In love with Mr. Darcy

Some books leave a lasting impression on your memory. One such book is the Jane Austen’s classic “Pride and Prejudice”. The beauty of this book is that I hated reading it. So slow and monotonous; why are all classics so boring? But as soon as you finish you realize that what a beautiful book it is. A book with two dream characters: - Mr. Darcy and Ms Elizabeth Bennett. Both perfect in an imperfect way, deeply in love yet denying it.

The book was so well written that you find Mr. Darcy’s pride attractive. The roughness when he says “Every savage can dance” in a ball!! The mildness when he says "My mind was more agreeably engaged. I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow..". The proud Mr. Darcy had such a charisma that you want him to remain the way he is. Not just that, he becomes your dream man as soon as you finish reading the book. No it’s not just the transformation that attracts you, Mr. Darcy would have been equally irresistible is the change of course had not happened. You know that it has crossed the limit, when you say that the way he proposed Ms. Elizabeth was so romantic!! Read yourself:

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

Whatever it may be, the way she writes or her character portray or her typical English classy jokes. "For what do we live for but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" -Mr. Bennett. This book has its class of its own and no other romantic book will ever be able to reach it. The last quote from the book is my favorite:

"Pride is a very common failing, I believe. [...] that human nature is very prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us"-Mary