I’m sure most have read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, though for my own reference it follows The Bennett family as Mrs Bennett seeks marriage for her five daughters. This is the sole concerns of the plot, largely focused on wealth and marriage of an upper class family during the regency period of Britain. The only previous thing I have read that I kept associating Pride and Prejudice to was Sheridan’s play ‘School for Scandal’ of which focuses on the same aristocratic concerns, though the play is purportedly satirical. Austen achieves this insight into the shallowness of upper class life without any attempt to be make a mockery of it. I don’t believe this was her intentions, therefore take that insight of mine as a positive or negative as you please. I did appreciate Austen’s chapter lengths and the skill of her prose, making the novel pleasant to read and easy to pick up, however I found the characters difficult to associate with and connect to, each giving very similar personalities to one another and weighed down by extremely privileged problems. I believe that Mr Darcy was the only distinct character, and therefore was glad for his involvement in the plot. He is demonised by the other characters throughout however, which I struggle to see justification for other than perhaps that he did not conform to the natures of the rest of his class, hence resulting my controversial appeal toward him, and also his negative portrayal. Ultimately, while the plot was solely dependent on the characters, and the characters themselves was limited, I can still appreciate the novel for the beauty of Austen’s writing, whereas struggle to see why it is regarded as highly as it is among classics.