PRIDE and PREJUDICE: Darcy's Perspective

DARCY'S PERSPECTIVE At the end of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, Fitzwilliam Darcy tells Elizabeth Bennet, "I was given good principles, but left to follow them in pride and conceit." and "You taught me a lesson." The purpose of DARCY'S PERSPECTIVE is to explain how Darcy learned the lesson, adjusting and developing his personal attitudes and behaviour, so as to make himself an acceptable partner for the woman he loves.AT THE BEGINNING ....Fitzwilliam Darcy's independent mind is chafing in the straitjacket of aristocratic convention. He cares nothing for secure, pre-arranged marriages. His new-money friend Bingley offers the solution: find his own wife before his Aunt's choice is forced upon him. After considering local possibilities, the two friends take their quest to the Capital, but there are two local girls that they cannot forget ( The Misses Jane and Elizabeth Bennet). Far from being a simple matter of making a single, personal choice, Darcy finds that he must confront and banish the ghosts of his past and wrestle with his own past identities in the attempt to live out the values of his own liberal independence and win the love of the woman who embodies his new ideals.