PRIDE AND PREJUDICE ESSAY QUESTION TWO In Jane Austin's novel, Pride and Prejudice, the character portrayed by Mr Darcy embodies many of the values, personality traits, manners, and attitudes that were considered admirable in the period in which novel was set. Initially, his character is decided as proud with a cold demeanour and had he not been rich, hardly worth being acquainted with. Elizabeth's re evaluation of his character later on in the novel, reveals …showed first 75 words of 943 total…

…showed last 75 words of 943 total…aware of his values and attitudes through direct and indirect reporting. The conceited Darcy refusing to dance is transformed into a far more gentleman-like character and thus, his true qualities are revealed. Mr Darcy is an intelligent, handsome, wealthy, single man, which is exactly what women of the eighteenth century wanted. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" (p1)