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Elizabeth Bennet Character Analysis

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Pride and prejudice
Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of the novel Pride and prejudice, she is the second born out of the five daughters in the bennet family. In the novel Elizabeth is described as quick witted, intelligent, vivacious, loyal, judgemental, outspoken and stubborn.
Elizabeth’s admirable qualities are multitudinous. Although her outspoken quality and tendency of rash judgment often mislead her, virtue and intelligence makes her stand out from the nonsense and poor behaviour that diffuse her from the society and class bounds. Elizabeth in the novel struggles with overcoming all her obstacles such as; not able to cope with her hopeless mother, her distant father, her poorly behaved siblings and antagonizing females. Her initial dislikes towards Mr Darcy are strong, which leads her to dismiss his marriage proposal. Though she has adequate charm to keep him interested, while she apprehends social unrest. Circumstances makes her realize the nobility of Mr. Darcy, and recognize the mistake of her initial preconception against him and eventually falls in love with him.

Mr. Darcy is described as a wealthy proud, intelligent, generous, quick to judge, elitist, and condescending. With his high birth and wealth his excess of pride and condescending features causes him to be very proud and overly aware of his social inferiors. Throughout the novel his tampering with his class consciousness was a factor that made him fall in love with Elizabeth for her

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