First “Misleading” Impressions

Cypress Ranch High School Ms. Piotrowsky 3rd Period English K/Dual First Misleading Impression In Jane Austens pridefulness and disfavor the most roughhewn and concurrent theme is probably the theme of source impression. The entire unused, from beginning to end, travels around conclusions made from first impressions and how, in cases, they are wrong. In fact, the first proposition for the title of the novel was First Impressions not fleece and Prejudice. As the theme of the novel progresses, characters realize that their conclusions made based on first impressions were flawed.As this happens, new relationships develop. Jane Austen take down makes the contributor believe or create its own first impressions solitary(prenominal) to later realize that they were wrong. During this season period, the idea of wealth and class was predominant among society therefore, most first impressions were based on the follow of m acey a person had or on his/her ancestry. The main theme of f irst impressions goes around Elizabeth, the heroine, and Darcy, her eventual(prenominal) husband, the chief obstacle resides in the books original title First Impressions. (Sherry, Pride and Prejudice limits of society) At the ball, Mr. Bingley encourages Mr. Darcy to dance with Elizabeth but he refuses by stating, she is tolerable, but not handsome enough to inveigle him (Austen 13) and Elizabeths first impression about Mr. Darcy is that he is proud, above his company, and above being pleased (Austen 17). The reader understands that physical appearance is not the only factor that drives Mr. Darcy towards that opinion, but her lack of wealth and her vast family are. end-to-end the novel the reader experiences realizations and breaks of views.At first Austen makes the reader create false impressions, just as the characters in the novel, only to later realize that the opinions the reader had about the characters were flawed. Many critics agree that In this novel by Jane Austen, we begettert only see how first impressions affect relationships, but we also see how the characters in this tarradiddle experience transformation through their experiences of first impressions, pride and prejudice. (Stasio, An Evolutionary Approach to Jane Austen). Ironically enough, Elizabeth realizes that they had entirely imitation Mr.Darcys character (Austen 219). What at first was a feeling of string repulsion towards one some other slowly became a feeling of attraction. As the novel progresses, different events occur that come to the final transformation of Elizabeths first impressions. She learns through different sources that Mr. Darcy is not the man she believes him to be and that most of the rumors she has heard (from Mr. Wickham) are twisted truths. At the end, as the final process of her realization, she says that Vanity, not love, has been my folly.Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the indifference of the other, on the real beginning of our acqua intance, I have courted prepossession pride and ignorance, and driven reason away where any were concerned. Till this mowork forcet, I never knew myself. Austen contrasts the theme of first impression with the relationship that develops at the beginning of the novel between Mr. Bingley and Jane. She develops a relationship based in a vision of love in which women and men care about each other with a passionate tenderness.Jane and Bingley have a natural compatibility for one another. (Bonaparte, Conjecturing Possibilities) In this relationship, there are no feelings of avarice or greed because It was generally evident, whenever they met, that he did venerate her and to her it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love. (Austen 22). Neither of them was worried with wealth, class or family heritage. On the other hand, Mr. Bingleys sister, Caroline, and his takeoff r ocket Mr.Darcy believe that Janes family was not high enough in the social ladder and therefore she did not deserve him. They even tried to intervene in their relationship by breaking them up, but at the end they end up marrying each other. There is no doubt that Jane Austen wanted to install a sense of realization regarding first and false impressions in the readers mind. Pride and Prejudice helps society understand how it behaves through real life examples developed by fictional characters such as Jane, Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy, etc.Pride and Prejudice is a signaling of protest Austen uses to rebel against her society and its dependence on first impressions. She tries to make us understand that nigh always first impressions are wrong. However, she is not implying that society should eliminate them from society, but rather undermine and take exception them because they are not entirely true. WORKS CITED Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813. New York W. W. Norton, 2001 Bonaparte, Felicia. CONJECTURING POSSIBILITIES READING AND MISREADING TEXTS IN JANE AUSTENS pride AND PREJUDICE. Pride and Prejudice. New York W. W. Norton, 2001. Web. http//content. ebscohost. com/pdf10/pdf/2005/SNV/01Jun05/17682767. pdf? T=PP=ANK=17682767S=RD=a9hEbscoContent=dGJyMNHr7ESep644v%2BbwOLCmr0mep7FSrqm4S7OWxWXSContentCustomer=dGJyMOzprk%2B2qLZNuePfgeyx44Dt6fIA. Sherry, James. 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