Time and the Influence of Society Can Thwart the Path of True Romance

Having a companion makes us feel stronger and many times it can push us forward to be the best versions of ourselves. But on the other side a lack of social relationships can cause humans to fall apart mentally and even physically. By living alone, it can also increase the risk of committing suicide.

Almost everyone in the world wants a relationship. Someone to call their own and to be someones. Now a days, people meet each other through school or some type of social media. However, back to when Pride and Prejudice took place (between 1796 and 1813), things were a little different. A girl back then would usually meet a man through their parents and would eventually marry that man. In this essay one will learn about all of the good and bad relationships that came from the book, Pride and Prejudice.

    "Like all true literary classics, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is still capable of engaging us, both emotionally and intellectually" (Twayne back flap) through its characters and themes. This essay illustrates how Jane Austen uses the characterization of the major characters and irony to portray the theme of societal frailties and vices because of a flawed humanity. Austen writes about the appearance vs. the reality of the characters, the disinclination to believe other characters, the desire to judge others, and the tendency to take people on first impressions.

True love is the love that everyone fantasizes about. It is the love that is unconditional and everlasting. Love is very hard to define since everybody's concept of love is different. However, in order to achieve a good relationship, people must have a well balanced power structure in their relationship, and good understanding and communication between them. In the stories, "The Yellow Wallpaper,'; "Hills Like White Elephants,'; and "A Doll's House,'; one could see the lopsided relationship between the males and females. In these stories the males predominates the females, and the characters seem to lack understanding, and communication toward another,

Though some may simply know romantic love as an intense bond between individuals devoted to one another, its effects in reality are not always as beautiful as the concept. Particularly when it is frowned upon by society and the people involved also swim against the current, the consequences of this type of love can be damaging to others outside the romance. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the actions of the young lovers in their desire to be together not only steer the course of their lives, but also those of their friends, families, and other citizens in the city. The unfortunate series of events following Romeo and Juliet’s choice to reach beyond traditional gender roles, a standard courtship, and their established social networks reveal the importance of complying with these norms. By highlighting the chaos in Verona on the path to Romeo and Juliet’s eventual demise, Shakespeare suggests that intense romantic love that threatens relationships and expectations in the established social order leads to tragedy.

Pride as a less obvious fault, however, is explored in Elizabeth and Darcy; Elizabeth is justly proud of her own intelligence and discernment, but when she begins to hold too high an opinion of it, she comes close to missing the fact that Darcy is not the cold sort of low-charactered person she thought him to be. Likewise, Darcy's pride in his own social status almost leads him to dismiss Elizabeth entirely, and almost loses her for him through his treatment of Jane, anyway. These two would seem to argue for the love story approach, as they are half of the major impediment to our hero and heroine getting together; there is more to this than just love between one couple, however. It is a comment on the fact that an abundance of even deserved pride can blind people to possible human contacts, cut off all sorts of possibly beneficial relationships.

In comparison, other seemingly romantic relationships are stagnant. Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is scorned by the community; it is discouraged. This contributes to an overall

How funny and lovely was the young girl who tried hard to cover her crush! However, this recollection of the sweet memory only emphasizes the bitterness of separation from her loved one, which is again a common theme of romances. This incorporation of comedy also falls in the characteristics of romances, as “comedy blends insensibly … into romance” (162).

Elizabeth thinks of Darcy as being “the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world” (15). After Darcy discomfits Elizabeth, “She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me” (13), she herself becomes prideful and prejudiced against him. Prejudice also is an issue for Darcy because he dislikes Elizabeth in the beginning for her low social status, for being impecunious and socially inept family: “Their struggle is as much as against each other as it is against the pressure of society or family. The novel presents a balance of power not only between two characters but between two conflicting modes of judgment” (Bloom 50), but Darcy is forced to deal with his pride and prejudice when he falls in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth rejects Darcy’s first proposal based mostly on his pride and condescension.

Pride blinds the main characters in Austen's Pride and Prejudice and in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, rendering them unable to see the reality of the situations in which they find themselves and determining whether or not they ultimately find happiness.   Pride blinds Mr. Darcy in that he allowed himself to miss the opportunity to be with someone because she wasn’t “handsome” enough. Mr. Darcy saw Elizabeth and knew she was a nice girl but didn’t want to dance with her simply because she wasn’t handsome enough as he put it. Mr. Darcy wanted someone who was wealthy, and he could tell that Elizabeth wasn’t wealthy. Mr. Darcy looked down on the Bennet’s before he even got a chance to get to know them.

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