What does it mean to be animal?

I think that being human means having feelings and thoughts and beyond that, it’s consciousness. We’re considered as superior for our consciousness, other species don’t have it. Also, speaking and communication are a big part of human beings. Finally, humans are linked to a body, with two legs, two arms, a head… and are all destined to die soon or later.

Pride and Prejudices, the End

As known before to have read the book, the ending is really happy. Jane is married with Bingley, Elizabeth with Darcy and both have an excellent quality of life in their new house. Except for Lydia and Wickham who are still begging for money, we couldn't imagine better end. I was interested to know if these happy endings were kind of characteristical of Jane Austen, the author, and found several sources supporting this argument. Some could claim that it's bad and unrealistic but i personnaly oppose this thesis. In fact, as i said before, i really enjoyed how Jane Austen described the society of this time and i think it was enough to display the society's changes since this time. As a reader, we are supposed to use our brain and it should likely conduct us to think that the happy events at the end of Pride and Prejudices were very unlikely to occur. However, we can't blame her to make love triumph as much as comforting readers. I've thought about it and in spite of my certitude of the happy ending, i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have enjoyed any other kind of end.

Pride and Prejudices 2

Now we have read pretty much of the book, i can appreciate Austen's style easilier as much as the themes she brought up. Actually, the adorable ending is famous, but it's interesting to see how the autor manages to put characters together and to make readers' mind change. The first impressions we had about Darcy and Wickham are now totally reversed, Darcy being a gentleman and Wickham a seflish person thinking only of money. Even Mr Benett, who seemed very nice at first, now seems not to take care of his family, his brother Mr Gardiner occupying this role. However, Jane and Elizabeth keep the same way of acting, and remain nice to readers' point of view. I like the fact we can't really expect what is going to happen, particularly because the reactions characters have to events is characteristic of a time period we don't know well and can't totally imagine. I think this novel really accomplish the work of making characters interacting together, as a social network. At first, it was hard to understand well who were the main characters and what they were supposed to do, but now the action is etablished, this book is really easy and pleasant to read.