Question

急求 the outline of Pride and Prejudice

Answer 1

Pride and Prejudice is a regency romance and a comedy of manners. A romance features two main characters who overcome outer and inner obstacles to form a relationship; there must be a happy ending for the couple, usually involving a wedding and/or a baby. A comedy of manners features minor characters who are larger-than-life comical examples of various character flaws and struggles over social pecking order; often inherited wealth, scandal, and blackmail are involved. Historical and speculative fictions feature plot events and tropes unique to that setting; in this particular case: entailment of an estate, concerns over dowries, scandal over women being alone with men with no chaperones, the ideal husband as a man of high social standing and large fortune (the fortune symbolized by his estate), balls as battlegrounds of social standing and husband hunting, carriage and horseback travel, a religion where preachers are expected to marry, the acceptedness of cousins marrying, and the military as a showy, tempting but hazardous group of available men.