Pride and Prejudice is one of Jane Austen’s most celebrated novels. It is about the Bennet family and the complex relationships that they share with each other.
The Bennets belong to a society where marriage is the only possible future for a young girl of good family.
The Bennet family has five daughters- Elizabeth, Jane, Catherine, Lydia and Mary. Elizabeth and Jane are well-mannered. Mary is less physically attractive and holds onto intellectual and musical pretensions while Catherine and Lydia are both left almost abandoned to run wild under the careless supervision of their mother.
Elizabeth, the protagonist of the novel is much like her father; she is intelligent, high-spirited and shares her father’s distaste for the conventional views of society about the importance of wealth and rank. She is matched with the aristocratic hero Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Elizabeth and Darcy share a turbulent relationship in the beginning. She initially mistakes his pride for arrogance, but later changes her opinion and falls in love with him. The romantic novel ends with a happy note with all the Bennet sisters getting married.
Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813.
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