Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Pride and Prejudice: Pride

Greetings webalodians!
So, for my outside reading, you can obvioiusly see that I am readin Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. When I started reading the book, i knew automatically that the motif was pride. Why might you ask? Because within the first few chapters, pride was already mentioned. LIke how Mr. Darcy was so sure of himself, that he didn't even need to socialize with the other people in the room. And how he was so rude to others who weren't in his same social class. So, in just a few words... you could say he had his ego shoved up his butt.
Also, there was nothing else that really stood out. I mean, when it came to imagery, it was extremely vague. For example, when Mr. Bingly was described, it was 'good-looking and gentlemanly.' Absolutely no specifics. And I feel that there really wasn't any irony in the book. But if there was, then the motif still would've dominated. The point of view was third person omniscient throughout the entire book! Which bored me, because I wanted to get an opinion from the narrator, but it was sort of like reading a textbook. And obviously if there was no opinion from the narrator, that also meant that there was no tone... except for maybe informational.
That's what I think of Pride and Prejudice. I mean, don't get me wrong the plot is fantastic. But I think that Jane could've made it more interesting to read, like put some of her opinion in the story. But I'm still glad that I chose the book.