic 😊

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