Pride and Prejudice 1-6

The characters in pride and prejudice are very jugmental and hypocritical. At the ball, Mr. Darcy "was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening." pg. 7, but later he was said to be the "most disagreeable man in the world" pg. 8. The gossip between the ladies allows them to make wild accutions and stories that either greatly degrades or boosts the victim's social status. The gossip also twists the people's ideas of other people. They are also very materialistic: "Mr. Darcy... having ten thousand a year. The ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley." I find that fact that they marry for money and social class very sad.

Christian Cotton Cortez Garberg Brown

I think it is wrong the way that the girls are "husband hunting." If they are going to get married it should be for love, not in order to get a man's wealth. However, this justifies the way the men treat the women. Darcy says,: She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and i am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men." Even though he is saying that he doesn't want to dance with Lizzie because she is ugly, it is justified. If he wasn't wealthyhe would be considered undesirable.