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How does Jane Austen create negative feelings towards the character of Mr. Darcy in the first six chapters of the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'?
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How does Jane Austen create negative feelings towards the character of Mr. Darcy in the first six chapters of the novel 'Pride and Prejudice'? Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the early eighteenth century. The didactic purpose of this wonderful piece of literature is to ridicule society's contemporary beliefs and practices, showing that it can be dangerous to hold too much pride and too many prejudices. Austen gets her moral and philosophical message across by using a range of narrative techniques; which some are obvious, for example the omniscient narrator and dialogue are quite easy to acknowledge; while the centre of consciousness of Elizabeth Bennet is much subtler and therefore harder to distinguish. The use of these narrative techniques causes the audience to create views and opinions on different characters, for example because the audience finds Mrs. Bennet annoying, subconsciously they find her views annoying, thus ridiculing...
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