Pride and prejudice

“The values which reveal Elizabeth Bennett to be an individual in her environment and how that individuality is expressed through Pride and Prejudice”






The Individual:

Elizabeth Bennett

The Environment:

The society of England in the 19th Century; its class structures and conventions.





‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune is in want of a wife’-------

This paradigm of 19th Century society, England is represented throughout Simon Langton’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’. This concept of marriage is only ever confronted by the protagonist of the film- Elizabeth Bennett, one of the most well known female characters in English literature. The second daughter in the Bennett family, and the most intelligent and quick-witted, her admirable qualities are numerous- she is lovely, clever, and in a text defined by dialogue she converses as brilliantly as anyone. Her honesty, vi...