Pride & Prejudice
First Impressions First impressions are very important. In the Victorian age, people based their whole opinion of someone on first impressions. Most times the first impression of someone is not the way they truly are. Sometimes a first impression can cause you to think negative of someone but later you find out that they are very nice and a very positive person. One example is when Mr. Darcy meets Elizabeth in the book ,Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth thinks Mr.darcy is a cruel and arrogant person, but she later finds out that he is not. Also in, Pride and Prejudice when Elizabeth meets Mr. Wickham she gets the impression that he is very nice and gentlemen like, but she finds different with him too. In the story " The Importance of being Ernest" Lady Bracknell does not like Jack because he does not have any money and does not live up to her standards, but little does she know. In "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Elizabeth thinks Mr. Darcy is a very rude and self centered p!erson based on what she saw the first time they met or actually the first time they saw each other. Elizabeth over heard Mr. Darcy talking to Mr. Bingley at a ball and didn't really like what she heard. "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt m
ocial indiscretion." Lady Bracknell is a very greedy person, later in the story she finds out that Jack really does have parents and has a lot of money. She now excepts Jack but only because of the money and the fact that he has parents. First impression were more important back in the Victorian age. As you can see in both of these stories everybody judges by their first impressions. Most of them are wrong, first impressions should always be reexamined. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beck 4 Work Cited 1. Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice New York, The New American Library, Inc. 2. Wilde, Oscar "The Importance of Being Earnest." Adventures in English Literature. Harcourt Brace Jovanich, Inc. 1980-85 e." ( Austen 12) Mr. Darcy thinks he is much to good for some people and has very high expectations. at one point n Beck 2 the story Mr. Darcy starts to fall in love with Elizabeth. Elizabeth knows he has changed but relizes he is beginning to act like Mr. Bingley. " In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." (Austen 161) Elizabeth does not have the same feelings for him, and why should she he was very rude and arrogant to
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