Objectionable Elements

            The role of objectionable elements in literature is to reveal the true nature of the world and how it is full of corruption. Authors use objectionable elements in their works to make it more realistic to the readers. People tend to try run away from the truth and ignore the bad that is happening around them. They are afraid to accept reality and try to make the world what they want it to be. So with the use of objectionable elements in literature, the author tries to portray what the world has become. The author tries to make a point with the use of these elements in order to initiate a thought in the readers mind in seeing the wrong of the situation that the objectionable element is used in. However, these elements that are used in literature could be just to entertain the readers. People take pleasure in sexual contents, violence, and other such elements. To include these in one’s literary work has a higher chance of attracting people to read your production. And with that, comes money, which overall boils down to greed. As for sin, it should be portrayed as something that is wrong and disapproved by everyone. However, everyone has their own view of what is wrong and therefore have a different perspective of what sin is. For example, we know that to murder is a sin. So say that someone is being raped or attacked by another person and defends themselves and ends up killing the attacker. There are some that would say that it was just self defense and they aren’t guilty of murder. Yet as Christians we know that any form of killing is murder and is a sin. So as Christians, it is our goal to help others realize what sin is.

           Literature should represent life honestly. The Bible is the greatest literary work ever written. The author, God, portrays life honestly throughout the Bible. So therefore, other literary works should follow and portray life the same. Also, depending on the literary work, if the author has a message that he/she wants to reveal to the readers, he/she must be honest in the writing. If a person strongly believes something, they have to be honest with themselves in order to get that message across to others. However, there are times I believe that literature should represent life selectively. At times, truth could be overwhelming for some people and cause more pain and confusion rather than understanding. I believe that it mostly depends on the age that literature has to be selective about what they reveal.

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Pride and Prejudice Assessment

            Jane Austen’s novel, Pride and Prejudice, provides the readers with a love drama. The whole book focused on the different relationships between the characters and how pride and prejudice just messes with everything. At first I thought that it was going to be another Jane Eyre story, and in a way it was, yet I found that this book had more happiness and drama due to the multiple relationships and the actions of the different characters affecting one another. At first I didn’t really care much for the book, considering that Jane and Bingley had like the “perfect relationship.” But when the love-hate relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy began to form, I found the story to get more interesting.

            As I mentioned before, I thought that this book would be like Jane Eyre. With the love-hate relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy, it was in a way very similar. Because their first encounter was not the greatest, Elizabeth disliked Darcy and viewed him as a prideful rich man. However, Darcy fell in love with her but because of his first impression on her, his feelings for her were not communicated clear to her, and thus causing the main drama of the story. I find that this relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy to be more realistic than Jane and Bingley’s relationship. Although Jane and Bingley’s relationship could happen, Elizabeth and Darcy’s relationship is more exciting and entertaining to have. The only thing I really disliked about it was all the lies that Elizabeth easily believed and how she found out the truth in the end so easily. In a way, I wish that there could have been a bit more dramatic scenes maybe with some violence but I still approved of the way Austen wrote the plot.

            As the title suggested, the story revolves around pride and prejudice. Austen shows that these two things cause so much trouble and differences in people’s lives. Because of pride and prejudice, many of the characters made themselves look foolish and didn’t get along well with each other. Like them, modern society is just the same. Because of sin, man is full of pride and prejudice. People fail to realize that so many problems are caused because of this and that if they just admit their faults, there wouldn’t be so much trouble going around.

At certain points I found that the relationships were so stupid and that the choices the characters made caused me to want to yell at them and call them stupid because of what they did. At points I just wanted the book to end because I believed that it was just dragging on longer than it should have. But overall, I think that Austen did a fairly good job on writing this story and expressing the hardship of relationships. One of the downfalls about reading this book is that I lack actual experience about relationships and such things. Although I read some romance stories, theirs is just some parts that either confuse me or just completely bore me. But overall, I would probably recommend this book to anyone that has a lot of patience and can deal with the drama throughout the story.

Pride and Prejudice Second Draft

Jonathan Neumann
Mrs. Baniaga
Honors Literature

9 February 2012

         Pride and Prejudice is about the life of a family where pride and prejudice is a huge issue that affects the relationship between the characters. Through the work of Austen, there is a focus on the main character, Eliza, and her family issues and relationship with a seemingly prideful man, which all reflects to how society is today.  One of the major issues that cause such a huge issue among society today is the possession of money and the different social classes that are thus created. Austen shows how pride and prejudice affects the relationship between the different social classes.
            The relationship between Elizabeth and Darcy is a relationship that shows how pride and prejudice affects the different social classes. They both lived completely different lives; Elizabeth was from a lower class, was fairly well off but when compared to Darcy, she was way out of his league. When these two first met at a ball, Darcy was seen as an arrogant, prideful man. This was due to his refusal to dance, saying that Elizabeth is “not handsome enough to tempt me” (Austen 8). With this, Darcy insults Elizabeth and thus a hatred for him is developed in her. However, later on Darcy actually realizes that he loves her and tries to flirt with her plenty of times. But Elizabeth is prejudiced against him and is too proud to try to get to know him and change her thoughts about him. Also all she listened to was the bad that people spoke about him. For example, when she first met Wickham, he told her how Darcy had pretty much betrayed him because of his pride (66-70). Throughout the book, pride and prejudice blinks the lower class Elizabeth from knowing who Darcy really is and causes her to misinterpret Darcy as a prideful and selfish rich man.  

           Another relationship that shows the effects of pride and prejudice on the relationship between different social classes is Miss Bingley and the Bennets. When she is first introduced, she seemed to be very nice to Jane, however, to Elizabeth, she was rather rude. Later on it is revealed that she ridicules the Bennet family due to the fact that they are not as wealthy as her family and Darcy. She reveals her true prideful nature when Elizabeth came to visit her sick sister Jane and was walking in the rain. She was commenting on her appearance when she came. She also went on saying that because Jane had such unusual parents and had “low connections,” there was not much chance that she would be married to someone rich (29-30). Another thing that Miss Bingley does is mock Darcy and Elizabeth and the love-hate relationship they have. She tries to steal away Darcy’s attention from Elizabeth because she thinks that she is better due to her wealth, yet it all backfires because Darcy just pays more attention to Elizabeth thus causing Miss Bingley to be more prejudiced against Elizabeth. She thinks that just because she has wealth, she is allowed to speak freely about others and looks down on the Bennets although her brother and a family friend love two of the girls in that family. Because of Miss Bingley’s pride and prejudice, bitterness between her and Elizabeth is formed.
           With the different relationships between two different social classes, Austen is able to reveal to us that pride and prejudice play a huge role in how we treat, see, and react to each other. Pride and Prejudice causes a person to become blind to another person’s feelings, beliefs, and way of life. She points out that, regardless to social status and wealth, pride and prejudice is evident in the lives of all humans.


Work Cited:
Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. New York: Bantam Dell,1981. Print.

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Pride and Prejudice First Draft

          Pride and Prejudice, as the name implies, is about the lives of a family where pride and prejudice controls the outcome of everyone’s thoughts, actions, and relationships. Through the work of Austen there is a focus on the main character, Eliza, and her family issues and relationship with a seemingly prideful man, which all reflects to how society is today.  One of the major issues that cause such a huge issue amount society today is the possession of money and the different social classes that are thus created. Because of the different social classes, there is an abundance of pride and prejudice among the rich and the poor. All this is seen in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Austen shows how pride and prejudice affects the relationship between the different social classes.

            One of the major relationships between the different social classes is the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth. When these two first met at a ball, Darcy was seen as an ignorant prideful man. This was due to his refusal to dance, saying that Elizabeth is “not handsome enough to tempt me. (Austen 8)” With this, Darcy insults Elizabeth and thus a hatred for him is developed in her. However, later on Darcy actually realizes that he loves her and tries to flirt with her plenty of times. But Elizabeth is prejudice against him and is too proud to try to get to know him and change her thoughts about him. Also all she listened to was the bad that people spoke about him. For example, when she first met Wickham, he told her how Darcy had pretty much betrayed him because of his pride (66-70). Throughout the book, the pride and prejudice of Elizabeth towards Darcy caused strife between them yet in a way, strengthened their relationship as time passed, she begin to learn the truth about him.

            Another relationship that shows the effects of pride and prejudice on the relationship between different social classes is Miss Bingley and the Bennets. When she is first introduced, she seemed to be very nice to Jane, however, to Elizabeth, she was rather rude. Later on it is revealed that she ridicules the Bennet family due to the fact that they aren’t as wealthy as her family and Darcy. She reveals her true prideful nature when Elizabeth came to visit her sick sister Jane and was walking in the rain. She was commenting on her appearance when she came. She also went on saying that because Jane had such unusual parents and had “low connections,” there wasn’t much chance that she would be married to someone rich (29-30). Another thing that Miss Bingley does is mocking Darcy and Elizabeth and the love-hate relationship they have. She tries to steal away Darcy’s attention from Elizabeth because she thinks that she is better due to her wealth, yet it all backfires because Darcy just pays more attention to Elizabeth thus causing Miss Bingley to be more prejudice against Elizabeth. She thinks that just because she has wealth, she is allowed to speak freely about others and looks down on the Bennets although her brother and a family friend love two of the girls in that family.

            With the different relationships between two different social classes, Austen is able to reveal to us that pride and prejudice play a huge role in how we treat, see, and react to each other. She also shows that it is not just the rich that show more pride and prejudice than the poorer people. Rather, both of them show pride and prejudice in their lives. Overall, man is born with pride and throughout life would be prejudice to something at some point of time. Depending on the situation, it could cause a lot of damage or cause very little. But either way, different social classes show pride and prejudice and are overall sinful in nature

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