Pride and Prejudice discussion

Mari wrote: "I'm sorry, but its completely inexplicable. Yes, I am female. No, that didn't make it any easier to relate. To start off, I didn't find it frivolous. Marriage isn't frivolous if its the only way yo..."

¿Esto es real? Lo digo, primeramente, porque estas hablando de un clásico de la literatura escrito hace un siglo, no es para estos tiempos.
Y aunque debo admitir que, en ciertos puntos tienes razón, debes pensar que para el tiempo en que fue escrita la novela, muchas mujeres eran obligadas a casarse sin opción a decir absolutamente nada y el plantear que, alguien con Elizabeth, pueda decir "no" es decir que tiene la facultad de poder opinar y decidir sobre su vida, que nadie más que ella o hará.

Por otro lado, Elizabeth no se "burlaba" de los demás, simplemente expresaba sus ideas y sí, muchas de esos pensamientos eran críticas hacia otras personas pero, ¿Quien no lo ha hecho alguna vez? Esto nos da a entender que, para esos tiempos donde la mujer era "inferior" al hombre o a la sociedad, el que una dama piense, opine y exprese duramente sobre algo era de por sí una cuestión polémica y de muy mal gusto. Sin embargo, la escritora se adelantó a sus tiempos, o simplemente quiso romper con esos estigmas y presentar una revolución entre párrafos.

Judith wrote: "It is difficult to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, Mari."
Nobody asked for a "battle of wits" and you should respect people's opinions.

Maia-Simona wrote: "Judith wrote: "It is difficult to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent, Mari."
Nobody asked for a "battle of wits" and you should respect people's opinions."

Hear hear!

Elizabeth, I'd hit that.

A Romance novel for all ages! Who doesn' t love the fact the Elizabeth has gotten Darcy wrong, but not completely.

But I have other provocations. You know I have. Had not my feelings decided against you—had they been indifferent, or had they even been favourable, do you think that any consideration would tempt me to accept the man who has been the means of ruining, perhaps for ever, the happiness of a most beloved sister?"

Darcy will make amends in the end! This is what is so satisfying.
He changes Elizabeths perception of him in every way.

"From the very beginning—from the first moment, I may almost say—of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."

Love, Love, Love this great novel.