The conflicts – pride and prejudice

As said there is often all kinds of conflicts in most books and in this story, which I am reading is not different in this point at all. However some of the time the argues can be hard to detect, they are often small and over before you know it. Jane Austen also writes in a sarcastic way, which is the reason way the fights are hard to notice in some occasions.  

External conflicts

The main character Elizabeth Bennet often argues with her mother and her mother complaints about her now and then. This creates a lot of small arguments, which often occurs in the book.   

Their relationship seems to be a bit complicated. Mrs Bennet does not like how Elizabeth behaves and does not seem to like how she is as a person. Elizabeth Bennet is her father’s favourite but her mother’s least favourite and I think that is one of the reasons way their relationship is so complicated and way they argue a lot.

There is not a particular conflict, which is huge, instead there are several spread out over the entire book and they are always small and do not take up so much space, yet together they stand out in the book, and that is why I still wanted to write about them.   

“Not yet, however, in spite of her disappointment in her husband, did Mrs Bennet give up the point. She talk to Elizabeth again and again; coaxed and threatened her by turns”. This is just one example of how the small arguments could sound.

Internal conflicts  

At the beginning of the book Elizabeth dislikes Mr Darcy but do not think ill of him, but around a third of the book she gets some information which makes her hate him. Still this changes after some time after she gets to know the truth and that is when she comes in conflict with herself and she cannot decide how she feel about him.

The story she gets to hear is that she has him to blame for her sister’s broken heart, due to the fact that he was the one convincing Mr Bingley not to marry Miss Bennet, and therefor leaving her and never to see her again. When Elizabeth confronts him he does not deny it, although he says he did it for the right reasons. Later she gets a letter from he where he tells the truth, he did it but only because he did not know that her sister actually was in love with Mr Bingley. Even if she still doesn’t find him agreeable, she can’t deny that what he has done, he did with the right intentions. “ How could she deny that credit to his assertions, in one instance, which she had been obligated to give in the other? He decleared himself to have been totally unsuspicious of her sister’s attachment, and she could not help remembering what Charlotte’s opinion had always been. Neither could she deny the justice of his description of Jane”.

The conflict mainly concerns that she thinks she has done him wrong but she still do not think he has done completely right either, however all this makes it very hard for her to decide what it is she really feels towards him and how to deal with the story she have been told.  At first she still dislikes him a bit and do not wish to meet him ever again, although she is ashamed of herself and her behaviour towards him, which is also one of the reasons she do not want to see him again. Even so she does not think he had the right to break her sisters heart, but as I said before after a while she can see why he did it and do not have a grudge against him any more.  

Around here a new conflict stars to take form in her mind. What does she really think of him, is she starting to love him and does she regret her turning him down? This starts after she meets him in his own hometown and in his own home. He has really taken in on what she said when she refused to marry him. Now she can see this new part of him and she can’t decide if she thinks it will last and if she is starting to have new feelings for him.