...people.” Listed as a synonym of arrogance, pride, defined by Oxford Dictionary, means, “a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of one's close associates, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired.” These two words are frequently used interchangeably and their definitions possess many similarities. However, they are also incredibly different and both...
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... Mr. Naylor Honors British Literature 10 February 2015 Pride and Prejudice In the novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, most of the characters are blinded from reality because of their initial prejudice towards others. Each character in the novel handles each interaction in different ways and conforms to society. The title of the novel is best exemplified through Elizabeth Bennet’s pride and prejudice when she rejects Mr. Collinses proposal, interacts with Mr. Darcy for the first time, and misjudges Mr. Darcy’s innocent stares. Elizabeth’s faithfulness to her pride is exemplified by her interaction with Mr. Collins. When Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, “it is impossible for her to do otherwise than decline” (Austen 74). Mr. Collins exclaims that he has more money than Elizabeth has and implies she would be foolish to not marry him. Elizabeth laughs at this proposal, because she views marriage differently. She is actually looking for love and a marriage that will contribute to her happiness instead of marrying for merely money. This reveals that Elizabeth values her self-pride and feelings for a man more than the benefits of the marriage financially. Collins never bothers to mention “love” nor does he invoke Elizabeth’s happiness, only his own. Despite the societal pressure to marry this wealthy man, she stays true to herself and politely declines his offer. Although Elizabeth takes pride in denying Mr. Collins proposal, the flaws in her character are demonstrated...
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...Pride is a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievement. Also pride comes from what a person might think another might say. Young and Old generations sometimes think that having pride is good but pride take away from showing who you really are. It could cause others not want to be around you. Pride comes from a person’s mind not the heart. This relates to when god told adam and eve not to eat the fruit from the tree of good and evil and they ate from that tree. Pride can also be a respectful thing to have in most situations. The word pride in itself is not an important word but its meaning implies many things. There are several different reasons people have pride. It can also be a consciousness of what is befitting or due to oneself or one’s position. Also, it prevents a person from doing what he/she considers to be beneath that specific he/she. Pride gives off negative description of one another as vain, arrogant or belittling others. This will make others get the attitude that one individual might be giving off. Sometimes pride can be in a good way. My reasoning for saying this is because pride is a building block of a healthy self-esteem. This important and necessary to give off a positive self-worth. For example, a child...
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...Pride vs. Humility The Bible teaches us that humility is a virtue worth seeking and that pride is a sin. Culture throughout history seems to disagree with this perspective. Or do they, is it just so elusive that we grow weary of seeking it and simply give up? Does the lack of humility have any profound effects on our lives? Or can we simply cease striving for a goal that offers no benefit to our success and happiness? Pride is not a new attitude. We see pride is the source of the fall of Lucifer from glory in Isaiah 14:12-17 and will ultimately lead to his demise as we read in Revelation 20:10. (HSCB) King Nebuchadnezzar was so prideful in his accomplishments in building his kingdom that God caused him to go insane and live as a wild animal for seven years. Paul addresses two cultures in the Book of Romans that struggle with their own forms of pride, the Greeks and the Jews. The Greeks saw themselves as highly cultured and everyone else as barbarians. The Jewish culture saw themselves as better then others because they were (and still are) God’s chosen people. Today’s culture teaches American’s to be aggressive, to distinguish ourselves, and to stand apart from the rest; it teaches us pride. So is there any harm in being prideful? Let’s examine just one problem that arises when we are prideful, division. Pride causes division between God and us. Adam and Eve experienced this division at the introduction of sin into the world. In Genesis 3:5-6, Satan tells Eve that...
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...Pride or Jealousy We’ve all done it, seen someone flaunting something that we don’t have, or boasting about an achievement, only to instantly dismiss them as a prideful, pompous person whom we harbor a dislike for from then on out. Less often does a person who makes this impression on someone wind up marrying them, spending the rest of their time with them, happily ever after. There is a fine line between being rightfully proud of accomplishments, and being over the top about how you choose to inform people about them. With this being said, often times being accused of being “too proud” can be a sign of jealousy on the part of the accuser. What is pride, a label or an action, or is it a flaw? Jane Austen carefully develops the aspects of her characters that could be deemed prideful in her novel, and in doing so, gives us clues as to her feelings about pride and what it really is. In the novel, Pride and Prejudice, the main characters, Darcy and Elizabeth, are the two most often accused of being too proud. The fact that Darcy is a well off, good looking young man makes him a likely candidate to be accused of being too proud. Every person that Darcy is “better” than is a person who could possibly accuse him of being too proud. Because of how Darcy’s first impression he made on Elizabeth made her feel, it is obvious that she has no intention of complementing him when she says he is too proud, but rather to criticize him. For her, telling herself and other people that he is excessively...
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...Hair Extensions Won’t Save The Modern Rapunzel Hair extensions and expensive shampoo might not find your man, but Austen will writes Alex Simmons As I once again retire to my ivory tower, or rather my apartment on the fourth floor, I look out my window to see but another possible suitor across the street. Why he doesn’t look up at me, I wonder, as he strolls casually by. Is it because of how I look, I question, as I survey myself in the mirror with a fine toothed comb. Or is it because of where I live, in average furnishings and a moderate city block? And now I think to myself, is the modern world so frustratingly bound to physical appearance rather than personal depth? Or is it my reclusive nature and timid personality that restrains me from racing down the stairs and potentially entering into my own fairytale? For the adult population of the modern world, in particularly males, the possibility that fairytales and happy endings still exist seems to be a fanciful notion. Perhaps I am a child at heart or more likely delusional in the hope that such “fabrications” of reality that struck a par with me as a young girl do exist in the contemporary world. And whilst years of seemingly perfect yet failed relationships, contradictory evidence and vindictive and damning opposition stack up against me, I still earnestly believe in the literary complex of Prince Charming sweeping me off my feet and into my happy ending. But what if there is the possibility that simply waiting...
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...In Jane Austen’s lifetime she completed six novels, including Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Throughout Austen’s writing she draws her readers in with the interesting characters. Austen makes her readers fall in love with the characters. She makes the characters seem as if they dislike or feel awkward towards each other, but in then end fall in love. Austen captures her reader’s attentions with her vivid writing. You can clearly see a mental picture between the characters conversations. Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility portray the main romantic characters sympathetically and vividly, leading the reader to connect with the characters fully. In Pride and Prejudice, the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth appears to be conflicting. In the movie Darcy insults Elizabeth at the first ball by saying, “she is tolerable, not handsome enough to tempt me.”(--) That hurt Elizabeth’s feelings and made her dislike Darcy. At Netherfield, Darcy, Elizabeth, and Caroline are talking about ideal qualities of a wife, and Caroline, with Darcy’s agreement, says, “A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half deserved” (------). To a modern reader, this seems like an unreasonable amount of qualities to possess in an...
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...Description To explore your understanding and share it with others is the purpose of an interpretation and an analysis. Yet, even though we create our own personal meanings out of a literary work, we must also learn to reach an objective understanding. You have to be able to use evidence from the text itself to support any points you are making. A literary analysis explains what you as a reader see inside a literary work. This automatically requires examples and support from various parts of the text. (Blueprint B v2.0 p. 234) Guidelines | 1. Decide on one of the two books assigned by your teacher. | | 2. Divide your book into three parts. Use one week to read each part. | | 3. Write reading logs as you read your book. There are three of them on the next page, one for each part of your book (beginning, middle, end) | | 4. Create an outline for your essay by using the template below. | | 5. Write your first draft. Follow the instructions closely, Blueprint B, pp. 234-239 | | 6. Do the ”Checkpoints for Revising” on page 239, Blueprint B. | | 7. Receive peer response from a classmate or two. Use the “Peer Response Sheet” and the ”Rubric” below. | | 8. Reflect on your progress so far and ask yourself; “How can I improve this text?” Make notes in your “Self Assessment Sheet” below. | | 9. Improve your text! Turn it into a final draft – 700-1200 words. Remember to use the ”Kulturama Manual of Style". | | 10. Complete the ”Self Assessment Sheet"...
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...Conflict between Love and Prejudice Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, portrays the social atmosphere that existed in the 18th century. Specifically the emphasis is on the importance of courtship and the effects of social standing on marriage. The story that is given is the Bennett family trying to find suitors for five unmarried daughters. All five daughters have their own unique personalities, but there is one that stands out the most in the novel. The story is concentrated mainly on Elizabeth Bennett, a strong willed and outspoken young lady, and her relationship with Fitzwilliam Darcy (Mr. Darcy), a haughty and extremely wealthy man. Elizabeth is from the middle class and Mr. Darcy comes from a prominent and wealthy family. Elizabeth is conflicted between her prejudices of Mr. Darcy’s behavior and her increasing attraction towards him. It is said that first impressions determine how a relationship will work out. Pride and Prejudice was initially titled First Impressions which is a fitting name because they play a crucial role in the development of the novel. Elizabeth’s first impression of Mr. Darcy is one of contempt and she feels deeply offended by Darcy. At the Netherfield gala, Darcy insults Elizabeth when he exclaims that “she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt [him]” (Austen 9). At this time, during the Regency Era, a dance was intended for women and men to be together and for women to find potential suitors. The fact that Darcy refuses...
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...Introduction: Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” is generally speaking a love story of two couples: Elizabeth and Darcy in the first place and the love story of Jane and Darcy’s friend Bingley. The novel reveals how young people want to be happy no matter to what class they belong to and the obstacles they have to face belonging to the upper society of England. Throughout the symbolist of Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley the author shows the reader that sometimes even the smallest events can change the life-story of a person. Jane Austen’s in her novel “Pride and Prejudice” is not overfilled with excessive symbols as the message of the novel is easily revealed through Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley. This is primarily due to the fact that it is basically is major change and resettlement of the book. Before Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley the basic accent was made on the dialogues among the characters. The fact that Elizabeth actually travelled to Darcy’s estate can be compared to a literal approaching of the two central characters. As Jane Austen does not use a lot of descriptions of the surroundings so Elizabeth’s visit to Pemberley become an actual dramatic change of the novel. Another moment of symbolism of this visit is the fact that Elizabeth finds herself of Darcy’s territory as if she almost refers herself of being his “property” too. As Mr. Darcy is on his territory he reveals himself as confident and gentle as he had never been before. The fact that Pemberley turn...
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...Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet At the beginning of the book when Elizabeth and Darcy meet, they do not like each other very much. They actually dislike each other. This dislike continues through a large portion of the book. Darcy feels his social and financial status puts him above Elizabeth and that is most of the problem. Elizabeth feels that Darcy and those like him are automatically snobbish and so she really didn’t give him much of a chance in the beginning but his arrogant manner didn’t help the situation. Class and marriage plays an important part in Darcy’s arrogant ways. At the time this book was written, love was hardly a reason why people got married. More than likely it was two people of the same social standings marrying to join their estates. If a woman of lower social standings married a man like Darcy, she was marrying up. She was moving up in social and financial settings. Elizabeth drew her conclusions early about Darcy. His sister was also arrogant and looked down on the Bennet sisters. I feel that if Elizabeth took more time to get to know Darcy she would have found out he wasn’t the man she thought he was. Elizabeth’s pride was wounded when she overheard Darcy speaking to Mr. Bingley about her. He said she was tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt him. He also said Mr. Bingley was already dancing with the only handsome woman in the whole place. He also later said that he wasn’t drawn to her because of her low connections....
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...Austen’s Portrayal of Money, Marriage, and Happiness by Character Usage in Pride and Prejudice Throughout the novel Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen portrays her views on money, marriage, and happiness through the coupling of several characters she created. Austen uses the characters and their relationships to show what true love should really be like in her opinion. One of the ways she showcased marriage in the book was that marriage created love and happiness, as opposed to the idea that love and happiness were a direct result from getting married. I have chosen ten characters from the novel, and through their coupling, will portray Austen’s views on money, marriage, and happiness in the nineteenth century. The coupling of Elizabeth and Darcy is the kind of pairing that is common in present day society. They seemed to fall in love before the decision to marry was decided. Elizabeth defies the general views of what society considers right. She makes her decisions on marriage based on her feelings and not on status, money, or pedigree. This is portrayed in the novel when Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth and she does not accept because she does not love Collins. Unlike other couples, Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship is not based on money, status, or name despite Darcy’s social status. Instead, it is based solely upon their feelings for one another. Elizabeth perfectly describes Darcy's affection for her when she stated, "'...you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious...
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...Introduction: Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is concentrated on the relationships of two potential couples: Elizabeth and Darcy and her sister Jane and Darcy’s friend Bingley. The novel tells the story of love of these two couples and the troublesome they have faced on their way to marital bows. They main reason for the obstacles they have faces is the reputation and class belonging. It is the reputation of Elizabeth and Jane that is being questioned throughout the novel as they belong to a aristocratic but a very poor family. As Elizabeth’s behavior in the first place is closely analyzed by the Bingley’s and Darcy’s family member and friends at times she finds herself along with her sister in very vulnerable situations. As the wealth allows these people to judge her and her sister it only owing to Elizabeth’s and Jane’s intelligence and internal beauty that helps them to keep their heads up proudly. The two girls suffer because of the reputation of their mother who is very foolish, noisy and she lacks social grace to make her communication with other people decent and respected by the others. As Darcy’s and Bingley’s families are rather snobbish and think of themselves as of better social representatives than Elizabeth and Jane. The bahaviour of Lydia Bennet almost leaves the girls with no chance of being together with their loved ones as she supports the ill reputation of the family by being with a man without being married to him. Nevertheless all these prejudice does...
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...Pride and prejudice book review The novel Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen. It is a story about a middle classed family, who deal with issues such as marriage, social status, reputation and love. Mr. Bennet, who is the head of the household and husband to Mrs. Bennet, is always frustrated by his silly wife and troublesome daughters. He withdraws from his family by acting distantly and occasionally has bursts of sarcastic humor. Detached from his family, he is a weak father and, at critical moments, fails his family. For example, his allowance and unconcern of his youngest daughter Lydia's immature behavior, nearly leads to public shame when she elopes with Wickham, an officer in the regiment, stationed at Meryton, who at first seems like a good and likable man but later reveals his true nature. Mr. Bennet is closest to ...
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...Mikaele Nickel P&P Final English 12 #04 May 27, 2013 Pride and Prejudice In fact, Pride and Prejudice was originally entitled First Impressions. However, the novel is not only about first impressions. Although we can find the first impressions about the characters through the first few chapters, this book shows us the effects of those impressions on the individual characters--prejudices of the characters. The story almost evenly describes the defects of Fitzwilliam Darcy who show "pride" at the beginning of the novel; he speaks carelessly and insultingly to Elizabeth Bennet, and George Wickham who deceives others on purpose and conceals his truth-less character. Elizabeth misunderstood both of them at first because of her prejudice. At first I have assumed that the title of this novel alludes clearly to Darcy's "pride" and Elizabeth's "prejudice." I also thought that the novel tells how Darcy and Elizabeth overcome their pride and prejudice. However, I realize that this over simplifies the author's purpose. We can certainly see that Elizabeth has "pride" as much as Darcy has. She is proud of her intelligence, comprehension and independence. Actually, Darcy's pride disappears quite a bit early in this novel. By chapter 6, he is starting to change his attitudes towards her. He is humbling himself to be close to her. This shows Darcy's change: "But no sooner had he made it to clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good...
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