Can a literary work be without twists and turns within the plot? Can a literary work be excellent without leaving the readers with a little bit of healthy confusion? Throughout novel "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, Austen creates a sense of pleasure and disquietude for the readers. This healthy confusion that Austen delivers to the readers allows the novel to be enjoyable and quite rectifying. Across the plot of "Pride and Prejudice," Austen constructs a healthy confusion of pleasure and disquietude through her characters, love, and the Victorian era idea of being successful in life. .
Austen produces pleasure In "Pride and Prejudice" by adding humorous characters to keep readers engaged in the text. Mrs. Bennett is an example of a humorous character that Austen adds into the novel that makes it interesting and enjoyable to the readers. Mrs. Bennett can be seen as a humorous character because portrays her as an exaggerated, simple minded character. "Oh! My sweetest Lizzy! How rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have! Jane's is nothing to it-nothing at all," (Austen 255). .
A sense disquietude can also be seen in the novel through the characters because many of them are inconsistent and are on the ready to change their mind. Darcy is an inconsistent character within the novel because at the beginning of the novel, he does not enjoy Elizabeth. "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men," (Austen 7). Later on in the novel, Darcy finds her to be attractive and enjoyable and wanted to know her more. "But no sooner had he made clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. He was forced to acknowledge her figure to be light and pleasing.