Assigment #3

The theme of Pride and Prejudice is to never base your opinion of someone based on first impressions or what someone has told you.  As we can clearly see, Elizabeth’s whole opinion is based on what she saw when she first meet him and what her boyfriend told her.  Mr. Darcy also does likewise towards Jane.  The only thing that seems inportant to the characters in this story is to marry rich and to be contented.  It seems Mrs. Bennet is soley commited to her daughters marrying rich, and she doesn’t care who she insults or bothers on the way.  It is very apparent that money and social standing is what motivates the people of this tale.  To these people social and marital standing are everything.  In the nineteenth century it sems no one married for love, or if you did it was a rare ocassion.  It is apparent when Mr. Darcy proposes to Elizabeth, and makes it quite clear that his family will dissaprove because she is beneath him.  In a way people are motivated in the same way.  I mean what young girl does not dream of marrying her rich prince charming?  If we wern’t motivated by money there wouldn’t be such thing as a golddigger.  However, in a way, more people marry for love today than in the nineteenth century.  So, I think it’s tit-for-tat.