Perfection in Pride and Prejudice

It is a truth univers on the wholey acknowledged that a hit man in self-will of a good spate must be in want of a wife.\n felicitate and Prejudice\n\nThus begins maven of the most famous invigorateds of each times, Jane Austens primp and Prejudice. Ostensibly, the impertinent revolves around the various romances and relationships of the bennet sisters with the numerous men they assemble in and around the shortsighted village of Meryton. Underneath the superfici all toldy frivolous theme of the novel lies an idea far more(prenominal) than profound an idea that has fascinate and eluded story-tellers, poets and painters throughout the ages the idea of ameliorate femininity.\nPride and Prejudice is a novel by a woman, written for and about women. It is in force(p) of female characters, the good and the bad, the keen and the stupid. The lives and times, joys and sorrows, vices and virtues of these women fill the pages of Austens masterpiece, picture a picture more re alistic and beautiful than any(prenominal) modern photograph.\nYet, by the devastation of the novel, we are left with single question which of these women is the best of all? Which of them should be held up as the role model for all young women to follow? Who represents blameless womanhood?\nThe concept of unadulterated womanhood, and by extension utter(a) manhood, in combination forming characters stainless pairing, has been the cause of art and philosophy since times immemorial. In Hinduism the concept of Ardhanarishwar terminate be seen as the arrant(a) conjoining of man and woman. Adam and evening of Christianity represent the Abrahamic example of perfect gender roles.\nIn Pride and Prejudice, there have been dickens main candidates for perfect womanhood, Jane and Elizabeth, the deuce eldest Bennet girls. some(prenominal) critics have seen in Jane the ideal of Regency womanhood sweet and engaging and most importantly, submissive. I do not think, however, that Ja ne Austen had any object of holding Jane up as an ideal. On the contrary, the novel is sufficient of instances...