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Discuss the important of social class in Pride and Prejudice

" (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Page 5). Despite the fact that Mrs. Bennet hardly knows anything about Mr. Bingley but she is willing to arrange the marriage just to assure her daughter's social statues and financial stability. She does not concern about Bingley's personality at all. Austen through Mrs. Bennet suggests us how we are often judge by our social statue before people really get to know us.
             The difference of social classes often creates attitudes that are related to the title of this novel. These attitudes are pride and prejudice. The author used the character Darcy to show how his aristocratic self-awareness gives birth to his great pride that offends many people in the first ball he attended with Mr. Bingley. His pride and prejudice make people decide that "He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world" (P. 12). Darcy's refusal to dance with Elizabeth Bennet suggests to the readers how he judges people due to his prejudice, which is the consequence of his social status as he views others as inferior than him "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me" (P. 13). Miss Bingley is another example of the upper class people that are lacking of the basic virtue. Her prejudice in favorite the upper class or rich people exemplify her negative view on the group of people who are inferior to her by classes. The reason she dislikes Elizabeth result from her jealousy of Darcy paying more attention to Elizabeth rather than herself. It bothers her because she thinks she is superior to Elizabeth both financially and socially. Jane Austen through Miss Bingley's prejudice showed the reader how the awareness of the class different would lead to the sense of prejudice that mislead people like Miss Bingley criticizes others only base on her own assumptions "I do not like it at all there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which she is intolerable." (P. 221). .


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