Critical viewpoints on Pride and Prejudice

'There are always reasons for loving in Pride and Prejudice, and Elizabeth loves for the best reasons'

'There is a heroine, there is a hero and there is an obstacle. The obstacle is money.'

'The novel rushes to a happy ending'

'And when Austen wasn’t slicing up the men, she was defining women into tribes (long before the Spice Girls): the pretty, the funny, the clever, the bookish, the bold.'

'Austen descripts how money rules society.'                                                    Victoria Lambert

'Pride and Prejudice shows the reader the results of poor parenting'

'In Pride and Prejudice, Austen's satire is always tinged with cruelty'

'Although the manners of the society depicted in Pride and Prejudice are highly formal, we still learn plenty about the character's emotional lives'

‘We learn most about the characters in Pride and Prejudice when they meet on social occasions.’

‘The restraints that society imposes are felt as sharply by the male as the female characters'

It 'is too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade'

‘Laughter in Pride and Prejudice takes different forms and provides a variety of functions'

'Although much of what happens could have disturbing, even tragic consequences, disasters are successfully averted'