Themes: love, pride, prejudice, family, women and marriage Introduction Pride and Prejudice was first published on 28 January 1813 and it talks about love and marriage, personalities and misunderstanding, pride and prejudice. The book concentrates on the characters search of love, bafflements and feelings. The story is told from a third point of view. Characters · Elizabeth Bennet: The protagonist of the novel and the second oldest of five sisters, Elizabeth is lively, sharp-tongued, intelligent and good-looking · Mr. Darcy: An extremely wealthy aristocrat. He is proud, egotistic and extremely conscious. · Jane Bennet: Jane is the oldest in the family. She is beautiful, good-tempered, sweet, humble and selfless. · Charles Bingley: Mr. Bingley is an amiable and good-tempered person. He is very modest and easily swayed by the advice of his friends. · Other characters: Mr. Wickham, Mrs. Bennet, Mr
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hero into danger. Or in an anti-heroic gangster picture such as The Public Enemy or Goodfellas, where every conventional heroic value is inverted, an anti-Mentor appears to guide the anti-hero on the road to crime and destruction. Another inversion of this archetype's energy is a special k i n d of T h r e s h o l d Guardian (an archetype discussed in the next chapter). An example is found in Romancing the Stone, where Joan Wilder's witchy, sharp-tongued agent is to all appear ances a Mentor, guiding her career and giving her advice about men. But when Joan is about to cross the threshold to adventure, the agent tries to stop her, warning her of the dangers and casting doubt in her mind. Rather than motivating her like a true Mentor, the agent becomes an obstacle in the hero's path. T h i s is psychologically true to life, for often we must overcome or outgrow the energy of our best teachers
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