OPINION ON THE CRITICISM BY JANE AUSTEN

In my opinion, pride comes in for the sharper criticism by Jane Austen. She has chosen to personify this characteristic in several characters in "Pride and Prejudice", although it is hard to find one character that portrays prejudice alone, throughout the novel. When prejudice does occur in this novel, Jane Austen showed with a famous character. Because prejudice is not real, I believe that it was not to be the main point of Jane Austen …

…in for the sharper criticism by Jane Austen. I think this because of her personification of pride such as Lady Catherine and the fact that the prejudice, which does occur in the novel, is occur with pride. Through the incidents spoken on above, prejudice has been shown to be a result of arrogant pride and because it is an underlying emotive in the prejudiced actions of the characters I feel it is more sharply criticized.