Life of Pi (blog 4)

For my final blog on the Life of Pi I would like to venture back to the beginning of the book in order to understand the book as a whole. Shortly after the boat sinks, Pi believes that he should be on the brink of rescue and that everyone is searching for him and any surviving crew members.

“I was certain I wasn’t alone. It was inconceivable that the Tsimtsum should sink without eliciting a peep of concern. Right now in Tokyo, in Panama City, in Madras, in Honolulu, why, even in Winnipeg, red lights were blinking on consoles, alarm bells were ringing, eyes were opening wide in horror… Even submarines were swerving under water to join in the rescue effort. WE WOULD BE RESCUED SOON.”

In my opinion, I believe that Pi’s positive outlook on the whole situation is what kept fueling his fire which pushed him to survive. Without this idea of being rescued in the back of his mind, who knows how early he would have died off, he would have lost all motivation to undergo basic life processes ultimately ending his life at an early stage. I think that along with Pi’s continuous practice of religion and the pit stop he makes on the algae island (which I will get to later) are what kept him alive. When looking at this quote more in depth I discovered what may be another meaning; Pi thought that the world around him would stop everything in search for an Indian boy and his family, but in fact, just the opposite. If anything the search was called off after a day (if they even searched for survivors) which to me shows the sheer insensitivity of humanity. Nobody came looking for him but Pi didn’t know that. What propelled him to move on was the thought of being reunited with his family; that is most likely what allowed him to survive 227 days.

Continuing on, I would also like to talk about the algae island because the island itself has alternate meanings which seem to be really ironic. This island gives life by day and takes away life by night. If it wasn’t for this island, I am not quite sure how much longer Pi would have been able to make it. It renewed his hope along with Richard Parker’s life. The island symbolizes the different obstacles in life; some things can save you, while others can kill you. Pi knew this and shortly left the island after he found the human tooth inside the flower (symbolizing what I just said; if you stay there too long it will destroy you.)

In conclusion, I really loved the message that both the book and the movie Life of Pi portrayed. It was definitely a phenomenal book that inspired me to always appreciate my family, my faith and the things around me.

Life of Pi (blog 3)

     While perusing the internet I found a very good question that one may ask after reading the book Life of Pi, “How can you believe in God when Western societies seem organized around science and consumerism rather than religion? And if you do choose to believe in God, how do you guard against the twin temptations of intolerance and extremism?”

     I thought that the novel answered this question in several different ways that aren’t completely visible on the surface. One would be that Pi chooses to accept religion over science by basically over accepting religion. By this I mean that he questions the primal question of religion itself- is there something greater than just us? He questions it so harshly that he searches for the answer among three separate religions. Pi never comes out with this vocally, but one could only imagine that is why he followed so many different types of faith. “All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” With this quote I believe that Pi is trying to say that even though you might think following so many religions is insane, that is literally what might save you. In other words, being crazy can sometimes be acceptable.

     Another answer for this question could be that Pi was searching for more than science could explain. If you think about it, Pi grew up in a zoo surrounded by the ideas of biology and evolution; of course he is going to want to search for something greater, something that can’t just be broken down by equations in a textbook. I think he was searching for love.

   The second question I found asking how you could prevent the temptation of intolerance and extremism is a little bit harder to answer. In this novel, Pi always took the optimistic route like his mother and was questioning everything, constantly wanting answers to more and more. His father, on the other hand always saw things in black and white. More of a pessimist this fellow was.  Anyways Pi did not want to be like his father at all, and was upset with all the negativity that he father seemed to always present. “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.” With this, Pi knew that you couldn’t get anywhere if you didn’t have faith in something and that is the key to answering this question. He did not become an extremist in any way because he knew his father was more an extremist of doubting and he saw how far that took him.

     To conclude, that is why I believe Pi opens his heart to three different religions while being sure to not go over board and become what one might call an extremist.

Life of Pi (blog 2)

The next aspect of the Life of Pi that I want to mention/ touch up on is the different cultures that Pi experiences through out the length of the book. He grows up right outside the French quarters of Pondicherry in I guess would be called the Indian quarters. Pi describes the French quarters to be elegant and looking like a beautiful French costal town, but once you travel a little further down the road you would hit the Indian quarters. He describes these as being filled with street markets where you could smell the different spices lingering about and general chit chatter all around. To me, Pondicherry sounds like the perfect place to grow up in, and if you think about it, Pi is extremely lucky because he gets to grow up in a gosh darn Zoo! That sounds like a good childhood to me! Once he learns that he will be moving out of India to somewhere in Canada, he is crushed. Who wouldn’t be? I mean you spend your whole life growing up in one culture and one place, one place that you call home. Then you learn that you are going to have to assimilate into a completely different type of culture, where I am assuming there would not be a lot of people that looked quite like Pi. If you ask me I think Pi got screwed over on that deal, but families have to do what they have to do to keep on so I guess the parent’s actions are justifiable. The only sad thing about Pi leaving to me was that he had to leave that girl, the one that he was really good friends with and possibly loved…
     Along side those cultures would be the religion aspect that I have already mentioned. Pi was surrounded by different religious experiences and it is not surprising that he couldn’t pick just one. He was definitely pressured into picking one by each of the “representatives” of those religions and I’m proud of Pi not giving into their demands.
     Overall, I believe that the cultures that Pi grows up with help him along his way while surviving in the ocean. You can argue that Pi’s consistency in religion over the period of the voyage is what single handedly saved him, but I still think that his raising in those particular cultures influenced a lot of his decisions. For instance, Pi was a vegetarian and when he killed a fish for the first time, he almost could not live with himself and the “murderer” that he believed he had become. I just don’t think that religion alone saved Pi because you can pray and pray and then pray some more but if God is not hand delivering some food and fresh water, you are going to die sooner or later… just saying. Anyways that is why I believe the difference in cultures is an important aspect to not overlook while reading this novel.

Life of Pi (blog 1)

For my next blog/ paper I have chosen to read the Life of Pi. I have read this book twice before and seen the movie countless times and every time I reread it, something new always pops out which really interests me. If you have not read the book yet, let me just give you a little spoiler alert that the entire novel I believe is to be based around three religions that the main character, Pi Patel, focuses on. Pi is born a Hindu who then becomes a Catholic followed by becoming a Muslim. What is quite impressive about this is that he finds a way to follow each religion at the same time even though there are thousands of gods in one religion while only one in the other two. Pi’s family never seems to support his decision about which religion to choose and gives him a hard time about it. However, in the end, his father seems to pull through and be the most supportive of his son and backs Pi’s statement up about just wanting to love God.

The beginning of the novel starts out with Pi telling us of his back ground and his interest in something more than just the natural world. I find it ironic that he lives in a zoo his whole life and is familiar with evolution and biology yet he seeks what cannot be explained, that is the thousands of religions out there. That partially might be the reason why he wanted to follow so many religions in the first place.

Moving on to the tiger Richard Parker, I have done some research about that name in particular and many men with this name have been victims of cannibalism, something that stood out to me because of the fact of what happens while Pi is trying to survive with this six hundred pound Bengal tiger. Something else worth looking at would be the possibility of Richard Parker being Pi’s alter ego. I only say this because Richard Parker does the things that Pi cannot bring himself to doing. For example, killing the hyena who has a human counterpart as the cook in Pi’s second story. This alter ego could explain the lashing out of Pi’s violent behaviors.

I just wanted to through in at the end here that I love this book because it brings so many different things together and allows you to experience a different type of culture from India. It is not every day that you get to read about Vishnu and Allah along with Christ all in one novel. To conclude, I am very happy about getting to read and write a paper about the greatest book ever written, The Life of Pi.

Frankenstein (blog 4)

     In the final chapters of Frankenstein, the monster goes through some crazy experiences that further his development as an individual in to the human world. First, he learns how to read and expands his knowledge of the language that he has been observing with the cottagers. He also accepts the fact he is completely different and the only one of his kind. But instead of using that as something to be held back by, he uses it as power in an effort to be accepted by his creator, Dr. Frankenstein. Upon studying Felix, Agatha and Safie (the cottagers) the monster reads the book Paradise Lost and compares himself to being both a son of Adam but also a counterpart to Satan. The monster is yearning for someone he can share his knowledge with and I believe that that is partially why he was so motivated earlier by violence and the urge to kill Dr. Frank that he ended up killing his little brother, William. When the monster told us of how he went on a rampage after finding the letters written by Dr. Frank describing his disgust in his creation, you almost have to feel a sense of pity for the monster. Only because in every aspect of his life he has been shunned, he has NO ONE else to care about him and no one to care about. I do think his actions went a little overboard by strangling William but he was in the right mind to be completely enraged by learning of this. I think that he wanted not only revenge against Frankenstein but humans as a whole as he has been accepted by none of them. Feeling a sense of loneliness, he implores Dr. Frank to create a female monster to keep him company. He believes that having this female companion could reduce his urge to kill and he could finally have someone to share his life with, something that he has been yearning for for a very long time.  
     Let’s focus on Victor for a while. He is nothing but tethered to this monster as he is responsible for its creation and has nothing but bad fortunes because of it. He agrees to make this female monster hoping that its formation will solve all his problems. Soon he is knee deep into the new monster when he thinks “what if they reproduce?” The thought of this frightens him so much that he destroys all his progress. The monster finds out about this and becomes enraged, vowing that he will see Victor on his wedding night. I honestly now feel really bad for Victor because it seems like every move is a bad move and no matter what he does, he cannot escape this nightmare that he is in. The monster becomes responsible for killing Henry (close friend of Victors). Victor is completely over whelmed with guilt and can think of nothing else but the horror that is to come upon the night of his wedding. The day soon arrives and Victor and Elizabeth are happily married, however, Victor is preoccupied with the promise of the monster. He soon realizes that the monster wasn’t set on getting even with him, but destroying every aspect of Victor’s life to the point where he is completely and utterly alone, just like the monster. With that said, the monster now murders Elizabeth.
     Victor is now so completely alone and filled with guilt as he knows that all of these murders can be linked back to him. He vows the rest of his life to getting revenge on the monster and destroying it completely. I believe still that the monster is another subconscious to Victor. However, it took a dramatic turn and flipped Victor’s life around to the worst. That in someone teaches a lesson. You should just be okay with being who you are and not trying to force something upon yourself that is too drastic as it can destroy every aspect of your life as we have seen here. To conclude, I really liked this novel, even though it was really weird. It had an ending that wasn’t all happy and something that you don’t see every day, and something that I found very interesting.

Frankenstein (blog3)

The next section of Frankenstein that I have read is quite sad. After Justine is executed for the assumption that she killed William (when in fact she truly was innocent), Victor becomes completely overwhelmed with guilt because he knows that the creation of the monster is to blame for her death. He becomes extremely depressed and even contemplates suicide, but decides against it for the sake of Elizabeth and his father. His father notices this depression in the overall morale of the family and decides to go on an outing into the wilderness. Victor’s grief and guilt are soon turned around by a sense of surreal nature. I believe that this nature takes him out of the funk that he was in because it is so opposite to what he has recently become responsible for.

Sadly, Victor’s happiness is sort lived as he is almost mauled by the monster. All of a sudden this thing starts talking and you’re just like what?!?! He can talk?!?! For the first time, the monster seems human; he has emotional and verbal qualities that you would never think something that hideous sounding could ever possess. To me Victor’s real fear now is that this monster could possibly be smarter than him. As the monster is telling us of the hardships he has had to overcome since his creation, I felt bad for the guy. He was created out of some sick experiment and has had nothing to live for and no one to care for him. Not to mention everyone screams and runs when they see him, don’t tell me you wouldn’t take that personally haha. Even with that said, the monster (ironically enough) blames Victor for all the evil things he has done, “remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel.” Is he telling us that he believes Victor to be his God? Which I think is somewhat weird because if the monster is this opposite subconscious, that last quote makes no sense. Unless he was implying that he makes his own rules to life or something like that… I’m not really sure.

Further into the novel, the monster’s story becomes somewhat ironic. He tells us of how he had to learn every human quality from scratch and once knowledge is gained it cannot be erased. “Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock.” I think that this is mentioned here to further compare the ironies of the monster to Victor. For instance, Victor has gained all this knowledge of life and how to create it, and because of this he has become completely powerless to control his urge to act upon it. Furthermore, he cannot get rid of this knowledge that I think deep inside he wants nothing more to do than erase it all so he had no chance of building the monster. In contrast, I can infer that the monster wants to gain knowledge of the human race so he can feel one with someone, and not so alone. To sum up, that opposite characteristic to me solidifies my belief on this evil twin thing going on with Frankenstein.

Frankenstein (blog 2)

The next section of Frankenstein portrays the mood change of the novel from what was once an informative diary to something with a little bit more tragedy and horror. Victor pursues his knowledge more than any other aspect of his social life. He gains all the knowledge he can get before his curious mind takes over. After that, we learn that Victor isolates himself from the world for several months becoming completely obsessed with his creation that his overly eager mind had conjured up. This monster that Victor pieces together, I believe it to be an evil twin to his subconscious because he lived this pretty much picture perfect childhood and this thing that is created is something so opposite from him and anything human in general. When Victor finally decides to spark this puppy to life the result terrifies him and is utterly horrifying. He tries to go to sleep but is haunted with harrowing nightmares from the abomination that he has brought to life. I believe the nightmares to symbolize this opposite subconscious that I was talking about, Victor can’t handle what he made because it is foreshadowing the death of Elizabeth (as we find out to be very ill in the future), not to mention the horror of the whole situation. He awakes with this thing standing over him with this devilish smile and runs out of his apartment, screaming like a girl I can imagine. Who can blame him though? Because I know for a fact that if any one of you woke up with this thing standing over the top of you, you might just freak out to!
Victor wants to escape from the evil genius scientific world that he has created. Very quickly, he falls extremely ill. But almost if by fate, a close friend of his finds him and nurses him back to health, his name is Henry.

Henry came to Ingolstadt to study science just like Victor and brings him back into the realm of sciences that Victor was trying to escape from. This brings back all the memories of the horrific monster that has tormented him for so long. However, Henry also brought good with him. He brought Victor back into the social world and is caring towards him. I believe that Henry would be the foil to Victor for that reason alone.

Further into the novel, we learn that Henry receives a letter from his sister Elizabeth while he was sick. In this letter she tells us that after the death of their mother, an old family member has moved back in with them, Justine Moritz. The story gets a little crazier when Justine is accused of murdering Victor’s brother William. He goes for a walk to try and clear his head and sees the monster looming about the location where William’s body was found. At that moment, Victor knows that Justine is in fact innocent and the monster must be responsible for the horrible death of William. However, he doesn’t want to tell anyone this because he is afraid that everyone will see him as insane. So were just going to have to keep going to see what his reaction is to help save Justine.

Frankenstein (blog 1)

     Frankenstein opens with letters written from Robert Walton to his sister Margaret Seville in England. He tells her of the tremendous journey that he has embarked on, traveling to the North Pole, and how extremely lonely he has become. It seems like all the men he has to share his time with on this trip are all being belittled by him. Robert says that no one is as educated as he is and therefore he cannot keep a good conversation with them. “You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are, like my own, to approve or amend my plans.” (pg. 18) Really though if you think about it, he is surrounded by a bunch of sailors who I can only imagine speak with no filter whatsoever, so I guess I do feel bad for this Robert fellow.
     Mr. Walton’s so far uneventful trip then turns around as he rescues a man on a sheet of ice as he is sailing his way towards his destination. This man was in terrible conditions, “His limbs were nearly frozen and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering. I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.” (pg.24) This man passes out and Robert intends on studying him very intently. He labels him as being “wild and mad, yet kind at the same time”. However, this man has Robert’s utmost attention and the deficit of having someone to call a friend is no longer an issue, “I said in one of my letters, dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.” (pg. 26)
     Once we venture into the actual book, the narrators change from Robert Walton to Victor Frankenstein. Victor tells us of his family and his life growing up. He is always surrounded by his friends and those that love him. Victor’s life seemed idyllic, other than the fact that his family took in an orphaned girl named Elizabeth; there wasn’t much for him to complain about. When growing up, Victor becomes interested in the natural sciences. He studies the alchemists and later learns that all of that studying was for nothing, how unfortunate! Victor goes off to college after his mother dies and takes classes on chemistry and anatomy. His classes don’t seem to satisfy his urge of learning so he begins constructing a human of his own, completely isolating himself from his friends and family. In a nut shell, this guy becomes obsessed and that is never a good thing...
     As for now, I am really liking this book because it is something so different compared to everything I have read so far. Frankenstein is very interesting and I am excited to keep reading.

Pride and Prejudice {blog 4}

     Finishing the book Pride and Prejudice is something that I can say I am really glad I have accomplished. I did not hate the book but I did not love it either. To me, it seemed like the ending was just thrown together in order to finfish the book as fast as possible. The major problems of the book never went into much detail on how they were resolved and even then the way they were overcome, they seemed to all take the easy road out.
     It was obvious that eventually Elizabeth and Darcy/ Jane and Mr. Bingley would get married. Maybe that was the reason that I did not like the book, because it was in the end just a typical love story; the characters had to overcome some obstacles in order to truly be happy. Anyways, when Elizabeth changes her mind about Darcy it is very interesting because she goes at first from hating the man to not being able to live without him. Darcy wants to be her husband very badly but leaves it up to her decision, “You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.” (pg. 420) It is a good thing that Elizabeth this time said yes because I think a different answer might have literally killed Mr. Darcy.
     Mrs. Bennet brags about how her daughters have married themselves into the best lives possible. Her husband still doesn’t really enjoy her but he has to live with her, “ I wish I could say, for the sake of her family, that the accomplishment of her earnest desire in the establishment of so many of her children produced so happy an effect as to make her a sensible, amiable, well-informed woman for the rest of her life; though perhaps it was lucky for her husband, who might not have relished domestic felicity in so unusual a form, that she still was occasionally nervous and invariably silly.” (pg. 432) All I can really say about the mother is that at the end of the day all she really strived for was the happiness of her family but her ways of reaching that were always annoying and made her seem too high strung. Jane Austen set the mother and the daughters so far apart from each other in the novel, personality wise, that that is why the book may be interesting to some.
     At the end of the novel, no one really changed their social class or the way they looked at social class other than Mr. Darcy. His love surpassed the feeling he had of marrying a woman beneath him so I give him a pat on the back for that one. The character least changed in this way I believe to be Lady Catherine. She is a wretched woman who doesn’t approve of anything it seems and I will leave it at that.
     To conclude, Pride and Prejudice was yet again just another typical love story with a typical ending. Jane Austen brought the characters together despite the massive differences they shared and with that I applaud her. But I still must say that overall I did not enjoy the book, maybe I will have better luck with Frankenstein…

 

Pride and Prejudice {blog 3}

In the next section of Pride and Prejudice that I have read, I believe the most important part would be the fact that Mr. Darcy has proposed marriage to Elizabeth. The entire novel adds up to this moment because I think that subconsciously both characters are completely in love with each other but are either too full of their pride or prejudice (yes Mattie, I did say it again… acca believe it! Haha) to actually profess their love for one another.

I found it to be very interesting that Mr. Darcy took back all the things that he said about Elizabeth and admitted to sabotaging the relationship shared by Mr. Bingley and Jane. It was undoubtedly extremely difficult for him to confess all these things to Elizabeth as he probably has never been told what to do in his entire life, and that is just not in his character to do so. “His sense of her inferiority—of its being a degradation—of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit.” But I think in doing so, something clicked in him that he has never felt before, the want and need for a woman just like Elizabeth.

Back in those days I am told that marriage was more of a contract between a man and woman, more political than emotional if you will, and love was just this “added bonus”. Do you remember Elizabeth was supposed to marry Mr. Collins because he was in the best position to support her and the rest of her family. Yet Elizabeth was a rebel of her time and knew that even though this guy was well off, his creeper status just ruined the entire package. So with this in mind, I think that a major aspect of this novel would be the effect of love or even the prospect of love over time. I say this because nowadays if you love someone you will probably marry them given time and age etc. But back then it was such a different story, you could love someone but (this is really harsh to say it this way) if there not wealthy or able to support you and a family then your love is probably all for nothing.

I can support this idea when later in this section Lydia Bennet decides to run away with Mr. Wickham. Every member of her family member freaks out because they think that he is not a suitable match for her and in running away with him, Lydia has sacrificed the reputation of the family name. Eventually when Mr. Gardiner and Mr. Bennet leave to London to find her, the mother decides that it is better Lydia get married to him than to nobody at all. Which makes no sense to me because who would want to marry a liar? So in the end Lydia marries Mr. Wickham mostly just because her mother fears that no one else would come for her.

With everything that has happened so far, I think that the author Jane Austen wanted to illustrate the way people can change over an extended period of time. All of the characters are either falling in love or falling away from it and I’m interested to see what happens now between Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth after the first offer of engagement.

Pride and Prejudice {blog 2}

     During the next part of the book we are introduced to a couple new characters, one of which is the odd Mr. Collins. He is to inherit the Bennet household after Mr. Bennet dies and therefore that sparks some kind of passion in the mother’s eyes to make it her quest to get one of her daughters to marry him. The mother in this novel sounds like a real piece of work. She is so obnoxious and constantly is making a fool out of herself. It seems to me that the only thing she really wants now is for her daughters to get married just so she can get them all out of the house.
      Back to Mr. Collins, he is interested in Jane but then changes his interest towards Elizabeth when he discovers that Jane will probably be married to Mr. Bingley. Honestly, I think this guy just wants to strike it lucky and will settle for whatever he can get. After a few days, Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth who in turn tries to reject him as nicely as possible because she is interested in another man, Mr. Wickham.
      Mr. Wickham is a solider whom the girls found quite charming when they ventured into town one day. He caught the eye of Elizabeth almost immediately. However when the two of them stumbled upon Mr. Darcy, they had a less than friendly conversation. It turns out that Darcy’s father had left a sum of money for Wickham (who was supposedly like another son to his father) but cheated him out of it and Wickham never saw a cent. Eventually we learn that this is actually just a big lie but Elizabeth doesn’t know that yet. She is invited to a ball that Mr. Wickham is supposed to be attending but is crushed to find out that he is no where to be found.
     Later, Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy leave Netherfield and Jane is heartbroken because Mr. Bingley basically told her that what ever they had between them can be no more. Everyone is in shock that Mr. Bingley could have done that to such a sweet and innocent girl, so Jane finds comfort in going to live with the Gardeners in London for awhile to try and get over her recent loss of love.
     Elizabeth is stunned to learn that her best friend Charlotte Lucas has been asked by Mr. Collins to marry him. She is extremely let down by Charlotte because she thinks she can do so much better than him (Elizabeth still thinks that this guy is an annoying creep). Elizabeth and Charlotte fight over this and eventually Charlotte leaves to move in with Mr. Collins. Elizabeth feels badly about what she said to her so she visits Charlotte in her new home and we are just going to have to keep reading to find out what happens there.

Pride and Prejudice {blog 1}

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The starting phrase of Pride and Prejudice sets the tone for the rest of the novel with two main characters, Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy.

           When news of the two of them coming to town spread, all the women within the town went crazy trying to look their best in hopes that one day they would be the spouse to one of these wealthy, handsome and successful individuals. Mr. Bingley is introduced to be the perfect man, subtle yet sweet. His large fortune qualifies him to be a part of one of the highest social classes in all of England. However, he does not pose himself to be an arrogant snob because of his riches, unlike his friend Mr. Darcy.

Mr. Darcy seems to be the most pitiful soul one could lay eyes on. He sulks about treating all others lesser than him like they are the dirt he walks on. Mr. Darcy is described to be just as handsome as Mr. Bingley but keeps to himself and judges others based on their lack of wealth and disapproves of most people because of their social status. I think that Mr. Darcy is going to have to overcome his own pride and prejudices in order to find that love that deep down inside him, he is desperately searching for.

The women of the Bennet family enter the novel as described as getting prepared for a ball in which the two prestigious men will also be attending. The oldest daughters, Elizabeth and Jane are the women that Mrs. Bennet hopes these two men will be choosing as their wives. The younger daughters: Lydia, Catherine and Mary, seem to be interested in nothing more than young love and the desire to run away from their annoying sounding mother. This sounds nothing more than the hopes of a young teenager in the society in which we live in today.

When attending the fiesta, Mr. Bingley dances with Jane and the two seem to hit it off immediately. It is completely obvious that the two like each other, as he stares and smiles at her all night and she laughs and smiles in return. Today many girls that get stared and smiled at in a party will probably run away because nowadays that is known as the creeper style.. am I right? Anyways when Mr. Bingley suggests that Mr. Darcy dance with Jane’s sister Elizabeth he replies with “She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me; and I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. You had better return to your partner and enjoy her smiles, for you are wasting your time with me.” Now Elizabeth hears this and thinks that this Mr. Darcy fellow is just a jerk and is definitely on the snobby side. This event leads Elizabeth to end up hating Mr. Darcy which later on in the novel makes it even harder for the two of them to come together because of the way that they have each lead their lives at two different levels of society. But love is boundless so we are just going to have to see how this all plays out.