vendredi 24 octobre 2008

Summary of Pride & Prejudice





Elisabeth Bennet is a country girl of the XIX century in England. She's one of the five daughters of the Bennet's Family, who live in the small Hertfordshire village of Lougbourn, they are not so rich as the high society. Elisabeth is the favourite daughter of Mr Bennet, because she is wise and have a good common sense contrary to her mother who just thinks about marriage her daughters with a good and rich gentleman, she is obsessing about to find a good match for her daughters.

Mr Bingley a young gentlemen came to live in Loungbourn in the most beautiful house of this village, Netherfield. During a ball which was organized in the nearest town Meryton, Mr Bingley met for the first time Jenny Bennet and fall in love of the most beatiful daughter of the Bennet's family, as Elisabeth too met Mr Darcy, the best friend of Mr Bingley, who criticized Elizabeth for her lack of beauty. Mr Darcy seems a proud person who disdains the Bennet's family and their neighbours.
Elisabeth, after learning his dislike toward his family and after hearing from a soldier Mr Wickham, that he has abused him and through him from the house of his father after he die, Elizabeth found other reason to hate Darcy.

When Bingley leaves the countryside suddenly letting Jane without any news. Elizabeth though that somebody had made Bingley leave his house just to separate them. At first she suspected the Bingley's sister, who seemed to dislike the Bennet's daughters, but then she discovered that it was because of Darcy's reason.

After a lot of encounters between Elizabeth and Darcy while she was visiting her friend's new married, Charlotte, Darcy propose to Lizzy to marry him, but Elizabeth refuses him and questions him about the way that he misused Mr Wickham and for being the cause that Bingley abandoned Jane. Darcy explained himself writing a letter and then Lizzy started to love him.

Then she meets him again when she was visiting the gardens of his estate with her aunt and uncle. Darcy treats her with kindness and she believes he may still love her, but she learns that one of her younger sisters has gone with Mr Wckham who mislead Elizabeth and the rest of her family about Mr Darcy. Elizabeth returns home immediately.

When They found her sister the Bennet's family tried to made a marriage to dignified the honor of the family, and then Mr Darcy came to apply the hand of Elizabeth to Mr Bennet, as Mr Bingley did before for Jane and get engaged, then Darcy and Elizabeth do the same for their grand pleasure.

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