He's Mine.

On Sunday I was watching a novela. A typical Colombian story, where the man falls in love with the woman he is not supposed. There were two wealthy families one of them had a son and the other a daughter who obviously was madly in love with the son. And wanted to marry him just because he was “ Mr.Right”. One day he goes to the girl’s house and falls in love with the maid that worked there. As the story continued, he visited the house very often and the lady stared to realize that he was not there to see her but the maid.

The situations are different. In Pride and Prejudice there is no maid, still I could not help but relate it with the book. In the beginning of the novel Darcy shows no interest for Elizabeth in fact he says that she is “tolerable but not handsome enough to tempt me” (7). But as the novel continues he is attracted by her beauty and attitude until the point where “she attracted him more than he liked” (44). Miss Bingly is very confident that she is better and Elizabeth and always tries to impress Mr.Darcy. Until she realizes that he’s not interested in her and saw he was interested in Elizabeth. She “suspected enough to be jealous”(38.)

Then it hit me, both situations are alike because of jealously. In both cases there is one woman that think she’s better than the other but the man ends up falling for the “less” one. Jealously is present in most love stories. It is more like the chase for the man and the competition between the women to see which one can get him. Even though Austen wrote this novel about 200 years there are some aspects that although differently happened in that time period but also in this one. If you think about it jealously is present in our every day lives. And what it really becomes is a competition to see who can get the prize.