Essay on the Deeper Meaning of Pride and Prejudice -- Pride Prejudice

The Deeper Meaning of Pride and Prejudice While Pride And Prejudice is demonstrably concerned with the subject of love, from Lydias physical passion for Wickham, through Janes sparingly too patient and undemanding feelings for Bingley, to Elizabeths final perfect match with Darcy, it would be doing the novel and its author a great injustice to assume that it is merely a love story, and has no other purpose or design. The scope of the novel is indeed much wider than a serious interest in who will embrace who and who will have the manor that is worth the most m hotshoty, or even the less shallow subject of women trying, failing, and succeeding at finding their perfect lucifer on a romantic level. While the investigation of love in its many forms is by no means a completely trivial shape in and of itself, Pride And Prejudice does not confine itself to that one topic, just while presenting a story that details several love affairs and the multifariously intelligent, mistaken, and i diotic views of diverse characters towards the subject, Jane Austen also gives the reader insight into issues that range from moral questions of pride and lack thereof, to individual and class prejudice, to the expected roles of women eighteenth and nineteenth snow society. Whether we like it or not, she Jane Austen was... a moralist, writes Gilbert Ryle. ...she wrote what and as she wrote partly from a deep interest in some perfectly general, even theoretical questions almost human nature and human conduct, (Ryle 106). This concept of Austen as moralist, but not, however, to say that she was a moralizer, (Ryle 106), is not one of the more common views, especially concerning Pride And Prejudice. The backup itself, however, is a direct st... ... examination of social and moral issues, the deft touch of satire and sincerity used in portraying not only Elizabeth, but her time and place, the attitudes toward her and toward people like her, make it a larger work. It may be overall a love story even when taking these into account, if one were to view it as Jane Austens love affair with the examination of human nature- but on no account can Pride And Prejudice be depict as merely a love story given its scope, it isnt merely anything. Works Cited Austen, Jane. Pride And Prejudice. capital of the United Kingdom Penguin, 1972. First published 1813. Ryle, Gilbert. Jane Austen And The Moralists. Critical Essays On Jane Austen. Ed. B.C. Southam. LondonRoutledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Wright, Andrew H. Feeling and Complexity in Pride and Prejudice. Ed. Donald Gray. New York W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. 410-420.