This book is one of my favourite books of all time

Book Review

Surasma Lamichhane

Pride and Prejudice is an romantic book written by Jane Austen, published in 1813 AD. This book is one of my favourite books of all time. This book consists of wise words, humor, good characters, and a beautiful writing. Jane Austen’s idolized Pride and Prejudice is a tale of love, marriage, and social status.

This book focuses on the story of Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzie) who lives with her mother Mrs. Bennet, her father Mr. Bennet, her sisters, Jane, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia.

Jane Austen’s opening line–“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”—is a sentence filled with sarcasm and it sets the tone for the book.

The family lives in a pleasant home called Loungborn. Mrs. Bennet is extremely eager to find rich and loving husbands for her daughters because Mr. Bennet has no male heir and his estate is “entailed” away to his next male relation.

Now the story begins, when Mr. Charles Bingley, a wealthy bachelor, moves into the estate Netherfield near Loungborn. Accompanied with him is his close friend Fizwillam Darcy and his sister Caroline Bingley. The Bennets almost immediately fall in love with Mr. Bingley and believe he will be the perfect husband for their oldest daughter Jane. Jane and Mr. Bingley also seem to be enjoying each other’s company but on the other hand, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth don’t seem to be getting along.

Elizabeth declines her first offer for marriage to Mr. Collins as she wants to marry a gentleman she truly loves. Darcy also confesses his love for her but Elizabeth thinks Darcy is the last man she could ever marry, but through the course of the novel, she begins to see that her prejudices towards him are fake and that he is a true gentleman who deserves love. Both these characters slowly begin to revise their respective opinion about the other, but their personalities make it difficult for them to accept and address their growing feelings towards each other. The pride of the one and the prejudices of the other are very much capable of tearing them apart. Darcy lowers his pride and gains Elizabeth’s love and achieves his optimal utility.

Here are some of my favourite quotes of the book:

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chane. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation, and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”

“… and more than commonly anxious to please, she naturally suspected that every power of pleasing would fail her.”

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

“Angry people are not always wise.”

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had mortified mine.”

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