Before opening the book I made some research.
Originally, the book was called First Impressions, written between 1796 and 1797, it was believed to be a collection of letters exchanged between the characters, not a novel. This may explain the title: Pride And Prejudice.
Pride : n. “Arrogant or disdainful conduct or treatment; haughtiness.
An excessively high opinion of oneself; conceit.”
Prejudice: n. n adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts.
A preconceived preference or idea.”
Both words have a negative connotation and a similar denotation, judgment. When you read someone’s letter to note the person’s tone and what he means to say, is challenging. Therefore you can easily fall in judgment of that person unreasonably because you miss the information that the tone of a voice gives you. I guess that’s why there are so many misunderstanding through BBM. Yet the book as we know it is written as a narrative, it’s different.
This version, published in 1813 attributes Jane Austen as her best and most popular novel that describes through a romantic story the classy rural life of the time. The title represents the kind of uneasy relationship that the two main characters carry, Elizabeth and Darcy. This acknowledgement surprised me, I find myself believing that most of today’s relationships have a big deal of pride and prejudice. Not only love relationships, but friendship, family and at school or work.
Not bad for a first glimpse at the next novel that will require a lot or time and response writing.
Great idea for a blog. It helped to put me in context with the novel and to have some information before I started reading. The definitions you posted and the relationship pf both characters was something I also suspected as I wrote in my blog.
ResponderEliminarVery interesting. I would have never though about doing something like this before starting my reading. It does actually help to know that the novel is based in a compilation of letters between the characters. Its like if all the conversations actually never happened, but rather they where written.
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