Price And Prejudice

The studied book is Pride and Prejudice. Originally called First Impressions, it was never published under that title, and in following revisions it was retitled Pride and Prejudice. It was written by Jane Austen in 1813. She was an English novelist, born in 1775. The extract is situated in the chapter three. We are going to introduce the characters of this extract.

Mr Bingley is the first character whom we speak about. He is represented as a man who is good looking and gentlemanlike. He has a lot of friends because he “was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly”. He is always in a good mood. He “had soon made himself acquainted with all the principal people in the room”. He is very sociable and friendly. He loves the life, and he takes advantage of it. He “danced every dance”. He's nice with Mr Darcy because he said “Come Darcy, I must have you dance”. And we can see that he begins to fall in love of Jane “She is the most beautiful creature I ever beheld!”. He has two sisters, They “were fine women, with an air of decided fashion” and one brother-in-law: Mr Hurst, who is a gentleman.

The second character (not to mention the sisters and the brother-in-law of Mr Bingley) is Mr Darcy, the friend of Mr Bingley. The room give his attention to Mr Darcy. He's “fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien”. Five minutes after his entrance, people speak about his money. He has ten thousand a year. He wastes his life because at first sight “the gentleman pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening” but quickly people realizes that Mr Darcy is proud, he is “above his company and above being pleased”. He's disdainful of woman in the room “there is not another woman in the room, whom it would be a punishment to me to stand up with”. He's very pretentious. He speaks about Lizzy but he casts a chill. He said that “she's tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men”. He is nasty with Lizzy because he said indirectly that she's not beautiful and nobody wants to dance with her.

The last character is Miss Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy). She couldn't dance every dances because the man were rare. She could hear the conversation between Mr Darcy & Mr Bingley and she “told the story however with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous”.

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