My ‘First Impressions’

A look through the novel, Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had an amazing break! Mine was quite busy, but now I’m back in school again and was assigned another work to read. This time it is (drum roll please) Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen. This work was quite something else, as it was way more dramatic than I could ever imagine. And the ending wasn’t very fulfilling but Ill get to that later. When I first heard that we were going to read this I was indifferent. I wasn’t intrigued or curious nor did I despise the idea of reading it. But now that I am done with this novel, it is very much like a soap opera. And I kind of liked it, though I did get kind of bored at some parts it was still an experience to read and look at different forms of writing. This work is more of a political one in a sense, as this novel talks about needing marriage to fix and upgrade their social class or even just doing it for money. It does have romance but the romance makes me want to pull my hair out of my head because of how infuriating it is and how long it takes to get to the good parts. Also, the ending wasn’t very satisfying but it did get its main point across so I consider it a win for them. If you’re interested in reading this work and don’t care about some highschooler’s impression of it then please keep reading so you can get a no-spoiler summary.

Hello, so you’re interested in Pride and Prejudice huh? well, look no further because here is an awesome summary that may or may not convince you to take a further look into Jane Austen’s, Pride and Prejudice. It starts with a handsome young rich male moving into town, however, he is a SINGLE young beautiful rich male. Which drives everyone wild, because he’s perfect status wise. You have to remember this was back during a time where etiquette was at an all-time high. And social class and status were really important. Anywho, Mrs. Bennet has A LOT of daughters, and she doesn’t believe that her husband, Mr. Bennet is going to live long and if he dies the family has no more finance because women were not allowed to do anything, like own properties, etc. And theirs an even bigger issue, none of her daughters are married! which means all of the money will be passed down to a distant cousin that they don’t even know that well. So Mrs. Bennet has a plan, marry off her daughters to these handsome rich young men.

My opinion of this work is… it’s okay. I wouldn’t say it’s this amazing work of art, and there were so many conversations and random things that would happen that would just keep going as if there was no end. I will say though, that even though I like works to be a more fast pace, a lot of my classmates loved the novel, so maybe you will too. Also, I love romance, but even that was only a little bit. There was no kiss scene or anything of the sort. I think I’m just upset because I’m a hopeless romantic. However, there was a wholesome romance like this that I really enjoyed, “Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of both were overspread with the deepest blush.” (Austen 43). I think this book is just about getting its real point across rather than fixating on one relationship, we get to see multitudes of relationships that would happen around that period. Some for status, money, family, and rarely for love itself, “Do anything rather than marry without affection.”(Austen 59). As I said, this is just some random highschoolers’ opinion, if you’re interested in the summary above than please take the time to read it. Even though I wasn’t satisfied, doesn’t mean you won’t also.