Pride and Prejudice as a Dramatic Novel: An Estimate

Abstract

Jane Austen is considered as one of the greatest pioneers of the feminist movement in English Literature. Jane Austen was a gifted and sensual author who in her time wrote consistently to amuse her relatives and audience. She had a gift of observing her environment and picture it vividly. Jane Austen’s novels have been rightly called as domestic novels, as she never goes out of the parlour and chooses to work with or two families in a country village. Since Pride and Prejudice is a social comedy in which social relationship, even love and marriage relations, find a mercenary motivation, still in it she deals with the domestic life and aspirations of the Bennets, and to some extent with those of the Lucases. Pride and Prejudice is a novel which is divided into acts just like as a drama or play. This novel is a dramatic one, which envelopes the whole plot of this novel with many love-ridden themes. This paper is going to highlight the dramatic elements present in the novel, as well as their importance within the novel, and the relationships of characters in the novel with each other and their importance with respect to time.