2. Name : Anjali Rathod
Sem : 1
Roll No : 2
Enrollment No : 4069206420220024
Subject : Character Analysis of Mr. Darcy from Pride
and Prejudice
Subject code : 22394
Contact Info : rathodanjali20022002ui@gmail.com
Submitted to : S. B. Gardi Department of English , MK
Bhavnagar University
3. About the Author
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❏ Born : December 17 , 1775
❏ Died : July 18 , 1817
❏ Occupation : Greatest novelist and English
writer
❏ In those time , no woman writer published
her work but Jane Austen published her work
and also wrote Domestic type of Novel .
4. Her Life
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❏ Jane Austen , the daughter of the rector of stevenson , she lived in
quiet village in its quiet. Hampshire landscape until she was twenty
years old . She was one of seven children , five brother and a sister ,
cassandra . Her father was a bookish man who precised amiably
over this unusually devoted family .
❏ Their pleasures derived from activities of a sharply circumscribed
society , local - gossip , their over conversation ,letter writing and
a good deal of reading.
❏ The literary composition , in kind that it is , should have proved to
be among the greater achievements of the English novel , is not
entirely the accident of genius.
6. Pride and Prejudice
➢ The usual interpretation is that the title is a reference to Darcy’s Pride ,
which causes him to reject Elizabeth and her family and Elizabeth’s
resulting Prejudice , which is reinforced by Wickham’s false story about
Darcy.
➢ Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel from Jane Austen, a prominent
female British writer, which has attracted considerable attention from the
perspective of language, content, feminism, and marriage view but
without the plot organization.
➢ I want to consider the different hues of the meaning of the word "pride" both
in terms of the way Austen used it two hundred years ago and the way we
use it today
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➢ Pride as a challenge to social norms, in fact, correlates
directly with the novel's central theme of liberation
through self-reflection on one's own prejudice.
➢ The novel, which follows the romantic entanglements of
the Bennet sisters, includes themes of love, class, and, as
one might guess, pride and prejudice.
➢ The novel starts with Mrs. Bennet pestering her husband,
Mr. Bennet, about visiting the newly arrived wealthy
bachelor, Mr. Bingley.
8. Character sketch of Mr Darcy
❏ In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Fitzwilliam Darcy is a wealthy
English aristocrat and the owner of Pemberley, a country estate. He
inherited Pemberley, ''ten thousand a-year,'' and other wealth from his
father, who passed numerous years prior. At the beginning of the novel,
Darcy is staying with his close friend, Mr. Bingley, who is ''letting'' or
renting Netherfield Park.
❏ One of the features of pride and prejudice to which exception has been
taken is Jane Austen’s treatment of the character of her Mr. Darcy.
❏ It is said that the transition between the arrogant young man of the
early chapters of the novel and the polite gentleman whom Elizabeth
Bennet marries is too great and abrupt to be completely credible.
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❏ Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet’s forceful and engaging
individualism is pitted against Darcy’s not indefensible respect
for the social order and his class pride.
❏ Darcy may not be a perfect person but his character development
reveals Jane Austen’s strong art of characterization
❏ We know real Darcy when his tenant defends him or when we
know that he saved Bennet family from disgrace.
“Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared,
Darcy was continually giving offence.” -Comparison of Mr. Darcy
and Mr Bingley in Pride and Prejudice
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“Nothing is more deceitful than the
appearance of humility. It is often only
carelessness of opinion, and sometimes
an indirect boast.” Darcy
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Zimmerman, Everett. “Pride and Prejudice in Pride and Prejudice.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 23, no. 1,
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References
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Moler, Kenneth L. “Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen’s ‘Patrician Hero.’” Studies in English
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