Pride and Prejudice includes many literary devices, themes
and different symbols. I believe this novel’s main theme is love. Love is the
universal theme happening throughout the book. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy fall in
love with each other as well as her other sisters, Jane and Lydia. Jane Austen
also includes the theme of reputation. In the novel, Elizabeth’s sister Lydia
runs off with Wickham who plan to run away and get married. If they decide to
elope, both Wickham and the Bennett’s family reputation will be ruined. The
Bennett’s family are a middle class family while the Wickham family is higher
than them. Prejudice is also a major theme considering that Elizabeth had some
comments about Mr. Darcy at the beginning of the novel.
Jane Austen uses foreshadowing and also symbolism. She uses
symbolism at the very beginning of the novel when she starts off by saying “It
is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good
fortune must be in want of a wife”. Austen gives us a little hint of what was
to expect in the novel. Jane also uses symbolism when she relates Mr. Darcy’s
estate as something artificial.
The author Jane Austen did a great job of involving many
themes, literary devices or symbols in the book and letting us relate it to ourselves, objects or even issues today in our
society.
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