Elizabeth And Darcy's Changes Essay

Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s Changes Through Time In the novel Pride and Prejudice there are many interesting characters and that is what makes the book so good in my opinion, but today I am going to focus on Elizabeth and Darcy. Elizabeth’s and Darcy’s characteristics sway and change over the course of the novel. Elizabeth’s characteristics at the beginning are that she is a little to prejudice,let her own opinions get in the way of her judgement, stubborn, loving, and is proud to be who she is and would not change for anyone. Her characteristics slightly change towards the end of the novel and are that she is just the right amount of prejudice, loving, doesn't let her opinions over run what is actually true, more reasonable, and still proud to
Elizabeth is very smart and very good at judging peoples personality sometimes and you think after listening to someone bad mouth another person you would not believe everything that came out of their mouth but she was so blind on her own opinion of him that it sounded perfect to her. I must say though that Mr. Wickham is very good at playing the innocent one and making it sound like he can do no bad and making others look bad, it was very clear when Elizabeth said “ He deserves to be publicly disgraced” and he responded very smart with “ Some time or other he will be — but it shall not be by me. Till I can forget his father,I can ever defy or expose him”. That was perfect on Wickham’s part because he basically said I hope so but I could do no such thing because I'm a good man and liked his father, very
Elizabeth starts to be not so prejudice against Darcy when she hears from both sides and how other people see Darcy, up until this point Elizabeth was jus going off of what Wickham had told her. The housekeeper said "I have never known a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.” to Elizabeth about Darcy, Elizabeth was astonished that someone would say something so good about him because she thought he was a horrid man. This was the point when she stared to change her characteristics, this really opened her eyes on the way she viewed him and would be open minded to different opinions about him. She eventually sees that her opinions were wrong and they would no longer play a role in her judgement when she was with Darcy. Elizabeth shows us that she is very proud and doesn't care what social class she is in and will not change for anyone when she has a conversation with Lady Catherine. Lady Catherine was asking Elizabeth if her and Darcy were engaged and when Elizabeth finally answered, Lady Catherine was happy to hear they were not engaged and Lady Catherine said "And will you promise me, never to enter into such an engagement?”Elizabeth quickly responded with"I will make no promise of the kind.” Lady Catherine was not pleased with this answer and said she was not going to leave until Elizabeth had promised not to get engaged with Darcy, Elizabeth wasn't