After Reading "pride and Prejudice"

When I was a Senior 2 student, I knew this novel for the first time. At that time, one of my roommates had just read it. And one night, since we all couldn’t sleep, she told me this story. I still remember that after hearing the story, the character impressed me the most was Lydia, because she is so audacious that she should elope with Wickham. But now when I finally finished reading it by myself, I love Elizabeth deeply.

Elizabeth has a mind of her own. She is not only beautiful, but also independent. And she is so wise a girl that she knows what a kind of love she wants. She would rather be alone for the whole life than marry a man whom she doesn’t love. Quite different from his mother and other sisters, when choosing her future husband, she thinks little about money and status. So she will never try to please those rich people or even get married with them just for money. She also has a strong self-esteem, I remember that when she was considered to be a person of inferior social status, she said, “He (Darcy) is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal.”

Then let’s have a look at Elizabeth’s attitude towards Darcy. The title of this novel is “pride and prejudice”, and I think “pride” refers to Darcy and “prejudice” refers to Elizabeth. Yes, Darcy is prideful, but I think Elizabeth’s great self-esteem may also have something to do with the prejudice. As we all know, sometimes her mother and the people around them are really vulgar, and this usually makes her feel embarrassed. This may makes her become sensitive to others comments on her, especially some negative comments. So, after hearing Darcy’s comment, his pride and her great self-esteem make her begin to have a strong prejudice against him. And at the same time, she is a straightforward person, so she never hides her attitude towards Darcy. She dares to express her discontent with Darcy, which makes her special, so there is no wonder that