Friday, March 13, 2009

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.

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