Discuss Jane Austen’s treatment of women characters in Pride and Prejudice.

Discuss Jane Austen’s treatment of women characters in Pride and Prejudice.

Answer: The novels of Jane Austen contain numerous character- studies. Her studies of women are more searching and more life – like than those of men. In other words, she shows a much greater skill in the delineation of women than in that of men. Perhaps, because she was herself a woman, she knew more about female psychology than about the working of men’s minds. The special quality of her delineation of women is that she individualizes them, and differentiates each from the others. In ‘Pride and Prejudice’, we have a whole crowd of women characters; but each of these women is clearly distinguished from the others. Each woman in the novel stands as a distinct figure in her own right.

First of all, there are the Bennet girls and their mother. Mrs. Bennet is drawn with such skill and in such detail that we never forget her after going through the novel. She is differentiated from all the other women in the novel by her obsession with the marriage of her daughters, and this preoccupation with the marriage of her daughters continues throughout the novel. Mrs. bennet is described as a women of a mean intelligence, little information and an uncertain temper. Wherever she feels discontented with anything, she imagines herself nervous. The business of her life is to get her daughters married; and the consolation of her life lies in visiting other families and getting news of what is going on around her. Mrs. Bennet’s foolishness, ignorance and vanity are sources of great amusement to us, as they are to her husband who is always poking fun at her. Mrs. Bennet is, indeed, an unforgettable comic character.............................................................................................................

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