Pride And Prejudices
Any man who tries to argue Jane Austens ability to draw characters would be
undoubtedly a fool, for the authors talent in that area of prose is hard to
match. However even the most ardent fans of Austen will have to agree with the
fact that the personages she creates are not appealing to every man. An
exception to that trend in this readers opinion would be the character of Mr.
Bennet, who by his sharp wit and stark realism alone redeems Pride and
Prejudice for any audience who under other circumstances would take no joy in
reading any novel by Austen, this one included. In many ways Mr. Bennet stands
as a literary monument to the writers amazing storytelling ability. While his
personality sticks out among others in the novel like a sore thumb, his place
in the plot has monumental importance not only to the task of saving an
unappreciative reader from boredom but also to the movement and the development
of the work as a whole One of his most meaningful contributions to the plot is the influence he exerts on
Elizabeth. She is obviously his favorite, and probably the only one in his
family that he feels real fatherly love for. This is seen from the fact that
even though he
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