PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Introduction

In form, it has been noted, Pride and Prejudice is highly dramatic. Each character is introduced with a short summary much like those found in play scripts. It has often been pointed out that Jane Austen's novels deal only with the world of which she had firsthand knowledge. They are set in the ballrooms, the drawing rooms, the bedrooms, and the gardens where, like the ladies in her books, she spent her life. Her books do not reflect the political turmoil of her time, revolution and conquest on the Continent, fears of revolution in Great ...