Pride and Prejudice

Here's the first of an upcoming trend of posts. I am trying to improve my vocabulary, as well as improve my reading and writing skills. I used to read/write often and now I do neither, except on rare occasion. Therefore, to practice vocabulary usage and writing I will be doing writing about stuff I have read, giving my opinion and whatever else I feel like it. Since no one reads this it doesn't really even matter.

I tried reading this because I have heard it mentioned several times, and in some of the literature classes I wish I had taken to be forced to read these stories (although I would have probably blown it off anyways), this one has been mentioned time and time again. Some of the women and girls in my life actually enjoy this story, so I thought let's give it a try.

What a bore!

TO have so much praise and recognition the plot line was egregious for my taste. To me, this is just portrays that the women of varying economical/social backgrounds had nothing better to do with their time than trying to pair off with rich men or their cousins so that they would be taken care of with "wealth" or their "family wealth". On top of that, instead of doing anything productive with their lives, they gossiped and gossiped some more. (Times have changed so much!!)
What a life that must have been!
Don't get me wrong, I realize this is a different country and a much different time, but I have always envisioned this time as so romantic. I, sometimes, wished that I could just experience the feeling of being "courted" and "wooed". I was mistaken, since this time was full of gold-digging. I wonder if the men felt as disgusted about "gold-digging women" as they do now, since we have Kanye singing about gold-diggers...Well maybe those women were just taking a lesson from pride and prejudice and looking for men that could give them money or keep their family wealth alive.

I did not finish the book, but for what I am guessing the idea is that there was a false pretension when the characters judged someone right off the bat as a jerk. I'm guessing that at the end, they realized their first impression of a prideful, selfish man was false and lesson learned. Or perhaps, to fit alone with the hours of snore reading, the end is just continued gossip and them finding out that he is just the way they perceived.

I guess I am happy that the main goal in my life is not whether or not I will be married off to someone, ANYONE, who will be able to provide for me. I am also happy to see that we are not in a culture that revolves around the "felicity" of men, and women making sure that is maintained... that would make me puke.

Thank god for the feminist revolution, so now we have different things to gossip about and our parents aren't consumed with who will marry our children, more hopefully my child will not end up "knocked up" before marriage and will find a job/education to sustain themselves... since now we just have high divorce rates, a lot of bastard children, and a lot of families who cannot sustain on their own but in fact need government subsidized everything...

I guess romance has truly always been nonexistent.