Compare and Contrast Essay

In Pride and Prejudice, the main character Elizabeth is shown to fork out undischarged compliment towards the main male character Darcy. This is because in their first see Elizabeths pride is wounded by Darcy as he says She is tolerable, further not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men. This unkind and proud comment causes Elizabeth to take an immediate disfavor to Darcy.After every unmatched has left for Rosings, Elizabeth is still furious from the news that Darcy was the cause of Jane and Bingleys break up. Elizabeth is then shocked by the arrival of Darcy. After a few moments of silence, Darcy shocks Elizabeth with a sudden declaration of love for her and a object of marriage. At first, Elizabeth is flattered in spite of her deeply rooted prepossession against Darcy. Elizabeths feelings soon turn to rage as Darcy catalogs all the reasons why he did not pursue his feelings earlier. As payback, El izabeth stuns Darcy by refusing his purpose very harshly.This shows the close of her prejudice against Darcy as she says that even from the beginning she disliked him. Meanwhile, collins proposal is an altogether completely different. There are no unkind words, shouts or insults. collins proposal is different because with him, Elizabeth has no dislike for him as she does for Darcy. plain though his proposal is very business like and not of love, Elizabeth is shown to have strength in declining it very kindly. Mr. Collins proposes to Elizabeth, in a broad speech explaining that he considers it appropriate for him to marry and that he expects to marry one of the Ms. Bennets in order lessen the difficulty of the entailment of the estate. Elizabeth refuses him in no uncertain terms, notwithstanding Mr. Collins refuses to believe that her refusal could be sincere, considering it a formality of female etiquette to always refuse a proposal the first time.However, Elizabeth repeats a nd strengthens her refusal, but as he still cannot believe her to be sincere, so she leaves. Mr. Collins proposal and his reaction to Elizabeths refusal set Austens portrait of this ridiculous character. Only after he explains these cold considerations does he mention that he has a high regard for Elizabeth. Since none of his own words expresses honest-to-goodness thoughts or feelings, he assumes that no one elses words do either. Further, his conceit prevents him from seeing any reason why Elizabeth would not want to marry him.However, Elizabeths reactions to each proposal are very different. When Collins proposes to her, she declines politely, and then walks off whereas in Darcys proposal Elizabeth is very raw to Darcy, and declines him very harshly. She means to hurt him with his words. She gives both her proposers a beating of their pride. When we find at her reactions to both the proposals, we are shown how deep and fixed Elizabeths prejudice against Darcy is because she do es not give Darcy a chance to explain himself and she readily believes Wickhams words. Here we really see how badly she dislikes Darcy. It is almost as if Darcy is to be blamed for everything. Elizabeth does not stop to think that Darcy might actually be right. These two events bring out the title as Elizabeth is shown to have her pride and prejudices and Darcy his own each believing that the other is wrong.