Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up... with her parents and four sisters in the country village of Longbourn in England. Elizabeth is very close to her father even though he can be sarcastic and reclusive. But she does not get along with her mother. She thinks her mother's sour looks and ill-natured remarks are enough to drive happiness away. And the feeling is mutual; her mother makes it clear that Elizabeth is her least favorite of all her children. In her eyes, Elizabeth is not as beautiful as her older sister Jane and not as good-humored as her youngest sister Lydia.
Living... on her father's estate with her family. But she can't live there indefinitely. When her father dies, the property is required to be bequeathed to a distant male cousin. As her mother constantly reminds her, marriage is her best option as a single woman of small fortune. Her mother tries to help her by fixing her up, but Elizabeth detests all of her ideas.
Interests... reading, doing needlework, dancing at balls, taking long walks, and gossiping with her sister Jane. Elizabeth also "loves absurdities and delights in anything ridiculous."
Relationship Status... single. Elizabeth wants to be violently in love and cannot imagine anything worse than a loveless marriage like her parents have. As she says, "I has never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behavior as a husband. I have always seen it with pain."
Challenge... finding true love. Elizabeth has several prospects. One is a clergyman named Mr. Collins, who is the heir to her father's estate. Another is Wickham, a charming man whose appearance is greatly in his favor. And for some reason, she cannot stop thinking about an arrogant man she met at a ball named Darcy.
Personality... witty, brainy, and strong-willed. As Elizabeth says, “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” Unfortunately, this can get her into trouble. She doesn't easily change her mind even when there are reasons she should. As the title says, she can have too much prejudice. But her stubbornness is also what we admire. For the early nineteenth century, Elizabeth is a rebel - courageously and charmingly fighting against what society expects of her.
Get to Know her in...
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A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.
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Pride and Prejudice is a humorous story of love and life among English gentility during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is an english gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. If Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages.
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Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr, Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr. Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So begins Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's classic novel of manners and mores in early-nineteenth-century England. As the Bennets prepare their five grown daughters to enter into society, each shows personality traits that illuminate their future prospects as wives. Jane, the oldest, is the most demure and traditional, and Lydia, the youngest, the most headstrong and impulsive. Attention centers on haughty second-born Elizabeth, and her blossoming relationship with the dashing but aloof Fitzwilliam Darcy. Adversaries at first in the endless rounds of balls, parties, and social gatherings, they soon develop a grudging respect for one another that blossoms into romance when each comes to appreciate the tender feelings that course beneath the veneer of their propriety and reserve.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a bold reimagining of Jane Austen's classic novel. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the bloodsoaked battlefield. Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious retelling of English literature's most enduring novel.
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Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy is a 2003 independent film adaptation/updating of Jane Austen's novel, set in modern-day Provo, Utah, at Brigham Young University. The characters are Latter-day Saints (LDS).
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
