Some Ideas.

From the moment we start reading we can guess the novel is going to be about pride and prejudice or at least something related to it. The novel is mainly a love story. It starts off with a mother of five daughters and how she wants them to marry well. That is the first clue that it will talk about love. Then Mr.Bingly comes up, another hint because he will probably marry one of the daughters. Austen gives us another clue when Mr.Darcy arises and the way he treats Elizabeth. When the Bennet sisters stay at Mr.Bingly’s house, Miss.Bingly gets jealous when she notices how Darcy looks at Elizabeth. That again, is Austen giving us another clue.

Besides love, there are other topics that recur in the novel, prejudice is one them. The whole novel is based on it and society in that time was to. What people thought about you was very important and that relates to social classes. We see the high society and the middle class and even if it is a broad topic it still affects some characters or situations in the novel. For example, at some point Jane does feel pressure when she receives a letter from Ms.Bingly saying that his brother had gone to London and was with Darcy’s sister. Mr. Collins is another example of this. He is an idiot and I don’t like him. The way he was so sure that Elizabeth would marry him and how he brags about Miss. De Bough, makes me think he just cares to be in the “V.I.P” list of the time.
Arranged marriages can be a datable topic. They don’t actually appear in the novel but that’s how it can be seen. Mrs.Bennet wants a wealthy man for their daughters and in some way chooses for them. Elizabeth’s aunts also tell her that she should not marry Mr. Wickham because he is not wealthy enough. I know that that’s how things were done back then. But comparing it with today’s society may be something interesting. Also, Elizabeth can be seen as a rebel, the one that goes against what is known as normal.

I love how Austen exposes the relationship between characters. And I think that would be really interesting to look at. Each of the five sisters is different and their mother acts differently with each of them. Jane and Elizabeth have a stronger bond between them than with the others. The way Jane and Bingly act compared to how Darcy and Elizabeth flirt with each other. The characters in my opinion are the essence of the novel. How they act and the way they are connected by some reason is what triggers novel. Because an act one characters does ends up affecting many if not all of them.

There can be many things to discuss about this novel. Those were just some ideas that interest me, especially the character one. Of course they can all change as I finish reading.