![]() ![]() ![]() The Bennets have five daughters, but they lack sufficient means to arrange good marriages for them.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813, is the prototype of the romantic comedy.This unique achievement is testimony to how well she mastered superbly entertaining her readers. Her charming works have provided the blueprint for many of today’s romantic comedies, rivaled only by Shakespeare’s plays as a source of popular entertainment. Finally, she found security in her brother’s home, where she could write, though she was not known as an author until after her death. Jane, her widowed mother and her sister lived in strained circumstances. Austin, a clergyman’s daughter, faced this dilemma herself. ![]() ![]() Yet, she also shows a great deal of empathy for the desperate situation of women whose only chance in life was to marry well. She brings into sharp focus the limited world of the English landed gentry and merchant class in the Georgian period at the start of the 19th century – targeting the hypocrisy and narrow-mindedness of her contemporaries with wit and irony. Austen paints a detailed portrait of society in her place and time. Only after a slew of misunderstandings and a triumphant victory over pride and prejudices, do the two of them finally fall in love. Darcy isn’t amused Elizabeth detests him immediately. Jane Austen’s popular novel Pride and Prejudice is an inversion of the classic love-at-first-sight cliche: Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet meet at a ball. ![]()
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