Jane Austen is a prominent woman English novelist of Romantic period. Pride and Prejudice is her most famous novel. If we talk about plots of her most of the novels, though fundamentally comic, they give us a vivid reflection of the dependence of the women on marriage to secure standing and economic security under the patriarchal society of her contemporary age. No doubt, her works were usually popular but these were published first time anonymously and brought her little fame. In Pride and Prejudice, the heroine, Elizabeth Bennet is a girl of spirit, but unfortunately she has no extraordinary qualities except her prejudice. Jane Austen embarks upon the arduous task of making a thorough scrutiny of the man to be accepted by a very sensible young woman, Elizabeth Bennet. In this context Austen creates a ‘round’ character of the name of Darcy who becomes the object of scrutiny on the part of Elizabeth Bennet. And Elizabeth shows her reflection as an authentic feminist.
Research Scholar, Dept. of English Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
